Mute Annoying Audio in Web Pages Many sites, especially news sites, have delayed auto-start videos (or audio ads) on their pages. When surfing multiple pages, you may suddenly hear the audio, but finding which page it is coming from meant going through each open tab. But sometimes I have 15 or 20 open tabs! I was complaining to… Read More »
What’s Up With Your Browser? Whatever browser you use, you need to make sure you’re using the latest, most secure version. You can look under “Help”, “About”, and it will give your browser version…but wouldn’t it be nice to be able to check your browser to make sure you’re using the latest version PLUS see if your Flash,… Read More »
SaferWeb: Not So Safe In the past two weeks we’ve over a dozen people ask us about SaferWeb. Since we have never had an inquiry about SafeWeb before, we are thinking perhaps SafeWeb is being bundled with other programs or buying a large number of avertisements. So we decided to look into “SafeWeb”. SaferWeb is a browser add-on… Read More »
Gmail Power Trick: Send & Archive If your Gmail inbox contains a long list of emails that you’ve already replied to (and by default they’ll stay in your inbox even after you’ve replied), here’s a tip that allows you to reply and archive an email at the same time. So when you reply to someone, their email is moved… Read More »
Gmail Power Trick: How to Instantly Bring Up a List of Gmail Shortcuts Did you know you can bring up a list of all Gmail shortcuts just by pressing two keys? You can, and here’s how you do it. Open your Gmail account in your browser. Now press Shift + ? and you’ll see this: Pretty nifty, eh?
Control What Google Knows About You With This New Tool I debated on whether to publish this article or not. Once you see what Google knows about you and how far back that knowledge goes, your first reaction might be to never use Google again. There is enough googlephobia out there without my adding to it. But that… Read More »