18 Ingenious Internet Tricks You Didn’t Know Existed So many shortcuts. And kittens. Alejandro Escamilla / BuzzFeed 1. Daniel Dalton / BuzzFeed Use “Cmnd + Shift + T” on a Mac. Works in Chrome and Firefox. 2. Daniel Dalton / BuzzFeed In Chrome at least. 3. See more at BuzzFeed
Heartbleed is one of those things that became a media monster darling. Everyone is making this out to be the end of the Internet — but as of now there hasn’t been a single confirmed case of anyone siphoning user data using Heartbleed — except for the NSA. Wouldn’t it be something if it were discovered that the… Read More »
Checker Plus Reads Gmail Messages, Marks as Read from Notifications Google’s browser has a pretty nifty notification system. While Gmail can provide some basic notifications through Chrome, Checker Plus lets you automatically read emails out loud, mark them as read from the notification, and more.P The extension has a host of options, including the ability to read your… Read More »
Let’s Play the Password Game With all the brouhaha over the Heartbleed Bug and other known and unknown threats, the only thing you can do is make sure you’re using nothing but strong passwords — and change them frequently. Yes, it’s a hassle, but not nearly as big of a hassle as having your bank account cleaned out… Read More »
Muriel wants to know how Disconnect Search differs from DuckDuckGo I’ve been successfully using http://www.duckduckgo.com for many of my searches. But often I use Google as a comparison or on the chance that it will add to my search results. Apparently, Disconnect Search will make other search engines operate like duckduckgo. Am I correct? If not, how do… Read More »
Three things we learned quickly after working on a few hundred computers: 1. People love their pictures 2. People love their music 3. People love their contacts list (address book) Another thing we’ve learned is a lot of you have Gmail accounts and it only seems reasonable to assume that those of you with Gmail accounts have a… Read More »