Not too long ago, I was working on the security testing of an enterprise web application. We had to create new accounts on a website, sometimes manually and sometimes through automated scripts. In both of these situations, deciding what password to set for the account was always an important decision. A strong password is important…
As a software reviewer, I often have to make use of screenshots to get my point across. Without an image of the screen, it is very difficult to explain which application or which part of a particular application I am writing about. This is also true for people who are trying to explain a computer…
Bookmarks are one of the important part of the web browsing. In olden days bookmarks stays only with the browser and it is completely unorganized. People go and search all over the bookmarks to find the one they need. The only option they had was importing bookmarks from one browser to the other. Unlikely, today…
The average internet user comes across countless webpages online every day. Many of the pages that you see online include events along with their details. These details also mention the date of the event. There are only a limited number of ways in which you can mention a date’s format. Yet, you do not get…
Browser Reboot and Crash is very common while you are browsing for a long time. Especially people who work online for a long time with more number of tabs open, browser crash or reboot can happen at any point of time. In Google Chrome, it has an intelligent tab restoring options but the problem is,…
There is a problem with Windows that many people experience: after about 6 months or so of the OS’s installation, serious performance issues begin to surface. While you can try your best trying to iron out these creases in performance, the only sure-shot way of dealing with them is by reinstalling Windows on your computer….
There are very few web services that do a better job of saving online links than Google Bookmarks. I have been extensively using this app of Google’s for a very long time. The ability to associate my favorite websites with my Google account and easily access them whenever I want is a Google feature that…
When I started using Ubuntu, one of the first things I wanted to get was a dictionary. While my English language is good enough, it is still not my first language and often I find myself looking up the meaning of new words that I come across. On Windows, I have been using WordWeb for…
When it comes to computers, Windows is the most widely used operating system. Mac takes care of people in terms of keeping things simple and neat; Linux is for developers who know their way very well around computers; but Windows, the most popular OS, has users of all types. Many of these users do not…
If I had a quarter for every time that I tried to find a link I have visited in the past, I would be a very rich man right now. And it happens to all of us: we visit a URL and forget to remember its address or bookmark it. Later when we need to…
In Internet, Privacy and Security are the major factors. That’s why we have plenty of Security applications, Antivirus Software, VPNs, etc. Though we try to be secured as far as we can, hackers some how find the loop hole and steal our data. So more than the user’s side, the application should simple and powerful…
Your images are easy to share with online friends, if they are already stored in the cloud. But there are many reasons why you should use “Social Downloader” to create an offline backup of your online images. Facebook and Instagram are perhaps the leading web services when it comes to sharing our everyday photos with…
