Year: 2013

Whos Amung Us is a web analytics website (that I reviewed earlier). It shows the number of visitors who are on each page of your website. All you need to do is add a few lines of code to each page that you wish to track. The live statistics and easy setup of Whos Amung […]

I have written about forcing Google Chrome to auto-fill forms. The same can be achieved on Firefox with a Greasemonkey userscript. This is required on some websites that do not allow you to autofill forms (handled by Firefox). This can quickly get on your nerves if you handle such sites several times a day, more […]

Most programs add folders and shortcuts to the Windows start menu upon installation. Call it bad design, but some applications do not remove them completely upon being uninstalled. To keep a computer optimized and fast, it is necessary that such useless leftovers are cleared promptly. Instead of manually deleting them, you can use a freeware […]

Messing with phone settings and configuration can sometimes cause problems, or even make your device outright unusable. In such cases, going back to default settings(also called factory setting) by performing a hard reset might be the only option. A hard reset is also a compromise between a firmware flash and having to suffer existing troubles, […]

YouTube videos start streaming automatically. However, there might be occasions when you want to disable this – if opening multiple videos, or on a slow internet connection. There is no way to disable auto play within YouTube, and going by the number of complaints in various forums (including the official Google one), it certainly is […]

Compiz is a popular compositing and window manager for Linux. It brings a host of improvements to the user interface. In some tutorials showing you how to install Compiz, the command to be entered in terminal is sudo apt-get install ccsm (for Ubuntu, in this case) but entering that command shows you an error “ccsm […]

The driver support for Macbook’s excellent multi-touch touchpads (2008 and beyond) are good – even multi touch scrolling works out of the box, unlike Windows (for me at least). However, one issue I discovered (and it took me some to discover that it was not a fault of my own), is that clicks are registered […]

Recent versions of Apple Macbook uses a Broadcom wireless ethernet (Wifi, called Airport in Apple terms) chipset that does not work out of the box on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx. Some versions of Macbook require installing new drivers, and some others require enabling proprietary drivers. Enable Airport in Ubuntu on Macbook Find your version […]

While slightly confusing for a first-time switcher from Windows/Mac, Ubuntu’s software install process is quite possibly the better than Windows and Mac. You can get trusted versions of most apps with just a couple of clicks, and updating is also single-click, unlike opening and checking for updates on each app in Windows/Mac. However, if you […]

Bookmarks are sorted by folder or categories in browsers by default. However, with downloadable extensions, you can browse your bookmarks by date of bookmarking. DSBMarks is a Firefox addon that creates bookmarks within folders organized by date. You have to use the specific icon at the bottom right of Firefox to create bookmarks within sorted […]