Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts

Wednesday, 5 February 2014

7 Useful Add-Ons


There are numerous great Add-ons available, so it's difficult to choose just a few good ones. These ones I've found to be fairly useful, making life a bit easier and increasing productivity.




Fireshot allows you to save screenshots of webpages to your computer. Useful for saving information for offline use.
While on a webpage, by clicking on the Fireshot icon on the top right of your browser, you can crop and edit the screenshot, then save it to your computer. By saving your preferences, you can set it to make the process much quicker, good for gathering information quickly.
It allows you to save the captures as pdfs or images, edit and annotate the images, email them, and upload them to sites such as Twitter, Picassa, Flickr and Image Shack.





Multirow Bookmarks Toolbar Plus
This Add-On allows you to hide your bookmark names by just displaying the icon, and to auto-hide the toolbar. It also for, as the name suggests, multiple rows of bookmarks, good for those who tend to collect a large number of websites.









Stylish allows you to 'restyle the web'; to choose new themes for webpages. It supports a number of major websites, such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Reddit.

 













Web of Trust helps you to find trustworthy sites by screening website links and checking the safety of websites you might visit by putting a green circle next to the ones that are okay. Good when encountering suspicious, non descript links as well as for shopping and web browsing and greatly reduces the chance of getting viruses and malware on your computer.








Automatic Save Folder
Saves certain files in specific folders. You can set filters, specifying where to save different file types. For example, you could set jpg and png to the pictures folder, pdf and docx to documents, avi and mpg to videos and mp3 and aac to music.  By setting the filters it cuts the time spent saving files to certain folders by doing these automatically.














Custom New Tab
Opens new tabs to a particular website or url. This add-on can be a solution for opening a new tab to the google homepage.
















 


With this Add-On, by right clicking in a login field you can use a free login. Useful for sites you need a quick login to, or sites you may not use as much.

http://bugmenot.com/





Sunday, 3 February 2013

Bill Bot




"Programmer (Matt Montoya) has created a Artificial Intelligent ChatBot with the name of 'Bill'. From what people have been saying, 'Bill is Cleverbots little brother'. He learns from his users and gets smarter every second. So if you want to test if this Bot is smart, or just want to teach him something or want to have a funny conversation, please take a look at: www.billbot.99k.org  
And please tell your friends.


Note:
Bill is only a kid, he does not know very much. If you find he does not know something, please teach him it. However keep it clean or I will turn learning off. We want Bill to be kid friendly and appropriate. Thanks. Please look at Teach Bill for more info." - CivilWarrock

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It's a bot, much like Cleverbot. Though it's a kid bot (I never knew such things existed). Billy the Kid really. Except he doesn't go around shooting people and isn't a cowboy. Ok, nevermind.
Keep everything kid friendly, and remember it's an early stage bot; it doesn't know everything.

BILL BOT

Also, this is relevant.

Wednesday, 21 November 2012

The Internet


The Internet. I'm guessing some of you have heard of it. Perhaps you've even been on it before.
If not, I'd highly recommend it.

It's hard to explain how the Internet manages to complete life as we know it.

Here's a brief and slightly inadequate list
1) Games (online games, downloadable games, strategies, shooters)
2) Tons of books (some books from archives are only available to the public digitally)
3) Comics and Memes
4) Music
5) Forums
6) Cats
7) Youtube
8) Cats doing pointless and random things on Youtube
8) Wikipedia
9) Google
10) Free stuff (right?)
And no, stealing things doesn't count as free. That's more "liberated".

Friday, 12 October 2012

Reddit

It's only appropriate I post the site which I have been visiting most this week.
Reddit.com, 'the front page of the internet'. Users submit content to what is essentially a bulletin board. This can then be upvoted or downvoted. Due to the high amount of submissions each day, there is usually an entirely new front page each day.
There are also a number of subreddits, categories such as film, music, humour, games and news. One of the most popular Reddits is the 'IamA', where various celebrities answer questions users ask. Basically an interview, except the questions are asked by the public, and if you are a redditor (have a reddit account), you can ask them questions as well or comment on the thread.