Whether you have a Windows, Ubuntu or Mac machine, as long as you have Google Chrome installed, you should be able to synchronize your bookmarks, history, passwords, themes, and preferences among all of your machines. This is good in that, when you change stuff on one PC, all of your other PCs will reflect the change you made.
If you ever tried listening to streaming Internet Radio or Music from your web browser in Ubuntu Lucid and got the error messages ‘couldn’t find a suitable text/html decoder plug-in’, I’m going to show you how to fix that error and begin enjoying streaming radio in your web browser. While others are moving away from streaming MP3s in web browsers, some are still using this method to listen to radio.
This tutorial will show you how to browse securely online with Google Chrome and McAfee SiteAdvisor extension. SiteAdvisor warns you when you’re about to visit a site with malicious content and low ratings. It is based on McAfee SiteAdvisor that gives you safety information on millions on websites online. If the site you want to visit has harmful contents, SiteAdvisor will automatically redirect you and tells you why the site might not be safe.
This brief tutorial will show you how to quickly install Google Chrome web browser in Ubuntu and configure it to be the default web browser. Ubuntu already have a web browser, and it is Firefox. If you prefer Google Chrome over Firefox, then this tutorial is for you.
Do you need a quick way to search for torrents from multiple torrent sites from your Desktop in Ubuntu? If your answer is yes, then you might want to check out this program called Torrent Search. Torrent Search lets you search for torrents on BiteNova, BTSCENE, KissTorrents, and many, many more.
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Tags: Torrent Directories and Trackers, Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx 
View CommentsSometimes it’s best that no one finds out which websites you’ve been browsing. That’s because it’s your business. Firefox has the tendencies of storing your recently visited websites in the browser bar drop-down list and in history. Just click the down-arrow in the browser bar and you’ll quickly find the previous websites you have visited.
I am going to show you how to turn that off so no one can view the drop down list to know where you’ve been.
This tutorial will guide you in creating an account at Dropbox and scheduling files and folders in Ubuntu to automatically backup to your Dropbox account online for safe keeping and retrieval whenever something goes wrong with your computer and data are corrupted and can’t be recovered. Dropbox offers free 2GB space that you can use to backup your data as long as you like. If you need more than that, you can always increase the space amount.
Posted in How-To Tips, Linux, Web Tags: Dropbox, Skydrive Explorer, Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx View CommentsThis quick tutorial will show you how to use Firefox and ProCon Latte add-on to protect your family online against contents you deemed inappropriate. ProCon Latte filters web pages containing explicit content automatically based on text and keywords on the sites. Once configured, enable it and sites with bad contents will be blocked.
KidZui Browser is a small piece of application for Windows and Mac PCs which lets your kids browser safely online. It also allows your kids to play fun games, share and discover kid-friendly websites. The program doesn’t run on Linux machines, including Ubuntu, but with Firefox you can run KidZui in Ubuntu with ease.
This tutorial will show you how to configure Evolution mail client in Ubuntu Lucid to send and receive emails from your Gmail account. Gmail webmail is cool but doesn’t have all the features that a desktop mail client has. If you also love to receive all your emails from a single mail client, then this tutorial is for you.
Yesterday we showed you how to use Chromium (Google Chrome) to spot malicious websites, and sites with inappropriate contents online with WOT (Web Of Trust) extension. Today I’ll show you how use WOT with Firefox to spot sites with contents that you probably don’t want. This can help you avoid spam, malware and other harmful programs.
This brief tutorial will show you how to use Firefox Sync to synchronize your passwords, bookmarks and preferences in Firefox on multiple computers. Firefox Sync is an add-on that will let you synchronize your preferences on multiple computers. So it doesn’t matter which computer you at, once you’re connected, all your preferences will follow you wherever you go.
