Category: Internet
Spock
. I’ve seen the word Spock lately on a number of blogs and today finally decided to see what it was all about for myself. Spock is a search engine for searching people. Behind the scenes, Spock’s technology scours the web and collects information on people. It tags them all of the people based on [...]
How to make a url brief.
I send links to my friends all of the time. Sometimes I blog about sites and include a link. Sometimes they are just huge. Want to know how to shorten them? It’s easy. Go to urlbrief.com. Type or paste the url you want to shorten. Press enter and you’re finished. You can even track how [...]
How to update Firefox automatically.
I got a message a new version of Firefox was available a couple of days ago and I did upgrade. I have noticed since then things seem to be loading more quickly then before. I like to keep up with browser updates because I know they’re working to keep things secure and running smoothly. Sure, [...]
Do you follow? I do follow.
This blog does follow. Are you wondering what following means? It has to do with – you guess it – links. Comment spam is a nasty problem that bloggers deal with. No follow means that a link in a comment shouldn’t be trusted, so it isn’t counted as a backlink. Now I write my blogs [...]
SearchStatus Firefox add-on tells you more than rank
I am continuing to go through the helpful add-ons I’m using for the Firefox browser. The one I am writing about today does a lot. By that, I mean it really does A LOT. When installed, this add-on (located at https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/321) displays the Google PageRank and Alexa rank, highlights keywords and no follow links, includes [...]
Firefox add-on for website translation
There have been several times that I came across a website that was not in English. Now I took French, German and Latin in high school and college but that was a long time ago and I’ve forgotten far more than I remember. Today I got an offer to trade links. It was a PR5 [...]
Nice Firefox add-on for handling links
I am on the internet a lot. There have been more than a few times where I saw a group of links I was interested in and it took me forever to get them all open. With Firefox this is no longer an issue. I am using a Firefox add-on called Linky. It can be [...]
How to install Firefox
In the past few weeks besides switching from Outlook to Thunderbird I also switched from Internet Explorer to Firefox. Surfing the web has gone a lot more smoothly since then. Firefox is an open source internet browser. It’s free. It will run on Windows, Mac and Linux. It behaves differently than Explorer in a couple [...]
