Turn Off The Background Lights While Watching Video In Google Chrome
This post will show you how you can darken the website and concentrate on the video content while watching videos online in Google Chrome.
So you are one of those Google Chrome users who just love to watch videos on YouTube and other video sharing sites? If it is so then here I got some cool things that you can apply to your web browser while watching your favorite videos.
Watching YouTube videos is a fun thing and you can make it even more fun by using a Google Chrome extension “Turn Off The Lights“. This extension will fade-out the rest of the website and will let you focus on the video. It will give you a warm theater like feeling. Here is screenshot taken from the extension’s chrome web store page:
Before “Turn Off The Lights”:
After “Turn Off The Lights”:
See how nice it looks! Another cool thing that you can add to your Chrome. Enjoy it and share it.
Add Websites As Apps in Google Chrome
This article will teach you how you can make a website to appear as an app in your Google Chrome.
Google Chrome new tab can be set to display either apps or recently visited pages or most visited pages. By using the two sections other than apps i.e. recently and most visited pages we can create apps of websites.
How to do this? Very simple. Just visit the page that you want to add as an app in Google Chrome. Once you have visited the page it will appear in the recently visited pages sections.
Now click and hold that page thumbnail and drag it to the apps sections and release the click. Done! Now you can see the favicon of the website as the thumbnail of the app, which obviously doesn’t look cool.
But somehow you have made an app of a website in Google Chrome apps section! Enjoy this short tip.
Manage Your Cloud Accounts and Transfer Files Among Them With Otixo
This article will tell you about a cool web app that is quite useful for those who have accounts on many cloud services.
Are you one of those whose confidential and important files keeps on clouds? And you access your cloud accounts daily? If it is so then now you don’t have to access your all the cloud accounts separately.
Otixo is a smashing web application that lets you access all the cloud accounts e.g Dropbox, Google Docs, Amazon S3 etc. This mean that you can have all the cloud files at one place and you can transfer files from Dropbox to box.net, Dropbox to Google Docs, Dropbox to Amazon S3, box.net to Google Docs and vice versa.
You can also have multiple accounts of the same cloud service. This feature is quite useful for transferring documents from one Google account to another.
With these features Otixo has become a point of interest of the serious cloud users as they have to login only once and they are done! A very interesting point is that by using all the free accounts of the cloud services and by using Otixo you can have even more than 20 GB of free cloud space all at one place without any hassle! Sound greedy? Isn’t it! 
Get Email Notification When Someone Fills Out Google Form
This article will explain you how you can enable email notifications in Google Forms so whenever someone fills out the form and submit it you will get a notification.
So you are starting a survey or you are collecting some information from people and you are using Google Form but you also want to keep track of your latest form fill outs?
If it is so then you have landed the right page. Here I’ll tell you how you can get email notifications as someone fills out the Google Form.
Go to Google Forms and make a form. Now open the corresponding spreadsheet. Click on Tools then Notification Rules then mark the option Notify me when a user submits a form.
You can also set when you should get notifications. You can set it to Email – Right away if you want to get the notification instantly and if you want to get the notifications once per day then go with Email – daily digest. Enjoy 
Quickly Save All The Tabs In Google Chrome
This article will describe how you can quickly save all the opened tabs in Google Chrome, while you are in hurry, by using a Google Chrome extension.
If you are one of those who keep open lots of tabs in Google Chrome and think that each tab is important for them or you don’t get enough time to close the unimportant ones.
If it is so then it would be hard for you to instantly close Google Chrome as it would be too hard to filter out important tabs and bookmark them.
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So why don’t save all the tabs, turn off the computer, do something else, come back to computer, load all the tabs and start working right where you left. Sound cool?
We are going to do this by using an extension “Session Manager” but remember that this can achieved manually. For doing it manually I’ll write a separate post, though it’s not that hard.
Session Manager lets you save all the tabs and load them whenever you want. You can save lots of sessions and you can load any of them at any time. Install the Session Manager (in case if this link doesn’t work then go to Chrome app store and search for “Session Manager” it’s developed by tkaz.ec.
Conclusion:
Session Manager is one of the must-have extensions for Google Chrome. It lets you quickly save your tabs as a session and re-open them whenever you want. Though this can be achieved manually but by using this extension you have to click only 2 times.
How To Connect To Windows Shared Folders From linux
This post explains how you can connect (access) to a Windows Shared Folders From Linux (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, OpenSUSE, Fedora).
Here I assume that you have setup a server and you have already shared a folder in your Windows OS. All we will do is just connect.
We will not do anything in the terminal. Everything will be done using GUI.
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Step 1: Press Alt+F2 and run this:
<server type>://<server name>/<shared folder>
Didn’t understand the above command? It just gave you the basic structure of accessing a shared folder.
First thing. Specify the server type by using the correct protocol here is list of some common server types and their protocols:
Samba share: smb
Secure Shell: ssh
File Transfer Protocol: ftp
SSH File Transfer Protocol: sftp
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol: http
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure: https
For example I choose smb:
smb://<server name>/<shared folder>
Second thing <server name>. Write here the name of the server you have created.
For example name of the server is myServer:
smb://myServer/<shared folder>
Third thing <shared folder>. Here write the name of the shared folder.
For example shared folder is documents
smb://myServer/documents
Step 2: If the server has password then it will ask you for the password. After this nautilus will open the shared folder.
I hope this article will help you in accessing / connecting the Windows shared folder in Linux (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, OpenSUSE etc).
How To Make WordPress Remember My Login
This tutorial will try to solve a common problem when WordPress don’t remember login credentials and you have to enter login and password again and again whenever you login to your blog/site.
Well this problem is not in your WordPress but in your web browser. Your web browser is not configured to remember password and login of WordPress blog.
You can solve this problem by configuring your web browser settings. Here is a short tutorial, how you can achieve this in Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer.
In Chrome:
Click on the spanner (top-right corner) and then click options (for Linux or OS X click preferences). In personal stuff and select offer to save passwords. Click manage saved passwords and scroll down to the exceptions. Here remove the URL to your site’s URL.
In Firefox:
Click Tools > settings (for Linux edit > preferences). In Security Tab select the option remember passwords for sites. Click exceptions and locate our site’s login URL, click it and remove it.
In Internet Explorer:
Tools > Internet Options > Content > Autocomplete > Settings. Tick mark user names and passwords on forms and ask me before saving passwords.
Now click Start then run and type this command:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\IntelliForms\Storage2
Select all the icons on the right window except default. Right-click and delete.
In Safari:
Applications > Utilities > Keychain > Login. Now scroll down unless you see the URL of your WordPress blog’s login page. Right click that item and then click delete. Done!
Conclusion:
Sometimes WordPress users think that this is because of their WordPress that the login credentials are not saved. But actually it’s browser’s mistake. So make sure that you have followed the steps carefully in order to get this feature back.
How To Open Links In Background In Firefox
This article teaches you how you can open links in background in Firefox by configuring some options in it.
So you want the external links to open in background i.e you don’t want your Firefox to switch to the link that opens in the new tab and you want to keep on the same page while the external links keep opening in the new tabs.
For this you don’t have to do much, only few clicks and keystrokes are enough to achieve this.
Step 1: Open Firefox and in the address bar type:
about:config
Step 2: A warning message will open. Click I’ll be careful, I promise.
Step 3: In the Filters field paste this:
browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground
Step 4: Firefox will display this below. Double click on it to change its value from false to true. Done! Now whenever you will click an external link it will open in a new tab and you will stay on the page you are on.
How To Track Your Stolen iPhone
This article will teach you how you can track and recover your stolen iPhone by using different kind of services and apps.
If you are one of those who has lost his iPhone then here I got something that can help you recover your iPhone and if you are worried that your iPhone will be stolen or lost then you can take these as precautions.
Tracking iPhone with iLocalis
This is a very helpful service which can help you locate and control your stolen iPhone. It can tell you where your stolen or lost iPhone was located last time. You can send text message and make calls on your iPhone. If someone has changed the sim card you can get the number of that sim. A feature in iLocalis can send a message to your friends when you are near by. Enable this feature and your friend’s will know if you are stolen iPhone is around them or not.
Try To Track Your iPhone By Using MobileMe Service
With apples Find My iPhone service you can locate your stolen and lost iPhone by using iPhone’s GPS. This service is available as a part of MobileMe online subscription service of Apple. It can tell you the location of your iPhone on Google Maps and allows you to display a message on the iPhone. That message can be your email address or something through which the person who found your lost iPhone can give it back to you. It also give you an option to play a sound on an iPhone for two minutes. This can help you find it or at least notify someone that a lost iPhone is somewhere around him. Well that service is not free and it’s cost is $99 per year (excluding 2-month free trial).
Detecting Your iPhone’s Location With Navizon’s App
This app uses GPS, Wi-Fi and Cellular triangulation technique to calculate the geographical location of your iPhone. You can also find out the location of your iPhone by just sending an SMS to it.
Using Mobile Spy To Track Down Your iPhone
Mobile Spy allows you track GPS location, calls and sms messages. These can be accessed from its site. This software can silently install on your iPhone and runs in background, recording SMS, GPS locations and cell activities and uploads the data to your online Mobile Spy secure account.
Finding iPhone With iHound
This software is also very useful. It instantly notifies you by email when your iPhone is connected to another computer. It will track its location and send you an email that your device is being connected by another computer. You can get the full report by visiting iHound’s website.
These techniques can be used to find your stolen or lost iPhone. Besides this you can also set a wallpaper with your email address on it and a notification like “In case if it is lost please contact me”. Hopefully you will find these techniques helpful. Please do comment below and share your view with us.
How To Disable Facebook Like Button In Google Chrome
This article teaches how you can disable / block / remove Facebook like button on web pages in Google Chrome by using an extension.
The technique is not new and you might be familiar with the extension I’m going to tell you. Name of the extension is Ad Blocker.
By using Ad Blocker anyone can hide any type of content on a web page by creating filters but for this you need to be a little technical.
Those who can’t make their own filter can use Antisocial filter. The problem with this filter is that it will block all the social bookmarking buttons.
So here is short tutorial of blocking Facebook like button.
Step 1: Install Ad Blocker extension of Google Chrome.
Step 2: Right click Ad Blocker icon, right after the address bar, and click Options.
Step 3: In the Filter Lists tab there is a field where you can type the URL of the filter list. In this field paste this:
https://adversity.googlecode.com/hg/Antisocial.txt
Step 4: Click Add URL. Done!
Now whenever you will visit a web page you would not be able to see any social bookmarking button including Facebook like button. Comments are appreciated if you don’t find anything working right.
