Web Talk

Despite the fact that Google Chrome and Firefox have dramatically improved over the last few months, a lot of users still complains about crashes and random crashes affecting these two superb browsers. Most of the times, the issues behind these crashes have different reasons which have got to do with wrong computer configurations, incompatible applications, old or outdated  browser extensions and plugins. This guide will show you how to solve  Google Chrome and Firefox crashes which have to do with specific issues within your computer. Continue reading »

With the increasing importance of Facebook on the Internet a lot of websites and blogs have started adding annoying Facebook buttons on their pages and posts such as ” Like” and “Recommended” buttons  to push you to share your experience, articles, posts etc. with  other users or your Facebook friends. While such buttons might look like quite useful, a lot of users are feeling overwhelmed by the big quantity of them as well as Facebook widgets and scripts which are silently but unrelentingly invading the Web. This small article will show you how to turn off and remove almost all kind of “Facebook junk” and buttons from your favorite websites in order to enjoy a nice, smooth reading! Continue reading »

As you know, Google Docs is one of the most used Web-based word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, form, and data storage service offered by Google. Just image Microsoft Office package, but think of it as an online service you can access wherever you are. Sure, its features  are lesser than the ones available in the Microsoft Office package, but the advantages of using it online compensate the lack of certain important tools. Now, Google Docs is an online service, because of this you can reach it on every single computer equipped with an Internet connection. The fact that Google Docs defeats the space limitation turns this online service to an excellent tool that allows users scattered all over the world to work and collaborate together in a kind of cooperative mode in order to share the same file or document. Let’s see how to create an online document and have multiple users working together on it, on the same project! Continue reading »

Whenever you login to your Gmail account in order to read and send an email you will have to deal with the default Gmail font. Wouldn’t you like to change Google Gmail size, theme (style) or color font and customize it to your needs? Maybe you want  a bigger size, maybe you want a smaller size or you just wish to change the font itself and have something fancier while typing an email! Whatever the reason, now Google lets you modify the Gmail font thanks to a new application (feature) available in Google Gmail lab section! Continue reading »

Recently, Skype  has shown some nasty issue preventing its users from enjoying their long-distance phone calls. In fact, without any warning and in a completely random way, the latest Skype version, the most famous VOIP  chat, video and phone call software, crashes without any warning. To add insult to injury, after such crash, some users are reporting that they don’t manage to restart the client in order to login. What follows are the easy instruction to fix the issue and restore Skype after a crash. Continue reading »

As you know, every time you upload a new photo album on Facebook, the first picture or photo will automatically become the cover (thumbnail) of it, by default. As a result, you might get a cover that doesn’t represent the album properly, thus causing confusion and perplexity. Let’s see how to set a photo album cover (thumbnail) properly in a couple of steps. Continue reading »

As you know, every time a friend of yours comes across a photo or picture that looks like you, Facebook will suggest your name right away. Such a feature is called “tagging” and, as far as I know,  was invented by Facebook itself. Basically, Facebook is able to recognize similar facial features thus suggesting your name when a friend of yours stumble upon a picture of you on Facebook (fb). The downside is that you will lose your privacy (but Facebook is all about losing your privacy, to tell you the truth) as you will be easily recognizable and trackabale by every one! Let’s see how to turn off and disable the “Suggest Photos of Me to Friends” feature in Facebook and re-gain total control over your privacy! Continue reading »

As you know, a Web browser Scroll Bar is that vertical bar, located on the right of the browser page that lets you scroll up and down the content of any website or blog. A nice, free Google Chrome extension lets you disable and hide it. but, why would anyone hide and turn it off? Well, first of all let me tell you that by hiding it, your browser will gain more space. This will let you display bigger websites in a more optimized way. Secondly, I will like to point out that by disabling the scroll bar you won’t loose the ability to scroll a web page down. In fact you will be able to do this by using your mouse (mouse scrolling feature) and your keyboard (keyboard scrolling). So, lets see how to gain more space on Google Chrome window thanks to simple extension! Continue reading »