Web Talk

A couple of months ago Google started testing an interesting, new, clean and ultra-minimalist interface that removes some of the current Google features and add new ones. On this new Google page there are really a lot of improvements, all spiced with a couple of options to make your searches faster and smoother. This “New Google” is not available for everybody to play. However, the guy at TecnoNet have found an interesting hack that will let you gain full access to such new Google interface with no hassle! Let’s see how to achieve this result in a couple of steps! (Chrome and Firefox Only…sorry guys) Continue reading »

Every time you search for a location or want to get directions to a locality using Google Maps service, the system will return a web page embedding a custom map with the parameters you asked.  The issue with such pages is that they have very long Web addresses full of characters and symbols that apparently have no sense. They are impossible to remember and extremely difficult to embed on an email, sms etc. Google has recently introduced a very handy feature that lets you create short urls starting with ”http://g.co”. Let’s see how to use such a feature. Continue reading »

It’s very common to open a YouTube page containing a viral video and see it overflooded with offensive, silly, angry comments you really do not care to read at all. Sadly, YouTube doesn’t provide you with any option in order to opt out and hide such unwanted comments which, by the way, also slow the downloading of the page a little bit. What follows is nice, free solutions for your Google Chrome able to solve the issue in a couple of steps! Continue reading »

This is one of those questions I have been asked a lot, lately. “How can I turn off the Chat section on my Facebook account?”, “How can I disable Facebook chat?”. Despite Facebook settings are quite clear and simple, it looks like the proper option to turn off the chat on your Facebook profile has been hidden with no chance to spot it!  There are a lot of reasons why you might want to get rid of the chat on your FF. The most common one is that if your chat session is enabled, when you login to your Facebook account, users and friends might start chatting with you right away. So, let’s see how to fix this and hide the chat permanently in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome and other Internet browsers. Continue reading »

If you have a lot of friends on Facebook, you might wish to chat with a lot of them, with multiple friends, on a kind of chat room in order to involve as many people as possible. Till some time ago this was not possible at all. Recently, Facebook has added a very useful, interesting feature called Group Chat which, as it name suggest, lets you chat with multiple friends in a breeze. Let’s see how to turn on such a feature, easily!  Continue reading »

Facebook has recently introduced an interesting plugin which lets you make video calls to your Facebook friends. Such a plugin has been powered by Skype and lets you perform, in a very easy way, calls by using your favorite browser. This brief tutorial will show you where and how to install Facebook video calling plugin and what to do in order to remove and turn it off in case you don’t like this new feature on your Facebook account. Both procedures are “one time setup/process” so, once you have installed or uninstalled the Skype powered plugin, no other actions will be required on your side in the future. Continue reading »

On Facebook, if you try to upload a big photo or image as your default Profile picture , you might have some issue due to the fact that the resulting thumbnail might not display the part of that picture you wish to show. To overcome this problem, I have got a nice solution which will let you edit your Facebook thumbnail in order to reach your desired result! Continue reading »

If you let  users or coworkers review, edit and modify your works such as Word 2010 documents etc. then it might be a nice idea to be able to select and choose who and what people are able to modify and change in your files. This result is achieved by locking certain parts of your documents in Word 2010. In this way you will be sure that your most important sections will be left untouched by others. Let’s see how to do this thanks to a simple trick! Continue reading »