Tech Salsa

Installing Windows and other OS like Linux through a disk is not always possible as there are situations when you don’t have access to the CD drive, in those cases what you will need is the USB drive. Since almost all systems, today, come up with a USB port, you can install an OS using USB drive too.

We have talked about certain tools in the past that can help in creating bootable USB drives, here is another such tool called Rufus, which will help you in creating one easily. This tool will come handy in situations when you don’t have a CD drive in the computer but are required to install an OS or in cases when you wish to install the OS faster as installing the OS from CD takes time as compared to USB drive. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Usually every webpage that you come across today is filled with advertisements, while some people like watching ads as they are updated with the latest products available, others don’t like them. If you are a person who belong to the latter category then you would surely like to block advertisements that you see on every webpage.

Blocking an advertisement require an adblocker to be installed in your system. If you are using famous browsers like Chrome or Firefox then you can go for adblocker plugins like Adblock Plus, but the limitation here is that these plugins are not available for every browser. Moreover loading a browser with plug-ins slows it down, something I would not recommend for every plug-in. [Read the rest of this entry...]

For a person who deals mostly with the foreign currency or for someone who likes shopping a lot online, staying updated with the currency exchange rates is very important. Even I need to stay updated with the latest USD to INR rates for which I often check Google which takes time. If you also need to stay updated with the latest currency conversion rates then here is an extension for you.

The extension called Dcurrency is for the Firefox browser users only, using which they can get the real-time live currency exchange rates on their status bar. The extension is capable of displaying 3 currencies at the same time, with one of them being as standard. You can easily select the 3 currencies to be displayed according to your needs. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Facebook which is one of the most accessed web page today is mostly used for seeing the updates of others, updating our wall with new messages, staying in touch with others and also with chatting our buddies. While using Facebook Chat is a good option for chatting, it is quite simple and plain looking and fixed at bottom right corner of our browser too.

Here is an extension for the Chrome users that can enhance your Facebook Chat experience. It can not only add certain features but can also allow you to drag your FB chat window to any position on the screen (only within the Chrome browser). [Read the rest of this entry...]

Recently I came across this weird problem on my iPhone that while charging the battery with the same wire and charger that I used to, it showed the fully charged icon on top right corner when it was still empty and charging.

It was a strange issue as I have been using my iPhone for over 3 years now and charging it the same way but I faced this issue for the first time and in the first couple of minutes it showed the same. At the first instance I thought it to be a temporary problem but I was surprised to see the same the next day too. [Read the rest of this entry...]

There are many extensions/software available that can convert a single webpage into a PDF document. Yes, these extensions really help you a lot to convert a single webpage.  But what if you want to convert multiple WebPages into a single PDF document? The only thing that you can do is copy and pasting the stuff from the WebPages to Microsoft word or other PDF creating programs.

Would not this be useful if you have some straight forward option that can convert the WebPages directly into PDF document?  Print pages to PDF; an extension for Firefox could be of a great help.  This will add an option – print pages to PDF, to the right-click context menu in the browser. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Would you believe if we say that you can now even explore the whole universe from your local computer, that too without using any specialized equipment? Yes, in some way you can do so. You can explore our beautiful universe using Microsoft’s Worldwide Telescope.

This Microsoft’s Worldwide Telescope is a free application that does not only offers you a planetarium but also provides some impressive content from the Hubble Space Telescope, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory Center, and other famed ground and space-based telescopes. You can even access Colorful nebulae, distant galaxies, black holes, and radiation clouds from your desktop. [Read the rest of this entry...]

In today’s time, we don’t like to wait, neither for downloading any file from internet or for loading a webpage. But when it comes to downloading files from a webpage, whether it is document, photographs, spreadsheets or songs, we can’t change the system of downloading files from a page one by one.

If we have to download multiple files we have to click on them one by one to download all of them because each file has a different download link. You need an extension or software to download multiple files at the same time. Download Master is that extension which can help you to download any number of files present on a webpage simultaneously. [Read the rest of this entry...]

People today are using social networking site very much, as they are getting addicted to it. Updating status on Facebook, posting tweets on Twitter are a part of their addiction. Now you will be surprised to know that we are going to take your addiction to a new height

Did you ever think that how good would it be if you can schedule your tweets so that it gets posted automatically to your account? Well, if you thought this sometime, then your wish has almost come true. TwittaMatic is a desktop application that will schedule your tweets and it will get automatically posted even if you can’t access your computer or laptop. [Read the rest of this entry...]

There are a lot of YouTube extensions that offers you different features. But the add-on, about which we are talking about today, is a special one. This add-on supports many features but the most amazing feature of this add-on is that it has a video history monitor with which you can review your YouTube video history.

It does not only have the video history feature, the developer has added several other features that have been added under this umbrella. But the video history feature is new to talk about as the majority of extensions do not offer this type of feature. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Whenever I search for anything in any of the search engines, whether it is Google, yahoo or any other search engine, I often open more than one search result in new tabs because it saves a lot of time. Moreover, opening only one result and scrolling through a particular site does not make any sense.

What we generally do is that we open all the links that we wish to use in new tabs. Instead of this we should do something in order to improve the Google search. There is one simple way to improve viewing the search results in Google or other search engines called the Google Search Improver User Script that can improve the way, how search results can be opened. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Does this happen to you that sometimes you find the images in Webpages are not worth viewing or since your internet connection is not that fast, your web page too long to load because of the images? Blocking those images and other elements like flash content on those WebPages is the best option one can have in these cases.

You must be thinking that how is it possible as you are neither the owners nor the editors of that website, then how can you do so? Yes, somehow it is possible in Firefox without using any add-on for this purpose. Firefox has a feature that can block those annoying images and can make those WebPages load faster. [Read the rest of this entry...]