Tips, Tricks, and How-To's
The Tips and Tricks section includes quick tips, how-to guides, and introductions to interesting apps and websites. A special emphasis is placed on productivity tips and applications. These are generally posted every Tuesday and Friday.
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Hide Watched Videos, Disable Autoplay, and More with YouTweak
Want YouTube videos to automatically play in HD? Don’t like autoplay? Is your subscriptions feed getting too cluttered?
YouTube’s site accepts a limited number of parameters, such as playing a video in 720p HD, but if you want to take it one step further, the Chrome extension YouTweak for YouTube can help.
Useful YouTube Player Parameters
A guide to every parameter available for the YouTube video player (both the website and embedded players) as well a URL/code generator.
EaseUS FileManager is a Windows 8 & RT File Explorer
Did you upgrade to Windows 8 or purchase a Windows RT tablet? Microsoft is heavily promoting its new touch friendly interface, but for some reason, decided not to make a file explorer and instead relies on the Desktop mode for browsing files. Windows Explorer is great, but its clearly designed for a mouse, not your finger.
Need an easy touch-friendly way to browse your files? EaseUS FileManager is a free Modern UI file explorer from the Windows Store.
How to Open a Private Tab in Firefox 20+
Are you a Firefox user? Like other browsers, Firefox provides a Private Browsing mode, which until Firefox 20, forced you to save and close your normal browsing session.
What if you wanted to take this one step further and open private tabs alongside normal tabs in the same window (feature found in Opera)?
Quickly Convert and Share Documents with Cometdocs
Do you need to quickly upload and share your files? Need to convert an image to a PDF document?
The newly redesigned Cometdocs service can help quickly convert, share, and store files online.
TooManyTabs Suspends and Organizes Idle Tabs [Chrome/Firefox]
Do you open too many tabs? When too many tabs are open, each tab becomes tiny. In fact, tabs eventually become so tiny that the favicon isn’t even visible anymore. It becomes impossible to tell which tab is which.
Fortunately, an extension appropriately named TooManyTabs can help. It is available for both Chrome and Firefox.
3 Apps to Remind You to Rest Your Eyes
Do you spend too much time on the computer? When we’re on the computer, whether its to do real work or just browse cat videos, many of us forget to take breaks and end up sitting in front of a screen for hours. However, this can be harmful for your eyes, neck and back.
Here are 3 free applications that will remind you to take regular breaks to relax your eyes.
Better Tube Makes the YouTube Homepage Wider and Hides Videos [Chrome]
YouTube updated their site design last month, with a heavy focus on receiving new content from subscriptions. However, the site is aligned to the left of the screen. Depending on your screen resolution, this could mean a lot of white space, which could be put to better use.
A Chrome extension called Better Tube expands the homepage to fill up your screen width.
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