You know how when you are browsing the web and social sites you Like videos and images and just about anything you can? Do you ever really go back and look at those things? I know I don’t. The reason is, there isn’t an easy way to see it again. Unless you are using Persona that is. Persona is a web-app with a downloadable shortcut for your New Tab Page. When you click on the shortcut, ...

Most jobs don’t like you using their computers to surf the web when it isn’t work related. The thing is, most people so it anyway. When the boss is coming and your heart is beating fast, you only have a few seconds to close down what you are looking at and open up a work appropriate page. PanicButton is a Google Chrome extension made to make this process fast and easy. When you have one page open, you might be ...

YouTube, as you probably know, is the largest video repository out there. I read somewhere the average person views about 185 videos a month. I know I fall way below that average, but one thing I do notice when I watch all these videos on the YouTube site is the lack of features. Magic Actions is a great solution for adding usable features to YouTube. Magic Actions is an extension for Google Chrome (also available for Firefox) that adds few different viewing modes and ...

A downside of working on the computer all day is how easy it is to get distracted. All the sites out there with a lot of interesting content make it really easy to get lost for hours while you should be working. Luckily for all of us who work on a computer for a living, RescueTime is there to help us find the leaks in our productivity pipeline. Google Chrome users can download RescueTime as a standalone add-on ...

A feature many Outlook users adore is the read receipt feature. This lets you know if the recipient of the email has read it or not. For the Gmail user who wants to track emails, there is no built-in option. This means adding an extension like Bananatag is the only way to add this feature. Previously here on TechNorms, we have talked about another add-on called 

Part of the problem with reading anything online are the large number of distractions on the webpages. Be it ads or pop ups or any other number of things, they take away from the reading experience. Clearly, a product from Evernote, helps eliminate the distractions by providing a minimalist reading experience. Evernote is an extremely popular note taking application with both a free and a ...

So, you have a Facebook account, right? I thought so. Well if you are looking to get rid of the parts of the page you don’t use and enhance the parts you do use, Social Fixer is right up your alley. There always seems to be an uproar over any changes made to Facebook profiles. Using an extension for your browser can help eliminate the features you have no interest in.   What can Social ...

Ghost Incognito is a very simple, yet useful Chrome extension that lets you automatically open any URL in a new incognito window. This is great for protecting your privacy, testing extensions, and even using two different accounts for one site - for instance if you have two Facebook or Gmail accounts that you want to use at the same time. If you're unfamiliar with incognito mode in Chrome, it's a private browsing feature that lets you browse in stealth mode. This means that the browser will not record any Web ...

Remotely accessing a PC can be tricky. Especially if you are trying to help a less than tech savvy person. Luckily Google has come up with a way to help with only an extension for Google Chrome. Being that most people are familiar with and trust the web browser they are using, walking them through adding an extension to an application they already use daily is easier than teaching them to use a whole new application. There are ...