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Add A History List To Firefox’s Ctrl+F Dialog

12:30PM January 17, 2012 | Whitson Gordon

Firefox: If you use Ctrl+F like a fiend, this simple extension will add a drop-down history list so you can access your most recent search terms on a given page. More »


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Travel Back In Time To Usenet 30 Years Ago

12:00AM September 17, 2011 | Melanie Pinola

OldUse.Net is a historical recreation updated in real time of Usenet as it was 30 years ago, with the classic green-on-black styling. You can read each Usenet post synchronised from the past using a command-line interface or your newsreader via nntp.olduse.net. [just] More »


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The 911 Memorial App On iPad: Visit At Your Own Pace

11:00PM September 9, 2011 | Melanie Pinola

iPad: It’s been 10 years. No doubt you still vividly remember where you were on 9/11. If you want to reflect on the event at your own pace or visit the 9/11 Memorial virtually, this free app is an impressive experience. More »


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Recall Monkey Searches Your Firefox History With Advanced Filters

10:30PM July 12, 2011 | Whitson Gordon

Firefox: Mozilla Labs’ Recall Monkey extension adds a new page to Firefox that searches your history by time range, by site and other advanced filters to help you actually find the page you’re looking for. More »


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FromWhereToWhere Threads Your Firefox Browsing History

1:00AM May 16, 2011 | Alan Henry

Firefox: When you view your browsing history, you get a chronological list of sites you visited, from oldest to newest. What you don’t see though are the sites that linked you to the following ones, or the search results that gave you the next three sites you visited. FromWhereToWhere for Firefox fixes that. More »


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History Calendar Eases History Browsing In Google Chrome

11:30PM April 25, 2011 | Whitson Gordon

Chrome: If you often have to go back into your browser’s history to find “that one page you were looking at”, you know how annoying it can be. History Calendar makes it easier by letting you sort your history by date. More »


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Remove A Single Site From Firefox History

1:00AM October 1, 2010 | Kevin Purdy

Firefox’s drop-down address bar is great at getting you to sites after typing a few letters — unless you’ve mistyped a site or visited similar-named pages. Fix Firefox’s confusion forever with a right-click trick in your History list. More »


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Hit Undo In Firefox’s Address Bar To Browse Your History

7:30AM August 14, 2010 | Adam Pash

Hit the undo shortcut (Ctrl+z/Cmd+z) in Firefox’s address bar to move through your recent history via keyboard and find tabs you’ve closed — sort of like a lightweight version of the Undo Closed Tab feature. More »


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Google Adds Mobile Search History Link For Easy Search Recalls

11:00PM August 4, 2010 | Kevin Purdy

Want to pull up that link you found at home while you’re away from home? If you’ve enabled Google’s Search History feature, you can now pull it up from the Google home page on your iPhone or Android browser. More »


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Use Wolfram Alpha To Figure Out Confusing Family Relationships

12:00AM June 25, 2010 | Kevin Purdy

What do you call the son of your mum’s cousin? How about the husband of your mother’s uncle’s daughter? Type how you’re related into Wolfram Alpha’s computation engine, and it returns the relationship — first cousin once removed, in that last example. More »