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4:30AM The How-To Geek | Think that your browser’s private mode keeps your browsing completely private? Not so! More often than not, you’re still leaving traces of your browsing session behind, and today we’ll tell you how to get rid of them for truly private browsing. More »
How To Really Browse Without Leaving A Trace
4:30AM The How-To Geek | Think that your browser’s private mode keeps your browsing completely private? Not so! More often than not, you’re still leaving traces of your browsing session behind, and today we’ll tell you how to get rid of them for truly private browsing. More » 
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History Tree Displays Your Browser History As A Colour-Coded Tree
5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Firefox: Your Firefox brower’s built-in history list is just that—a simple list. History Tree offers at-a-glance page thumbnails and tree-based history browsing for better backtracking. More »
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HistoryBlock Keeps Web Sites From Your History
2:00AM The How-To Geek | Firefox only (Win/Mac/Linux): Firefox extension HistoryBlock prevents specific web sites from being tracked—like an always-on private browsing mode for certain domains. More »
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History Submenus Adds Quick Access To Recent Items
6:00AM The How-To Geek | Firefox only: (Win/Mac/Linux): The History Submenus extension displays your recent history in folders from the History menu—so you can quickly get back to that page you looked at yesterday. More »
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Timelope Tracks Your Browsing History
5:30AM Tamar Weinberg | All platforms with Firefox: Firefox extension Timelope helps you keep track of web sites you’ve visited, when you’ve visited them, and how long you spent on each site. Sign up for an account, install the extension, authorise yourself, and you’re ready to roll. Timelope works in the background and keeps track of the number of pages you visit: as you visit more pages, the number of Timelope “hops” is increased. Additionally, Timelope features a separate but useful social networking function where you can follow friends and see exactly where they’ve been online. By default, your visited web sites are private; you can make your stream public if you are interested in the social features of Timelope. Timelope is free, works wherever Firefox does. Timelope [via Webware] More »See How Often You Visit Web Sites in Firefox 3
9:00PM Gina Trapani | One of Firefox 3’s newest (and most revealing) backend features is its built-in usage tracking—it keeps a running tally of how often you visit a web page over a period of time, which informs the Smart Location Bar’s suggestions and creates things like smart bookmark lists of “Most Visited” sites. Smarter features informed by your behaviour are great, but checking out the raw data can offer a whole lot of insight into where and how you spend your time online. Exactly what site have you visited the most since you installed Firefox 3 and how many times did you go there? Here’s how to find out. More »
View Your Browsing History in Snapshots with WebMynd
7:05AM Kevin Purdy | Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): WebMynd, a free add-on for Firefox, makes it easy to browse through web pages you’ve visited or specifically “webmarked,” whether they’re static or dynamically generated. Although you can tell WebMynd not to monitor certain pages and turn its history noting on and off, the add-on generally works as a background service, taking snapshots of the pages you visit. Hit the WebMynd button and you can see thumbnails of those pages. Click on the thumbnails and you get fully browse-able snapshots, with links, images and other data preserved. For hunting down links and images on pages that change pretty frequently, or just getting a more easily-navigated history, WebMynd serves a purpose. WebMynd is free to download, works wherever Firefox does, and lets you browse a week’s history at no cost; $US10 and $US20 subscriptions get you six months or a year’s worth of snapshots. WebMynd [via Download Squad] More »
Use Google Web History WIthout Installing a Toolbar
8:30AM Kevin Purdy | The Google Operating System blog has a helpful, quick guide on how to enable Google Web History for more than just Google searches without having to make the usual Google Toolbar installation, using JavaScript-based tools like Greasemonkey for Firefox, Trixie for Internet Explorer, and Safari, Opera, and Konquerer (KDE Linux) also. You still need to be logged into a Google account to enable history tracking, but it could be a real help to those using alternative browsers for which the Toolbar isn’t offered. And while many users certainly still have their privacy concerns about Google knowing everywhere you’ve been browsing, disabling the non-Google portion is as simple as turning off the script. Use Google Web History Without Installing Google Toolbar [Google Operating System] More »
Save IMs Across Clients (and Systems) with IM History
10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Windows/Linux: Free beta program IM History offers a web-synced way to store instant message chats across multiple computers, and operating systems, from a variety of chat clients. Right now, the service supports AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Skyp, Trillian, and a few other clients, but my pet peeve is Pigin supported only in Linux, leaving dual-booters like me in the cold. That aside, once enabled, IM History lets you access your chat history and contacts from a web interface, and being able to search chats from across platforms—to find, for instance, a link sent long ago— is where many users will find this app convenient. IM History is a free download for Windows and Linux. IM History [via MakeUseOf.com] More »
