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Use Google Profiles for Greater Productivity and Organization. I have the way to make your online activities more productive, more organized, and even safer. That sounds like the beginning of a pitch for some sort of infomercial product, but I’m telling you, this is a fact! With just one piece of software, Google Chrome and profiles, you can make a good part of your life easier…and possibly more profitable. This is a big deal and best of all, of course, it is free. That’s right – FREE! Now you might not want to read what I’m about to type next. Get Google Chrome First, download and install the Google Chrome web browser. Get a Google Account or Three Second, get a Google account, if you don’t already have one.

Now think of the major projects that you have either on the go or upcoming. Take your two lists and compare them, condense them a bit. Head over to Google and make new accounts based on those roles. Once you have your new accounts created, open up your Chrome web browser. At this point, you get this nifty screen. Voila! 5 Creative Ways to Use Pinterest for Business | SiteProNews: Webmaster News & Resources - Flock. May 16, 2012 5 Creative Ways to Use Pinterest for Business By Juliet McEwen Johnson in Pay Per Click As the new #3 social network, Pinterest’s growth is meteoric and previously unheard of. Businesses can’t get there fast enough. But how should they promote their products and services without offending the calm, grazing culture of window-shoppers delighting in gorgeous, lush photographs. It’s a challenge. 1. Pinterest offers an ideal opportunity to demonstrate your authority in an area you know well.

Since Pinterest is all visual, it is an ideal platform for a photo contest. 3. So, if you are a party supply store, you might want to offer a board for every party theme you offer. Don’t forget to upload your pictures in reverse order, as Pinterest doesn’t yet allow us to edit our boards. When you add the $ sign into the comments section of your pin, a snipe (or banner) appears across the top left hand corner with that price on the photo. 5. How well do you know your customer? How To Turn Any Bookmarklet Into A Customized Toolbar Button [Firefox] - Flock.

Ever since Pinterest came around, I started re-discovering the power of bookmarklets. Recently, Erez told you all about why you should use more bookmarklets and less browser extensions, and while I definitely still use several extensions, there are some websites that work better with bookmarklets. After using Chrome as my default browser for quite some time, I’ve recently gone back to my roots and am now using Firefox 12.

For some reason which I have yet to research sufficiently, I can’t seem to drag bookmarklets to the bookmark bar and have them appear there, easy to reach. Even with that aside, though, I really dislike the bookmark bar, which takes up too much of my valuable window space. So should I give up bookmarklets completely? This was when I found this really cool tip on ReadWriteWeb, about an add-on which allows you to turn simple bookmarklets into nice Firefox toolbar buttons. Get Custom Buttons After the compulsory Firefox restart, you’ll be ready for the next step. 1. 2. 11 Must-Have Add-Ons for Firefox 4: Online Collaboration « - Flock.

10 Cool Internet Browsers You May Not Have Heard About. 10 Cool Internet Browsers You May Not Have Heard About Web browsers are the windows to the largest virtual world known to mankind: the Internet, and as long as the web plays a role in our everyday life, so do the various web browsers. Internet browsers have gone a long way from the World Wide Web released in the late 1980s to the ones available today. The advent of a large number of browsers, even lead to the ‘browser wars’, and as a result of which better features were added than simple fixing of the bugs that existed. Finally today there seems to be a browser for every particular need-from better security to good skins and themes. Here are 10 cool but lesser know Internet browsers. 1. K-Meleon is an open-source browser developed for the Windows lovers. K-Meleon 2. iCab iCab is a browser that is meant for the Mac users. iCab 3. Flock is a ‘social web browser’. Flock 4. Being an open-source web browser, Konqueror is a popular choice for Linux users.

Konqueror 5. Seamonkey 6. Maxthon 7. Phaseout. 5 Cool About:Config Hacks To Make Firefox Browsing Smoother - Fl. Part of the reason behind Firefox’s success is the fact that there is an awesome team of individuals behind it, who work around the clock to make it live up to the stringent quality standards, which are a hallmark of Mozilla. However, there is a second, almost equally important reason as to why each version of Firefox is a runaway success. There’s virtually no limit to the amount of customization you can apply to Firefox.

Most of these come in the form of extensions (small add-ons, which add to the functionality). However, today we are going to talk about another, more covert way of customizing Firefox. All the different settings of Firefox can be accessed from one convenient location using the Firefox “About Config” hack. By typing about:config in the address bar, one can bring up a page listing all the different options. Once on that page, it’s simply a matter of double-clicking and editing those settings to make your browsing experience even better. Open Search Results In A New Tab: