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15 Useful Internet Hacks You Should Know


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Sometimes it doesn’t matter how much you are familiar with Internet and computers, the domain is too vast that there is always left something to be explored. With the increasing use of Internet, there is many things that you have learned and there is lot more that is needed to be learned.

 

Every now and then you come across tech tricks and hacks that you might not ever know because the Internet world is full of tech hacks that will make your say awesome. So, want to know some amazing cool and useful Internet hacks, let’s have a look.

15 Useful Internet hacks you should know

1. Google Chrome as Notepad

You must be using Google Chrome for browsing but do you know you can use Google Chrome as a notepad? If you are damn busy in surfing or doing your work on Internet and suddenly you got to write some urgent or useful information then you can check out this without wasting any single second of yours.

Write down single piece of code in the address bar of Chrome browser.

data:text/html, <html contenteditable>  

 

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This will turn current tab of Chrome as notepad that you can use for writing purpose.

 

How to use Firefox Browser as Notepad

2. Mute Noisy tabs

Have you ever wondered about the voices of video while surfing on Internet? While working or surfing web, opening multiple tabs doesn’t let you know from which tab

sound of video or ad is coming that really irritates and annoys a lot.

 

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But the good news is you can mute the tab from where the sound is coming without closing or leaving the tab that you are currently working on. You will notice the sound icon on tab on which the sound is coming, just click on the speaker icon of the respective tab.

3. Play MP3 or movies from browser

Google Chrome allows you to play Mp3 and movies right from the current tab. You just need to drag and drop the file that you want Chrome to play into address bar.

 

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4. View Hidden Password

You must have seen how passwords are shown on any website, like dots and stars so that you one can watch out what the password is. But it is still possible to uncover the password from star shield.

 

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On the password field, right click on Inspect and open the source code window. All you need to do is change the type of the form field from password to text.

5. Use Google as Timer

Google introduced a cool trick that lets you use Google as a countdown clock or alarm clock. To use Google Timer, type the piece of code in the Google search

Time for <time>

Or

Set timer for <time>

 

timer

6. Browse Internet secretly

You might not notice it but you keep on leaving your footprints on internet through which any third party can track you. If you want to browse internet without leaving any traces then this is the hack to achieve so. Different browser lets you browse secretly and offer this facility under different names. For Google Chrome, right-click and select Incognito mode while in Mozilla Firefox the same is achieved through Private Window.

7. Check if the website is safe for browsing

It is very important to think of security on Internet and become conscious for it. Since lot of malicious websites, viruses can harm your system and damage you a lot in terms of sensitive and personal information. There is something that you must know is Link Safety, an easy way that will let you know if any website is safe for browsing. Just write piece of code in your browser

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostics?site=address_of_website.

8. Shortcut key for Address Bar

Sometimes due to lack of time, people want to use mouse to drag it but there is another quicker and easier way to access address bar is the shortcut key combination. Press Ctrl+L or F6 to access address bar of your browser.

9. Convert YouTube Video into Animated GIF

YouTube is the one of the largest video sharing platform that lets you watch and share thousands of videos. But have you ever wondered to change these video into animated GIF image? Having an animated GIF image means you can easily insert it into web page or any document. The service to convert YouTube videos into gif is gifs.com that automatically do the conversion. All you need to do is to provide the URL.

 

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10. Know Google sees you

Everyone knows Google is the only search engine that makes most of its profit from online advertisement programs like AdSense and AdWord. Google creates a profile for you in database so that it could display only suitable ads for you. And thus Google only shows the ads that matches your profile.

11. Find MP3 songs with direct downloadable links

Everyone loves music andiInternet lets you search and download for your favorite music but it includes paths to reach to right downloadable link from music hosting websites. Do you know Google has served you with direct links? Yes, it is a simple trick to download Mp3 songs without looking for music downloading websites.

To get the direct link of any MP3 song, just type: Initile:index.of?mp3 song title

 

You can write any song name as song title and Google will show you all the websites that are hosting direct link. Now, with this trick downloading mp3 song will not be difficult for you.

12. Avoid accidentally closing of Browser tabs

Are you annoyed with the accidental closing of tabs while surfing web? No doubt, it happens but don’t worry there is a possibility to avoid the accidental closing of tabs.

 

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All you need to do is open your browser, right click on the open tab and select Pin Tab or Pin option. This will help you to fix the closing of tabs by mistakes and to remove this pinned tab you need to first unpin it. You can perform unpin of tab in the same way.

13. Searching incomplete phrases on Google

Does it ever happen you want to search something on Google but can’t remember the exact phrase or word? Don’t worry it is human nature and it happens with almost everyone, trying to remember a particular quotes, phrase, lyrics of song, proverb. Google trick makes it easier to identity the phrases. You just need to put asterisk in quoted statement that will indicate Google as the missing character and Google will show all the results that much likely replace the specify term keeping the rest of the words of the sentence unchanged.

 

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14. Mute Gmail Thread

Well Gmail includes the feature of conversation, have you ever been a part of conversation where you have no active role to play? It happens sometimes, keep on receiving email in despite you have any role to play. But you know what you can do for it. Just mute that particular Gmail thread and you will not receive any new email notification when any new reply made to that thread.

 

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To accomplish this, go to Gmail inbox and select the particular thread that you want to mute. Under More tab, select Mute.

15. Explore space with Internet

You might have used Google Map in order to search any location from any place. But do you know Google provides the similar facility for space too?  Google Sky offers the closeup view of outer space and lets you to explore galaxy, constellations, planets and more.   Google Sky

 

sky

 

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