Hey guys this is a blog for ‘not very geeky’ people, who use internet only for checking mails and orkuting or googling, those who use their laptops mostly for listening to music and watching movies. I want to give a few tips to such guys for the improvement of their web surfing experience.
First of all guys forget your iexplorer. Ieplorer is, I think, the slowest, clumsiest and outdated browser of today. First choice can be Mozilla Firefox with its so many extensions and other features. My personal favorite is Flock browser which is designed on Firefox platform itself. The sidebars in Flock absolutely changed my web surfing habits, which were completely orthodox before Flock.
Secondly, download Google pack, which includes Google desktop, Google sidebar and a host of very useful software like picassa, free spyware, acrobat reader, Google earth etc. Google desktop search is, I think, the best feature. Once it indexes your hard disk this search becomes really fast and useful. Google sidebar gadgets are also very useful. Yahoo widgets can also be a good substitute for Google sidebar.
Thirdly, if you want to backup your important documents and files online use ‘windows office live’, which is a free service from Microsoft (yes free from Microsoft !). Windows office live is useful only if you have Microsoft office on your pc or laptop. If you are using any free office suite then you can use ‘Google docs’. Both these services are very useful if you want to share your documents with others or if you want the luxury of accessing your docs from any pc or laptop.
Another thing that can change your web experience completely is, have your personalized home page. ‘My Yahoo’ and ‘iGoogle’ are two good (branded) options. These personalized home pages on your browser are really useful if you don’t want hassles of opening many different web pages which you regularly open after connecting to internet. You can add modules (in My Yahoo) or widgets (in iGoogle) like different mail boxes, market quotes, different news reeds, and many more, so as soon as you connect to internet and open up your browser you will have a quick update of all your new mails, recent news, local weather, stock quotes etc on a single page.
Another thing that I would suggest you to keep yourself updated about the new and interesting things on web is ‘delicious’ . Be a regular visitor of delicious.com. You can also keep all your bookmarks and favorites online on delicious, which will in turn give you the luxury of accessing all your bookmarks from any other computer. A good substitute of delicious is magnolia.
