Use Firefox Home to Sync Your Bookmarks Between Firefox and Your iPhone

Jul 16, 2010 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

Have you ever wanted the ability to save bookmarks from your computer to your iPhone? If so, you’re going to love the new App from Mozilla. Firefox Home allows iPhone users to synchronize browsing history, bookmarks, and even open tabs to your mobile phone instantly. The App works in conjunction with a Firefox add-in (Firefox [...]

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Download YouTube, Vimeo, and Metacafe Videos in HD with Keep Tube

May 27, 2010 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

Looking for a quick and easy way to download your favorite videos in high definition? With Keep Tube you can do that and more. Keep Tube is a website which allows users to download videos for later use from the following websites:

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Use WiseStamp to Spice Up Your Email Signatures

May 03, 2010 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

If you’re tired of not being able to automatically include images, links, and other items in your web mail signatures, fear not WiseStamp is here. WiseStamp is an extension for Firefox, Chrome, Thunderbird and Flock that allows you to automatically insert signatures with all of the bells and whistles when you compose an email message. [...]

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Help Me Spread Awareness About Fake Virus Scanner Scams

Dec 08, 2009 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

In an effort to educate computer users about the potential dangers of fake virus scanner pop-ups and how to close the pop-ups without infecting their computers I put together a one page PDF that summarizes the threat and lists some steps to help mitigate its impact. The idea came from a similar campaign that was [...]

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Use Xmarks to Backup and Synchronize Your Bookmarks

Jul 17, 2009 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

So you’ve got two computers at home and one at work which you browse the internet and are constantly bookmarking your favorite sites to. The problem is that unless you copy those bookmarks to a flash drive or other media you will not be able to access the same bookmarks on all three computers. Don’t [...]

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The Difference Between a Browser and a Search Engine

Jul 10, 2009 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

It is amazing how much we presume others to know, specially when it comes to computer or internet related topics. I came across a post from Seth Godin’s blog on the Best new way to make an internal sale whose featured video completely reinforced my belief that blogs like Gil’s Method are needed to [...]

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8 Ways to Secure Your Privacy in the Cloud

Jul 08, 2009 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

As more computer users flock to the cloud to store their information, the amount of personal information online is increasing at an exponential rate. Along with that growth is the increased risk associated with the exposure of private and sensitive information over the internet. When we upload personal data to services like Google Docs or [...]

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How to Download Videos Using DownloadHelper

Mar 04, 2009 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

I’ve been reading some of the comments posted several articles I have written with instructions on downloading videos from the internet. Many visitors pointed out DownloadHelper as a good alternative to some of the tools that I’ve listed, so I took the opportunity and tried it for myself. My first impression was a very [...]

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How to View A Website’s Source Code

Nov 18, 2008 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

The ability to view a website’s source code is built-in most modern web browsers. The source code allows you to view how the website was coded, in other words put together, it also gives you a glimpse of certain data that would not be available to you by just browsing the website. You can [...]

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How to Automatically Clear Your Browsing History

Oct 14, 2008 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

If you are concerned with your the files left behind whenever you browse the internet at home or at the office, then this is your solution. The how-to below will demonstrate how you can setup Internet Explorer and Firefox to automatically delete all files related your browsing activities. If you have any questions or comments, [...]

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