Many people use Skype nowadays, and I bet you have used it at least once, whether you had to call a relative who lives far, or maybe because you had to join a web meeting…But any time you want to use it, you need to have it installed on your machine, and it is not always possible, specially when you are not at home! Well, if you want to learn how to use Skype without installing it, here’s the right place!

Imo.im is an online multi-protocol instant messenger, that lets you connect on multiple IM accounts at once, without any installation, on any platform and browser: it supports MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, My Space, Facebook, and best of all, Skype!

What you need to do is simply to get on the website, type in your Skype (or other IM) account and password, and click connect. Your contact list will then load, and almost all the functions you have on the standalone client will be supported in this web based version as well: text chat, file sharing, audio and video conferencing work as a charm!

You can log on multiple accounts at once, even on different IM netoworks, and all of your contact lists will be loaded and merged together.

Want to know more? Just log on Imo.in with your credentials, and find out yourself!

URL: Imo.im

What I want to share with you today is another website that allows you to download from Rapishare as a Premium account for free. We already talked about Rapidshare Premium Link Generator, today we have on the scene RapidShareGod.com.

RapidShareGod.com is a Free RapidShare Premium Account download service that allows you to download RapidShare files as a Premium user, without waiting any time and at top speeds! Best of all, it’s free!

Just register your free account, and start downloading your RapidShare files. You can also download as an unregistered member by taking some free surveys online.

How it works? Simple: just go on RapidShareGod.com, paste the download link into the box and click on “Download“.

If you want to register, you just need to fill a simple form and wait for the confirmation email. By doing that, you will be allowed to bulk download a list of links, with free unlimited bandwidth.

Photo Credit: Flavio Takemoto

Today I want to share with you a great web site that will allow you to watch your favorite TV channel directly from your web browser. Impossibile? Not at all, it’s just a few clicks away! Just let me guide you to the place and you will be watching all of your TV shows right away.

Here’s how:

• Just open up your browser and head to ChooseAndWatch.com

  

• The upper menu bar lets you group channels by category or country: then, after you choose, you will see a list of all the available channels in the left sidebar, each one with an icon next to it. This icon will tell you which plugin is necessary in order to watch that stream: right now content is available in Flash, Media Player, Real Player and Quick Time.

  The other buttons on the menu bar let you watch TV from you mobile device, stream movies, and watch adult TV (for which you need to be 18+).

  

It is very simple to do this, and the best part is that it is absolutely free to use and there is no software to install more than your web browser and the streaming plugins required from the channel itself.

Any doubt just drop us a comment and we will get back to you!

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Here at Browserland we love web based products: there’s absolutely nothing to install, they run on any machine, no matter which operating system it is running. You just launch your favorite browser, and they work right away. Today what I want to tell you about, is a great web based online conferencing solution called Fuze Meeting.

Fuze Meeting is a web conferencing tool that lets you share everything on your screen in high resolution with anyone, anywhere, on any device… on any continent, on any planet, in any of the neighboring galaxies. Okay, not quite. But one day.

Available in various pricing plans, depending on attendees’ number and storage space, Fuze Meeting allows you to host conferences online, without the need of installing any software, offering a lot of great features that I’ve not even seen in standalone softwares.

Let’s take a look to all the features…Or check their feature list here!

Setting Up A Meeting

When you first login into your Fuze Meeting account, you will be able to choose whether to watch a short introduction tutorial to see all the features it can offer or, if you are like me and want to go immediately inside, you can start a new meeting in seconds by clicking a button, and start inviting people via email, or social media links. You can also schedule a meeting for the future, and send email invitations to let everyone know about the upcoming event.

When the meeting has started, you will be presented with a friendly interface, that’ll enable you to control everything that happens in the room.

Meeting Interface

Attendees List

Located on the top left of the screen, this is the main instrument of the software, and here you can actually see all the meeting’s participants, decide who you want to promote as a presenter (so that he/she can help you out through the meeting)…and also who you want to kick out of the room!

Text Chat And Call Panel – Skype Integration

As the name says, this part of the screen is dedicated to the verbal communication: you can send private or public text messages to people, see their answers, and also call in a number to start a voice conference that you can fully control by unmuting people and giving them speech.

You can also add fuzemeeting to your Skype contact list to access phone conferencing sessions in Fuze Meeting: just call fuzemeeting, enter the room number and you’re done!

Share Desktop

This is the only Fuze Meeting’s feature that requires a plugin: in fact, clicking the screen sharing button will pop up a box, in which you will be prompted to install a small extension in order to share your screen images.

Add Content

Yes! As in every web conferencing room you are allowed to share and co-work on any type of material: you can upload videos, images, presentation and high quality content, as well as adding text notes on which presenters can write in real-time, and also start whiteboarding session for drawing, making sketches, adding text captions and more.

Contacts

Another very interesting feature that I really like is the contacts menu. On the upper left of the screen, next to the meeting tab, you can find a place where you can actually import contacts and create a list of all the people you want to meet with: it supports Google Talk, Windows Live, Yahoo, AOL and Linked-In accounts, and you can add further infos for everyone such as phone numbers, email, instant messenger IDs and more.

Pros And Cons

There are actually only pros to Fuze Meeting: the user interface is really intuitive, it is full of interesting features, it is completely web based, and the team support is simply amazing.

There’s also a mobile version of Fuze Meeting (iPhone and BlackBerry) for you to join and create meetings, even when you travel or cannot access a PC, and this is a unique feature that you would not want to miss!

For more detailed information you can check the official Fuze Meeting Website, or take a look at the company size, Fuze Box

Photo Credit: Cfi02

If you are on Facebook and want to follow us, here’s another way to subscribe to our latest news feeds: we used to have RSS, email newsletter and Twitter only, but now you can also choose to use Facebook and get our latest updates directly in your Home Page.

To do this, simply use the widget in the sidebar or use the link below, and become a fan!

Here’s the Facebook Page Link


Photo Credit: Dez Pain

Today’s news is not about web browsers or web based service, but it is a humanitarian call out to the world, and it is certainly something that you can watch and share through you favorite browser!

After 25 years from it’s first publication, a new version of We Are The World is out, called We Are The World 25 for Haiti, and this time it aims to help Haiti people come out of the disaster that has caused the loss of thousands of people. Led and produced (again) by the legendary Quincy Jones, in collaboration with Lionel Richie, it involves all of the major modern music personalities, starting from Celine Dion, The Black Eyed Peas, LL Cool J, Snoop Dog, Mary J Blige, Usher, Pink, Wyclef Jean, Akon, and much more.

No more words are needed for this, so just watch, share, and enjoy this fantastic video:

Official page to watch, download and donate: http://wearetheworldfoundation.org/

For more information you can visit the YouTube Official Blog where you can read an interview to Quincy Jones, or simpy find out more on Wikipedia.

Have you got a multitude of email addresses? Wouldn’t it be great to have them all together in one single place, that you can also check on the fly using just a web browser? No more Outlook, Thunderbird, and all those things?

Google’s own Gmail is simply the best webmail application ever: I have been using Gmail since it was in the invite-only beta phase, and it has been adding features over these years, coming to be an almost-perfect email web based client, and one of the best things it does, is the ability to send emails pretending to be another account, on a different domain and server. That’s what we will use in this mini-guide to transform a single Gmail account into an all-in-one email client for all of your address (that support forwarding).

Here’s how to do it:

• Set up your other email(s) to forward to your desired Gmail account: to do this, you will simply have to look up into your settings panel. If you are using a hosted solution, as it is for your own domain, you can control mail forwarding within your control panel, or ask your host’s customer service to do it for you.
• Set up Gmail to “send as” your alternative email address: go to Settings–Accounts, and under “Send mail as,” click “Add another email address.” Enter your name and alternative email address here. You may also add a “reply to” address if you want your users to reply to a different email by default.

  

• The next step will be to validate your address: you will be asked to paste a verification code, in order to prove that this is really your account you are using: if you have correctly set up the forward on step one, you will receive the email directly in Gmail.

And that’s it! Now every email that’s sent to your old email address will be automatically forwarded to Gmail, and you will also be able to reply as if you were still using that email: to do this, everytime you compose a new email there’s a drop-down box from which you can choose the email that will result as the “sender” email. You can also select a default replying address in the “Settings” page

For any doubt just leave a comment below!

Photo Credit: Mailbox – Clix, Gmail Stamp – Marcofolio.net

To restore Firefox to its default settings, without having to uninstall it, you had to pass through its Safe Mode: nothing long or complicated, but still something that might be avoided easily. As it is with Chrome!

In fact, restoring Google Chrome to its default settings is really easy as doing three clicks:

1. On the top right of your Chrome’s screen open the Tools menu, and select Options
   
2. There just select the last tab on the right, named Under the Hood.
3. Look all the way down, and there you will find the Reset to defaults button.
   

That’s it! Nothing could be easier!

As Google says on the official Chrome help page, this operation will reset the following settings:

• Home page: The New Tab page is set as the home page and displays whenever you start up Google Chrome. The Home button is turned off on the toolbar.
• Passwords: Google Chrome offers to save your passwords.
• Download location: The default location for new downloads is \Documents and Settings\\My Documents\Downloads .
• Security and privacy:
  • All cookies are allowed.
  • Phishing and malware protection is enabled.
  • Smart navigation error suggestions are enabled.
  • DNS pre-fetching is enabled.
  • Address bar suggestions are enabled.

Photo Credit: Reload Icon – Everaldo Coelho

With version 3.5, Mozilla introduced in Firefox a new feature: Private Browsing. For those who don’t know, Private Browsing is a particular state of Firefox which allows people to browse anonymously on the web, without leaving any trace into the browser’s history, cookies, complement data, etc.

Unfortunately this feature in Firefox is not very practical to use: in fact, you have to close your actual session in order to start it.

Luckily there’s a plugin, Private Browsing Window, that lets you open a new completely independent anonymous window, like it is in Chrome’s Incognito Mode, so that you don’t need to close the current browsing session.

Once you have downloaded and installed it, restart Firefox and you will find a green icon on the right bottom of your browser, or a new voice into the Tools menu: clicking it will start a new private browsing session without leaving the “normal one”.

Installation Link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59736

Photo Credits: Safe Box – VisualPharm, Binary Code Background – Flavio Takemoto

When you need to download something, often you will find that the file is hosted on RapidShare: if you don’t know what it is, RapidShare is a file hosting service where people can upload their files and share them with others easily by exchanging a link.

The only bad thing about it, is that free accounts have to wait a set amount of time before you actually download that file, you can’t exceed a maximum data size (after which you have to wait about an hour), and simultaneous downloads are not permitted.

To avoid this, here’s a great website that does what you want: Rapidshare Premium Link Generator is a site that buys and shares Rapidshare Premium accounts, allowing you to access all of the features that you would not have with the free one. The site is based on user’s donations, and you can borrow a free Premium account at anytime, instantly. Let’s see how:

Just get on Rapidshare Premium Link Generator and insert the download link into the box. After a matter of seconds your download will start, with no waiting time, verification code, or size limit.

Great isn’t it? I think it is, so spread the word about this fantastic website and donate to allow them to buy more accounts!

If you want a Premium Rapidshare account of your own, without sharing it with anyone, just check the prices here http://rapidshare.com/premium.html

Photo Credit: Antrepo

If you are a Photoshop heavy user like I am, you are likely to miss it when you are away from home, without your PC or laptop: sure you have Photoshop.com as a great alternative, but it might not satisfy you at all, specially from the layout point of view since it looks totally different from the original version.

Luckily there is a fantastic fully web-based alternative, which will make Photoshop’s absence easier for you: its name is Pixlr, an online full-featured Photoshop-like image editor, which allows you to modify your images without installing any type of software, at begginer’s and advanced levels.

Pixlr Editor

This is the main tool available on the website: the interface looks, apart from the colors, very similar to Photoshop’s. When you first open it, youll be asked if you want to open a blank new canvas or an existing picture from your computer or URL.

When the image has been opened or imported, you will be able to modify it as you wish, using all the features Pixlr offers to you:

• Tools

  

  Practically identical to Photoshop’s, this toolbar lets you access a variety of tools that allow you to select parts of your image, add text, make advanced sharpening or blurring edits, pick colors from the image, and many many more.

• Navigator, Layers and History

  

  On the right side of the screen, there you’ll find three boxes: the first one is the Navigator, and here you’ll have a nice overview of your picture with positioning infos, as well as zoom level. The Layers box, as the name says, gives you complete control over layers, enabling you to create new ones, delete them, add effects and masks, and more. The last box, History, briefly tells you all the things you’ve done to your image, making it easy to undo steps.

• Upper Toolbar and Shortcuts

  

  The upper toolbar looks just like a normal software’s, with the usual “File, Edit” menus. There you will find buttons to save your project, rotate it, add filters, make adjustments etc.

  If you use Photoshop’s shortcuts, you will see that many of them work in Pixlr as well (and example is the Ctrl-J to make a duplicate of the currently selected layer).

Pixlr Express

If you want to do some basic improvements to an image, you may use Pixlr Express: it is a reduced and simplified version of Pixlr, which gives you access only to the main features and effects. When an image is opened, you will be able to resize it, crop it, and rotate it. Other than that, you can add filters and basic effects, as well as adjusting brightness, levels, sharpen and blur, and remove red eyes.

Extensions

There are two extensions available, both for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. When you install them, you will be able to right click any image, on your computer or or any web page, and directly open it in Pixlr, without passing through the import process. This is not a real feature, but just a way to speed up the process of opening pictures.

Firefox Extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9924

Chrome Extension: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/kflilpkdgadcajfcafmefmndemaafcfe

Final Thoughts

This software is just amazing for me: it can fully replace Photoshop (beyond the limits obviously) for any editing level. It works on any platform and browser that supports Flash, and it is fast and smooth with a normal DSL line, but I guess you can work on it even on slower lines. Plus, you can export in multiple formats (JPG, PNG, BMP, and proprietary PXD, similar to Photoshop’s PSD) with customizable levels of compression.

It is completely free to use, and nothing to download except for Flash player is required in order to use it.

By default when you first install an operating system on your machine, the default web browser that you find will be Internet Explorer on Windows and Safari on Macs…Only some Linux distributions have Firefox as their default browsing program.

It is really easy to set Firefox as default on any OS, but someone might not have had the chance to learn how yet…so here’s how to do it in two easy steps:

1. Click on Tools->Options from the toolbar, and the settings menu will open.
   




2. Open the Advanced Tab, and all the way down you will see a “Check Now” button: clicking that will make Firefox check whether or not it is the default web browser on your computer and, if not, it’ll prompt and ask if you wish to make it become the default browsing software.
   

   Just click Yes and you’re done!
   

Now every time you open an HTML/XML file, a link, or anything that concerns browsing the Internet, Firefox will be the program that the operating system chooses to open that file or page.

Google Chrome extensions are a great way to add more features and functionality to the browser. Sometimes, a feature is really useful for some people, but not for everyone. Extensions let you customize Google Chrome with features you like, while keeping your browser free of clutter that you don’t use.

That’s how Google itself describes its new extensions search engine, which all of us were waiting for, and that already features more than 1000 entries.

In fact, just some days ago, they launched this beta channel that is starting to collect all of the best extensions that developers are currently making. Just as Firefox’s extensions page, Google lets you browse all the most popular, recent and featured extensions, in a simple and clean way as only Google does, allowing developers to publish their own creations by simply logging with they Google account, and users to download, vote and review them easily.

Lets see other features:

Extension Page

Each extension has its own page, where all the related information are collected, and where people can install it from, with just one click.

It obviously features the install button on the top as well as the statistic that help you understand how good that extension really is: you can find a rating, also with the number of people who voted, number of users that downloaded it, and how many of them installed it during the last week. Just below the button you can find a full developer review in which he/she explains what the extension in all about.

On the page you can also find pictures, located on the right side of the screen, and a review/comment section, in which you can give a 1-to-5 star rating yourself, read other people’s opinions, and make your own suggestion or comment.

How To Manage Extensions

The extension manager is located into your settings menu, on right top of Chrome.

There you see all the extensions you installed, which of them are active, and you are able to easily uninstall, disable and update them: there is also a developer mode for custom installing and updating for technical users.

If available, you will also find an option menu button located on the right: here you will be able to customize how each extension behaves, and to set up advanced features that may not be active at the moment of installation.

Photo Credit: Ivan Petrov

Currently only the beta version of Chrome supports the extensions, but I bet that sooner than we expect they will be fully launched and integrated with the browser and, as they start circulating, we will be ready to review the best that come out!

Tired of waiting for a file hosting site to allow you to download a file? Do you want to skip all of those boring procedures when downloading files, and do something else during the queue time?

SkipScreen is a Firefox add-on that skips the clicking and waiting time on sites like RapidShare, Megaupload, Mediafire, zShare, and more: just click on the link, let SkipScreen follow the download procedure while you don’t even pay attention to that page and, when the file is ready to download, it’ll just appear for you to save it.

Since it would be complicated to explain it with pictures, you can watch this video tutorial:

Currently it supports the following sites (with more to come): Rapidshare, Megaupload, Mediafire, Uploaded.to, zShare, Sharebee, DepositFiles, Sendspace, Divshare, Linkbucks, Link-protector.

For more information you can visit the official plugin page, and also take a look at the FAQ page.

Installation Page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11243

Did you ever come across a website called Alltop.com? Do you know what it is all about?

Alltop is a news aggregation site that imports stories from top news websites and blogs for any given topic, and displays the headlines of the five most recent stories from each one of them. Its main purpose is to allow visitors to have a unique place where they can find the best news about everything they want: divided by category, you can find sections that space from tech, gossip, sport, health and more.

Just to make a few names from the tech section, it features blogs such as TechCrunch, Mashable, LifeHacker, Mozilla Links, RedWriteWeb, and PlanetPhotoshop.

Alltop also lets you create your own page, where you can select the news sources that you want to read, in your preferred order, so that you can have all the latest stories that interest you on a single page that you can even share with people through a custom URL.

From today, you will also find Browserland in the Alltop Mozilla page: sure we are still in the last position, but we will work hard to make it to the top, as we are doing after the domain name change imposed a few weeks ago, that made our traffic drop all the way down to zero.

So we thank Alltop for accepting us in their Mozilla page, and we’d like to recommend it to you as it is a great source of information that gathers only the best news around the web!

Almost everybody who browses the web is using Twitter (or has used it once!): whether if you are a blogger and use it to share your latest discoveries or posts (like we do at Browserland), if you just want to share with people you daily activities, or for any other reason that you can think of.

Twitter is very easy to use, but maybe we could make it even easier and faster to post with, using Firefox.

TinyTweet is a Firefox add-on that allows to instantly tweet any selected web page text, automatically creating a bit.ly link to the page where the text lives on.

How To Use It

Using TinyTweet is so easy that it wouldn’t even take one like to explain, but I’ll do my best to make it clear for you: after you select a text, without even clicking your mouse, a “Tweet this” button will float next to the selection.

Clicking that button will bring you to a new window, where you’ll just need to login to your Twitter account if you are not logged yet, and just publish it: it’ll automatically add the text, and a shortened URL linking to the page that contains the text you added.

Installation Page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/53695

Photo Credit: Dez Pain

Bloggers and PC geeks usually copy lots of line while working, and maybe use clipboard managers to organize all of their copied text. Well, if you are a Firefox user, a really useful extension may be what you are looking for.

It is called QuickNote, and as the name suggests, it is an add-on that adds a simple notepad to Firefox in which you can copy and annotate everything you want.

Installing QuickNote is really simple, and can be done just by visiting the add-on page and, after this has been done, you have various ways of using it:

Shortcut, menu and right click start

There are basically three ways for starting QuickNote while you are browsing pages in Firefox:

• CTRL+F7: This is the simplest I guess, as you just press this keyboard shortcut and a sidebar notepad will be opened, and you can then type or copy any text you want.

  

• Tools Menu: Another way to start it, is from the Firefox’s Tools menu. There you will find a QuickNote field, where you can decide whether to start it in sidebar view as done before, or even floating and tab mode.

  

• Right Click: This is a very great features in my opinion! When selecting a text, you can right click on it, and select “Send to QuickNote: this will automatically copy that text to any open QuickNote session, or just start a new sidebar one if none is running yet.

  

Saving Notes

Sometimes you might just use QuickNote for “copy&paste” reasons, and by that I mean that you’d want to remember a website URL, or an installation code etc. But there may be times when you’d want to save the note you just typed.

To do this, just click on the little notepad on the right top angle of QuickNote’s interface and select “Save current tab as”, just give it a name, and your txt file will be ready to use!

Settings

The settings menu lets you modify the default settings as you wish: you can decide how the CTRL+F7 should behave (choosing which mode it should launch between sidebar, float and tab), customize background and font style, number of note tabs, and also saving location.

I think this is a really cool extension, and I guess you will like it after you try it and play with a little.

Installation Page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/46

Photo Credit: Bartek Ambrozik

There are times when you want to browse the web in stealth mode, without leaving any trace of what you did on the computer, maybe because your boss wouldn’t want you to do so, or maybe because you are planning a surprise for someone and you don’t want them to know…Well there is Firefox Private Mode that allows you to browse the internet without leaving signs about what you just did, but Google has its own in its Chrome browser, and today that’s what we are going to talk about.

Incognito mode is a particular state of Chrome in which the pages you visit won’t appear in your browser history or search history, and they won’t leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. This does not mean that the website you visited won’t have records of you, but just that anything you just on your computer has never really happened.

However, any files you download or bookmarks you create during the incognito session will be preserved, and visible by anyone who has access to the machine.

How To Start Incognito Mode

That is really simple to do: in Chrome, just press Ctrl+Shift+N (in Windows or Linux) or ⌘+Shift+N (on a Mac) and a new blank window will open, distinguishing itself by the man with glasses on the top right. Here you can be sure that anything you just did, was just a dream!

Another way to start it without using a keyboard shortcut, is by clicking on the tools icon on the right side of your toolbar, and select New Incognito Window

Start Chrome In Incognito Mode (In Windows)

If you never want to be spied by people, and always want to be invisible, you can avoid the boring process of opening an Incognito window everytime, but you can simply set Chrome to start in Incognito mode automatically.

Here’s how to do it:

1. Create a desktop shortcut to Chrome (if there is not one already) and name it so that you know that it is the Incognito Chrome




2. Right click on the shortcut and select properties: in the Target text box, just add ” -incognito” after the path, and be sure that the is a space before the dash

And that’s it! Now everytime you want to browse stealthy, just click on that shortcut and enjoy!

Any questions you have just ask in the comments section below!

Photo Credit: Laurwin (Smooth Criminal MJ)

In the past we have discussed topics about how to make your Firefox browser look like another one: for example we can actually turn Firefox into Google Chrome with just two add-ons, and can give it the look of Internet Explorer with a single theme.

Today is Opera’s turn, and we will completely change Firefox to look like Opera in a matter of seconds.

Fopera is the theme we will use, and it actually redesigns the aspect of the toolbars, and even the scroll bar, to give Firefox a new look, reminding you of Opera 10.

So if you like Opera’s look, but love Firefox’s engine, features and plugins, just grab this theme today!

Installation Page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/51615

Firefox’s address bar is almost perfect, but sometimes we would like it to do more: for example, if I want to search something on Ebay I have to type “Google item“, then browse the Google’s search page and find a page from Ebay.

Quick Search is a Firefox add-on that enhances the address bar’s functionality, as well as adds search options to the right click menu, allowing you to easily make researches on Google, Amazon, Bing and Yahoo.

Let’s see how it works:

Address Bar Features

After the extension has been installed, you will be now able to search on various search engines just by typing a letter before the search query:

• g keyword: Google search for the query “keyword”
• b keyword: Bing search for the query “keyword”
• e keyword: Ebay search for the query “keyword”
• y keyword: Yahoo search for the query “keyword”
• t keyword: Twitter search for the query “keyword”

Right Click Features

In addition to what we just saw, Quick Search has also another feature: when you select a portion of text and right click on it, you will see four new voices in the menu. These will just allow you to research that text directly in Google, Bing, Yahoo or Amazon, without having to type anything more.

This is a very useful plugin if you make high use of search engines, and you change between them for better results.

Installation Page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/14448

Photo Credit: Jay Simmons