Web Browsers
Have you ever been at work and updated a blog, commented on an article or updated your Company's website only to see the change wasn't being displayed? This may be caused by your Company's proxy-server saving a stale version of the webpage. Pressing the refresh button only affects your browser's cache, not the server's. To fix this you'll have to press the ctrl-key and the refresh button on your browser to make it load a fresh page.
Suggested by: Naji
Some phones are web-capable, but if yours is not you can still get a lot of information using text messages. Looking for a nearby store? Trying to get the score for the game? Trying to convert dollars to euros? Let google text you the answers, by sending a message to the number: 466453. For example, to find pizza in your zipcode send "pizza 90210", or the score of a game "score knicks", or for currency conversions "10 dollars in euros".
Shout-out: google.com
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If you're a teen and your parents have blocked some websites here is an easy trick to fool your computer (and hopefully your parents). First, go to translate.google.com. Then, at the bottom, type in the url of the site you wish to visit. Next, set the language to something that won't be on the site you're trying to access (e.g. Russian to English). If the translator can't find any words in Russian, it won't change anything. Lastly, hit translate and the selected web page will load -- slightly slower than normal but it's worth the wait.
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Google searches are very easy to decode and as such, they are often monitored. For example, when you type "private equity jobs new york" into the google search bar, the resulting url looks like this: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Private+Equity+Jobs+New+York&btnG=Google+Search -- not too hard to figure out what you are up to. Luckily our friends at Digital Inspiration found a workaround, in fact they found 10. Check out their full post here. Happy Searching!
Shout-out: labnol.org
Suggested by: Naji G.
Don't worry; this loophole isn't too nerdy, too technical or too hard for the average person. Assuming you use Firefox for your browser, follow the simple steps detailed below and you will be surfing the web much faster than before.
- Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return
- Scroll down and look for the following entries and alter appropriately
- Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"
- Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"
- Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to a number like 30 -- Firefox will now make 30 requests at once whereas before it would only make one request at a time
- Lastly right-click anywhere and select New -> Integer
- Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0" (time the browser waits before it acts on information received)
That's it, you are done, type in your favorite website and surf at speeds previously hidden from you!
