Tag: HISTORY

You can access your history easily enough in Google Chrome by typing chrome://history in the Omnibox, but if you'd like a drop-down list of your past browsing at your fingertips, check out Sexy History Viewer Lite. In addition to displaying the same list of sites you'd see on Chrome's history page, the Viewer extension also allows you to search, updating the results in near-real time. The ...

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine uses open source software to search archived webpages going back to the days of the dotcom boom, and it just got a lot more useful with the addition of a new beta version. The beta includes more archived webpages than ever before, as well as a new calendar view that makes it easy to find the specific version of a page you're looking for. The Internet ...

It's never a bad idea to clean up history files on your devices -- especially your smartphone. As Lifehacker points out, you might have friends constantly wanting to check out your sexy new Android phone, and they don't need to know how many Hotel Mario videos you've been watching on YouTube. Enter HistoryEraser, which cleans more than just your browsing tracks. This handy little app can also ...

Despite being a very sleek, modern browser, Google Chrome is still missing a few simple features that most other browsers have had for eons: the ability to resume downloads, setting an image as wallpaper... and to specify how long you want pages to remain in your browsing history. Google's recently-released Chrome Toolbox extension takes care of the wallpaper niggle, and a new extension ...

Letters of Note is a fantastic personal project by Shaun Usher. It's a clean looking blog with some extraordinary content: historical letters by people like Franz Kafka, Ray Bradbury, Jochen Rindt (the only posthumous Formula One World Champion), and other celebrities. It's not all celebrities, though. The letter in the screenshot, for instance, was written by a bank manager from Hiroshima on May ...

The Tracktor's website is an incredible tool for those of us who shop on Amazon.com frequently. Over the weekend, Tracktor introduced a new Google Chrome extension, which automatically adds their historical pricing data to Amazon product pages as you browse. Both new and used price history is displayed, and the extension also adds a notification box to the right side of the Amazon page. Set ...

Erez loves crunching data in Excel. And he loves making sure he's not getting off track and being unproductive in his browser when there's work to do. I haven't asked, but I'm thinking Historian would be right up his alley. It's a free, portable tool for Windows which can export history data from all the major web browsers to delimited text file. Once saved, you're free to open the file in ...

At the All Things Digital D8 conference last night, Steve Jobs did something odd: he took part in an event that he had no control over. Rather than being the charismatic cornerstone of a pulpit-delivered keynote, he played the role of a heckled, candid interviewee. And he... rocked! He talked a lot, and on a huge range of topics which aren't really 'Download Squad-ish'. Still, I've collated a ...

I knew Radio Shack were kind of ancient, but I had no idea they've been around since 1921. That is a long time. It took them 18 years, but in 1939 they started publishing their comprehensive yearly catalogs. And they kept on going strong and steady -- except for a couple of years during WWII. Like any old catalog, these provide an interesting portal into a different time -- a simpler time, when ...

I grew up in Fidonet and the BBS culture. I remember whole nights spent online in my early teens, slugging my way through text MUDs (multi-user D&D games). I really liked it. But it's gone. Times have moved on, things have changed. We now have graphics. Apparently, one Zach Perry takes issue with that. He has recently launched AEIN, or Alternative Electronic Information Network. In a ...

32 years ago today, the first electronic bulletin board system -- or BBS -- was born. As the brainchild of a nerd stuck in the Great Blizzard of 1978, the first BBS was created as a way to circumvent the fundamental, age-old rules of socializing -- it was merely a a digital version of the bulletin boards found in the foyers of libraries and churches around the world. We had been making use of the ...

Weave, Mozilla's browser sync tool, has finally hit version 1.0 -- for both the desktop and mobile versions of Firefox! Install the add-on in your browser, and you can securely sync your Firefox profile data like bookmarks, history, passwords -- even the tabs you have open -- across all the machines on which you run it. Weave accounts are free to create, and your information is encrypted, ...

In response to new European Union regulations, Microsoft has reduced the amount of time Bing will associate your IP address with your search history. Up until now, Bing saved your searches, along with your full IP address, for 18 months. That's now been cut down to 6 months. Under the new plan, Microsoft will also stop storing your cross-session search cookies at 18 months, meaning they won't ...

I remember playing Star Wars from a cassette on our Apple ][. My dad bought it in a bike shop and it came with paddles and some starter cassettes like Breakout, Applesoft BASIC and Star Wars (complete with slightly off-pitch theme song). Later we upgraded the ][ to a ][+ on the inside (capable of addressing a whopping 8K of RAM!). We also upgraded to two disk drives -- something you really needed ...

When I was growing up during the 1960s, just having a remote control television felt a little "science fiction." Back then, access to leading-edge technology was unthinkable. So you can imagine my surprise when I was given a computer for my 13th birthday -- a Digi-Comp II. I vividly remember studying the outside of the box, carefully reading all the text and taking it all in. I had no idea what ...