Tag: MUTE

If you want more control over your Twitter stream, check out the Proxlet Chrome extension. Proxlet lets you easily mute any user (temporarily or forever), block any Twitter app, or filter out any hashtag. The most obvious use for Proxlet is filtering out app spam from the likes of Foursquare and Paper.li, but it's also great if your friends are tweeting from a conference you don't like or they ...

Dear Gmail, despite our everlasting love for thee, you do have your quirks. One of them, muting and unmuting conversations, has been broken and unusable since the dawn of time -- which is why I was so glad to hear that it's finally been fixed! Now, when you mute a conversation, it actually stays muted! Crazy, I know. A conversation will only bounce back into your inbox if a message is ...

It happens to everyone with a laptop at some point. You turn on your computer in a library, in a café, or even at home when someone's sleeping, and your blaring startup sound plays for all in the room to hear. Not cool, people. An app called Auto Mute can save you the embarrassment of this little faux-pas by turning off your Windows startup sounds automatically. Not only will your ...

If you're an IRC user, then you know the only thing more annoying than seeing the same comment repeated in rapid succession by four different people is seeing it repeated in rapid succession by 24 different people. The more members there are in an IRC channel, the more likely it is that someone just joining will ask a question that was asked moments before their arrival. Add to that the number of ...

Among the new Gmail features we told you about last week was another that we managed to miss out on last week, but which could surpass them all in glory: Mute! "If you're subscribed to a mailing list," says Google's help page, "you've no doubt been subjected to the 'thread that just won't die!' If you're part of a long message conversation that isn't relevant, you can 'mute' the conversation to ...

In my opinion, one of the worst web design faux pas is sound that starts playing automatically, perhaps surpassed only by music that can't be turned off without navigating away from the page. I'm amazed that it has taken so long for someone to make an app for dealing with this problem, but thankful that they have in the form of FlashMute. It's a free Windows app that will let you mute individual ...