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Following tips will help you use Google Drive with both PC and web browser more efficiently.

Add Google Drive to “Send To”

You can add Google Drive to Send To context menu so that you can send files to Google Drive more easily. First, run Windows Explorer and input APPDATA%/Microsoft/Windows/SendTo in the address bar. Then, right click on Google Drive folder in Favorites and drag it to Send To folder. Finally, choose Copy Here in the context menu.

Note: if you drag and drop using left mouse button, only a shortcut is created in Send To instead of content.

Encrypt sensitive files

Google Drive is good place to store important files. However, we should be careful with files containing sensitive information. Hence, before uploading these files, make sure that you encrypt them with a password. If your files are stolen, they cannot be read.

There are many methods to encrypt files. One of simplest ways is to create a encrypted file store. You can use a free program (e.g., 7-Zip) which supports encryption and saves to a file store (e.g., .7z). Remember your password or save it in a safe place.

You can also use BoxCryptor application to create a encrypted drive to store your files. To sync with Google Drive, you need BoxCryptor and a password to access.

Change location of folders

You can move folders to Google Drive to sync user data among computers. To change location of documents, images, video and sub-folders, right click on the folder and choose Properties. Now you can change the location in Location tab.

Empty Trash

You can access to Trash of Google Drive to empty or delete files permanently by clicking on More > Trash on Google Drive web.

Restore previous versions

Google Drive stores previous versions in 30 days or 100 modifying times. You can access to previous versions by right clicking on a file on web and choosing Manage Revisions. You also can delete previous versions to free space.

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15 best add-ons for Firefox selected by PCMag:

 

1. Site to Phone

Do you want to input links from computer to mobile devices? This add-on can help you. It can run well on iOS, Android, WebOS, Blackberry and Windows Phone 7.

 

2. FEBE

FEBE - Firefox Environment Backup Extension can back-up everything in Firefox including bookmarks, profiles, preferences, cookies, themes, and extensions.

 

3. Xmarks Bookmark Sync

You can sync bookmarks and passwords among Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and IE with this add-on.

 

4. LastPass

This add-on can help you manage accounts using in websites. You can also install and use this add-on in Chrome and IE.

 

5. Evernote Web Clipper

You can store everything you find on Internet. Web Clipper is an online database for you to save clips, links and websites.

 

6. Clearly

Clearly is another service of Evernote that can store and simplify news, blog entries, and websites so that you can manage and analyze information more efficiently.

 

7. Personas Plus

Do you want to change the interface of Firefox? This add-on allows us to change the display of Firefox including themes, background images, toolbars, and buttons.

 

8. Tab Mix Plus

You can do everything with tabs using this add-on.

 

9. DownThemAll

With this add-on, you can perform batch downloading for a whole webpage. You can also specify the file types that you want to download.

 

10. Greasemonkey

With this add-on, you can use scripts to access to websites. You also can write your own scripts with Greasemonkey.

 

11. WOT

With WOT – Web of Trust, you can check a website is safe or not. Thus, you can surf web safer with this add-on.

 

12. IE Tab

If you want to access to websites that only run well with IE or you want to test a website with IE, you can use this add-on.

 

13. Yoono

If you join many social networks, this add-on can help you manage your accounts easily. It can display all information from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube, etc.

 

14. Flashblock

All flash objects on the websites can be blocked with Flashblock.

 

15. FastestFox

FastestFox helps you access and explore websites faster.

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Chrome is more and more popular these days because of its high speed and wonderful plug-in store. Herein, we list 10 free and interesting games on Chrome Web Store.

1. Angry Birds

Angry Birds is one of the hottest games for mobile devices. Now you can play this game on Chrome.

2. Canabalt

Canabalt was the best iPhone game in 2009. This game is rather simple yet interesting.

3. Cargo Bridge

Cargo Bridge is a very hot game. Try and test your IQ with this game!

4. Farmville

FarmVille is one of the most popular game on Facebook with millions of users. Become a farmer now with FarmVille for Chrome!

5. Immortall

This games has lovely graphics, story, and music.

6. The Fancy Pants Adventure World 2

This game is rather similar to Sonic the Hedgehog. Begin your adventures now!

7. Plant vs Zombies

Plants vs Zombies is a wonderful game for all ages. This game is small but has good quality. It has been developed by PopCap, one of the most famous game companies.

8. Private Joe

This game has been developed using HTML5 with wonderful music and effects. In this game, you will become a US soldier and have to complete many difficult missions. 

9. Super Mario Brothers Crossover

Super Mario Brothers Crossoever is similar to Mario flash version. In addition to Mario, you can choose several other characters, such as Mega Man, Link, Samus Aran, Rambo, etc.

10. Nano Ninja

This game is simple to play and very interesting.

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PhotoRem is a very good website that allows us to upload, manage, edit, and share images and videos easily. This website also can store your documents.

To use this service, go to website http://www.photorem.com/ . You need to register a free account before using its services. After logging in, you can use all the services supported from this website.

The main interface contains 3 parts. The library on the left allows you to search images and clips of Picasa or YouTube. The personal stuffs (Places, Animals, Music …) are placed in the bottom. All image and video editing tools are placed in the center.

First, in the middle of screen, choose File > New Presentation and name you file. Then, choose “Upload new files” to upload images or videos and use the editing tools to edit the uploaded files. You can create your own slide with images and share with your friends.

Some tools also allow you to share video captured from your webcam. You can share your documents via email and social networks (Twitter, Orkut, Facebook).

Main features:

- Friendly interface.

- Support most of file formats.

- Can upload video in FLV, MOV, and MP4 file formats.

- You can capture and share videos with your webcam.

- Upload and share presentation files and document files (PDF, DOC, XLS).

- Can search images and clips from Picasa, Youtube.

- Easily share images and videos via social networks.

- Allow us to manage and edit images and videos online.

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Safari, a web browser developed by Apple, now has version 5 with many new features. Safari cannot be customized easily as Firefox or Chrome but it is a great browser if we know how to use it effectively. 

 

Private Browsing

Similar to other web browsers, we can surf web in private mode with Safari 5. In this mode, no information will be saved. To access to this mode, choose Safari > Menu > Private Browsing.

 

Download YouTube video using Safari

Usually, to download a video from YouTube, we need to use a third party add-on or software. If you’re using Safari, you can download YouTube video easily via following steps:

- Press Command + Option + A to display Activity window.

- Move to the YouTube tab and find the address having big size.

- Double click on this address to download the video.

You can change the quality of the video in YouTube before downloading. The downloaded video will have the same quality with the video in YouTube.

 

Shortcut keys

• Command + F: Display finding bar.
• Command + T: Open new tab.
• Command + H: Hide Safari window.
• Command + L: Focus on the address bar.
• Command + Shift + B: Show/Hide bookmark bar.
• Control + Command + F:  Access/Exit the full screen mode. (on Mac OS Lion)
• Control + Tab: Move among tabs.

 

Open multiple webpages when Safari starts

In default, Safari will open only the Home page when it starts. However, you can open several pages at the same time:

- Create a folder to store bookmarks: go to Bookmark by clicking on the book icon below Back button. Choose “Bookmark bar” in  Collections. Click on the empty space and choose “New Folder”. Name it.

- Drag and drop webpages you want to open to this folder.

- Press “Command” + ‘,’ to go to Setting of Safari. Choose General tab, then choose tab folder in “New windows open with” and browse to the folder that you already created above.

- Restart Safari to see the result.

 

Safari Reader

The Reader in Safari is very good. It can remove unnecessary details and display only the contents of webpages. To activate this function, click on Reader button on the address bar.

Drag the mouse pointer to the bottom of the website, some useful tools, zoom, sending the content, and printing, will display. You can save the content to a PDF file by click on the printing button and choose PDF > Save as PDF.

Always opening new webpages in tabs

Now you can open new webpages in tabs instead of windows. Go to Preferences > Tabs and choose Always in “Open pages in tabs instead of windows”.

 

Using the address bar for searching

The address bar of Chrome is combined with the search function. If you want to use this feature in Safari, you need to download and use Omnibar extension. Go to https://extensions.apple.com/ , in Categories choose Search Tools and input Omnibar. Then click “Install Now” to install. In default, Omnibar uses a strange search tool, to select another search tool, go to Preferences > Extensions and choose Google, Yahoo, or Bing in “Search by”.

 

Simulate other web browsers

Some websites are not displayed properly in Safari but in Firefox or Internet Explorer. In this case, you can simulate other browsers in Safari using User Agent function. First, go to Preferences in Safari, choose Advanced and check “Show Develop menu in menu bar”. A new menu “Develop” will display on Menu bar.

Click on menu Develop, choose User Agent. Choose a web browser that you want to use. From now, Safari can have features from the web browser that you chose.

 

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