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Quixey: An App Search Engine that Understands You

Where do you usually search for apps? Google? Bing? Yahoo!? – Or the native search engine of the platform that caters the apps? Well, you can ditch the search engines that I’ve mentioned and head over to Quixey. It’s your one stop search tool for any app that you’ll need. You can search for iOS apps, Andriod Apps, Windows Apps, Chrome Apps, Firefox Add Ons, Etc.

What makes Quixey different from your favorite search engine is that not only is it focused on apps, it understands natural language. This means that it will understand you and deliver the app you need. It will help you find the app that’s suitable for you, ranked based on their algorithm. You need not type the exact name of the app or keywords that describes the app if you’re looking for a task specific app for your needs.

How do they do this?

Quixey invented Functional Search specifically for apps. With Quixey, you do not need to know an app’s name or its official description to find the right app. Unlike traditional search engines, Quixey constantly scans blogs, review sites, forums and social media outlets to learn what each app can do and how people use it. Quixey uses this data to help users find the apps they need across all platforms. Since we have a thorough understanding of each app, Functional Search is not dependent on keywords.

Watch the short video to get a glimpse of Quixey in action.

 

 
The long video is from an interview by Robert Scoble.

 

 
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Tags: Android, app, Applications, Blackberry, chrome, Firefox, iPad, iphone, Mac, OS X, search-engine, Symbian, WebOS, Windows, Windows Phone

Find Out how Companies are Tracking your Internet Browsing Activities and how to Prevent it

Collusion is a Firefox Add-on that lets you visually monitor how companies are tracking your browsing habits. If you’re not using Firefox or don’t have the plugin installed, you can still go to the Collusion page to learn through the demo of an interactive, real-time visualization of entities that track your behavior across the web.

By installing the plugin, you’ll be able to see the graph (similar to the demo…see pic) change in real-time based on the sites you visit on your browser.

Now that you are aware that companies are tracking your every move online, and you now know how they are doing it, you might want to put a stop to it. If you do, you can simply download and install another Firefox plugin called Trackerblock. The plugin is available for Firefox and Internet Explorer only. If you’re using Chrome, you might want to go look for an alternative.

 

Tags: Behavior, browsing, Firefox, Plugin

Securely Browse the Web with HTTPS EveryWhere for Firefox

HTTPS Overview

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is a combination of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol with the SSL/TLS protocol to provide encrypted communication and secure identification of a network web server. This simply means that when you are browsing under the HTTPS web protocol, you can breathe easier and not worry about your online information being stolen by someone from your network. For added information about SSL/TLS and other Jargon, look it up on Wikipedia.

How to Browse Securely All the Time

HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension that will give you additional security and privacy when browsing your favorite websites. HTTPS is important when you are browsing unsecure networks such as public WIFI (e.g. coffee shops, hotels, etc.). And you would definitely want something like this if you want to protect your information from people who would want to steal them using readily available tools like Firesheep.

Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links that go back to the unencrypted site. The HTTPS Everywhere extension fixes these problems by rewriting all requests to these sites to HTTPS. This simply means that if HTTPS is available on a website, HTTPS Everywhere will suck it out and secure your information whenever it can.

Note: Just a reminder when using HTTPS Everywhere and browsing Google for images while using HTTPS Everywere, the image search (link) disappears. You need to un-tick the Google Search in the HTTPS Everywhere Options and restart your Firefox if you want to view (search) images from Google.

Chrome users can use KB SSL Enforcer.

 

Tags: browsing, chrome, Firefox, HTTPS, HTTPS Everywhere, security

KwiClick: A New Dimension for your Browser for Quicker Surfing

KwiClick is a browser enhancement tool for Firefox that will allow you to surf the web in a faster and more efficient way. If you think that tabbed browsing is the best thing that ever happened to Firefox, then you better check out the plugin.

With KwiClick, you can gather information faster. You won’t need to switch between tabs when looking for the right search results. The results are displayed contextually within a non obtrusive panel. You can view the hidden content on embedded videos and images with KwiClick’s on page content detection. You will be able to look at comments and related content from embedded Flickr Imges and Videos. Sharing embedded content also got a lot easier by negating the need to jump to the source page just to share a video or photo.

If you are a Firefox user and want something that will improve your efficiency when it comes to gathering web information and media content, KwiClick is one of the tools that you can utilize. It’s quick to install, easy to use and will definitely improve your internet productivity.

Check out the video demo below.

Tags: Browser Enhancement, Browser Tool, Firefox, Firefox Plugin, KwiClick

Flock: Browser Integration with Social Media

Flock is a browser made especially for social media sites and users. If you are a social media geek, then you will most probably find Flock very exciting to use. It has a lot of features integrated into it that enhances your social media experience. If you’re using plugins and third party applications to keep track of your favorite social networking site, social news site, email and others, you can use Flock to easily maneuver them all on the sidebar.

Flock pulls all of your favorite people, places and content together in a convenient view and delivers a more personal experience of the web, where its users are more easily connected to what’s important to them.

The browser is built on Mozilla Firefox’s technology that’s why Firefox users will get a familiar feeling when using it. It also supports most Firefox plugins. There’s not much difference in the browsing experience compared to Firefox, except for the real time tracking of your favorite social networking site on the sidebar and a few visual tweaks. It is what makes the browser a must try for social media users.

Tags: browser, Firefox, Flock, social media, Social Networking

LongURLPlease: Short URL Expander for Firefox

LongURLPlease is a Firefox extension that allows you to expand shortened URL’s. Nowadays, short URLs are being thrown around the net more than the original ones are. This is thanks to social networking sites like Twitter and the likes.

Shortening URLs has its advantages, but it also puts the end user at risk. With LongURLPleas installed on your browser (Firefox), you can immediately get an idea on what you’re getting yourself into by having access to the original URL right away. You don’t have to click a button or anything just to view the original links. LongURLPlease will do it for you as soon as you encounter a shortened URL. Check out the screenshot below to see how the URLs on Twitter appears after installing the plugin.

Supporting these 30 services so far: adjix.com, bit.ly, dwarfurl.com, ff.im, idek.net, is.gd, ln-s.net, loopt.us, ping.fm, piurl.com, piurl.com, poprl.com, qlnk.net, reallytinyurl.com, rubyurl.com, short.ie, smallr.com, snipr.com, snipurl.com, snurl.com, tinyurl.com, tr.im, twurl.nl, ub0.cc, ur1.ca, url.ie, urlx.ie, xrl.us, yep.it, zi.ma, zurl.ws

Another tool that you can also use to expand shortened URL’s is LongURL. They have this neat tool that you can use on your websites which allows users to view the full expanded version of the tiny URL. They also have a Firefox extension available. Check it out and see which one works better for you.

Tags: Expander, Firefox, Long URL, short url, Tiny URL