[For Web Presenters, Academicians, and Publishers] Sidebar and comments are distractions as they draw apart audience mind from getting the crux of the video. In many scenarios, removing sidebar, advertisements and comments seem to be best option especially when you want viewers to focus on videos only. Situations in which you share YouTube links include [...]

Google’s charismatic fade-in effect or flash animation in its homepage is not received very well among various users. With this effect, whenever you open Google, only the logo, search box and buttons are shown until you move mouse. As soon as there is movement in mouse cursor, other options “fade-in” creating a nice visual effect [...]

iGoogle chat is very annoying especially if you have Gmail chat open or running a separate Gtalk application because it shows duplicate chat messages. In addition, it takes lots of time to load and makes page slow. iGoogle makes a great home page, all information in a single place but chatting makes it messy and [...]

If you understand screen real state*, then probably you realize the wastage of space iGoogle homepage does on screen. Inspite of getting variety of information on a single page, iGoogle layout has always annoyed us. The header and sidebar tabs consumes too much space and virtually of no use. Removing them would be such a [...]

UPDATE:You can easily remove ads by using Firefox add-on WebMail Ad Blocker or greasemonkey script Gmail without ads. Chrome users can use extension Hide Gmail Ads. If you don’t want to use addons, you can still remove ads be a simple trick given below. Gmail tries to provide useful information and relevant ads in the [...]

Google stores all your search history. If you are worried that your search and other stats about images, news or videos that you have been looking at Google are stored at their servers then there is a simple way from Google itself to remove them.