Block specific words from the internet on firefox

As the internet is growing, so are the risk factors associated with it. A very innocent search term can lead the user to pornographic and other offensive material. Today if you browse through some popular websites you will most probably come across offensive words and other abuses in the comment section. If you are a youtube fan profanities is the standard language in their comments. Now parents can't actually stop their children from visiting all these sites. There are many parent control software available to avoid this exposure but they are mostly very limited, like you can block some sites on it or block pornographic contents but you never get the full control of the software to make your desired change suitable for your pupil. An excellent solution for this problem is to block specific words from the internet. Here is a Firefox addon which can accomplish this perfectly.


ProCon Latte Content Filter
ProCon latte is a very popular content filtering addon for the Firefox browser. It has wide range of features and is very customizable according to the users personal needs. Here are some of its most important features

• It has a blacklisted word section where you can provide the words you want to block. When the user tries to open a website it first quickly scans the website for occurrence of the blacklisted words. If it comes across such words it does not allow the browser to open the page and redirects the user to a website which has been provided by the admin.
• There is a profanity blocker where the admin provides a list of profanities to block or you can just subscribe to standard profanity lists provided by other users. While scanning the website if the addon comes across a profanity, it will substitute it with a string provided by the admin like" XXXX " etc.
• You can set a password for the addon to restrict the pupil from disabling the addon.
• All the lists are editable to give the admin total control. Specific features can be quickly disabled if the admin feels no need for them.

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View hardware and software info on ubuntu using hardinfo

There are hundreds of occasions when you need to check some information about the hardware or software installed on your computer. On windows this can be easily done by typing "dxdiag" in run. On ubuntu you can get this information using "sysinfo" but it it is very limited. To get detailed information about all the components installed on your computer and getting other software related information you can use hardinfo.

hardinfo
hardinfo provides the user with detailed information of the user's computer. Currently it shows information of PCI, ISA PnP, USB, IDE, SCSI, Serial and parallel port devices. It also carry outs benchmark test for your CPU. It can also generate reports in html and plain text for later reference.

Getting hardinfo
To get and install hardinfo, open your terminal (Alt + Ctrl + T) and type "sudo apt-get install hardinfo"
or just go to the "Ubuntu software center" and search  for "System Profiler and Benchmark".

To open it type "hardinfo" in the terminal or just open it through the dashboard by searching "System Profiler and Benchmark".

For more information, CLICK HERE to visit their website. 

Virtual or on-screen keyboard for Ubuntu

If you are a lazy web surfer like me, you will surely know how useful on-screen keyboards are when you are sitting or reclining in unusual positions. They are also very useful for the people with some physical disability, where physical keyboard becomes inconvenient to use. In windows the inbuilt keyboard can be easily accessed from the start menu. But on Ubuntu its a bit tough. So here are some methods, to use on-screen keyboard on Ubuntu.

1) You can use the inbuilt keyboard. For that open the terminal (Alt+Ctrl+T) and type "onboard". The virtual keyboard will instantly start.

2) You can also install other on-screen keyboards. One of the popular choice is Florence virtual keyboard. To install it just go to the "Ubuntu Software Center" and search "florence virtual keyboard" install it and it will be ready to use. To open it from the terminal type "florence".

Load next page on a website automatically (Firefox addon)

Today a average Internet user browses through hundreds of webpages each day. Due to high speed Internet and browsers with very fast javascript engines it has become possible to browse the net at lightening speeds. But one thing which slows down the user is the loading of next pages on a website. Now-a-days websites are providing very limited content per page, a single article is divided between many pages. This are techniques websites use to increase their page views. But this has a negative effect on the user's browsing speed, as you have to finish reading the page, then search the next page button, click it and then wait for the next page to load. Some may not care about this so much but a user who spends 5-6 hours browsing daily gets really frustrated with it. So here is a Firefox addon which won't actually cure the problem totally but will surely make it much more easy to live with.

AutoPager

AutoPager is a free Firefox addon which loads the next page of a website when you reach at the end of the webpage. Some of it's important features are

• It supports mostly all the important websites and search engines, a normal web user visits eg. Google, Yahoo, Bing, Blogspot, Cnet, wordpress etc.
• It works perfectly well with your other Firefox addons like Adblock WOT and greasemonkey scritps.
• It actually doesn't take you to the next page but loads the next page under the original page, so you can scroll down to view the next page. This feature is very useful when you have to refer something on the previous page. 
• It also has a light version for devices with less memory or low processing power.

To use it, first download it from HERE and then install it. After installing, every time you visit a website it will popup a window asking you permission to enable the rules to make AutoPager work on the particular site. This done, now every time you open the website and reach the end of the page a loading bar will appear which will load the next page without you doing a single thing.