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5 of the Best Alternatives to Adblock Plus that Won’t Show “Acceptable Ads”

With Adblock deciding to allow “acceptable ads,” it means you should find a replacement. Here are 5 alternatives to Adblock Plus that allow you to browse in peace.

By James Milin-Ashmore – Oct 13, 2016

How To Stop GIFs from Automatically Playing in Your Browser

Stop GIFs from Automatically Playing in Your Browser

GIFs can be fun, but they can also affect your browsing experience and cause web pages to load slower. Here’s how to stop GIFs from automatically playing in all browsers.

By Karrar Haider – Jul 24, 2016

Eliminate Slow Browsing: Why Disabling Images in Your Browser Speeds Things Up and How to Do it

If you’re looking for a way to speed up your browser, one method you might want to consider is disabling images. This article explains how and why to do it.

By Karrar Haider – Jul 20, 2016

Using Chrome Extensions in Firefox and Opera

If you want to install and use Chrome extensions in Firefox and Opera, here is how you can do so with the help of a dedicated extension. Check it out!

By Karrar Haider – Jul 18, 2016

Ditch Adblock Plus for Opera's New Built-in Ad Blocker

Ditch Adblock Plus for Opera’s New Built-in Ad Blocker

Have you heard about the Opera browser’s new built-in ad blocker? Let’s take a look at it and see if it’s a good replacement for your current ad blocker.

By Karrar Haider – May 21, 2016

Opera Revisited: Fastest Browser With A Free VPN?

Opera Revisited: Fastest Browser with a Free VPN?

Opera’s gone through a lot of changes over the years. Is it really the fastest browser? How good is its built-in VPN? Let’s take another look at Opera.

By Christopher Harper – May 11, 2016

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When the SS Great Eastern laid the first working transatlantic telegraph cable in 1866, a message that had taken ten days by steamship suddenly crossed the ocean in minutes, and the financial markets of London and New York were forced, within a single trading week, to invent the modern concept of synchronised global price.

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Flat lay of travel essentials including a passport, map, smartphone, and pop camera.

Masahiro Hara and Denso engineers built the QR code in 1994 to help Toyota suppliers scan car parts from any angle, then kept the patent open until phone cameras and a 2020 pandemic turned the factory square into a daily ritual on restaurant tables

Jun 8, 2026

In 1965, Mary Allen Wilkes wrote LAP6 for the LINC computer from her parents’ Baltimore home, testing an interactive operating system on a 250-pound machine in the living room and becoming the first known person to use a personal computer at home, twelve years before the Apple II reached buyers

Jun 8, 2026

Hands manipulating wires on breadboards for electronic prototyping.

When Grace Hopper wanted to explain a nanosecond to admirals who kept asking why satellites were slow, she handed each of them a piece of wire 11.8 inches long, the exact distance light travels in a billionth of a second, and told them to keep it in their pocket as a reminder that physics, not laziness, sets the limit.

Jun 8, 2026

From below of blue starry sky over radio telescope and trees with leaves

The Big Ear telescope was scanning at 1420.4056 megahertz on the night of 15 August 1977, the exact frequency at which hydrogen atoms vibrate across the universe, because Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison had argued years earlier that any species trying to be found would broadcast on that channel — and then, for 72 seconds, something did.

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An astronaut in a spacesuit ventures across a barren, Mars-like desert landscape.

When Doug Wheelock came home after 163 days in space, he said he had craved the aroma of leaves, grass, flowers, and trees, the rush of Earthiness that reaches astronauts only when the hatch opens back onto the living planet

Jun 8, 2026

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