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Here Are 9 Computer Tricks That Every Geek Should Know

These 9 Computer Tricks Are THE BEST

Yes, everyone seems to know about computers and the related tricks and tips. Right? Well, the following are sure to be the ones that you had no idea about! Dive in and check out some amazing computer tricks that you can’t live without anymore!

9. Disable Facebook’s Autoplay Video option!

Open facebook.com/settings and on the left side click on ‘video’. Turn off auto-play and your life has been saved from the stupid auto-playing feature of FB videos.

8. Open a Browser Notepad!

Here’s how you can open Notepad in Firefox or Chrome;

data:text/HTML,%20<html%20contenteditable>

Just copy and paste this into the address bar and you’re good to go – you can even save it.

7. Reverse Image search?

If you hold S and then right click on an image, you would be able to carry out a reverse image search in Chrome.

6. How to find the website that is dead now?

If you want to see an offline site, go to archive.org and pray that they have a preserved copy.

5. How to access Paywall sites?

There are many sites that only allow you so many number of free downloads or free stories per month. The solution? Delete the cookies and you’ll reset the counter. Or you can go incognito on them!

4. A simple way to clear your cache?

Use Ctrl + Shift + R to clear cache and refresh the page.

3. A site that has right-click disabled? and you can’t steal stuff?

It can be quite a pain if you finally find a site that the information you need but the right-click is disabled on it. The solution?

javascript:void(document.oncontextmenu=null)

Put this into a favorite/shortcut on the toolbar to re-enable the right click!

2. Tired of that boring GIF?

Just hit escape and that looping GIF will stop going on and on.

1. Don’t use Ctrl+Alt+Del!

Instead use control + shit + escape to go to task manager directly.

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