Oil spot on the garage floor? Scummy shower curtain? No problem!

Need to clean gold? Jewelry? LCD screens?

www.HowToCleanStuff.net tells you how to get it all clean!

But wait, you say, this site is about saving time. Now you’re giving cleaning tips? Have we entered a parallel universe where “fast” means “clean” somewhere else?

Not at all. If you’ve ever tried to clean something the wrong way and either ruined it or wasted an afternoon fixing your mistake… you’ll get why having expert guidance on cleaning is a time saver.

I currently have four browsers loaded on my Windows laptop and switch between them regularly:

• Internet Explorer
• Firefox
• Opera
• Chrome

Say it with me now… “Dude, You’re a geek!” Guilty as charged.

I used to think that Internet Explorer was the fastest browser because it leveraged the built-in DLLs in Windows. But speed isn’t everything, especially when you (IE, that is) are the target of every browser hacking nut on the wire.

I found Firefox stable, if sluggish to load. It has popular add-ins… which I gleefully  only to uninstall them later when Firefox upgrades itself and tells me they are no longer compatible. This is usually when I figure out that I haven’t touched the add-in since the day after I installed it and went “oooooooh, neat!”

Chrome is fast — very fast. But I have crashed it a number of times and certain videos don’t play at all. Since I’m all over the internet, I have to have something that will give me a happy face on most sites.

Then there’s Opera. Since I used it last (several years ago), it has picked up a new feature that I *love* — the Speed Dial page. This allows me to load visual images of the sites I frequent into panes on the Speed Dial page AND THEY STAY THERE — unlike the frequently-used sites page that Chrome tries to manage for you.

Opera is also fast and will reload all the pages you had open the last time (if you want that). The combination is, for my money (Opera is free by the way), unbeatable for productivity.

P.S. Discovered this by accident… Control-Z (or Edit, Undo) works if you have closed a tab. That’s right, Opera reloads the tab and repositions it to the web page you just had open! How thoughtful!

P.P.S. I wondered if anyone had created an equivalent of Opera’s Speed Dial feature for Firefox and, sure ‘nuf, here it is: Speed Dial for Firefox. It’s not as easy to set as Opera’s, but it nullifies one of the edges I had given the Opera browser.