5 Web Based Tools to help you Browse Faster

Posted by Umar Anjum

June 1, 2009

If you are one of the people who still uses a dial up or a slow mobile internet connection and face the wrath of slow web browsing need to try the following web based applications that promises to remove all the unnecessary elements from a web page and display things that matters.

Finch

Finch is a website that provides you a better way that makes internet browsing on slow connection faster and less painful. It does that by stripping the text styling and other secondary formatting elements from the webpages which includes CSS, images, Flash, metadata, iframes and more.

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According to the website the New York Times homepage is over 110KB, and uses external resources (images, scripts, what have you) that make it amount to about 1.4MB. Finch trims that down to 84KB, which doesn’t look as pretty, but is 94% less for your computer to download. Is that great or what?

Mobtimizer

Mobtimizer is for those who have a really slow mobile intenet connection and have to wait for ages for a page to load. Mobtimizer can be used for fast internet browsing on your mobile phone because it eliminates all the unnceccwssary graphics and leaves nothing but the imporant content only.

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BareSite

Baresite is another web tool that browse websites faster from your mobile or dial-up internet connection. It has the ability to turn off images to increase the loading speed. It is totally free to choose and doesn’t require any sign up or registration.

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IYHY

IYHY allows you to surf any website from your cell phone, PDA, Blackberry, Treo, Sidekick, or other mobile device even if the page is not formatted for mobile use. Just enter the URL below and we will convert the site to text only.

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If you sign up for a free account on the website, it will save a link to every site that you visit through the IYHY.com homepage, so in the future you can just click on the sites you want to visit without having to type the urls.

Quietube

Last but not the least, a free web service that lets you view the most popular video sharing network on the internet without all the annoying ads and comments section. Quietube removes all the unwanted material from the Youtube Video page and displays nothing but the video in a totally separate windows so that it can load faster and you can enjoy it without any distractions.

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