Ever wanted to save just one sentence of a web page? Or have you ever bookmarked a page, or sent it to your favorite read-later service, only to come back and wonder what the hell it was you’d wanted ...

Sometime in the 1960s, hypertext pioneer Ted Nelson envisioned deep linking to specific pieces of text as a core feature of his proposed Project Xanadu system. (My first exposure to Xanadu came in the ...

Here is a screen shot of the image search results page (click to enlarge): Here is a screen shot showing his page highlighting the text after the scroll down (click to enlarge): Weird that this works ...

There are a handful of webpages I keep referring back to, often reading the same parts over and over. They may be part of an instruction manual, or other reference material 1. And sometimes, while ...

Over the past several days I've been struggling with a change in the way my computer handled a key combination I use ALL the time. I write articles (like the one you're reading) all day long, and I ...

If you’re a Chrome user, you might be wondering what exactly is new here. After all, Google Chrome already has Google Translate built in for translating whole webpages. You’re correct. This extension, ...

Sometimes when you share a webpage link with someone, you just want to bring their attention to a specific passage or sentence to make your point, rather than have them read through the entire article ...

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Besides many good features, Microsoft Edge is also a handy PDF reader. Apart from viewing a PDF file, it provides some good tools to use while reading a PDF document. You can draw on PDF with 30 ...

An upcoming feature in Chrome 90 will allow users to create a link to a section of a website that they’ve highlighted. First launched as a browser extension called Link to Text Fragment last year, ...