Get more out of the world wide web with our guide to power surfing tips, tools and techniques

Since you're already here at Top-Windows-Tutorials.com, we know that you can use the web. However, the modern world wide web is full of neat features and tools that many of us never use, or even know about. This new 'power surfing' tutorials page aims to show you some of the ways you can improve your usage of the web. Whether you're shopping on-line, trying out new software or researching your next assignment, these techniques will help you become more productive as you wade through the oceans of content available on the world wide web.

If you want to install new software from the internet, you'll need to know how to download it first. These tutorials will show you how.

Struggling to download larger files on your PC? Want to improve the speed of your downloads? Free Download Manager can help.

Social bookmarking is all the rage amongst power surfers these days. Instead of saving your bookmarks on your computer, save them online and (optionally) share them with your friends. Aside from making it easy for you to share websites with friends and colleagues, social bookmarking has several other important advantages. You can access your bookmarks from any internet connected computer, your bookmarks are automatically backed up and organising and searching your bookmarks is much easier.

We evaluated several social bookmarking tools and found Diigo to be the best. Diigo not only saves and sorts your bookmarks, but allows you to save notes and annotations on web pages too. Our tutorials below will show you how to use this excellent free utility:-

Need to share large files or folders across the internet? Want to synchronise your work folder between home and the office? If you do, you need a Dropbox account. Our Dropbox tutorials have now moved to our new Cloud Computing section.

LastPass is a fantastic free password manager that can speed up your web surfing and protect you against hackers. We recommend that all our readers use a password manager as part of their computer security routine.

Roboform is the number one password manager for Windows and an essential power-surfers tool. Check out the tutorials below if you need help with this superb tool or if you want to see it in action.

RSS feeds are a great way of keeping up-to-date with your favourite websites. An RSS feed acts like a live bookmark, automatically updating itself when new content arrives on a website. We cover the basics of using RSS feeds in our troubleshooting section.

Still not using tabs when browsing the internet? Use these tutorials to learn how tabbed browsing can make you more efficient and productive on the web.

Windows Live Skydrive gives you a whopping 25 Gigabytes of online storage space all for free. Our Skydrive tutorials have now moved to our new Cloud Computing section.