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  • Author: Joe
  • Published: Mar 15th, 2009
  • Comments: 17

Protect your privacy from Google AdSense’s new behavioral ads

Google recently launched behavioral targeted ads for AdSense. This means AdSense displays adverts not only on the context of the webpage, but on the context of your browsing history. The aim is to provide more relevant and efficient adverts, but tracking cookies being used across hundreds of thousands of websites raises obvious privacy issues, as [...]

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Categories: Google, Security, firefox, ie

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Mar 4th, 2009
  • Comments: 10

Internet Explorer 8 Can Be Uninstalled In Latest Windows 7 Build

A complaint of browser developer Opera that Microsoft has undermined competition by integrating its own Internet Explorer with the Windows operating system is currently being investigated by the European Union. If Microsoft is found guilty the company could face hefty fines and be forced to untie Internet Explorer from its next operating system installment Windows [...]

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Categories: Browsing, ie

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Feb 25th, 2009
  • Comments: 9

10 Useful Internet Explorer 8 Accelerators

Accelerators are a new feature of Microsoft’s upcoming web browser Internet Explorer 8 that have recently been ported to other web browsers like Firefox in the form of add-ons. Like the name implies Accelerators are supposed to speed up the web browsing experience. Not by squeezing another Megabit out of the pipe but by providing [...]

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Categories: Browsing, ie

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Feb 11th, 2009
  • Comments: 4

Microsoft February Security Updates

Microsoft has released a cumulative security update for Internet Explorer 7 and 8 that fixes several critical vulnerabilities in the web browser. It is recommended to update Internet Explorer as soon as possible to fix those vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities are rated critical for Internet Explorer versions running under Windows XP or Windows Vista and moderate [...]

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Categories: Security, ie

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 26th, 2009
  • Comments: 7

Internet Explorer 8 RC1 Download

Microsoft is expected to release Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 in the near future. Internet Explorer 8 is Microsoft’s new flagship browser that is expected to be released later this year. Release Candidate is a follow up on the public beta of Internet Explorer 8.
Users who cannot wait until Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 RC1 [...]

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Categories: Browsing, ie

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 26th, 2009
  • Comments: 1

Teleprompter Software

The Manual Works Prompter is a sub-100 Kilobyte teleprompter software that runs on the Windows operating system. It makes use of so called HTML applications (hta) that run on Internet Explorer. They are basically a mixup of HTML and dynamic HTML files. The teleprompter is basically like the ones seen on TV or during presentations. [...]

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Categories: ie, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jan 4th, 2009
  • Comments: 6

Internet Explorer Toolbar Customization

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8 display the menu bar below the address bar in the header area of the web browser. The menu bar contains links to menus like File, Tools or Help while the address bar is being used to load websites and perform searches on the Internet.
Most web browsers use [...]

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Categories: Browsing, ie

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