I run another popular site together with Everton of Connected Internet. The site I’m talking about is Windows 7 News, a highly popular and well ranked, website about the next Microsoft operating system Windows 7. A reader contacted us earlier today mentioning a problem that he was encountering when trying to view the feed of [...]
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Uninstall Microsoft Internet Explorer 8
Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 8 some time ago and is starting to distribute it over their update services to users still running a previous version of the web browser. While the web browser does run fine on most computer systems it can – like any other software – cause problems on some. We covered [...]
Customize Google For Internet Explorer
Customize Google has been a very popular add-on for the Firefox web browser for some time now. It basically allows users to customize many aspects of their interaction with Google services like Google Search or Gmail. Options range from interface enhancements to security and privacy related settings like removing ads or tracking cookies. Customize Google [...]
Internet Explorer 8 To Be Distributed Via Automatic Updates
Microsoft has announced plans to distribute their latest web browser Internet Explorer 8 to computers running previous installments of Internet Explorer via Automatic Updates. The final version of Internet Explorer 8 was already distributed that way to users still running a release candidate or beta version of the web browser. The distribution will be started [...]
Internet Explorer 8 Ad Blocking
Ad Blocking in the Internet Explorer 8 web browser is not as accessible as it is in other web browsers like Opera or Firefox with add-ons installed. Many Internet Explorer 8 users do not even know that an ad blocking feature exists in the web browser. It can be easily accessed by pressing the shortcut [...]
8 Sleeper Internet Explorer 8 Add-ons
Internet Explorer add-ons have been introduced by Microsoft in the previous editions of Internet Explorer. Despite the claim they never managed to come close to the popularity and inventiveness of add-ons produced by the Mozilla Firefox community. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 introduced a set of new features (accelerators and web slices) that fall into the [...]
Xenocode Web Browser Sandbox
Want to see what other web browsers have to offer but have no interest in installing any of them on your computer system? You could hunt down the portable versions of those web browsers that you want to try out if they exist; Or, you could use the virtual browsers at Xenocode which allow you [...]
Internet Explorer Proxy Switcher
Users of the Internet Explorer web browser do not have the same amount of add-ons at their disposal like Firefox users. Some developers try to change this with plugins or programs that they develop for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. One of those software programs is a proxy switcher for Internet Explorer. This is for example useful [...]
Backup Email Clients and Web Browsers
Many webmasters and tech savvy Internet users do not only have one but multiple web browsers installed. They use the web browsers either for testing purposes, curiosity or because some sites open better (or at all) in specific web browsers. With multiple computer software programs comes the need for some users to backup the programs [...]
Website Monitor And Downloader
Wysigot is a browser that acts both as a website monitor and downloader. One of its main functions is the download of entire websites or selected pages. The process has been streamlined to make it as easy as possible. To start the download of a website or page one would simply enter the url of [...]
Internet Explorer 8 Address Bar Buttons
Internet Explorer 8 has just been released by Microsoft. The eight version of the web browser is more stable, faster and efficient than previous installments of Internet Explorer. It does however change and move common address bar buttons. If you open Internet Explorer 8 you realize that the Stop and Refresh buttons are located on [...]
Internet Explorer Add-on: Report a Webpage Problem
Microsoft released the final version of Internet Explorer 8 yesterday. This new version is regarded by many as a step in the right direction as it closes the gap, both speed and compatibility wise, to the other existing web browsers. There have been talks about webpage compatibility problems in Internet Explorer 8 before which can [...]
Web Browser Popularity
If you take a look at the five most popular web browsers you will notice huge differences in popularity among them. The web browsers in question are Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari and Google Chrome. Firefox was – and is still – the only web browser that was able to take away a [...]
Internet Explorer 8 Download
Yesterday we mentioned that Microsoft would release the final version of Internet Explorer 8 later that day on the official website. They did that which surprised many tech savvy users as it was generally given that the release would be in the second half of this year and not the first. Even more interesting is [...]
Internet Explorer 8 Final
Microsoft made an announcement earlier today that the final version of Internet Explorer 8 will be released today at noon EDT. The web browser can be downloaded from that time on from the official Internet Explorer 8 website in 25 language editions. Currently only the download of Internet Explorer 8 RC1 is offered on that [...]
Internet Explorer Privacy Manager
When I was working for one of the largest German financial companies we had some very strict rules at work like having to lock the computer whenever we went away from the computer desk. This was naturally forgotten sometimes and could result in some severe problems for the person who forgot to lock the desktop. [...]