I am still an out and out Firefox fan but anything that involves my OS’ manufacturer deserves a look somehow. And when news has it that the new Internet Explorer 8 would be standards-compliant, it definitely has my attention (though I can’t seem to avoid not snickering when I get to think of “standards compliance” […]

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Huzzah! After nearly a year of not posting anything related to Internet Explorer (that’s how I hate using that non-standards compliant browser), here’s one. Not that I don’t use IE since I do for IE Tab to log-in to multiple accounts at the same time.
Anyway, one feature that Firefox has that readily trumps IE is […]

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This is one great “hack” if you happen to need to browse the Internet but the dastardly administrators just blocked out the use of Internet Explorer and prevented you from installing software like Mozila Firefox. If using a standalone browser via USB flash drive (Don’t you just want to throttle people when that happens […]

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One thing about Word is that, once you type in something that has “http://”, “www.” and a “.com” in a sequence, it automatically creates a hyperlink pointing to that specific URL. While keyboard ninjas would swear by Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V combo. There are still more ways to create hyperlinks in Microsoft Word. Here’s a nifty […]

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It’s one of the reasons why I never touched IE again even with IE7 and its attempts to be as good as Firefox. It doesn’t care about you losing all your work just in case it or Windows crashes. Firefox has a robust session restore as a default feature. But one consolation for IE […]

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Hot off the news and into your computer. Google just made available Google Gears (BETA). It’s “an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using JavaScript APIs.” These include:

Store and serve application resources locally
Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database
Run asynchronous Javascript to improve application responsiveness

Imagine web […]

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One behavior that you might notice when typing something on the Google search field is that it pops out suggestions from your previous searches. Clearing your history is a good privacy and security measure. Especially when you search all sorts of “stuff” on the family computer. You don’t want your kid brother to come […]

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Google Pack is Google’s fun pack filled with useful apps that cater to everyone from newbies to advance users. In a press release yesterday, adds a security option and a new way to view pictures in its latest release of Google Pack.
Google announced the inclusion of these new apps:
Symantec Norton Security Scan: Get basic […]

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If you’re really a die-hard Internet Explorer fans without any intention of defecting to “the enemy” then you’d probably need (and love) this IE7 add-on. Why? Because it gives your browser some more useful features (that are already found in Firefox and some of its plug-ins:p).
IE7Pro is a free IE7 add-on that puts these […]

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It just amazes me how IE is so far behind Firefox. Still for IE users out there, you can still play catchup to Firefox with IE add-ons. Here’s one that that spell-checks text input boxes in webpages displayed on Internet Explorer - ieSpell. It’s great for web form junkies - like those who are […]

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Jeff Davis wrote a great FAQ on Favicons in IE7 in his blog. There he addresses the following issues:

How do I make a favicon appear for my site in IE7?
How often does IE download the favicon?
I see the wrong favicon for some sites I visit. How do I fix this?
I put a favicon.ico […]

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Computerworld came out with this excellent article showing 7 ways to keep your identity from being completely profiled by search service providers. Google for example can easily keep track of your search footprints and identity because they can easily cross-check your search queries (your IP addresses are apparently logged) with your log-in information, say for […]

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Here’s a real cool guide on how to set your own Favorites folder location for IE7 in Windows Vista. Yeah, you’d probably need plenty of these tutorials with Vista since it takes the “friendly” out of “user-friendly.” Anyway, here’s the guide, courtesy of IEBlog.

Open Windows explorer
Create a new destination folder in an alternate location. […]

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So Google has us all nuts with all of their services. And only someone nuttier would probably take score of everything and memorize each and every one of them down to search syntaxes and keyboard shortcuts.
So thank goodness for this guy who just made using Google services a tad easier - the Google Cheat […]

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I do keep a lot of accounts across the Web. And as a matter of personal security policy, I keep different passwords for each of them. So that means I have to remember each and everyone then type them in whenever I need to access an account. Quite a tedious process if you ask […]

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