If you are a ardent web surfer and you use firefox mostly for web browsing,then this article could be interesting for you.
It is very common for a web surfer to open more than 9 sites in a firefox in the same window, it happens to me as when I browse through large number of blogs and web sites opened in different uncountable tabs.
Switching across these tabs becomes more and more difficult when as number increases, so there a key board shortcut associated with each tab starting from left as ctrl+1 for first tab, ctrl+2 for the second tab and so on..
But these shortcuts are limited up to ctrl+9 to access the opened tab the 9th position but if you want to access the last opened tab with a keyboard shortcut you can’t do this in any version lesser then Firefox 3.0
But in Firefox 3.0, if you press ctrl+9 you can access 9th tab if their are less or equal to 9 tabs opened else you will get to the last tab opened in firefox 3.0 irrespective of how many tabs are opened.
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Written by Jason on June 23rd, 2008 with no comments.
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One big improvement with Firefox 3 compared to previous versions, is with selecting multiple areas of text on a web page. In previous versions, if you wanted to select multiple text areas, you needed to find an add-on or deal with the limited built in functionality.
Now with Firefox 3, you can easily select multiple discontinuous areas at once, select an entire paragraph, or select multiple words.
Selecting Multiple Areas Of Text
With this new option you can make an initial selection as usual and keep adding text chunks by pressing the CTRL key (Command key on Macs) while making additional selections.
Just highlight an area, then move your mouse to another area of text that you want to select, press the CTRL key and drag the mouse over the area of text.
After selecting the text areas, right click on an area and select copy (or press CTRL+C) and the text will be copied to the clip board where you can paste it in a text file, document, etc…
Select An Entire Paragraph
When you have a need to select an entire paragragh, just move your mouse pointer to the beginning of the paragraph and triple-click. The entire paragraph will be selected.
Unfortuanatly you can not continue to select other paragraphs using the CTRL key.
As a work around, what you can do, is select the largest paragraph by triple-clicking, then use the CTRL key (and drag over the paragraph) to select other paragraphs.
Selecting Multiple Words
While you can single click and drag to select multiple words or an area of text, double-clicking and dragging will select each word, one at a time.
At first you may not realize why you would ever need to use this functionality when you can just single click and drag over an area text.
But it will come in handy when you just need to select text at the end of a line, where single-click and dragging has the tendency to continue selecting text on the next line when you don’t want it to. Double-clicking and selecting word by word gives you greater control in those situations.
While Firefox 3 main features will over shadow small improvements made to the browser, you will find the new functionality with selecting multiple text areas, a big improvement for every day usage.
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Written by Jason on June 21st, 2008 with no comments.
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Being the loyal adept of a business model based on proprietary software, a free operating system is not exactly something that Microsoft customers can expect from the company. But of course that there are always exceptions to confirm the rule. And the free copy of Windows Vista up for grabs via Microsoft Download is an illustrative example in this context. That’s right, a completely free copy of the latest Windows client, time-bombed of course, but free nonetheless.
Microsoft continues a tradition debuted after the launch of Internet Explorer 7. Because two different versions of Internet Explorer cannot coexist under normal circumstances on the same Windows machine, let alone be used simultaneously, the Redmond giant turned to an alternative solution to make the lives of web content developers and designers a tad easier. The company released Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Images.
The images are essentially nothing more than Virtual Hard Disks designed to integrate with Virtual Server 2007. This is precisely the case of the latest IE Application Compatibility VPC Image containing Vista. The VHD brings to the table a pre-activated copy of Windows Vista with Internet Explorer 7. And just as with the previous releases of the Application Compatibility VPC Images, the Vista VHD is also time-bombed. According to the software giant, the June 17, 2008 release of the IE image containing Vista is set to expire on September 9.
But until that point the operating system is fair game. It can be downloaded for free from Microsoft and used in a virtual machine running under Virtual PC 2007 until September. At that point in time Microsoft is bound to make available new releases of IE Application Compatibility VPC Image to replace the ones that have expired.
The Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image containing Windows Vista is available for download here.
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Written by Jason on June 19th, 2008 with no comments.
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There is no way to guarantee complete security on a wireless network. However, there are precautions you can take to help minimize security risks when you use a wireless network.
• Whenever possible, only connect to wireless networks that require a network security key or have some other form of security, such as a certificate. The information sent over these networks is encrypted, which can help protect your computer from unauthorized access. When you view available wireless networks in Connect to a Network, you’ll see text indicating if a wireless network has security enabled or not.
• Before you connect to a network provided by a wireless Internet service provider (ISP), such as a public network in a coffee shop or airport, read the privacy statement carefully and make sure that you understand which files, if any, are saved to your computer and what type of information the network provider collects from your computer.
• If you connect to a network that is not secure, be aware that someone with the right tools can see everything that you do, including the websites you visit, the documents you work on, and the user names and passwords you use. Make sure that you don’t work on any company-sensitive information or visit password-protected areas of your business network while you are connected to that network.
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Written by Jason on June 18th, 2008 with no comments.
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You invested in dead bolts and alarm systems to protect your business from theft of merchandise and equipment. But a cyber thief does not need access through the front door to steal the information you store on your PCs. Client credit card and bank account numbers, employee data and other confidential files are all at risk in a cyber attack.
Implementing sound security measures can greatly reduce your vulnerability to phishing (a type of Internet-based scam designed to steal your identity), spyware, and other malicious software used to steal or otherwise compromise business data. The good news is that built-in security features in Windows Vista Ultimate make it much easier to safeguard your PCs. Here are three you should know about:
1. Windows Defender
You or your employees may get tricked into downloading spyware to your business’s PCs through e-mail messages or from “spoof” Web sites. (Spyware refers to an array of software that can be installed on a PC inadvertently, or without the user’s consent.) Windows Defender, shown below, helps protect your PCs against security threats caused by spyware.
Windows Defender does three key things to protect your PCs from spyware:
• It scans for spyware on your PC and presents you with options for ignoring, allowing, or deleting any potential threats it has quarantined.
• It monitors the common entry points for spyware on your PC in real time.
• It stays current on what the latest spyware threats are so it can scan for them.
Because Windows Defender takes advantage of many of the Windows Vista platform enhancements, including improved caching technology, scans run quickly. And most of the work is done in the background without requiring your intervention or attention. Windows Defender will only alert you to serious issues that require immediate action. You will stay busy and productive with the confidence that your PCs have enhanced protection while you work.
Note: Windows Vista does not include real-time virus protection. The features discussed in this article complement antivirus software but are not a substitute for third-party antivirus software.
2. User Account Control
In Microsoft Windows XP, a user must be an “administrator” to accomplish certain day-to-day tasks like changing power settings on a portable computer or installing and updating software. One of the purposes of requiring administrator privileges is to help protect PCs from harmful downloads of malicious software - or malware. Malware refers to unwanted software including worms, viruses, adware, and spyware that could delete or steal files and information from the PC.
While this scenario keeps your PCs safer, it also limits productivity because each time a standard user needs to change a basic setting or install software, the user has to locate someone with administrator privileges to help.
Windows Vista Ultimate changes all this by offering User Account Control (UAC), a feature that makes it easier to use a PC with standard user privileges. You can create separate accounts for yourself and your employees and easily set up security parameters on each account to control which Web sites and programs each user can access and install-all without additional IT support. In addition, even when you use an administrator account, you will still benefit from increased security. Most programs run with standard user permissions by default, even when you are logged in as an administrator, which limits potential damage from malware.
3. Internet Explorer 7
To help protect against cyber attacks, businesses need a higher level of protection when employees use the Web. That is why the Internet Explorer 7 browser, included with Windows Vista Ultimate, features a number of security enhancements such as stronger safeguarding of personal data and protection against malware.
A key feature of Internet Explorer 7 is the Microsoft Phishing Filter designed to keep confidential data safer. Shown below, the Phishing Filter helps protect you from attacks that occur when you enter sensitive data, such as credit card numbers, into a Web site form that looks legitimate, but is actually designed to steal confidential information.
The Phishing Filter helps protect your business by:
• Comparing the sites you visit to addresses of reported legitimate sites
• Analysing the sites you visit for phishing characteristics
• Sending the addresses of the sites you visit to an online service that keeps a database of known phishing sites
If a site you visit has been confirmed as a phishing site, you will be warned of its threat level and automatically redirected to a safer page. The online database of known phishing sites is an opt-in service. If desired (though not recommended), the Phishing Filter can be deactivated with a single click. Used in combination with Windows Defender, Internet Explorer 7 helps keep your PCs and data safe.
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Written by Jason on May 30th, 2008 with no comments.
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Internet users in India is growing at a very fast rate with easy and cheap broadband services provided anywhere by mtnl or bsnl and other companies like airtel ,sify broadband etc.
With the increasing use of internet among the young children it becomes very crucial to block those web sites like which are not healthy for young children’s ( online games and chatrooms) etc.
Solution to the problem is to block the websites with the help of website blocking software like Any Weblock
Any Weblock - It is a free program to block access to any website on your computer.
Some Features of Any Weblock Includes:
1. It can work with any web browser including firefox, internet explorer and opera etc.
2. it will block a web site and its subdomains also.
3. Supports password protection to support unauthorized access to the software.
4. You can export and import list of websites among different computers.
Overall it is one of the best and easy to use free software’s to block specific websites on your computer.
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Written by Jason on May 27th, 2008 with no comments.
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Application incompatibility is one of the aspects that have managed to deliver extensive damage to the adoption rate of Windows Vista. However, as Vista matured throughout 2007 and with Service Pack 1 in 2008, so did the ecosystem of software solutions orbiting around the operating system. Despite this, the actual perception of application incompatibility managed to survive, especially in corporate environments. If one end user can deal with a program that is incompatible with Vista rather easy, the same cannot be said about an enterprise dependent on a specific business application with tens of thousands of machines.
“Part of this is perception based on fact - Windows Vista is built on a new architecture that promises tightened security and reliability. Consequently, the applications that ride on top of Windows Vista need to communicate with the kernel in different ways. So what has helped fuel current perception around application compatibility? Why did many applications ‘break’ in the migration from Windows XP to Windows Vista?” Microsoft asked rhetorically.
And it seems that application compatibility issues consistently point to a single culprit: User Account Control. The watch dog Microsoft introduced in order to train both end users and developers to utilize and respectively build applications running with standard privileges for security reasons has come back to bite Vista uptake.
“Standard user mode limits file and registry access by applications on the computer. User Account Control exposes non-compliant actions, with permission prompts to standard and administrator users. Changes in permissions will cause most of the issues with earlier versions of applications, where administrative access was assumed during development and testing,” Microsoft explained revealing the first reason for Vista application incompatibilities.
But two additional sources of compatibility problems are also connected with the UAC. Microsoft pointed to Internet Explorer 7 Protect Mode killing web-based applications as well as the Windows Resource Protection preventing programs to writing to protected areas of the operating system. In the end, the Redmond company traded flexibility for security, and legacy applications tailored to Windows XP running with administrative privileges bit the dust.
Additionally, Microsoft informed that “operating system and browser version numbers change with each release, which might cause issues with applications that check for a specific version number upon installation. Application shims are available to fool the application into thinking the operating system or browser is the application-required version.”
And on top of it, the new driver model introduced in Vista, that enables the eye candy Aero graphical user interface, along with undocumented APIs, also caused compatibility issues. Over a year since Vista hit the shelves, the Redmond company claims that the operating system benefits from in excess of 15,000 signed devices and components and the advances brought on by Service Pack 1. In this context, Microsoft is not shy to put forward an invitation to give Vista, now with SP1, another try.
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Written by Jason on May 25th, 2008 with no comments.
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In order to improve performance and reduce the amount of time spent waiting to view Web pages, Internet Explorer stores many of the Web pages and graphics you have viewed in a folder on your hard drive. Next time you revisit a Web site, Internet Explorer can use the content stored in the Temporary Internet Files folder to display the site content, instead of retrieving them from the Web.
You can manually clear the contents of this folder in Internet Explorer by selecting Internet Options for the Tools menu. From the General tab, simply click the Delete Files button. You can also configure Internet Explorer to empty the contents of this folder when you close your browser. To do so, select the Advanced tab from the Internet Options window. Under the Security section, select the option to Empty Temporary
