Filed Under (Web Browsers) by RJ on 12-06-2009
On the internet, cookies are a way of life — love them or loathe them, they are a required component of day-to-day use of the ‘internets’. While there are many misconceptions about cookies, namely that they’re evil or that they may damage your PC, even some of the people who know better just like to remove their cookies from time to time. However, this can be problematic for those who use websites that require cookies to maintain their login status, especially if they use those websites frequently. For instance, Gmail, Last.fm, eBay, Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, and Myspace all utilize cookies, and if you’re visiting these websites quite a bit, the last thing you want to have to do is type in your username and password multiple times per day. So, how can you delete cookies that you do not need, while saving those that you do need?
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Filed Under (Web Browsers) by RJ on 31-05-2009
A few weeks back I was using Google Chrome to browse the net, and then my firewall went nuts — it appeared as though all kinds of bugs were installing themselves on my system, and I couldn’t stop them. Well, after running several different anti-spyware, adware, and anti-virus utilities, my PC was labeled as “clean”, but I still had a problem — my Google searches were hijacked in the Firefox browser. Something strange was showing in my statusbar when I performed a search in Google via Firefox, most notably, “v1.adwarefeed.com”. It was super-annoying because I couldn’t search with Google, my primary search engine, with my primary web browser, Firefox.
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Continuing on in our vein of supplying top-of-the-line PC optimization tips and tutorials, we have put together a step-by-step guide on how to clean your Internet Explorer web browser. This tutorial covers not only the quick and easy way of removing your temporary internet files, cookies, form data and stored passwords, but it also include a couple of IE7 browser optimization tips as well.
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The other day I was attempting to access one of my websites with my Sprint Mobile Broadband card - but they would not load. I checked and I could access Google, Yahoo, Digg and a slew of other websites - but for a reason not yet known to me, I could not connect to my own websites, which are hosted in Texas.
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Filed Under (Web Browsers) by RJ on 05-08-2008
We’ve added a new tutorial to the website for all of the Firefox web browser users out there. It’s section one of our how to clean your temporary internet files tutorial and this one focuses on the Firefox web browser (obviously).
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