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Article on Flash based Cookies

September 10th, 2009 · Comments Off

I have written about internet cookies and my feelings on them. Michael Kassner has written an interesting article at Tech Republic about a type I really knew nothing about until tonight. It is a good read for the geeky and knowledge seeker alike. http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=2299&tag=nl.e019

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Tags: Internet · Security

Installing Internet Explorer 8

September 10th, 2009 · Comments Off

Now that I have played with IE 8 for a while, I can feel reasonably safe in recommending that you install it. However, as with anything there is the caveat of taking the default settings. When the program begins its installation, the first screen will ask if you want to “… improve Internet Explorer” I [...]

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Tags: Internet · Soap Box

Stopping animation on web pages

August 18th, 2009 · Comments Off

This post is primarily for those of you still on Dial-up or with cheapest “high speed” internet money can buy. We can speed up your surfing of some web sites by attempting to stop the animations that play. Now, web developers use different ways to create animations, this is just one way to stop some [...]

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Tags: Internet · Optimizing · Speeding Up

Get rid of that Internet cache

August 11th, 2009 · Comments Off

Have you ever had an unexpected out of drive space message appear out of the blue or when you are attempting to install a new or updated program. If you have viewed the amount of space available on your hard drive and noticed that your disk space has disappeared, and wondered where it went there’s [...]

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Tags: Internet · Optimizing

Internet Explorer – Make Text Bigger

August 4th, 2009 · Comments Off

This works with Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8. Sometimes web pages show text to small, a quick fix for Internet Explorer is to go up to the Menu bar (the bar across the top if the screen that has “File”, “Edit” et al on it). Select View | Text Size here you will have [...]

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Tags: Internet