1. When typing a web address into the address bar, just type the website and press Ctrl + Enter to add http://www. to the beginning and .com to the end. E.g. you want to go to google: type google and press Ctrl + Enter. It's as easy as that!
(Note: this only works with .com addresses.)
2. Use tabs instead of separate windows. This is a lot faster and doesn't mess up your taskbar.
3. Use Firefox. Firefox is a much safer than I.E. and is also a little faster. It has many useful plugins.
4. Press Ctrl and + to zoom in the text and Ctrl and - to zoom out.
5. If you can't find what you're looking for on google and yahoo, try a metasearch engine such as dogpile, which compiles results from most popular search engines.
Happy browsing!
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If you get your IP blocked somewhere and you don't like it, then this can be pretty useful.
One way is to just turn off your router for some time, but most people don't have static IP routers and this won't help.
If that didn't help, then you have to renew your IP using windows' command prompt.
1. Type cmd into the run box from the start menu.
2. Type ipconfig into the command prompt. This will show you basic info about your IP address.
3. Type ipconfig /release. This will remove your current IP.
4. Type ipconfig /renew, and you will be presented with a new IP address!
You can also make a .bat program to execute these commands when opened.
To do this, open notepad and write all the commands on a separate line and save it onto your desktop as ip_renewer.bat. Make sure you choose All files when saving it.
It should be like this:
ipconfig
ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew
pause
(Tip: If you want to see your IP info and stop the renewer program from closing itself, type pause after the commands.)
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PS: Sorry for no posts the last few days, my internet was down.
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A new beta version of Internet explorer was released this week at the MIX08 conference in Las Vegas. According to Microsoft, the browser will render the Acid2 browser test correctly and supports CSS 2.1. It also has various other bug fixes and improvements. In addition to IE8, Silverlight 2 and Expression Studio 2 (all in beta) were released.
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Internet Explorer has started to lose its popularity to Mozilla Firefox, as so many security holes and risks have been discovered. Mozilla makes an effort to update often solving new security issues. Firefox's vast amount of plug-ins as an open source program is also useful.
Firefox is much safer and more user-friendly and it is recommended by most experts.
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