Part 2 Advantages of IE8

IE8 or Internet Explorer 8 is one of the latest web browsers from the Microsoft’s stable. It’s a long time since Microsoft launched its first free of cost bundled software called Internet Explorer in competition with Netscape Navigator. It has come a long way since then and the experience with IE8 is really exciting as brought out by reviews conducted by experts and users alike. Hide your secrets with the help of In-Private Browsing If you’re finding some private browsing opportunity then In-Private icon will allow doing so. How? It gives you the facility to save passwords and form as add-on features with the saving of usual cookies and Web history. Along with it, in a search box you will get the facility of search term. Your URLs will show the address bar in addition to that. Those features are meant for making your task easier. It saves your privacy from your skeptical boss, overindulgent parents and nagging spouse or anyone on this earth from whom you’re willing to hide your task, which you’re doing on the Web. So, your complete privacy while working on Web world is thoroughly guaranteed. [...]

Part 1 Advantages of IE8

If your eyes are thriving to see more security and ease to use facility in Microsoft’s Web browser, then IE8 or Internet Explorer 8 is the latest launch for better privacy and fast accessibility in the platform of Web-enabled information and several services. IE8 has come up with several updated features, which will definitely give you more area to explore and experience to suit your technology need. New version of IE8 also retains the existing few important features of previous version like toolbar customization, view ability like the earlier version, and of course a pair of boxes full of mystery in order to colonize the browser window bottom. If you’re able to follow those certain tips you definitely get the benefit of the updated and newest features. If you’re still lacking the advantages of IE6 and IE7, then it is advisable get updated immediately to take the full-fledged advantage. [...]

Malvertising and Microsoft’s Struggle to Stop It

In the world of privacy and security over the Internet, the bad guys simply won’t leave us alone. The latest in the parade of mischievous plots is called “malvertising.” Malvertising is the term often applied to the insidious practice of hiding viruses or other dangerous codes inside what looks like a popular ad platform or pop-up. Thousands of unsuspecting users have found their systems damaged by this new tactic, and Microsoft is facing steep odds to take action against it. [...]

Laptop Recovery Against the Odds

In February 2009, David Krop parked his SUV in a Miami parking garage, where he was attending a business meeting. In the SUV, he left two laptop computers, a Toshiba and an Apple Macbook. When he returned to his car, the passenger window was shattered, and the two laptops had disappeared. The authorities to whom Krop reported the crime had negative predictions that Krop would ever see his computers again. However, with the aid of an ingenious software program and a dose of creativity and espionage, this 41-year-old marketing vice-president for Nationwide Diabetic was able to recover both his laptops. [...]

How to Save Microsoft Word Document Image Files as Separate Files

Word Document files are not just for words any more. Documents are now crafted with embedded images. There could be just one, or dozens of images in a single document. And sometimes, you want to save those image files as separate documents, to use outside of Microsoft Word. The creator of the document may not always be able to provide them. How do you separately save images embedded in a Microsoft Word document? The “obvious” way would be to right-click the image and select the “Save Image As” tab, for each image you want to save. You could individually copy and paste each image into an image program, and save them there. It’s even possible to create or borrow a macro program to seek and save images from Microsoft Word documents. All of these tactics, however, are both time- and labor-intensive. The quickest and easiest ways to save embedded images as individual files are to unzip the .docx file, if you are using Word 2007, or to save the Word document as a web page, if you use Word 2000, 2002/XP, or 2003. [...]

Identity Hi-Jacking: On and Offline

People live their lives through their laptops and cell phones. It is the repository of memories and aspirations and for a sizeable number of individuals, a computer is their only link to the world. It is not unusual for someone to consider their computers as their most prized possession. When that prized possession gets lost or stolen, the burglar knows that the real value of the laptop is not the price of the laptop but something else buried in the computer’s hard drive. The real value of our phones and computers lies in the information it contains, much so that anybody can assume another identity based on the facts that are stored in the computer’s hard drive. Identity theft is very much a fact of life nowadays and is a consequence of our ever increasing reliance on information. [...]

How to Avoid Scammers and Other Fraudsters on the Internet

The internet is the modern day market. Sites such as eBay or Craigslist are popular because they offer great bargains, and perhaps a neat profit to those who know how the online market works. The marketplace, whether located in the real world, or existing online, will always be filled with people with not-so-good intentions on the lookout for their next victim. For the online fraudster, his primary tool is the email and his approach is to mimic official communications from sites such as eBay or Craigslist. An official looking email from eBay purportedly asks you to update your records and provides you with a link to do the same. As you log-in into the false site, you are providing your user name and password to individuals who will use this information to steal your identity. Such acts are called “phishing” and are as old as the World Wide Web. [...]

Easy Fixes For Three Microsoft Windows Nuisances

Most of us have the habit of delaying reboots when updates are done to our computers. We often choose ‘remind me later’ or the longest time available and just keep doing so until we are done doing whatever it is that we are doing. This usually works unless we leave the computer at the worst possible time ever…when ‘later’ or the time chosen elapses. Now, unless you save every input you make to a document as you go along or do not mind losing a possible high score because your computer did a windows update while you were away, and rebooted on its own initiative, not being able to stop automatic reboots is a real pain. If you want to control your computer rebooting without permission; and other annoyances you may encounter, then you are in the right place. [...]

Gaining Pardon: How Pwnagetool 3.1 Can Set You Free From Apple’s Apps Lock-Down

Nothing stinks more than owning a piece of equipment that you paid for, have to maintain and; depending on the damage, fix if anything goes wrong yet, you do not get to decide how you use it. If you are an Apple customer then this sounds very familiar. Take for instance your iPhone, although it is yours, Apple calls the shots. They choose which apps you use and who you do business with, which does not always work out in your pockets’ best interest. [...]

Microsoft’s Bing now with an added ‘visual search’ function.

Microsoft’s battle with Google, the search engine giant seems to have received a much needed boost with the adding of a new feature by Microsoft to its Bing search engine. This feature which is still in the beta stage is called Visual search and provides users with a unique alternative to the usual list of blue colored links that appear when you, for example, run a search on sports, toy airplanes or other products. This new feature has been announced by one of the senior vice-presidents of Microsoft; Yusuf Mehdi at a conference on technology in San Francisco called The Tech Crunch 50. [...]