Most of the modern browsers support the location aware browsing. Any web site can request your geographical location (physical location) and display content accordingly. For example a restaurant can request your geographical location and display the branch nearest to you. If you do not want the Internet Explorer browser to send this information to any web site, then you can turn it off easily.
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Scan Suspicious Files Using avast! Online Scanner
If you download a suspicious looking file over the internet, or you suddenly find a strange program on your computer, then you can always scan it using the free avast! online scanner and find out if it is infected. The avast! online scanner lets you upload a single file and gives you the results in few seconds.
Read moreEnable Secure HTTPS Only Browsing for Twitter
Following the footsteps of Google and Facebook, Twitter has also given an option to the users to always browse through secure HTTPS connection. When you visit a web site through the HTTPS connection, the data transfer to and from that site becomes encrypted. This way any middle-man (like your ISP) cannot eavesdrop on what you post on Twitter.
Read moreDisable Hardware Acceleration in Firefox 4
Like all the other moderns browsers Firefox 4 has also added support for utilizing GPU for video and animation playback on a webpage. This is called hardware acceleration and is enabled by default. But if you have a low end graphics card then it can make videos play very slow and you may have to disable hardware acceleration. After you have disabled the hardware acceleration, Firefox would use software rendering for all web page contents.
Read moreInstall WebM plug-in for Internet Explorer 9
The WebM media format is an open-source free media format specially designed for the HTML5 video tag. The WebM plugin is based on the Matroska codec and features very high-quality video, better video playback even on older computers, ability to change the video speed and is open-source. Most of the web browsers support the WebM media format internally except Internet Explorer 9.
Read moreEnable Hardware Acceleration in Google Chrome
More and more browsers are supporting hardware acceleration for faster rendering of media rich web sites. Hardware acceleration makes use of the GPU in the computer to render the media embedded in a web page for faster and better results. In the Google Chrome hardware acceleration is disabled by default. Here is how you can enable hardware acceleration in Google Chrome web browser.
Read moreTransparent Disk Encryption Using FreeOTFE
The FreeOTFE is an on-the-fly transparent disk encryption open-source program for Windows PC and PDA. Using FreeOTFE, you can create one or more virtual-disks on your computer which act like regular disk drives. Anything copied to these virtual disk drives is automatically and securely encrypted.
Read moreEnable Ctrl+Alt+Del Requirement at Logon in Windows 7
When you start your Windows 7 computer, a logon screen is presented to you where you can enter your login credentials. For extra security, you can enable the requirement of pressing the key combination Ctrl + Alt + Del before a user can see the logon screen. Not having to press Ctrl + Alt + Del leaves users susceptible to attacks that attempt to intercept their passwords.
Read moreAccess Sites Anonymously Using PHProxy in Firefox
PHProxy is a web based proxy technology designed in the PHP programming language. A PHProxy based web proxy server can download a requested page on its server and then show it to you – thus acting as a proxy. The user is completely hidden behind the PHProxy protective layer of proxy. If you are using Firefox web browser, then you can use the PHProxy add-on in Firefox to automatically view a webpage using the PHProxy web proxy servers.
Read moreCheck if Your Chrome Browser has Outdated Plugins
Most of the time, hackers and malicious sites are able to attack a person through browsers because you are using an outdated browser plugin, for example, an outdated Adobe Flash plugin. But how would you know if you have an outdated browser plugin installed. The Secbrowsing Chrome extension for the Google Chrome web browser allows you to check if your Chrome browser plugins are up-to-date.
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