Author: Trisha

Starting from version 6.0, Internet Explorer includes a feature to export and import browser settings. Using this feature of IE you can save IE settings and later restore them. This feature may come handy when you format your computer and after re-installing Windows, you want your IE Favorites back. You can even transfer the settings to a different computer.

When a computer is connected to a network using the internet protocol (IP), it is assigned a unique number or set of numbers called IP address. This is used to identify your computer on the network. When you connect to the internet, you also get an IP address for your computer over the internet. You can find out your own IP address using these methods.

IP address is short for the Internet Protocol address. There are two IP versions : IP version 4 and IP version 6, but IP version 4 is in use dominantly. It is composed of four octets (numbers ranging from 0 to 255) seperated by single dots. The general format of IP address is : xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, i.e., four octets are written seperated by single dots. When you type a web site name like www.google.com in your browser, it is translated into the IP address by the DNS server and the browser c

These days you never know which web site is safe to visit and which is not. Some well known web sites you can readily trust, but when you are visiting a new web site, you should always check if the web site is not hosting some malware, riskware or some other attack code. In addition to using a good firewall, anti-virus and anti-malware software you can use few online services to find out if a web site is safe to visit.

So you always wanted to become a GMail expert? Now GMail offers many tips on using GMail and making you an expert or as they call it Ninja. Google is offering four types of ninja belts : white belt, green belt, black belt and finally the master. You can also download the offline PDF booklet which details all the martial art of Gmailing.

When you download a file with Mozilla Firefox 3, it starts to scan the downloaded file for malicious code or virus etc. This is available only for Firefox versions 3.0 and above and only on Windows. But this is pretty useless behavior for computers on which you already have a good antivirus installed as most modern antivirus software automatically scan any newly created file. You can disable Firefox to scan a newly downloaded file.

Google’s free email service – Gmail, filters all spam automatically and sends the spam to a folder labeled Spam. Gmail offers no settings to disable or enable this behavior. But you can disable the spam filtering using a filter trick as described in this article.

When you click on a PDF file link on a web page, the PDF file starts to open in the web browser itself. If the file is too big, your browser hangs while the PDF file is being downloaded. If you do not like this default behavior, you can change it in the options so that when you click on a PDF link, the file is not opened in the browser but the default associated program (Adobe Acrobat Reader or Foxit Reader).

Microsoft offers free Windows Live Mail for Windows XP, Vista and 7. In Windows Vista it comes pre-installed but in Windows XP and 7, you have to download it separately. Installing Windows Live Mail is very easy. Once you have installed, you can configure it to use an email account. This article discusses how to configure an Gmail (Google Mail) account in Windows Live Mail. The procedure is explained for Windows 7 but it is same for all Windows platforms.