Category: Internet

When you download a file in Internet Explorer 9, this file is downloaded to a default download folder on your hard disk. By default this download folder is the download folder under your user profile. But you can change this download folder location to any folder you want.

When you open a new tab in Internet Explorer 9, you are shown a new tab page which includes thumbnails and shortcuts of the web sites you visit the most. If you want to open a blank tab instead, then you can disable this new tab page.

Internet Explorer 9 uses GPU rendering to provide accelerated graphics when you browse web sites. Although it gives rich web site browsing experience but on low end systems, it can make the system slower. You can save the GPU power at the expense of reduced graphics rendering in Internet Explorer 9 by disabling the GPU rendering and enabling the software rendering.

If you have more than one Google, Yahoo!, MSN and other kinds of accounts then usually you login in your first account, use ii, logout of this account and then login into another account. If you are using Firefox, then you can use the MultiFox add-on to login into multiple accounts at the same time.

Internet Explorer 8 comes with a feature – Suggested Sites. When you visit a web site, its information is sent to Microsoft servers and they bring you a list if similar sites. This can pause a risk to the privacy of the user. Here is a way to turn off Suggested Sites in Internet Explorer.

One of the reasons why Google search engine is so popular is its highly customizable nature. You can customize to suit your needs. For example, you can change the number of search results displayed per page (by default it displayed 10 results on a page).

Have you ever wanted to keep a track of what tasks you want to do today? How many times have you forgotten what to do while surfing the web? Worry no more, now a Chrome browser extension called New Tabs to Tasks will remind you of your tasks using Google Tasks, every time you open a new tab.

Google is always adding more features to its services. Recently, Google has added a new feature to its free email service GMail. This feature, called Priority Inbox, attempts to automatically identify your important incoming messages and separates them out from everything else.

Twitter is a very popular social networking and micro blogging site. Normally, you have to post your tweets by going to Twitter’s web site or using a third party application. But now you can tweet right from the location bar of Mozilla Firefox using an add-on called TwitterBar.

Google search engine has brought a new feature called Instant Search. This allows you to search as you type