Category: Internet

If you visit some web sites regularly, hoping to find the newly added content and searching through different sections of the sites, then Google Reader is for you. You can subscribe to your favorite sites RSS (really simple syndication) feed in the Google Reader and Google Reader will show you all the latest content inside it.

Sometimes, a friend gives you an email address but when you send the email to this email address, it fails. You get confused if the email address is valid or the mail server is working or not ? Now you can verify if an email address is valid or not.

When you start Internet Explorer, it can take few seconds to start up. This is mainly due to the resource hungry add-ons which take some time to load before the Internet Explorer can load. You can identify these resource hungry add-ons easily in Internet Explorer.

Few people know that when you visit a web site, your IP address is revealed to the web server. Your IP server is your internet identity over the internet. Also some ISP log the web sites you visit. You can hide your IP address from web servers and sites you visit from your ISP, using a web proxy.

In Internet Explorer, you can subscribe to the RSS feed of a web page. After that, Internet Explorer keeps checking for updates on that page. By default it checks for updates on a RSS feed once everyday. But you can change the schedule of how often internet Explorer is going to check for updates of the subscribed RSS feeds.

These days many software install their own extensions in the Windows Internet Explorer without asking or showing a hard to read disclaimer. These extensions can be a headache to your privacy or use your internet bandwidth unnecessarily. But you can disable all the third-party browser extensions if you want.

If you Internet Explorer in Windows XP and later versions, you would see that the visual styles are applied to the buttons and other controls like text box, checkbox etc. If you want to make these controls appear in the classic Windows style, then you can do so by making some setting changes.

By default when you print a web page in Internet Explorer, it does not print the web site background color or the background images. This is done to save the printer ink as it may consume lots of ink to print the background color or the background images. But if you want to print the background color or the background images of a site open in the Internet Explorer, you can make a little setting change.

When you are surfing a website and open an image in the Windows Internet Explorer and that image is bigger that the Internet Explorer window, that image is automatically resized to fit the window. This is useful to see the whole image, but some people do not like it. You can easily turn it off.