Category: Internet

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.

The phrase passport size photo is very confusing. The dimensions of passport size photo vary from place to place. For example, in India a general passport size photo is 3.5cm x 3cm whereas in Japan a general passport size photo is 4.5cm x 3.5cm. But now you can create dimensionally correct passport size photographs using an online tool at www.epassportphoto.com.

Yahoo! Mail has started its new web mail interface (as compared to Yahoo! Mail classic). This new web mail interface uses Adobe Flash and JavaScript to show much better interaction. In the new web mail interface, you can use keyboard shortcuts to a do various tasks.

Lately PDF file format has come under the question of security. The PDF file can carry malicious code and is therefore may infect your computer with malware. One solution is to use portable PDF viewers. When you use portable PDF viewers, no add-on for vieweing PDF files inside the browser is installed, and when you click on a PDF file inside a browser, it does not open inside the browser but a prompt to download it is shown.

When you browse a web site in Mozilla Firefox 3.6 and scroll the page, the default web page scroll speed using the mousewheel is not very fast. If it is a very long page then you have to turn the mousewheel many times to scroll the whole page down. Fortunately, in Mozilla Firefox 3.6 you can adjust the scroll speed as explained in the following steps.