Sometimes, you may want to print out a Web page you’ve found, so that you can recommend the site to a friend later. But if the URL of the page is a long one, it’s likely to be truncated in the footer of the printed page. This is because Internet Explorer, by default, uses a large font and cuts off any URL that doesn’t fit on the same line to accommodate the date.

To print the whole of a URL, every time, click ‘Tools|Internet Options’ and then on the ‘General’ tab, click the ‘Fonts’ button. Then, select a Web page font that is more compact than Times New Roman, for example, Vista’s Counrier New( This font, which is similar to Arial, will also become the default font for Web pages that  don’t specify a font). If that doesn’t print the entire Web address, give URLs a separate line. To do so, pull down the Printer toolbar and select Page Setup Enter ‘&b&u’ in the Header field to devote the full header  to the URL, (aligned to the right). (more…)

Tags: Explorer, internet, Printer, URL

The ‘Mail’ button in Internet Explorer 6 was used to read mails or send a link through an e-mail. This useful button is missing in version?
The functions of the ‘Mail’ button have been dispersed in Internet Explorer7. you can now open your mail program with the ‘Read Mail’ button in the browser but it is not shown by default. To enable this icon, click on ‘Tool’ and select ‘Toolbar|Customize’ and integrate the button in the toolbar. Now, go to ‘Read Mail in the ‘Available toolbar buttons’ dialog box under ‘Customize toolbar’ and then click on ‘Add’ and ‘Close’. (more…)

Tags: Internet Explorer 7, Mail

you have defined some filter rules for your e-mail account and would like to use these rules for other accounts as well. Besides, you also want to use the data on your notebook.
Thunderbird saves the filter rules in the ‘msfilterrules.dat’ file. You can edit them, but it is easier to customize them using the free extension ‘Message Filter Import/ Export. It integrates a menu command for managing filter rules in the e –mail client. This useful tool is available on http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2474. Right -click on ‘Install now’ on the website and select the ‘Save Target As’ context command. You can now secure the extension on your hard disk. Start Thunderbird and go to ‘Tools|Extensions’. Click on ‘Install’ and navigate to the downloaded XPI file and open it. Click on ‘Install now’ to start the setup and restart Thunderbird. To ensure the rules of an account, go to ‘Tools|Message filter’. Set up the desired account and click on the newly visible button ‘Export Filter’ in the ‘Filter for’ combination field. Then name the text file and click on ‘Save’. (more…)

Tags: addons.mozilla, e-mail, windows, XPI

Firefox always opens new tabs on the extreme right when you click on a link. You have to toggle between topics that are related to each other if several tabs are open at the same times. Or you have to shift the tabs. Both methods are not satisfactory.
The free add-on ‘Tab Control’ changes the behavior of the browser in such a way that it opens the new tabs to the immediate right of the tab in use. The ‘http://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/1480’ link directs you to the download page. Here, click on ‘Install’ to open the ‘Software Installation’ dialog box. Click on ‘Install now’ to start the setup. Select ‘Restart Firefox’ to activate the tool. (more…)

Tags: addons, firefox

Super cookies have started featuring on the menu cards of many websites, some of which are dubious in character. What are they? How can you protect your system from these elements or mange them?

In addition to the classic cookies that are only up to four kilo bytes in size, thre are much bigger Flash cookies and voracious domain memory objects (the so-called DOM cookies are also new). They grab up to five megabytes of space on the hard disk of your PC to store the information of an external website. Firefox 2.0 is the first browser to support these new standard memory objects. The cookie management of the browser does not display these objects along with the stored data, which means that they cannot be deleted. (more…)

Tags: cookies, firefox, memory, toggle

Enabling remote computers, many users still rely on the Telnet protocol. But Microsoft does not seem to have integrated any compatible client in Vista.
Even Vista has an integrated Telnet- Client, but it is deactivated by default because of stringent security guidelines set to ensure that no communication channels are opened unnecessarily. This is how you can activates it: double click on ‘Programs and functions’ in Control Panel and then click on ‘Turn Windows features on or off’ on the left margin. Click ‘Continue’ to confirm the query of the User Account Control. In the following list, search for the entry ‘Telnet- Client’ and select the preceding checkbox. Confirm the change with ‘OK’ and wait for the configuration of the systems. You can then call up the client as usual. (more…)

Tags: SSH or RDP, tel-net, windows

While browsing a web site with active contents like activeX – objects or Java programs, images are not displayed or it becomes impossible to sen any form. How do I solve this program?
Such  problems can arise when  the web site contains compressed scripts. The Internet Explorer can only partially decompress the script after it has been downloaded. The possible reason for this is there is very little storage space in the folder for temporary internet files as a result of which the computed script does not run correctly. To solve this problem:
•    First update the website completely using the key- combination [Ctrl]+ [F5]. If the problem still persists. Open Internet Explorer and go to ‘Tools| Internet Options’. Next click on ‘Delete files’ in the ‘Temporary Internet files’ tab. Then activate the option ‘Delete all offline contents’ and then click on ‘OK’. Now if you surf your desired web sites, it should show all the active contents correctly.

Tags: activeX, IE, internet, javascript