Archive for the 'ie' Category

ie and firefox compared

Friday, August 19th, 2005

Download Squad point out a nice comparsion of the yet to be released IE7 and firefox

Not too long ago Microsoft allegedly wasn’t planning to release a new version of Internet Explorer until the release of Vista. Their recent change of heart is attributed by many to the surge in popularity of other browsers—mainly Firefox—and indeed, […]

Internet Explorer 7 The Rundown

Sunday, August 7th, 2005

Beta Life v0.1 has An interesting review of internet explorer 7

So this weekend I decided to test out Internet Explorer 7 inside of Windows Vista and give that a good run and see what I could do with it.
First things first…Transparency. I love the transparency in Windows Vista. I can care less if Mac […]

Internet explorer 7 is to run on XP only.

Sunday, July 24th, 2005

The news from slashdot is that Internet explorer 7 is to run on XP only.

WindozeSux writes “The new Microsoft browser, Internet Explorer 7 will only be available for users of Windows XP. However, due to the fact the that a large amount of Windows users do not own Windows XP, IE7 is expected to boost […]

How to save any multimedia file from the web to your hard drive

Monday, July 11th, 2005

Download Squad posts up a very useful tip on How to save any multimedia file from the web to your hard drive. There have only been a few times that I have wanted to do this but in those times this would have been invaluable.
This one has been making the rounds on del.icio.us and Digg, […]

Get Internet Explorer page

Saturday, July 2nd, 2005

Get Internet Explorer!
Just like Get Firefox, Get Internet Explorer
I am thinking of returning to Internet Explorer from Firefox. Don’t get me wrong, I love firefox but it is starting to annoy me that I don’t have a “to onenote” feature in firefox. As there is a power toy that will do just that for […]

seven tips on speedy browsing

Thursday, June 30th, 2005

Jason Sweeney over his blog has posted seven tips on how to speed up your web browsing. They are:

Use Mozilla Firefox

Use Tabbed Browsing

Use Keyboard shortcuts

Use RSS and Bloglines.com

Use SuperDragAndGo

Use Find-as-you-Type

Use Keywords

More details here.
Thanks to Lifehack for the link

Internet explorer 7 pictures

Monday, June 27th, 2005

A nice heads up here on pics showing Internet explorer 7
I was randomly browsing Flickr, and I typed in “microsoft” as a tag to search.  I was amazed to find IE7 pictures running on Longhorn that were uploaded today!
I found the images on Niall Kennedy’s Flickr Images.  According to his website, Niall is a community […]

new msn browser to include rss

Saturday, June 25th, 2005

 

New MSN Browser Reportedly Will Include Expanded RSS Features

MICROSOFT IS EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE today at the Gnomedex Conference in Seattle its new support for RSS in its new browser architecture. Dave Winer, an RSS developer who also writes the Weblog ReallySimpleSyndication.com, posted in a Thursday blog entry that MSN will likely demonstrate a deeply […]