Internet Explorer has recently been officially released by Microsoft. Overall it is an impressive product and a significant improvement over the previous iterations of this popular web browser. As soon as IE 9 has launched there are already some tools starting to come to light that allows to tweak the Internet Explorer 9 user interface and other aspects to a users likings. One such tool is called Tweak IE9 that allows to customize a number of Inter Explorer 9 settings from nice single window interface. ...

We have already covered a simple way to launch Windows applications directly from Firefox with the click of a button. Furthermore, we covered an alternate approach to achieve the same objective but with much more flexibility but a bit more involved (so probably more suitable for advanced users). However, today we are going to cover a much simpler technique to launch/open the currently open webpage in a tab in Firefox in to another web browser of your choice, for example, Internet Explorer, Safari ...

Microsoft has just released the first release candidate for Internet Explorer 9. Even though Internet Explorer 9 massively improves upon its prior version, times have changed. Upon its release, it will face stiff competition at from Mozilla FireFox and Google Chrome. Even though this is not the final release, it gave a good glimpse of what is in store for the future. Here we do a quick Internet Explorer vs Chrome vs FireFox comparison and see which browser comes out at the top! Speed: The big one. ...

These days when we think about Internet Explorer what comes in mind is a web browser with the lack of compatibility of web standards, slow java script performance, lack of flexibility and extensibility in terms of customization of the browser and focal point for much of the malware, rogue browser toolbar extensions that are installed with it. It was the general perception until Internet Explorer 9 betas didn’t arrive the general public. Microsoft made big improvements with the 9th iteration of ...

Normally printing webpages when you need them can be quite tedious task (i.e. important confirmation emails, receipts, tickets) because it happens so often that you only need to save/print the “interesting” contents or useful information from the webpage but NOT those crappy logos, extra spaces, frames and other junk stuff when printing. If this kind of scenario ever occurred to you, or you happen to print important pieces of information from the webpages then a service called PrintWhatYouLike ...

It is about two months back when I was providing final touches to the look of my blog, I found a desperate need of some way to test the design and layout in multiple browsers just to ensure that users using different browsers could view the site as it was intended to be without layout, rendering issues etc.  It was easy to test in Opera, Firefox and Internet Explorer 7.0 but I was also interested to test my website in older versions of Internet Explorer 5.5, 6.0 etc. because still a sizable ...

Internet Explorer 8.0 beta 1 has recently been released to the public and two of the most hyped features of the new version are Activities and WebSlices. Activities is like a web-service to which you can direct some selected text so that it can perform an action and return the result such as checking a word definition from Microsoft Encarata or finding a map of a place using Yahoo Maps etc. Webslices in Internet Explorer 8.0 allows to subscribe to a part of a webpage you are currently viewing in ...

Well at last the wait is over! and the eagerly awaited first public build of the latest Internet Explorer 8.0 is available for download on Microsoft servers. Some of the key features in this beta of Internet Explorer 8.0 are mentioned below: 1. Activities Activities are contextual services to quickly access a service from any webpage. Users typically copy and paste from one webpage to another. Internet Explorer 8 Activities make this common pattern easier to do. 2. WebSlices WebSlices is a new ...

Many of us using the Firefox for their routine Internet surfing  love the find as you type feature of Firefox that opens a Find pane at the bottom of the Firefox interface and allows to perform interactive (type ahead) search. Now contrast this innovative search feature with the crude Find popup that Internet Explorer throws at your face when you press the Ctr+F shortcut or select Find from the Edit menu. This is not really the most convenient way to perform a search in a webpage and surprisingly ...

NirSoft is now a well known software company that is bringing great windows utilities to address many common and uncommon tasks. I particularly liked a very interesting utility released by them called IEDesignMode that allows to modify, add or delete the contents of any webpage you are currently viewing in Internet Explorer, no matter if it is online or offline! It is a very simple utility, simply download and install. After installation start the Internet Explorer there will be new context menu ...