Windows Vista Blog

I’m certainly not a big fan of change, but there comes a time when you might grow tired of your current internet browser, Internet Explorer, and perhaps you might want to consider what else is available. There are an absolute ton of internet browsers available now and, while each and every one fundamentally achieves the same goal of allowing you to easily surf the internet, you will find that each and every one of the major internet browser’s functionality is usually drastically different and offers a variety of different features that may not be available in certain others. This article will be highlighting and focusing on the following web browsers: Firefox, Safari, Opera and Maxthon. Read more »

Just to be different for a change, I’ve decided to write up a quick news post concerning some of the more interesting programs I currently have installed on my Windows Vista notebook and recommend my favorites onto you, the readers of Novice2Expert.com. However, I must first point out that while some of you may not consider some of the items I list as ‘essential’, please bear in mind that all of the programs I catalogue below just happen to be things that I happen to find very useful and help make my computing-life a whole heck of alot easier. Read more »

Earlier today I managed to stumble across a rather interested Internet Explorer 7 add-on which boasts of alot of very interesting new features to enhance your online browsing experience. The add-on in question, which goes by the handle, “IE7Pro“, claims to seamlessly integrate with your Internet Explorer 7 browser and new functionality such as: Tabbed Browsing Management, Spell Check, Inline Search, Super Drag Drop, Crash Recovery, Proxy Switcher, Mouse Gesture, Tab History Browser, Web Accelerator, User Agent Switcher, Webpage Capturer, AD Blocker and a whole lot more. Read more »

This latest blog posts focuses on the incredibly helpful ‘Firefox Companion for eBay’ add-on for the Firefox 2.x series. This useful little plugin that was officially developed by the folks at eBay has been known to make many an eBay shopper’s, or buyer’s, life much, much easier. So if you’re an avid eBay trader and currently use Firefox as your preferred internet browser of choice, then this post might just be for you. Read more »

One of the more interesting things about Firefox is just the sheer number of fascinating Easter eggs there are scattered throughout the world’s best internet browser (that’s just my opinion, though). Until recently I had no idea that Firefox was capable of working out simple maths equations straight out of the box with it’s built-in Google search box. It serves as a great alternative to a calculator, anyway.

You can take full advantage of this handy feature simply by typing in a simple maths sum into the Google search box which is located to the right of Firefox’s address bar, like so: Read more »

Dr.Web is fantastic little anti-virus and and anti-spyware package for Windows XP and Linux which boasts of several unique features that you won’t find available in competing anti-virus products. Eugene Kuzin, author of the Dr.Web anti-virus link checker, was kind enough to create a very helpful little add-on for Firefox which allows for you to integrate the Dr.Web anti-virus scanner directly into your browser. Read more »

Now I don’t know about you but when I first integrated the Google AdSense code into my Fable website, I found that for the first few weeks I couldn’t help but constantly keep revisiting the Google AdSense Reports page and keep checking to see how much the total earnings had gone up by. Sadly, it was usually not by very much! However, during that time it was still very excited to actually be able to tell your friends that it’s possible to make money online through your very own websites about the topics you love; Albeit not nearly enough to be able to quit my job but it’s certainly better than nothing. Read more »

As I’m sure many of you are aware, Digg.com is among the most popular websites on the internet and boasts the potential to drive an enormous amount of traffic to websites. Digg publishes news articles and stories on its front page that receive the highest amount of votes — or “diggs” as they’re known. The difference with Digg however is that it relies on its incredibly large community to submit articles that they find interesting, whereby other members will review and “digg” articles that they deem worthy. Read more »

Personally, I love displaying useful information about my websites and having them in close proximity so I can keep a watchful eye on them. One of the more useful tools available is the Alexa Sparky add-on for Firefox which is an official extension that was created by the good folks sat Alexa and allows you to simply install this great addition with the click of a button and display your Alexa Traffic Rank data in your browser’s statusbar. It is a much more convenient way of keeping up to date with your website’s Alexa Rank than constantly having to have to zip back and forth from Alexa’s official website. Read more »

If you decide that the whole tabs system in Firefox isn’t for you, for whatever reason, then you’ll be pleased to learn that there is an add-on available which will completely eliminate every single trace of tabs and the ability to create new new tabs. The add-on is called Tab Killer and here is a brief description that was supplied by the author, SHIMODA Hiroshi:

Some people want to keep their browsing-style based on SDI applications like Netscape Navigator 4, so, this will help them. This provides an alternative to some people, who want to use Gecko based browser and don’t want to use tabbed browsing feature.

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