Archive for December 2011



Internet Explorer 8 comes by default with Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate edition, is he fastest, easiest, and safest browser ever. This article takes you through some of the interesting new features that you will hardly find in other browsers.

You can open the Web page by simply choosing the bookmark, either from the Favorites tab on the Favorites/Feeds/History bar or from the Favorites pull-down menu. This can be done after you add a Internet page to your Favorites folder. You can press Alt+A from your keyboard, or if the menus are hidden if the Classic menus are displayed. You need to click the View Favorites, Feeds, and History button on the Favorites toolbar in order to open the list of your IE 8 bookmarks on the Favorites tab of the Favorites/Feeds/History bar. You can also press Alt+C on your keyboard. Now click its link to visit a favorite listed in the tab.

Organizing favorites

You an also organize you favorites easily in Internet Explorer 8. Most of the times you will find yourself going along adding bunch of bookmarks for your desired Web pages without ever bothering to place them in particular sub-folders. Then you will find yourself facing with a seemingly infinite number of unrelated bookmarks every time you open the Favorites/Feeds/History bar.

Windows 7 makes this very easy to organize even the most confused bookmark lists in just a few easy steps: -

1. In Microsoft Windows 7 Internet Explorer 8, you need to click the View Favorites, Feeds and History button and then click the Add to Favorites button which is with the plus sign at the top of the Favorites/Feeds/History Explorer bar. To open the Organize Favorites dialog box, you can also press Alt+Z from your keyboard and then click Organize Favorites on the drop-down menu.

2. Now to change a bookmark into one of the sub-folders, you need to drag its icon and thendrop it on the icon of the sub-folder. You can also click the favorite to choose it and then click the ‘Move’ button to open the ‘Browse for Folder’ dialog box. Then click the destination folder in the ‘Browse for Folder’ dialog box and ‘click OK’.



There are many reasons for Google Chrome crashing. One of the reasons could be an old version of Internet Download Manager. To resolve the crash due to this reason, update to IDM v6.03 beta, or disable the ‘Advanced browser integration’ option within IDM by going to go to Options and then General.

If your Google Chrome is crashing when trying to print on an Asus EeePC with an out-dated version of Asus WebStorage, you can solve this by downloading the latest version of ebStorage.

Another common cause for the crash is the incompatibility of Google Chrome with much software, to solve this, current approach is to try and disable the software or try getting an updated and latest version of it to see if this resolves the issue. Different software which have been identified so far being incompatible to Google Chrome are out-dated versions of iS3 anti-spyware (STOPzilla), NVIDIA Network Access Manager, NVIDIA nTune,NOD32 version 2.7, Hide My IP, Venturi Firewall, out-dated versions of WinMount and PPLive. There have been incompatibility issues causing crashes reported with NVIDIA Desktop Explorer caused by the nvshell.dll library. You can try to resolve this by removing nvshell.dll.

Another common cause for the crash is the user profile of your browser being corrupted. You can fix this problem by creating a new user profile to replace the corrupt one by following the steps below.

Completely exit from Google Chrome Go to the Start menu > Run. Type in either of the following directories in the text field and press OK. Windows XP: %USERPROFILE%Local SettingsApplication DataGoogleChromeUser Data Windows 7 or Windows Vista: %USERPROFILE%AppDataLocalGoogleChromeUser Data Rename the folder called “Default” in the directory window to “Backup default.”

Open the Google Chrome again which will create a new “Default” folder automatically, which should resolve the problem.



It’s no secret that telephone and cable companies are now
offering bundled services that include phone, television, and
Internet service on the same bill, and many times for a lower
price than if you had purchased your services separately. One
can’t really say the telephone company bundle is better than the
cable company bundle, or the opposite since they both have their
pros and cons that just come with the technology that deliver
the services.

When you order a bundled package from a phone
company, you cannot get cable TV as part of that bundle. Why?
Because it’s a phone company! The phone company, and cable
company are long time rivals, and are in no way going to share a
cut of the market if they don’t have to. This means the phone
company has to find some other way to deliver TV service to your
home, and this is normally satellite TV supplied by Dish Network,
or DirecTV.

Now, don’t go to DirecTV or Dish Network and ask
them for phone service because they’re going to laugh at you. I
won’t go into too much detail as to why because all you really
need to know is there are only to kind of companies that offer a
bundled plan, and those are cable, and phone companies. Getting
back to the differences in technologies, your phone company will
also always supply dialup, or DSL Internet service, and most
likely landline phone service.

On the other hand, your cable company will obviously supply
cable TV service, but their phone service is digital. There’s
really nothing fancy about it, you just pick up the phone, and
dial the number you want to call the same way you always have.
You’ll just be paying your cable company for your phone service.
Your cable company will also supply high speed Internet through
your cable line, and most users agree cable Internet is a little
faster than DSL.

Since cable Internet, and DSL are both broadband Internet services,
you can use both for anything you may need a broadband Internet
connection for. Assuming you have a choice between the two where
you live, one thing you may want to consider is while cable
Internet is a little faster than DSL, and the TV service a
little more reliable, you can only get your cell phone service
as part of a bundle through your phone company. It wouldn’t
surprise me if the cable companies came out with their own form
of cellular in the next few years, but as of today cellular is
strictly Ma and Pa Bell.