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- DON'T BE THE VICTIM OF BROWSERS' WAR
Do you think that the browsers' war of the late years of the 1990's is over? Remember when Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) was battling to dethrone Netscape and conquer the desktop empire. Now IE is the the king dominating the browsers' market - above at least 75% of the marketshare.
However, in spite of its dominance, you certainly noticed that you cannot use it when visiting some websites, which proprietors decide to somehow block IE.
That happens more often than you may think. Sometimes your security settings in IE could prevent you performing some actions such as downloading a file.
In such cases what do you do? Normally you are obliged to fire up other players like Nescape, Firefox or Opera to get the job done. Very annoying.
You can now make it simple.
There is a little utility that helps open another browser than IE when you encountered a "blockade". It is called URLaunch.
URLaunch is a
tiny program that sits in your system tray, which can automatically launch any URL that you copy to the clipboard in a browser of your choice. There is a configuration easy to setup to choosing the browser to open if necessary and the program will ask for confirmation before launching your browser. Right click here and chose Save As to get a zip copy of URLaunch. |
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HAVE THE NEWS DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR DESKTOP
When you need to be updated on specific news about particular lines of business, you have, till now, no choice but to keep on surfing to find out what is making the news in your particular fields of interest.
That was the old way of doing things. Now, you can have the news delivered right to your desktop without surfing websites over websites. You just use RSS news feed technology (RSS standing for Really Simple Syndication). You install a RSS newsreader and that is. Your defined news will be updated to your desktop each time there is anything new about the subject.
It can be anything like:
World News, Sports, Africa, Asia, Europe News, Internet updates, Software news, Technology news, PDA and Mobile News. Anything.
There are several flavors of RSS newsreader. Some integrates with your email client (Outlook, Outlook Express, Incredimail. Etc. Others are add-ons (toolbars) to Microsoft Internet Explorer.
The month's freebie pertains to the second category: MyRssToolBar available here too download
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