Find as you type – Firefox like find addon for Internet Explorer

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If you have used Firefox, I’m sure you would have noticed the Find / Search option (CTRL+F) will allow you to search as you type the work you are looking for. Wish you had that in internet explorer??? Well, [...]

Finjan SecureBrowsing extensions for Internet Explorer and Firefox

Finjan is one of the security products company that drew my attention this year at InfoSec 2008 in London. The protfolio reminded of Kasperskys early days.
Finjan SecureBrowsing provides you with safety ratings of URLs showing in your browser. Finjan SecureBrowsing is a security extension for your browser that scans and classifies web addresses to provide [...]

Configure Internet Explorer as Passive FTP Client

While Internet Explorer is certainly not the best FTP client, it can still come handy when required. Internet Explorer by default is configured to be an FTP client in Active or Port mode. However, there are instances like a client or server is behind the firewall or when you need to connect in Passive mode.
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Internet Explorer 7 Emulation mode in IE8

A quick tip for those who choose to trial the Internet Explorer 8 Beta browser. Those who installed Internet Explorer 8 beta would have realised some of their favorite website just don’t work anymore. To name a few Yahoo!Mail new interface and a bunch of Microsoft sites like Windows Live mail and their own Windows [...]

Speed up Internet Explorer by tweaking maximum connections

Increasing the number of connection for Internet Explorer and the number of connections to one individual webserver can dramatically increase the speed of accessing website in Internet Explorer. The result is obvivous as increasing the number of connections can directly increase the faster loading of a website.
This tweak requires editing the Windows Registry and adding [...]