In time for the holidays eBay has just released a new Internet Explorer 8 Daily Deals Web Slice that I have been collaborating with them. Every day eBay showcases popular products selling at deep discounts. Customers will receive continuing updates and detailed information about these Daily Deals for eBay (as shown in the below snippet from my desktop), all within the Favorites Bar in Internet Explorer 8. With almost 200 million live listings combine Internet Explorer 8 security, privacy and features such Web Slice it will make online shopping more fun and easier this holiday season.

It’s a great example of what a web slice should be (if you need more info on web slices read here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/features/easier.aspx?tab=0).

This simple and innovative eBay model will pave for other online marketplace as a way to engage with its customers and increase revenue.

For more information on the Daily Deal Web Slice, please see the following related articles:

Press Release:

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2009/nov09/11-25IE8HolidayPR.mspx?rss_fdn=Press%20Releases

Download:

http://ie8.ebay.com

http://www.ieaddons.com/en/details/shopping/Get_the_latest_eBaycom_Daily_Deals/

Thủ thuật tăng tốc IE

Dưới đây là thủ thuật giúp IE (Internet Explorer) nạp sẵn trên RAM, thủ thuật này giúp IE khởi động đã nhanh nay càng nhanh hơn (bởi RAM nhanh hơn ổ cứng rất nhiều lần)

Lưu ý : Thời gian khởi động tính từ lúc vào Windows và bắt đầu chạy IE

Đầu tiên bạn tải chương trình Vsuite RamDisk (Public Edition) miễn phí tại http://www.romexsoftware.com/download/ hoặc http://vramdisk.notlong.com. Sau khi tải, nhấn vào biểu tượng VSuite Ramdisk (Public Edition) trên Desktop để chạy chương trình. Trong giao diện chính chứa các tùy chọn sau :

Disk Size :
Dung lượng ổ RAM (không nên đặt quá giới hạn dung lượng RAM của bạn)
Drive Letter :
Chọn tên cho ổ RAM (chọn N hoặc R)
File System :
Bạn chọn NTFS
Volume Labe:
Đặt tên cho ổ RAM (VD: RAMDISK)
Enable NTFS Compression:
Chọn mục này nếu bạn chọn File System là NTFS
Enable Image File và Save at Computer Shutdown:
Bạn nên chọn cả 2 mục này
Image Path :
Nơi lưu trữ Image file (phải chọn ổ đĩa cài Windows)

Sau khi thiết lập xong, bạn chọn Add. Chờ 1 chút để Vsuite tạo ổ RAM R:\ trên máy của bạn. Bây giờ bạn đã có 1 ổ cứng ảo với tốc độ truy xuất cực nhanh. Xong, bạn vào Windows Explorer Copy các file trong thư mục cài đặt của Firefox (thường là Program Files\Internet Explorer vào ổ RAM. Tiếp theo khởi động máy > vào Windows Explorer > chạy thử file R:\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe và cảm nhận sự khác biệt.

+ Đưa Temporary Internet Files (file tạm của IE) lên Ram
Trong giao diện chính của IE 8 > Tools > Internet Options > Thẻ General > mục Browsing History > Settings > Move Folder > chọn RAMDISK (R:) > Ok

IE sẽ hỏi bạn log off , bạn chọn Yes rồi vào IE bình thường !

Thắc mắc http://tangtocnet.com/index.php?showtopic=5647

Cách bắt buộc Internet Explorer luôn sử dụng Google Chrome Frame để tăng tốc duyệt web

Cách đây mấy ngày, Google phát hành một plugin cho trình duyệt Internet Explorer, cho phép người dùng có thể tận dụng  bộ máy hiển thị dữ liệu của Google Chrome ngay trong trình duyệt IE. Điều đó có nghĩa là người dùng có thể thưởng thức tốc độ duyệt web nhanh hơn của Chrome, hay các công nghệ web khác như HTML5… ngay trong Internet Explorer.

Plugin này có tên gọi là Google Chrome Frame, hỗ trợ cho tất cả các phiên bản IE kể cả IE6, và có thể cài đặt trên tất cả máy tính chạy hệ điều hành Windows XP hoặc cao hơn. Bạn có thể tham khảo thêm tại đây.

Nhưng, một vấn đề khi sử dụng plugin này, là các trang web phải có chứa một thẻ meta được định nghĩa trước, như vậy thì Google Chrome Frame mới có thể phát hiện ra và cho phép IE sử dụng bộ máy hiển thị dữ liệu của Chrome được. Thẻ này như sau:

Nhưng không hẳn tất cả các trang web đều có sử dụng thẻ này, một phần vì plugin của Google này mới ra mắt, vậy nên các nhà phát triển web chưa kịp cập nhật website của họ. Điều đó nghĩa là bạn không thể sử dụng và thưởng thức Google Chrome Frame cho mọi trang web được.

Nhưng bạn đừng lo. Đây là một mẹo đơn giản để khắc phục vấn đề này.

Bạn chỉ cần thêm tiếp đầu ngữ cf: vào địa chỉ URL của trang web và nó sẽ bắt buộc IE dùng bộ máy hiển thị của Chrome để mở URL đó.

Ví dụ, nếu bạn muốn viếng thăm trang web http://www.thongtincongnghe.com trên IE nhưng lại muốn dùng bộ máy hiển thị của Google Chrome, bạn cần đánh địa chỉ sau:

cf:http://www.thongtincongnghe.com

Nó sẽ bắt buộc IE sử dụng bộ máy hiển thị dữ liệu của Google.

Như bạn thấy đó, nếu chúng ta click phải vào trang web, rõ ràng menu chuột phải hiển thị ở đây là của Chrome chứ không phải là của IE.

Cách vừa rồi chưa được tốt lắm, vì mỗi khi ta mở 1 trang web mới, ta phải thêm tiếp đầu ngữ cf: vào đầu địa chỉ URL. Hơn nữa, nếu ta mở 1 tab mới bằng URL có sẵn của trang web thì IE lại sử dụng bộ máy hiển thị mặc định của nó. Nếu bạn vẫn muốn dùng Chrome mà không muốn đánh tiếp đầu ngữ cf: thì sao?

Đây là một cách khác. Bạn cần phải chỉnh sửa registry để bắt buộc IE mở tất cả các URL dùng bộ máy hiển thị của Google Chrome mà không cần thêm cf:

1. Gõ regedit ở hộp thoại Run hay Start Menu rồi nhấn Enter. Nó sẽ mở Registry Editor lên.

2. Bạn tìm tới khóa

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\ChromeFrame

3. Trong khóa này, tạo mới một khóa tên OptInUrls. Ở bảng bên phải, tạo mới 1 giá trị String và đặt tên nó là *.

Vậy đó. Nếu bạn cảm thấy hơi khó khăn trong việc tạo khóa và muốn là tự động, hãy tải về tập tin ZIP sau, giải nén nó và chạy “Force Internet Explorer to Always Use Google Chrome Frame.reg”. Sau khi chạy tập tin .reg, nó sẽ tự động thêm vào các khóa registry mà bạn cần. Và sau đó, bạn sẽ được thưởng thức Google Chrome trên IE mà không gặp rắc rối gì nữa.

Trong tập tin ZIP trên cũng chứa script để bạn phục hồi lại thiết lập ban đầu.

Bạn cũng có thể vô hiện hóa plugin Google Chrome Frame trên IE bằng cách vào menu Tools -> Manage Add-ons, Chọn “ChromeFrame BHO” và click vào nút Disable.

Sau đó khởi động lại IE và nó sẽ ngừng việc sử dụng Google Chrome Frame.

Chú ý: một số độc giả làm theo phương pháp trên và gặp một số vấn đề. Nếu vậy, bạn hãy thử cách sau:

1. Mở registry lần nữa là tới khóa sau:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\ChromeFrame

2. Ở bảng bên phải, tạo các giá trị DWORD sau:

UseChromeNetworking
HandleTopLevelRequests

Và thiết lập giá trị cho chúng bằng 0.

Jakarta, dotexe.wordpress.com

Internet Explorer adalah web browser yang menjadi salah satu pilihan bagi sebagian besar pengguna dan vendor. Pengguna PC,utamanya yang menggunakan sistem operasi Windows pasti secara default menggunakan browser ini. Tak salah juga jika para vendor aplikasi berbasis web seperti e-banking dan e-commerce membatasi support mereka pada browser ini.

Bagi pengguna distribusi linux, tentunya merasa ‘teraniaya’ jika sebuah layanan web harus menggunakan IE. Mau tak mau mereka harus beralih sebentar ke PC Windows. Tapi bukan pengguna linux kalau tak kreatif, kita masih bisa menjalankan Internet Explorer dilingkungan Linux.

Yang kita butuhkan cuma installer Internet Explorer 8 dan Wine. Wine atau Wine Is Not Emulator adalah software linux/mac yang menyediakan layer API Windows dilingkungan *nix, sehingga software yang hanya dapat berjalan di Windows dapat dijalankan di Linux dengan baik.

# Untuk mengikuti tutorial ini silakan gunakan distribusi linux apapun selama mudah mendapatkan dan mengkonfigurasikan Wine di sistem anda. Kami sarankan menggunakan Debian atau turunannya (Ubuntu)

1. Instalasi Wine
Untuk Ubuntu, instalasi wine dapat dilakukan dengan mudah via apt-get:

apt-get install wine

2. Konfigurasi lanjut Wine
Jalankan terminal/xterm/konsole dan ketik winecfg untuk menjalankan window konfigurasi Wine.

Tuju ke tab menu Libraries dan tambahkan konfigurasi sebagai berikut dengan tombol Add:

” browseui=”native, builtin”
“crypt32″=”native, builtin”
“gdiplus”=”native”
“hhctrl.ocx”=”native, builtin”
“hlink”=”native, builtin”
“iernonce”=”native, builtin”
“iexplore.exe”=”native, builtin”
“itircl”=”native, builtin”
“itss”=”native, builtin”
“jscript”=”native, builtin”
“mlang”=”native, builtin”
“mshtml”=”native, builtin”
“msimtf”=”native,builtin”
“msxml3″=”native,builtin”
“riched20″=”native,builtin”
“riched32″=”native,builtin”
“secur32″=”native, builtin”
“shdoclc”=”native, builtin”
“shdocvw”=”native, builtin”
“shlwapi”=”native, builtin”
“url”=”native, builtin”
“urlmon”=”native, builtin”
“usp10″=”native, builtin”
“uxtheme”=”native,builtin”
“wininet”=”builtin”
“wintrust”=”native, builtin”
“xmllite”=”native, builtin”

3. Salin library tambahan dari Windows
Untuk trik ini kita harus menggunakan library/pustaka asli dari Windows yaitu:
- msctf.dll
- msimtf.dll
- uxtheme.dll

taruh ketiga pustaka tersebut di /home/user/.wine/dosdevice/windows/system32 (direktori system32 Wine anda)

4. Unduh dan jalankan Winetricks
Kita perlu melakukan konfigurasi advance terhadap Wine, untuk itu kita gunakan script Winetricks dari Kegel.com. unduh dari:
http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks

ubah script winetricks menjadi executable dengan:

sudo su chmod +x winetricks

kemudian jalankan winetricks:

./winetricks

5. Unduh dan Install Internet Explorer 8
Unduh terlebih dulu Internet Explorer 8 dari Microsoft.com (via Intipadi.com):
http://dl.intipadi.com/1age

setelah selesai didownload, lewat terminal jalankan instalasi IE8 dengan:

wine IE8-WindowsXP-x86-ENU.exe

*) abaikan permintaan installer untuk melakukan update.

Lihat screenshoot berikut

6. Kesimpulan dan Saran
Walaupun IE8 sudah dapat berjalan dengan baik dilingkungan Linux, tapi dibaliknya masih terdapat ribuan bug dan celah keamanan.Bug terbesar berada pada pustaka comctl32.dll dan comdlg32.dll, Penggunaan IE8 sendiri dilingkungan Linux lebih bersifat experimental dan darurat, jangan memaksa menggunakan IE8 sebagai browser default distribusi linux anda menggantikan browser lain.

Untuk solusi yang lebih professional dan mempunyai support yang baik, silakan beli CrossOver Office atau Bordeaux sehingga anda dapat menjalankan Office 2007, Photoshop CS dan lainnya dengan lancar.

NB. Tutorial ini telah mengalami proses penyuntingan dan praktik real dengan spesifikasi hardware, software tertentu, dan terbukti berhasil. Segala risiko kerusakan hardware, software maupun data akibat tutorial ini bukan tanggungjawab penulis.

Google has launched a new web browser ahead of the Internet Explorer 8 launch. We had earlier expected that the Google browser would be launched just before IE8 somewhere in the start of 2009, but this early release by Google has come as a surprise for all.

Google Chrome as it is called looks an appealing browser and according to tests by major software giants on the Acid3 and other tests it comes up better than IE and Firefox both.

The Acid3 test rates Chrome at 78 out of 100 ahead of Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer 7. Although the browser doesn’t meet the lofty standards of the Opera browser that scores as high as 83 on this test routine.

Source:

http://technews.in/news/google/google_launches_web_browser_-_chrome/

Chicago Website Design

The line doesn’t seem too long, until you turn the corner and realise it stretches around the block and out of sight. People close to the front have brought tents and blankets. One man has enough food for two days, and uses it to bribe the girl behind him while he takes toilet breaks. So what are they waiting for? It’s not a queue for a Harry Potter book, or a Star Wars prequel. It’s the line for Windows 7. Or so Bill Gates would have you believe.

Really, Microsoft? Really?

When the US software giant released the latest iteration of its operating system on in November, there was a marked difference in approach. There were no gigantic launches, no celebrity spruikers, no sky-writing or power point presentations. (Yes, Power Point is a Microsoft Office program. Yes, it hurts to insert it into this analogy. But there weren’t.) What Microsoft tried to foster was a groundswell of popularity, a viral tidal wave of excitement that would not only see hordes of customers swarm into shops to purchase Windows 7, but then scurry home, quivering with excitement, and have a Tupperware party while they installed and enthused about it.

Yes, you read that right. The world’s largest software company is pimping a Tupperware party.

The clips need to be seen to be believed, but thankfully have been immortalised on YouTube.

Lampooning has been absolutely rife, of course- it’s hard to find the original clip, a search that necessitates wading through edited clips, many of which are admittedly hilarious. But in all seriousness, what did Microsoft expect? That people would have huge, sprawling house parties celebrating the launch of an operating system, eagerly-awaited not because it represented a groundbreaking innovation in computing, but because its predecessor, Windows Vista, was so unstable it made the Indonesian tectonic plates look unremarkable, and so bug-ridden it should have come packaged with a can of Aeroguard?

Be sure to click Read More, there’s plenty of inane advertising after the jump.

Suspend disbelief for a moment, and say this breathless apprehension proved correct. But then, after rushing home to install it, these users would put down their mice, step away from their keyboards, head into a kitchen, and chat about it? All this after waiting for its release at midnight? In the interest of fairness, it must be said that some people did take part, with themed cupcakes and everything. Insert your own clever comment here.

All the same, this is hardly the first time Microsoft has launched ill-advised marketing campaigns. A facet of the online era is that nothing ever goes away – buffoonery, in particular, becomes truly immortal – and as you would expect, the interwebs have been aflutter with mockery, with more than one site dredging up some of Microsoft’s greatest misses. One particular stumble down memory lane featured Friends alumni Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry clicking heels while sauntering along the yellow brick road of Windows 95, chanting a mantra of “Taskbars and email and shortcuts, oh my!” You couldn’t make it up.

The clip also breathlessly exhorts “the world’s first cyber sitcom” a buzzword thankfully consigned to the scrapheap – soon to be joined, hopefully, by the prefix “i”.

Next there was a series of ads featuring onetime Superman Dean Cain as a bumbling caricature of every smarmy talk show host you’ve ever met, hawking Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8. Fair enough. But one of the ads, showcasing the browser’s built-in Private Browsing Mode (what some critics have called a porn mode, as it stops websites leaving cookies on your computer) has a couple settling down to breakfast. Watch the video, but be aware of the moral: use Internet Explorer 8 to cover your tracks, and keep your partner’s breakfast down.

Incredibly, the ad was pulled.

If you need another demonstration of just how much Microsoft has its finger on the pulse, you’ll get one. Snarky comments aside, the need for greater health awareness, increased exercise and a balanced diet has received more press than ever before. It’s never been easier to know what you should and shouldn’t eat, and the anti-fast food movement is gaining momentum. Even fast food chains themselves are getting on the bandwagon, adding healthier meals (well, relatively) to their menu. So what does Microsoft do? Team up with Burger King, of course, to release a Windows 7-themed burger, bursting with seven patties, and an epic 2120 calories. As CNN’s Kyung Lah points out, that’s an entire day’s caloric intake. Once again, do sink your teeth into the video.

It’s probably bordering on harsh to mention the advertisements featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld, especially as they’re sort of charmingly inoffensive, but again one wonders at the rationalising going on at the Microsoft marketing department. If you see fit to write a script that involves your two leads calling each other by name in the first five seconds, just in case people watching might not know who they are, here’s a thought – people watching might not know who they are. It’s been almost a decade since Seinfeld went off air, and let’s just say Gates isn’t going to quit his day job and take up acting.

But the best, dear reader, has been saved for last. Even in an era of bizarre and brazen barrages of product placement, this takes the cake. Sponsoring a television program is one thing, but this was a step further – a decision to integrate not just advertising, but content, into a TV show. You’d think Microsoft would then pick a show that was at least tenuously connected to the world in which it operates (say, The IT Crowd, or even The Big Bang Theory).

But no. The decision went to Seth Macfarlane’s Family Guy, a program critics such as The Seattle Times‘ Frazier Moore celebrated earlier this month as being “rude, crude, and deliciously wrong.” Anyone smell the heady scent of trouble brewing? Microsoft’s attempt to purchase street cred, a currency more valuable than the flatlining US dollar, couldn’t have gone more wrong. The plan was to have the show with all commercials replaced by Windows 7 spots. The Family Guy episode in question had jokes about incest, and feminine hygiene. What price a seat in the boardroom when the episode was screened to a room full of suits?

Of course, there may have been something even more objectionable about the content – as you can see from this clip, it’s not even remotely funny.

The show would have gone to air on November 8th, but Microsoft pulled the plug well before then, explaining its actions in fluent corporatese. Apparently “the content was not a fit with the Windows brand”. Indeed. It’s a joke I cannot claim credit for, but it merits repeating – after an epic display of foresight, in the end, Family Guy just wasn’t PC enough for Microsoft.

This article will appear in the November issue of PC Update magazine.

Scenario…

Accessing Orion NMP from your Web browser, causes the “Install SWToolset.exe” message to be displayed. Even though you install this Add On, it does not show up in the ‘Manage Add Ons’ Internet Explorer 8 (IE consequently resulting in the same “Install SWToolset.exe” prompt being displayed every time you click one of your monitored devices.

Fix…

Internet Explorer 8 on a Windows 7 cause the “Install SWToolset.exe” message to be prompted even though this has already been installed. Another common message is “To utilize the Solarwinds Toolset Integration features, be sure to allw ActiveX controls on your browser.” Open up all security settings for ActiveX Controls (like you stated above)

• Make sure the Orion website is in the Trusted group. This prevents the error message To utilize the Solarwinds Toolset Integration features, be sure to allow ActiveX controls on your browser.”
• Open the browser, and manually download the SWToolset.exe
  • http://<orionserver>/Swtoolset.exe
  • Save this file somewhere (hopefully where all users will have rights)
• Open a command prompt with Administrator Rights (accessories -> right mouse click -> Run as administrator
• Very important: Close all your browsers to the Orion website!
• Navigate to the folder where you saved the SWToolset.exe file
• Run "SWToolset.exe /regserver".
• Open the browser, navigate to Orion, and see if it asks you again about installing the ActiveX (it shouldn’t, you just did it manually).
• If you do not get the message, give something a right click and see if you get the menu.

This will manually install the ActiveX Control. It seems I was not able to get the control install via auto download from the browser.

Source…

As of this date (10/22/09) my recommendation is not to install IE8 on XP. I had it installed for over two months after having used v. 7 for about 4 months. IE8 was slow to load, slow to launch tabs, and just slow overall … like a fat hog. Don’t do it to yourself … wait until MS makes a decent update. I reverted back to 6, but missed the tabs, so now I am once again happy with the performance and features in 7.

Good Luck! =)

Microsoft’s IE8 passes older IE7 for the first time, says Net Applications

Google’s Chrome boosted its Share of the Browser market by a bigger margin than did Mozilla’s Firefox in October, the fourth time its gains have trumped those of the second-place browser in the last year, a Web metrics company said yesterday.

Chrome increased its share by 0.4 of a percentage point in October, according to data from Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based Net Applications, ending the month with a 3.6% share. Firefox, meanwhile, grew by 0.3 of a percentage point, finishing October with 24%.

Google’s browser is closing on Apple’s Safari for the No. 3 spot, which is behind Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) and Firefox. If the trend from the past three months continues, Chrome will surpass Safari in February 2010.

Firefox, Chrome, and to a lesser extent Safari, all gained ground thanks to another downturn by IE in October. IE’s share fell by 1 percentage point to put it at 64.7%. Microsoft’s browser has lost 3 percentage points in the last three months, and 9 points in the last year.

Chrome’s increase of 0.4 of a percentage point was its largest since Google launched the Windows-only browser in September 2008. In the last three months, Chrome has gained 1 percentage point, or 62% as much as Firefox has increased in the same time.

Safari, meanwhile, grew only slightly, while Opera Software’s Opera lost share last month. Apple’s browser ended the month at 4.4%, up just 0.2 of a percentage point; Opera dropped to 2.17%, losing 0.02 of a point. Both browsers appear destined to be also-rans in the market share race. With the vast bulk of Safari’s users on Macs — Safari for Windows accounted for less than a third of a percentage point last month — Apple’s browser gains are directly linked to Mac sales, and that platform’s performance, percentage-wise, against the dominant Windows operating system.

Both Microsoft and Mozilla again made strides in moving users to their newest browsers.

The eight-year-old IE6 lost 1.1 percentage points, dropping to 23.2%, while 2007’s IE7 lost 1.2 points, falling to 18.2%. The new IE8, on the other hand, gained 1.3 percentage points to post an October average of 18.1, another record for that browser. As recently as May, IE8 accounted for just 6% of all browsers.

When IE8’s compatibility mode — a feature that lets it properly render pages designed for older editions — is taken into account, Microsoft’s newest browser accounted for a 20.4% share, putting it ahead of IE7 for the first time.

Assuming current trends continue, IE8 will pass the aged IE6 before the end of the year, making good on a Microsoft campaign to get users off its eldest browser. IE6, said Microsoft’s manager of Internet Explorer in August, should be abandoned by users able to pick their browser.

Mozilla has also had success in migrating its users to Firefox 3.5, the upgrade launched last June, although the pace has slowed. In October, Firefox 3.5 increased its share by 1.3 percentage points to 13.9%, dramatically less than the 3.8-point surge in September. Firefox 3.0 slipped 0.8 of a percentage point to end at 8.8%.

Firefox 3.0 users face the retirement of their browser in January 2010, when Mozilla will stop serving up security updates for the 18-month-old application. Before then, Mozilla should have wrapped up Firefox 3.6, a minor upgrade that made it to beta last Friday.

Net Applications measures browser usage by tracking the machines that visit the 40,000 sites it monitors for clients, which results in a pool of about 160 million unique visitors per month.

Source:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140220/Google_s_Chrome_browser_share_growth_trumps_Firefox_s

Chicago Web Design

Hi Bill,

I think it’s about time we had a chat.

Because we haven’t always seen eye to eye, have we. I’ve certainly had a few unflattering things to say about your products and you obviously didn’t like it because you’ve never left me a comment on here.

That’s ok, nobody enjoys criticism and at least you haven’t had me quietly eliminated.

But I stand by what I’ve said about Internet Explorer 7, that it was the least of all modern browsers and don’t get me started about the piece of crap that was IE6. As a web designer who still has to code for the misguided souls still using it, and its terrible rendering, I’ve sometimes thought about putting a hit on you out of revenge instead.

And let’s face it, Vista may have been prettier but as an operating system it was largely a backward step after XP. Unless perhaps you meant it that way to force people to buy your next version of Windows as well.

Cunning really, I never said you weren’t clever.

Well either way your plan worked, because I have duly purchased the brand new Windows 7. And I’ve installed it, and I’ve been using it for a week and I have to tell you Bill…I like it.

It’s good, no really it is. It’s quicker, it doesn’t seem to crash and there are new features like the snapping windows that haven’t even been nicked from a Mac!

Of course it also comes bundled with Internet Explorer 8 which frankly I wasn’t bothered with, but surprise surprise, you now have a browser that I might use occasionally.

Admittedly that’s because you’ve lifted a lot of stuff directly from Firefox, including features I’ve written about but at least it shows you were paying attention.

In fact now I would tell anyone with an older version of Internet Explorer that it would be worthwhile to go to the official IE8 site and download it.

I mean you would know better than I about its improved security and the new features like ‘InPrivate’ browsing, where you can deliberately ask it to ignore your browsing history, otherwise known as ‘PornMode.’

Although I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt on that one and say you didn’t request it personally.

So Bill, finally I can say that our relationship is working out now, that perhaps we can be friends after all.

And that if you are ever around my way, you should stop by, I’ve got some ideas we can discuss over a beer or two. My sofa is quite comfy if you feel like crashing out afterwards.

Or if it’s easier, I could always come to your place.

You probably have a larger sofa.

Internet Explorer este un browser web creat de microsoft, probabil ati auzit de el este folosit la sistemele de operare microsoft windows.

Versiunea curenta il face foarte rapid, foarte sigur si usor de utilizat.

Previne atacurile ActiveX potential vulnerabile, va protejeaza impotriva de site-uri suspecte care ar  contine fraude, permite marimea sau micsorarea paginilor web.

Puteti sa vizualizati pagini web care au fos create pentru browsere mai vechi.

Daca apare o eroarea neastepata la un site, add-on browser-ul nu se va inchide, paginile care le aveati deschise in timpul erorii nu vor fi afectate, vor ramane intacte.

Internet Explorer 8 nu mai are autocompletarea in linie.

Descarca Internet Explorer 8

http://www.microsoft.com/turkiye/windows/internet-explorer/

Estimados Amigos,

Es un placer compartir con todos ustedes el nuevo proyecto que en el área Académica de Microsoft hemos generado para contribuir brindando herramientas e información interesante a la hora de navegar por la red.

IE 8 para Estudiantes

Hemos diseñado un navegador que está orientado a las necesidades de los estudiantes haciendo uso de Webslices personalizados y que les brinden la información que más les interesa.

1. Hemos creado un sitio en donde se puede descargar esta versión de IE8. Se programó un script el cual detecta si ya cuentas con IE8 para sólo agregarle los nuevos ítems o sino instalar por completo la distribución personalizada. (Una vez instalado es necesario reiniciar).

El sitio para descargar es el siguiente: http://academico.descargainternetexplorer.com

2. Una vez descargado el proyecto, tendrán en su IE8 4 Webslices que serán actualizados por nosotros de manera dinámica (como si fueran un Twitter) de tal forma que podrá ver en 4 diferentes categorías información relevante que los vinculará a los sitios específicos.

Ejemplo: Algo que sin duda les importa mucho es conocer ofertas de empleo semana tras semana para poder aplicar y conseguir trabajo. IE8 para estudiantes le permite abrir el Webslice de Students to Business con las últimas vacantes registradas a las cuales se puede aplicar:

3. En total, existen 4 Webslices que les brindarán información especial categorizadas de la siguiente manera:

a) Noticias Académicas

b) Imagine Cup

c) Entrenamientos para Estudiantes

d) S2B Bolsa de Trabajo

Lo anterior permitirá brindar valor a ustedes que son estudiantes y con esto estar al día en el mundo tecnológico y disfrutar de todos los beneficios que Microsoft tiene para el sector académico.

De la misma forma, la sección de favoritos está adecuada con carpetas que cuentan con contenido específico como Demos, Entrenamientos, Programas Académicos, Tecnologías sin costo etc.

Los invito a que disfruten de este nuevo beneficio y estén siempre actualizados con lo último de Microsoft para ustedes. Así mismo pasen la voz y compartan esta instalación a toda su comunidad.

Recuerden que ya habíamos hablado de los WebSlices que son de mucha utilidad para mejorar nuestro rendimiento.

Just today (28 october 2009), I downloaded the Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 (codenamed Namoroka) off the Mozilla Firefox nightly builds. Apparently, the 3.6b1 version has already been available to the masses since 19th October 2009 – well before the said release date of 28 October 2009. The new version promises faster page loading times and improvements to the underlying Javascript engine, TraceMonkey. This post highlights some of my findings with regards to the new version – particularly in areas related to CSS and Javascript.

Overall Performance Enhancements

Javacript Performance

Mozilla Firefox 3.6 is following the Google Chrome fundamentals of effectively speeding up the opening and closing of tabs, and the added performance boost for the underlying Javascript engine. In version 3.5, Firefox upgraded its Javascript rendering engine to a better version, called TraceMonkey. 3.6 sees the TraceMonkey engine speed up by yet another 15% with the Beta 1 installment. We employed the help of the SunSpider Javascript benchmark test to compare the TraceMonkey engine to the Javascripting capabilities of all modern browsers on the Windows platform. Here are the results.

Hints on isolated process and multiprocessing within tabs

Opening up new tabs, new windows and sidebars are considerably sped up. With version 3.5, the Firefox browser had hints of tabs running in a virtual parallel content process (multiprocessing) – you could drag a content tab out of it’s window and the tab appears as a separate window of its own. Although, the real thing (á la the Chrome-like isolated processes) is planned for the 3.7 release only expected in Spring 2010.

User Interface Goodies

Hiding the menu bar

There’s not much at offer when it comes to the overall user interface. You can finally hide the menu bar without adding any special add-ons to do so, giving you more estate for your web pages. Ironically though, there is a reason that Mozilla implemented this feature with this release. In all the upcoming releases (i.e., 3.7 and 4.0), you would find the menu bar hidden by default. The main reason for this is mainly to separate the menu bar from being run in a single process while handling multiple tabs to each tab having its very own menu and location/search bar.

Cross-Tab Browsing

Better cross-tab browsing options have been introduced. To enable the nifty features, you would need to go to the Firefox configuration page by typing about:config in the address bar and modify the following properties.

• browser.allTabs.previews: true
• browser.ctrlTab.previews: true

The above changes enable you to sift through small thumbnail previews of tabs when pressing the usual Ctrl+Tab (Cmd+Tab) combination. This way, you can easily jump between tabs without going through each one of them. Refer to the thumbnail below to see how it looks like.

Firefox Tab Previews

“Open link in a new tab” opens  tab next to the referring tab

Another quick UI enhancement that I noted was the default behaviour of a tab when it is opened using the “Open link in a new tab” option or Ctrl+Click (Cmd+Click). Instead of opening at the end of your opened tabs, the new tab (if clicked from a link on a page) would open right next to the tab of the referring page – somewhat like Internet Explorer 8 (minus the colour coded groups).

Orientation API

The most anticipated feature in the Firefox 3.6 release could quite possibly be the Mozilla Orientation API. Using this API, Firefox makes available the underlying machine’s orientation information to enable pages to know when the machine is moved or tilted. The API was originally designed to be used with mobile phones (as part of Fennec, Firefox’s version for mobile phones). But, if your machine has an accelerometer (which usually comes with IBM ThinkPad and MacBooks), you can literally title pages within your browser. Sadly, because I don’t have the luxury of owning a device with an accelerometer, I couldn’t test the feature yet. If you do not own an accelerometer, you might probably consider watching the demo video for the Orientation API.

Windows 7 enhancements

Version 3.6 hosts some surprises for Windows 7 users as it makes full use of the handy taskbar thumbnail previews (for all opened tabs) instead of just opened windows. A bit buggy at the moment, this feature was originally meant for Firefox 3.7 beta releases though. For Vista and 7 systems alike, Firefox uses more of the underlying rendering capabilities of Aero to boost performance and a better sleeker interface.

Odd things I noted

• There appears to be a “full-screen” button in the Customize Toolbars dialog. You can make web pages appear in fullscreen on any browser using the F11 key, but never would one have needed a button to do so.

CSS Enhancements

The new Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 browser hosts some nifty new CSS3 features. Some of these features are as follows:

• Support for background gradients: -moz-linear-gradient and -moz-radial-gradient
• Support for background image sizing: -moz-background-size

SunSpider Javascript Benchmark shows Firefox as the fastest

Javascript performance has certainly been enhanced for this version. One of my favourite benchmark tests, when it comes to Javascript regression testing, is that of the SunSpider Javascript Benchmark Test as provided on the Webkit website. The Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 scored considerably better than any of its predecessors and certainly faster than any other browser known to me. Following is a graphical representation of the comparison of tests conducted on Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Beta 1, Safari for Windows 4.0.3 and Internet Explorer 8 browsers.

Sun Spider Benchmark Test: IE8 (15,779.6ms), Safari (8253.4ms) and Firefox (2527.4ms)

Microsoft’un en yeni internet tarayıcısı. Internet Explorer 8 kullanıcılara daha ileri düzeyde bir web deneyimi yaşatıyor. Hem daha hızlı hem daha güvenli.

İndirmek İçin Tıklayın

Con este lanzamiento el gigante informático pretende recuperar la confianza perdida con su sistema operativo Vista

Microsoft sacará hoy al mercado Windows 7, la última versión del sistema operativo más utilizado del mundo, y en la que el gigante informático ha depositado enormes esperanzas para recuperar la confianza perdida con el lanzamiento del Vista (¿o no?).

El portavoz de Microsoft Leonardo Ortiz expresó para la agencia Efe: “Estamos muy satisfechos con este programa. Somos muy optimistas y hay gran expectación en torno al lanzamiento, ya que hacía mucho tiempo que no teníamos un software que funcionara en un rango tan amplio de computadoras y con tan buenas críticas”.

Hoy día Windows 7 sale a la venta en cerca de un centenar de países.

La última versión del sistema operativo presente en nueve de cada diez PC llega a un mercado que está copado aún por el Windows XP de 2001, “un programa de hace casi una década que -según Ortiz- se diseñó para un mundo informático en el que no se usaban las redes sociales o los contenidos multimedia que ahora manejamos”.

En el 2007 se sacó al mercado el Windows Vista, pero requería gran capacidad de procesamiento, lo que impedía su correcto funcionamiento en algunos equipos, y daba tantos errores que el programa terminó siendo un fracaso de ventas y ahora solo está instalado en el 18,6% de los PC de todo el mundo, según NetApplications, mientras que el XP aún se usa en el 71,5% (¡Viva XP!)

Pese a sus constantes esfuerzos por aumentar sus ingresos -dañados también por la piratería-, Microsoft registró recientemente la primera caída de su facturación en 23 años.

Por ello, la firma de Bill Gates ha depositado enormes esperanzas en el lanzamiento de Windows 7, especialmente ahora que la venta de ordenadores empieza a recuperarse después de este año de recesión económica.

“Windows 7 se podrá utilizar desde en las computadoras más avanzadas hasta en los más básicos netbooks, ordenadores que pueden costar menos de 300 dólares”, explicó Ortiz.

NOVEDADES
Para sacar al mercado Windows 7, más de ocho millones de voluntarios han evaluado durante meses las primeras versiones, donde se ha puesto un acento especial en los contenidos multimedia, para facilitar la edición y gestión de fotos y vídeos.

Según la información adelantada por Microsoft, Windows 7 también incluye opciones de gestión de dos ventanas abiertas, para que de forma automática se coloquen una a cada lado de la pantalla y poder así compararlas con facilidad, o para mantener alguna abierta en un extremo, mientras se trabaja en otra. Además, incluye cambios en la barra de tareas para reducir la cantidad de elementos en el escritorio, crea automáticamente redes internas entre los ordenadores del hogar con el mismo software, lo que facilita compartir archivos e impresoras, y simplifica procesos de sincronización y administración de otros aparatos, como móviles o cámaras de fotos.

Una novedosa función es la de “shake”, que permite pulsar sobre la parte superior de una ventana y agitar el ratón para minimizar todas las demás ventanas abiertas. Si se vuelve a agitar esa ventana, se restituyen las demás a sus tamaños originales.

Con el nuevo sistema operativo se incluye la versión 8 del Internet Explorer, que, según Microsoft, es su “navegador más rápido, sencillo y seguro hasta la fecha”.

“La mayor parte de la venta de Windows se realiza con la compra de nuevos ordenadores, pero también se podrán actualizar versiones anteriores por un precio que oscila mucho entre países, pero que rondará entre los 125 y 245 dólares”, explicó Ortiz.

Fuente: El Comercio

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله ..

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