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Deleting Cookies Methods

admin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:05:46 +0000

Most cookies are easy to delete. Just pick your browser from the choices below and follow the instructions. If your browser isn’t listed, please contact us.

You probably have Adobe Local Shared Objects on your computer, also known as LSOs or Flash cookies. Generally you can’t delete them with browsers controls, but Adobe’s website offers tools to control Flash cookies on your computer. Users of the Firefox browser can also get an add-on to detect and delete Flash cookies.

Windows PC

Google Chrome

Click on the Tools menu and select Options. Click the “Under the Hood” tab and locate the “Security” section. In the “Cookie settings” section, click the “Show cookies” button.

Select “Remove all” to delete all cookies from the list (alternatively, you can remove all cookies created within a specific time period by selecting the “Clear browsing data” option in the Tools menu). To delete a specific cookie, simply select the website that set the cookie from the list and click on “Remove”. Click on the Close button when you’ve finished.

Internet Explorer 8

Click “Safety” on the Command bar. Select “Delete Browsing History”. Select the option for cookies and click Delete

Alternatively, Internet Explorer 8’s new InPrivate browsing feature allows users to browse the internet without recording information from visited sites (including cookies). To use InPrivate mode:

Click “Safety” on the Command bar. Select “InPrivate Browsing”

Internet Explorer 7.x

Exit Internet Explorer 7, and then exit any instances of Windows Explorer. Click Start, click Run, type inetcpl.cpl, and then press ENTER. On the General tab, click Delete under Browsing History in the Internet Properties dialog box
In the Delete Browsing History dialog box, click Delete Cookies. In the Delete Cookies dialog box, click Yes.

Internet Explorer (all other versions)

Internet Explorer saves cookies in more than one location, depending on the version of the browser and the version of Microsoft Windows being used.

The best way to find and delete them is to close Internet Explorer then use your file management software (such as Windows Explorer) and search for a folder called ‘cookies’.

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AOL 8 and 9

Sign on and select Settings from the toolbar. Version 9.0 users should select the By Category tab and click the Internet [Web] Options link, while for Version 8.0 and below click Internet Properties (WWW).

Click Settings.
Note: Windows Vista will see more than one Settings button. Click the button in the Browsing history section. Click View Files. Your list of cookies (plus your other temporary internet files) will be displayed. If you wish to delete any of the cookies or files, right-click on them and choose Delete.

Mozilla

Choose Cookie Manager from the Tools menu. Choose Manage Stored Cookies. Remove any cookie from the list, or remove all cookies.

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Mozilla Firebird

Click on Tools, then Options. Select the Privacy icon in the left-hand panel. Click on Cookies. Click on Stored Cookies
To remove a single cookie click on the entry in the list and click on the Remove Cookie button. To remove all cookies click on the Remove All Cookies button

Mozilla Firefox

Click on Tools, then Options (or Edit | Preferences on Linux). Select Privacy. In the Cookies panel, click on Show Cookies. To remove a single cookie click on the entry in the list and click on the Remove Cookie button. To remove all cookies click on the Remove All Cookies button

Netscape Navigator 7.x

Choose Cookie Manager from the Tools menu. Choose Manage Stored Cookies. Remove any cookie from the list, or remove all cookies.

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Netscape Navigator 6.x

Choose Cookie Manager from the Tools menu. Choose Manage Stored Cookies. Remove any cookie from the list, or remove all cookies.

Netscape Navigator 4.x

In Netscape, all cookies are stored into one file, called Cookies.txt, in the user preferences folder, making them easy to find and delete. The folder can be located by using your file management software to search your hard disk drive for “cookies.txt”.

Users of Netscape Navigator 4.x may also stop cookies from being written to the hard drive, by making the cookies file read only. However, even if the browser can’t “write” cookies to the hard drive, it can still cache them, and it may create a new cookie file.

Opera

To delete all cookies at the end of every session, select it in the privacy settings under Tools > Preferences. Click on Manage cookies to delete specific cookies or cookies from specific domains.To delete all cookies immediately, go to Delete private data on the Tools menu.

Deepnet Explorer 1.1+

Choose Tools and then Internet Options. Click the Privacy tab. Move the slider to choose your preferred settings.

Apple Macintosh

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 (MacOS X)

Choose Preferences from Explorer menu. Select Receiving Files options. Select Cookies. Select the Cookies to be deleted from the list. Press Delete button

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 (MacOS 9)

Choose Preferences from Edit menu. Select Receiving Files options. Select Cookies. Select the Cookies to be deleted from the list Press Delete button

Mozilla

Choose Cookie Manager from the Tools menu. Choose Manage Stored Cookies. Remove any cookie from the list, or remove all cookies.

Netscape Navigator 7.x

Choose Cookie Manager from the Tools menu. Choose Manage Stored Cookies. Remove any cookie from the list, or remove all cookies.

Netscape Navigator 6.x

Choose Cookie Manager from the Tools menu. Choose Manage Stored Cookies. Remove any cookie from the list, or remove all cookies.

Safari 1.0 (MacOS X)

Choose Preferences from Safari menu. Select Security icon. Press Show Cookies button. Select the Cookies to be deleted from the list Press Delete button

Opera

To delete all cookies at the end of every session, select it in the privacy settings under Opera > Preferences
Click on Manage cookies to delete specific cookies or cookies from specific domains.

To delete all cookies immediately, go to Delete private data on the Tools menu.

Other

WebTV

From the Home page, select Help. Select Utilities Tool. Select Reset Cookies. Power off the WebTV for 60 seconds
Cookies should be deleted when you turn the WebTV back on again

MSNTV2

From the Home page, select Settings. Select Web Appearance and Security. Select Delete Cookies

Browser Compatibility with CSS3 and HTML5

admin — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:47:58 +0000

We’ve tested all the A-grade browsers for their CSS3 and HTML5 support using FindMeByIP.com. The results have been very interesting.

Last week we launched FindMeByIP.com, a simple app which reveals your browsers’ support for CSS3 and HTML5 features in an easy to read format using Modernizr.

We’ve had a great response and we’re going to be implementing some of your feedback in the near future.

UPDATE: Check out our Web Designers’ HTML5 & CSS3 Checklist

For now though I thought people mind find it useful to know the state of support in the current browser market. I’ve taken all the A-Grade browsers and tested them one-by-one for their feature support . Needless to say it’s produced some interesting results.

Safari 4 (Win)

Safari (on Windows) has by far the best feature set in the current market, outdoing competitors like Firefox 3.5 and even Google Chrome.

Particularly interesting is the excellent support for CSS3 animation properties such as CSS Transforms & CSS Animations, which enable the developer to define javascript-like rotation, movement and easing via CSS (advanced demos).

HTML5 features are well supported with Canvas, Video and Audio all implemented. Only the Geolocation API is currently not available, although apparently this is in the pipeline.

Firefox 3.5 (Win)

Firefox 3.5 has good support for features that you might be looking to use in your client work on a day-to-day basis. @font-face, box-shadow, rgba() and border-radius all work nicely.

Although, it doesn’t quite match up to Safari when it comes to CSS animation, it makes up for this with solid implementation of HTML5 media (video and audio).

A major plus is that Firefox 3.5+ implements the first public draft of the Geolocation specification from the W3C which I anticipate will be very useful in future web applications.

Google Chrome (Win)

As you’d expect for a WebKit browser, Chrome has really excellent support for almost all of the Modernizr tests generated by findmebyip.com.

The big let down is the lack of support for @font-face. This has been widely documented and there are known work arounds for it. Google has promised that the next version of Chrome will add native support for web fonts.

I was very surprised to see 3D Transforms return positive. I believe this is currently only supported by the iPhone and iPod Touch so I’m not sure about the accuracy of this result.

Opera 10 (Win)

We got quite a few comments about Opera’s perceived lack of support for advanced features. It’s true that support for CSS3 features is poor, especially when border-radius still hasn’t been implemented.

Nevertheless, as Bruce Lawson has suggested to me, Opera does have good support for other important web standards which are currently not being tested by findmebyip.com. He highlights “Web Forms 2″ and SVG support as two primary examples of Opera’s excellence in these areas.

Nonetheless, I still feel that Opera needs to catch up with the CSS3 spec if it wants to be adopted by the mainstream web dev community.

Internet Explorer 6, 7 & 8

And now the one you’ve all been waiting for. Lets all have a good laugh! Well not quite, because unlike some other contenders, Internet Explorer does actually support @font-face (all be it only in .eot format). In fact it’s supported it for a while, with even IE6 providing complete support!

Nonetheless, with the exception of font-face, Internet Explorer does display a marked lack of support for almost every kind of advanced/progressive feature. Hopefully the IE team will be able to look at this in a future release, but I’m not holding out any hope.

Summary

There is now a consistent level of support for many of the CSS3 and HTML5 features that the average developer might use for progressive enhancement. From my survey the most widely supported features were:

rgba()
hsla()
opacity()
border-radius (except Opera)
canvas

Outside of these however, support is patchy and is largely dependant on the whim of the browser manufacturer. Some browsers are way ahead of the game (Safari), whilst others have a intermediate (Firefox) or even poor(?) support (Opera).

It should be noted however, that findmebyip is not perfect and as a result doesn’t report on all advanced features. We’ll be upgrading the site in the near future to include a full range of tests for Web Forms and even SVG graphics, so perhaps another test will be in order then.

Finally a request to you Mac geeks out there. Unfortunately, we don’t run Mac’s so I can’t comment on OSX versions of these browsers. If anyone would like to let us know how the Mac versions of these browsers perform and post them as a comment we’d be very grateful.

Browser Competition Continues

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:23:22 +0000

We’ve previously mentioned the browser wars and the Microsoft anti-trust browser case, and this week sees the initial limited roll-out of Microsoft’s “web browser choice screen” for European users. In a nutshell, the European Commission ruled that bundling Internet Explorer (IE) with the Windows operating system was a big no-no and forced Microsoft to give users the choice of which browser they wanted to use.

Accordingly, as of today, a ballot screen can be downloaded via Windows Update (or automatically downloaded if you have this set up in XP, Vista or Windows 7) which will ask users to choose between Chrome, Firefox, Safari, IE and Opera as their default browser. Microsoft are calling the initial roll out a “test” of the choice screen, which will be followed by a full roll-out in early March.

So which browser will you choose? What will the market share pie chart look like this time next month? Will the anti-corporate outrage deliver big wins for the little guys? Or will people just keep doing what they’ve been doing? Presumably people who care about this sort of thing are already using their browser of choice so, no biggie, and those who don’t care…well, they probably still don’t care. My guess is that there may be a little shuffling of deck chairs, with IE losing some ground to the other browsers, but ultimately I’d be surprised if we saw a dramatic shift in any direction.

Still, anything can happen in the wild and wacky world of the interweb, so I’ll make sure to have the brown sauce on hand if the time comes to eat my words…

Google’s Homepage is upgraded

admin — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:23:12 +0000

Mountain View-based search engine giant Google has officially announced the fact that it changed its homepage, Google.com. When you go to Google.com you will notice the site has a much cleaner look – until you move the mouse. When you move the mouse, the classic look “fades in”. This is something that I noticed back in November when I installed Windows 7 on my new PC – but at the time I didn’t give it much thought. Google has now announced that it globally rolled out the new homepage and that its main focus is speed (search speed that is).

“For the vast majority of people who come to the Google homepage, they are coming in order to search, and this clean, minimalist approach gives them just what they are looking for first and foremost. For those users who are interested in using a different application like Gmail, Google Image Search or our advertising programs, the additional links on the homepage only reveal themselves when the user moves the mouse. Since most users who are interested in clicking over to a different application generally do move the mouse when they arrive, the “fade in” is an elegant solution that provides options to those who want them, but removes distractions for the user intent on searching,” explained Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products and User Experience.

Visit these if you want to make online music

admin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:44:14 +0000

If you ever thought about creating music by yourself, here’s your chance to see how well can you actually do it. It’s a great way to try, whether you are some kind of music artist or just a beginner and want to ’see how it goes’ or if you just want to hear some beats made by yourself.

There are many web services and tools that will let you create some rhythm of your own, but I will list these 6 that I recommend and they are also the most popular ones… I guess that should prove they are worth trying.

So just let go, be creative and enjoy!

1. JamStudio

An online music creation tool with a very user friendly interface. Simply input the notes, choose the instruments and hear the results. There is also a video tutorial to help you get started.

2. DubStep

Created by LoopLabs, this online music mixer will let you create a wide range of electronic tracks. It comes with a big database of drum sounds, synths, bass sounds, keyboard and sound effects. Just mix them together and see what will come out. Don’t worry, it’s usually some cool stuff.

3. Tony-B Machine

Quite an addictive little piece of software. You get a melody playing in the background, and you can press different buttons to add effects, vocals, change the key and so on. Use your keyboard and you will start feeling the groove. But remember, it’s really addictive… You’ve been warned!

4. Noteflight

If you are a serious musician, Noteflight will allow you to create compositions online. It basically lets you create, store and hear to music notations online, with surprising quality. I can hear some classics already…

5. CreatingMusic

If you have young kids, this website is a nice resource to get them interested in music. They have a Java application that will let your kids make music online, and they will really enjoy the process. The interface is very simple: you just need to select the instrument and ‘draw’ the sound on the screen.

Internet Browsers Update Process Comparison

admin — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:20:06 +0000

Importance of Internet Browser Updates

Internet Browsers are the windows through which your computer can see and interact with outside world. It is highly important to protect it with a shield, which can safeguard your security from the dangers of outside world. And browser updates are like enhancing the effectiveness of these protective shields.

Running the latest updated Internet browser is the single most important step you can take towards ensuring your security on the web. I have seen many people not taking any pain for updating their browsers. They think it as the waste of their time.

Please DO NOT overlook it. No other task is as important as updating your browser. Yes, believe it.

The mechanism of Browser Update

There are hundreds of Internet Browsers used by people depending upon their choices, requirements and preferences. But the most common are only 4-5 like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Google Chrome. Each of them uses a different mechanism for the update. But the effectiveness of the mechanism depends upon how less the user is involved in the process of update.

How Google Chrome Updates itself: And the winner is Google Chrome, because of its unique update component code-named Omaha, which keeps polling for updates even when Google Chrome is not running. Once a new update is found to be available on the server, the client automatically downloads and installs it in the background without prompting the user.

The new version of Google Chrome gets applied at the next restart of the browser. The user is not even prompted to restart the browser after a new update was ready. Given that the whole update process happens without any user interruption, Google Chrome is said to have a “silent update” mechanism. As of April 2009, the user could not disable update checks. A manual update can be initiated by choosing “About Google Chrome” in Google Chrome’s settings menu.

How Mozilla Firefox Updates itself: Web browser checks for updates periodically in a frequent schedule while the browser is running. The user can also check for updates manually with the menu command “Help” – “Check for Updates …”. When and how often Mozilla Firefox checks for updates can be set by typing “about:config” in the address bar.

How Apple Safari Updates itself: It is updated through Apple’s “Software Update” service integrated in OS X, which also takes care of other system and application updates. The user can choose to check for updates daily, weekly, monthly or not at all. When updates are available, the user is prompted to initiate the downloads and get them installed.

How Opera Updates itself: Opera Web browser, by default, checks for updates every week and notifies the user when a new update is available. A user choosing to update his browser is then forwarded to the Opera download Web site, where the update follows the same procedure as if the user were to install Opera for the first time. This update procedure requires serious user activity.

How Microsoft Internet Explorer updates itself: IE Web browser gets updated through the Automatic Updates service integrated in the Windows operating system.

TechZoom has published a study on all these features and Why Silent Updates Boost Security. A nice read.

“Browser Soup” is about to come, said Mozilla

admin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:45:03 +0000

Mozilla and Microsoft are always opposite when it comes to browser technology, but now, they agree broadly on one thing: Google plug-in for IE Chrome Frame. Mozilla executives today took shots at Google for pitching its Chrome Frame plug-in as a solution to Internet Explorer’s poor performance, with one arguing that Google’s move will result in “browser soup.”

Last week, Chrome Frame released, which can let IE6, IE7 and IE8 utilize the Chrome browser’s WebKit rendering engine, as well as its high-performance V8 JavaScript engine. Google pitched the plug-in as a way to instantly improve the performance of the notoriously slow IE, and as a way for Web developers to support standards IE can’t handle, including HTML 5. As a new weapon of Google, Microsoft don’t agree with Google of course.

Nowadays, Mitchell Baker, the former CEO of Mozilla and currently the chairman of the Mozilla Foundation, disagreed with Google’s tactic to slip Chrome inside IE. Strongly.

“The overall effects of Chrome Frame are undesirable,” she said in an entry to her personal blog late Monday. “I predict positive results will not be enduring and — and to the extent it is adopted — Chrome Frame will end in growing fragmentation and loss of control for most of us, including Web developers.”

According to Baker, Chrome Frame’s browser-in-a-browser will confuse users and render some of their familiar tools useless.

As we all know, Mozilla is a partner of Google and Firefox’s most incomes comes from Google. Nowadays, It seems that Mozilla just wants to side with Microsoft against Google, which is amazing indeed.

Pretty-Looked Silverlight 3 Launched by Microsoft

admin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:57:23 +0000

Introducing more than 50 new features, Microsoft Silverlight 3 Final has been released. With lots of improvements in many areas, H.264 video support, MP4, ACC, 3D and GPU hardware acceleration support and many more, Adobe should be really worried.

In the recent benchmark between Silverlight 3 and Flash, Ryan Rea said: “Silverlight not only had lower CPU usage, but it also used the four cores more uniformly.”

To answer Opera users question: no, Opera is still listed under “not supported” browsers.

If you would like to experience the awesomeness of this release, head over to the
following page for the 720P+ video. Download.

Written by Vygantas Lipskas on July 10, 2009

Opera 10, Google Chrome 2 , Safari 4, Firefox 3.6 Comparison

admin — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:09:01 +0000

While companies are working on their next-generation web browsers, Betanews has managed to test the performance of the upcoming ones, such as:

Firefox 3.5, Firefox 3.6, Google Chrome, Google Chrome 2, Safari 4, Opera 10. Test also includes Internet Explorer 7 and 8.

About

As it says: “Tests combine the Acid3 standards test with three trusted performance tests for CSS rendering and JavaScript speed.”
And now… The results.

More is better

Speaking of latest stable releases, Betanews claims that while Firefox 3.0.8 scored 4.7, the latest 3.0.9 release was actually slower (scored 4.37).

Written by Vygantas Lipskas on April 27, 2009

Apple Conducts Research in Methods of Customized Control of Browser Based Audio Content

admin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:10:17 +0000

MacRumors writes:

In a patent application filed in November 2007 and released today, Apple reveals that it is researching methods for providing customized audio control for Internet browser content. The research is targeting the inability for a single system volume setting to address multiple simultaneous audio-generating applications, a common inconvenience for computer users. For example, a user may have audio content playing in the background through iTunes and may wish to mute only browser-based audio content coming from websites.

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Written by Vygantas Lipskas on April 23, 2009