☑PC-Tips and Tricks: InPrivate Browsing with IE8 Using Windows 7

InPrivate Browsing with IE8 using Windows 7

 

Hide Your Browsing History From Prying Eyes with InPrivate

Privacy seems to be getting harder to find in this age of public databases, surveillance cameras, and online social networking. Because of the nature of the web, it's pretty easy for someone using your computer to see what you've been up to on the web, as well as it is for a website to track where you've been.  This is where Internet Explorer 8 and InPrivate can help keep your surfing private, particularly when you share a computer with others.

Most of the time, you don't really care whether anyone knows which websites you've been visiting. Everybody looks at talking cats on YouTube, right? However, you might not want to disclose your destinations when you're banking at a kiosk, buying your sweetheart a birthday gift, or doing anything you shouldn't be doing at work.

In the past, the only way to cover your tracks on a shared computer was to delete your entire browsing history, which often deleted things you wanted to keep. This is where InPrivate Browsing comes in handy.

What is InPrivate Browsing?

InPrivate Browsing enables you to surf the web without leaving a trail in Internet Explorer. This helps prevent anyone else who might be using your computer from seeing what sites you visited and what you looked at on the web. You can start InPrivate Browsing from the New Tab page or the Safety button.

When you start InPrivate Browsing, Internet Explorer opens a new browser window. The protection that InPrivate Browsing provides is in effect only during the time that you use that window. You can open as many tabs as you want in that window, and they will all be protected by InPrivate Browsing. However, if you open another browser window, that window will not be protected by InPrivate Browsing. To end your InPrivate Browsing session, close the browser window.

While you are surfing the web using InPrivate Browsing, Internet Explorer stores some information—such as cookies and temporary Internet files—so the webpages you visit will work correctly. However, at the end of your InPrivate Browsing session, this information is discarded. The following table describes which information InPrivate Browsing discards when you close the browser and how it is affected during your browsing session:

So how do you use the InPrivate Browsing?

Clearing your history by hand is fine, but InPrivate Browsing lets you avoid leaving a trail on your computer in the first place. This way you can choose when you leave a trail, and when you don't. You can choose one of the following 3 ways in Internet Explorer to use InPrivate Browsing:

• Click the New Tab button, and then click Open an InPrivate Browsing window.

New tab button

• Click the Safety button, and then click InPrivate Browsing

or simply just...

• Press Ctrl+Shift+P

What InPrivate Doesn't Do

So remember, just as important as what InPrivate does do, is what it doesn't do. It's not anonymous browsing, so while you don't leave a trail on your computer, you might leave one on the web. Websites might be able to identify you by your browsing behavior on the site, or anything about your connection that can be recorded, such as your IP address. It also doesn't prevent someone on your network, like as a network administrator or a hacker, from seeing where you went, and possibly what you did on those pages.

If you save any favorites or feeds, or add a favorite or Web Slice to the Favorites bar, or install anything while browsing InPrivate, closing the browser window won't remove any of that. Changes to Internet Explorer settings, such as adding a new home page, are also retained after you end your InPrivate Browsing session.

If you use toolbars that save history or information on your computer, that isn't removed, either. Because of this, Internet Explorer disables all toolbars and extensions by default in an InPrivate window.

You can re-enable your toolbars by going to the Privacy tab in Internet Options and clearing the Disable toolbars and extensions when InPrivate Browsing starts check box.

Clear this check box to allow toolbars and extensions in InPrivate Browsing windows

InPrivate Browsing also doesn't protect you from malicious software or risky websites. If you download content or view sites known for hosting malware, you're not going to be any safer browsing with InPrivate than browsing without it.

Summary

So, essentially, InPrivate is great for doing a temporary search of something or someplace on the web where you don't want anyone using the same computer you were on to know where you've been.  You don't want to clear the history because that may look suspicious now wouldn't it, lol.  So just learn this handy little tool when you want to surprise your partner with a gift or even when using a kiosk at the airport and you hear that last call for boarding. Just don't forget to take that extra couple of seconds to close your InPrivate window!

Resource:  microsoft.com/canada

☑PC Tips and Tricks: Undo Closed Internet Browser

Undo Closed Internet Browser

I know you've all been there at one point or another.  You have a 'million' internet browsers open as you are dilligently trying to work on a project or looking up something of interest, then, you close a browser (or two) by accident and now you don't remember how to find them back!

I know, you can look through your history!  But who really has time for that?

Well, here's a great trick to help you the next time this problem arises, (and I know it will) -

Press CTRL + Shift + T to undo a close tab. Also, pressing this more than once will undo multiple closed tabs.

A great thing about this little trick is that it works in all major browsers including Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Opera!

☑PC-Tips and Tricks: Alphabetizing Your **Favorites** List

Alphabetizing Your **Favorites** List!

 You know how it goes, you add a favorite site here - a favorite site there, and before you know it, your favorites list has grown beyond comprehension!  It's hard for you to find anything because nothing is in alphabetical order.

You go crazy looking for that site you know you saved... somewhere, but then give up trying to find it.

Well, wait!  Here's where this useful tip comes in and it only takes 2 secs, literally!  To organize your Favorites list just do the following:

For Internet Explorer 7 & 8:

If your Favorites button is visible right away like mine is on my PC as soon as I open up Internet Explorer (as shown in the pic to your right), then just click on it.

When the lists of all your favorite sites appear, just right click on one - anyone - and you'll see Sort by Name.  Just click on it and that's it! Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, is now alphabetized! The list will stay organized any time you open Internet Explorer. However, if you add another site to your favorites list, you will have to sort it again. It doesn't take very long to do, but this can still be an inconvenience.  Still, an inconvenience you can live with! That's it!

This Week's HTML Goodie:  A Halloween Scroll Box!

The Lost Meaning of Halloween

All Hallow's Eve, Hallow E'en, Halloween, Day of the Dead, Samhain.
By whatever name it has been called,
this special night preceding All Hallows day
(November 1st) has been considered for centuries as one of the most magical nights of the year. A night of power, when the veil that separates our world from the Otherworld is at its thinnest.

As ubiquitous as Halloween celebrations are throughout the world, few of us know that the true origin of Halloween is a ceremony of honoring our ancestors and the day of the dead. A time when the veils between the worlds were thinner, and so many could "see" the other side of life. A time in the year when the spiritual and material worlds touched for a moment, and a greater potential exists for magical creation.
Ancient rites

In ancient times, this day was a special and honored day of the year.


In the Celtic calendar, it was one of the most important days of the year, representing a mid point in the year, Samhain, or "summer's end". Occuring opposite the great Spring Festival of May Day, or Beltain, this day represented the turning point of the year, the eve of the new year which begins with the onset of the dark phase of the year.


And while celebrated by the Celts, the origin of this day has connections to other cultures as well, such as Egypt, and in Mexico as Dia de la Muerta, or the day of the dead.
The Celts believed that the normal laws of space and time were held in abeyance during this time, allowing a special window where the spirit world could intermingle with the living. It was a night when the dead could cross the veils and return to the land of the living to celebrate with their family, or clan. As such, the great burial mounds of Ireland were lit up with torches lining the walls, so the spirits of the dead could find their way.
Jack-o-lanterns


Out of this ancient tradition comes one of our most famous icons of the holiday: the Jack-o-lantern.
Originating from Irish folkfore, the Jack-o-lantern was used as a light for the lost soul of Jack, a notorious trickster, stuck between worlds.
Jack is said to have tricked the devil into a trunk of a tree and by carving an image of a cross in the tree's trunk, he trapped the devil there.
His pranks denied him access to Heaven, and having angered the devil also to Hell, so Jack was a lost soul, trapped between worlds.
As a consolation, the devil gave him a sole ember to light his way through the darkness between worlds.


Originally in Ireland turnips were carved out and candles placed inside as lanterns lit to help guide Jack’s lost spirit back home.
Hence the term: Jack-o-lanterns. Later, when immigrants came to the new world, pumpkins were more readily available, and so the carved pumpkins carrying a lit candle served the same function.
Festival for the dead


As the Church began to take hold in Europe the ancient Pagan rituals were co-opted into festivals of the Church. While the Church could not support a general feast for all the dead, it created a festival for the blessed dead, all those hallowed so, All Hallow's, was transformed into All Saints and All Souls day.


Today, we have lost the significance of this most significant time of year which in modern times has turned into a candy fest with kids dressing up as action hereos.


Many cultures have ceremonies to honor their dead. In so doing, they complete a cycle of birth and death, and keep in line with a harmony and order of the universe, at time when we enter into the cycle of darkness for the upcoming year.




As you light your candles this year, keep in mind the true potency of this time, one of magical connections to the other side of life, and a time to remember those who have passed before us. A time to send our love and gratitude to them to light their way back home. - about.com

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A night of power, when the veil that separates our world from the Otherworld is at its thinnest.<br /> <br /> As ubiquitous as Halloween celebrations are throughout the world, few of us know that the true origin of Halloween is a ceremony of honoring our ancestors and the day of the dead. A time when the veils between the worlds were thinner, and so many could "see" the other side of life. A time in the year when the spiritual and material worlds touched for a moment, and a greater potential exists for magical creation.<br /> <b>Ancient rites</b><br /> <br /> In ancient times, this day was a special and honored day of the year.<br /> <br /> <br /> In the Celtic calendar, it was one of the most important days of the year, representing a mid point in the year, Samhain, or "summer's end". Occuring opposite the great Spring Festival of May Day, or Beltain, this day represented the turning point of the year, the eve of the new year which begins with the onset of the dark phase of the year.<br /> <br /> <br /> And while celebrated by the Celts, the origin of this day has connections to other cultures as well, such as Egypt, and in Mexico as Dia de la Muerta, or the day of the dead.<br /> The Celts believed that the normal laws of space and time were held in abeyance during this time, allowing a special window where the spirit world could intermingle with the living. It was a night when the dead could cross the veils and return to the land of the living to celebrate with their family, or clan. As such, the great burial mounds of Ireland were lit up with torches lining the walls, so the spirits of the dead could find their way.<br /> <b>Jack-o-lanterns</b><br /> <br /> <br /> Out of this ancient tradition comes one of our most famous icons of the holiday: the Jack-o-lantern. <br /> Originating from Irish folkfore, the Jack-o-lantern was used as a light for the lost soul of Jack, a notorious trickster, stuck between worlds. <br /> Jack is said to have tricked the devil into a trunk of a tree and by carving an image of a cross in the tree's trunk, he trapped the devil there. <br /> His pranks denied him access to Heaven, and having angered the devil also to Hell, so Jack was a lost soul, trapped between worlds. <br /> As a consolation, the devil gave him a sole ember to light his way through the darkness between worlds.<br /> <br /> <br /> Originally in Ireland turnips were carved out and candles placed inside as lanterns lit to help guide Jack’s lost spirit back home. <br /> Hence the term: <i>Jack-o-lanterns</i>. Later, when immigrants came to the new world, pumpkins were more readily available, and so the carved pumpkins carrying a lit candle served the same function.<br /> <b>Festival for the dead</b><br /> <br /> <br /> As the Church began to take hold in Europe the ancient Pagan rituals were co-opted into festivals of the Church. While the Church could not support a general feast for all the dead, it created a festival for the blessed dead, all those hallowed so, All Hallow's, was transformed into All Saints and All Souls day.<br /> <br /> <br /> Today, we have lost the significance of this most significant time of year which in modern times has turned into a candy fest with kids dressing up as action hereos.<br /> <br /> <br /> Many cultures have ceremonies to honor their dead. 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