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Create & View MS Project Files Online Without Having It Installed On PC

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AmiProject is a web application that brings MS Project online, eliminating the need for installing Microsoft Project on your computer and hence, providing a free online alternative. With AmiProject, you can view files of Microsoft Project 2010, 2007, 2003 and 2002.  It contains easy viewing and sharing options of MS Project files, including task information window, movable table/chart splitter, Gantt chart view and zoom. AmiProject supports all commonly used browsers including Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, and Internet Explorer. To manage your projects online, you can use a Google, Yahoo, AOL or OpenID account. Read More

IE9 Creator Helps Create Website With Internet Explorer 9 Features

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Since every browser renders web page in a different way, it becomes necessary to change the outlook of web elements in websites in order to make them appear properly on all the widely known browsers. Amongst the list of famous browsers, Internet Explorer popularity is steeping high day by day with IE 9,which can make full use of several Windows 7 UI functions, including Jumplist. To make your website use Windows 7 and IE 9 features up to full potential, try out IE9 Creator. It is a small tool which generates code snippet for creating a website with IE 9 features. It takes only basic set of information, like, Website name, Tooltip, Start URL and importantly Window Size (Width and Height) to enclose the provided info into your website header meta tags. Read More

How To Change Default Internet Explorer Settings In Windows Home Server 2011

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One thing that the Windows Home Server 2011 has inherited from Microsoft are the paranoid Internet Explorer security settings. As mentioned in an earlier post these settings can be quite a hurdle in browsing and downloading content freely on a Windows based server. The change of settings are quite similar to configurations in Windows Server 2008 for which you can see our post here. In this post we will tell you how to change these settings in Windows Home Server 2011. Read More

Track Changes To Websites In Internet Explorer With Diff-IE (Add-on)

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Keeping track of changes to news feeds, social networking accounts, weather reports and your favorite websites can be a quite difficult as the changes that occur can be numerous and hard to differentiate from previously viewed online content. Diff-IE is an experimental Internet Explorer extension that allows users to keep track of such changes by highlighting the differences that occur to a websites. Read More

Keep Flash Videos In Full Screen On Dual Monitor When Focus Is Lost

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If you’ve had the experience of working in a dual monitor environment, you may have come across the fact that you cannot play a flash video in full screen on the second monitor and perform some other task at the same time. Supposing that one of your monitors is playing a flash video in full screen mode, as soon as you perform some other activity on the second monitor you’ll notice that the full screen mode is gone. Apparently, this is one of the limitations of the flash plugin for almost all modern browsers. Read More

TicknTalk Finds Latest Trends And Hottest Links From Twitter In Your Browser Sidebar

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Twitter is one of the best information sharing portals, there is no argument to that. It is the platform that actually brought the concept of micro-blogging into the mainframe. It is also one of the best means to promote your website and to find out about other trends, what people like and dislike. Independent Twitter applications like TweetDeck, Seesmic Desktop, and various others have also made Twitter indispensible to those seeking new information. Read More

Enable HTML 5 Video Tag In Internet Explorer

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The latest version of both Firefox and Chrome now support HTML 5 video tags, Microsoft however is reluctant to move to HTML 5. IE user Chistian Adam has released the latest version of Xiph.org Ogg Codecs that adds basic HTML 5 video tag support to Internet Explorer. Read More

IE Tab In Google Chrome

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Web designers and developer dread using Internet Explorer but love using Google Chrome for website development. However, we all know that there is a fairly large percentage of users who use Internet Explorer and the numbers are not going to decrease any time soon. Whenever a website is designed, developers have to check compatibility with every popular browser. And this is where IE Tab comes to aid. It is an extension for Google Chrome that displays web pages using Internet Explorer rendering engine. This helps the developers test how the web page looks like in Internet Explorer (IE6, IE7, IE8, IE9, and IE10). IE Tab supports ActiveX controls, Sharepoint, ICBC, and alipay, but is Windows only. The extension does not work on Mac but the developers are working on it. Read More

Disable Internet Explorer 8

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Internet Explorer 8 offers a bunch of cool features and no doubt it works much better then its predecessors. But if you are using some other browsers, such as, Firefox or Chrome due to their security and speed, then you might like to disable Internet Explorer 8 to conserve system resources. Read More

How To Increase The Number Of Simultaneous Downloads In IE 8

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You might have noticed that in the older versions of Internet Explorer you were allowed a maximum of two simultaneous downloads. Internet Explorer 8 has broken this barrier and now allows you to initiate six downloads at the same time. But still the default limit for the simultaneous download is two, you need to increase the limit manually by making some small changes in the registry. Read More

Quick Launch Browsers From Windows 7 Jump List – Browser Chooser

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Brower Chooster has been well covered around the blogosphere. For those who don’t know, it allow users to open link in the selected browser. In the latest release, the author has finally added support for Windows 7 JumpList. Now you can pin the program to the taskbar and launch the desired browser in just 2 clicks. First of all you need to add the browsers, you can add up to five different browsers, the most preferred are Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Chrome. Read More

Understanding Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility View

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Windows 7 comes with Internet Explorer 8 by default in most countries. You might have come across some websites that are not properly displayed in Internet Explorer 8, this is because these websites were designed for Internet Explorer 7. Microsoft has addressed this issue in Internet Explorer 8 with Compatibility View feature which helps make websites that are designed for older browsers look better in Internet Explorer 8. Read More

Open Firefox & Internet Explorer In Any Specific Resolution

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RunRes is a free tool for Windows that can launch an application in any resolution you define. Mostly the applications in question can be any browser or software that you commonly use. Suppose you are a web developer and want the browser to always open in 1024x768 resolution for testing purpose. In such situations you can define the size in the program and it will always open it in that specific resolution. Read More

Integrate Firefox, IE And Chrome Into One Browser With Lunascape 5.0

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Do you switch between different browsers for daily activities when some of the sites don't work properly in particular browser? Then you should consider using Lunascape 5.0(currently in Alpha version) which lets you integrate Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome into one powerful browser. With Lunascape you will have a choice of selecting the rendering engine for various incompatible websites to the other browser which makes switching between browser less tedious. It optimizes the most of the rendering engine that benefits the end user.

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How To Clean Up The Context Menu In Internet Explorer 8

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Does your Internet Explorer 8 Right Click menu get cluttered by installing new programs or accelerators? The right-click menu in Internet Explorer may get cluttered up when you install download managers, toolbars and other browser utilities, the items that you rarely use can be disabled so that the right-click menu in Internet Explorer looks clean. Read More

How To Start Firefox and Internet Explorer Without Add-ons

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Did your browser become unstable due to a recent installation of some add-on? Sometimes when we install an add-on, it may become the root cause of crashing or slowing down of the web browser. In this situation it is better to use your browser without the add-ons. By doing this you can find out if the problem and fix it easily, or just simply remove the add-on that was causing the problem. If you are a security freak like me, you can run your browser without add-ons while making online transactions because any 3rd party add-ons could be tracking your activity.

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