Basics of Computer and Information Technology

It has been some time since I last posted on this blog. In that time there have been a number of major new software releases. These include ...

I recently installed Ubuntu 10.04, and found that pressing backspace no longer takes me to the previous page in Firefox. Thankfully, there i...

While most web addresses on sites are clickable links, you will have noticed that some are just text that you have to copy and paste into th...

A number of websites are set up in such a way that you cannot save imagesthat they include. Some of these include scripts to disable right-c...

Mozilla have changed the way that new tabs operate in Firefox 3.6. When opening a new tab from a link on a web-page , the new version of Fir...

There are many different web browsers available for Linux. These include Firefox and Opera, but not Safari nor Internet Explorer; however, a...

Web browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox are notoriously bad at printing. You can end up with many disparate pages with sidebars...

Just as you can never have enough cupboard space in your home, you can never have enough hard-drive space. Nevertheless, occasionally we al...

Regular readers will know that I have recently started falling out of love with Mozilla Firefox (but not enough to switch back to Internet ...

Here are a few keyboard shortcuts for Firefox to mark the release of version 3 of that browser (which I express my initial opinions about a...

We are about two hours away from the start of Firefox Download Day, which is either an attempt to bring people of all (or at least most) nat...

This tip should be of interest to all the Entrecard chain-droppers out there (you know who you are). It works in Internet Explorer (version...

My recent post on new releases of web browsers provoked a number of comments from people who have been having problems with Firefox rememb...

Safari Apple's web browser is now available for Windows XP and Vista. Safari had previously only been available on Macintosh operating s...

If you wish to bring up Windows' file search minimise all your windows and press F3 . You can also search within a certain folder too: ...

Web browsers such as Internet Explorer and Firefox are notoriously bad at printing. You can end up with many disparate pages with sidebars a...

This week's keyboard shortcuts are all for Firefox - some of them may work in Internet Explorer. Recently, Microsoft have started copyin...

Need to refresh or reload the web page you are looking at? Press the F5 key. If the web page still doesn't appear or does not look righ...