If you hadn’t heard, Google is intending to shake up the way it does advertising by customizing it based on your search patterns. How does the big G know how to do this? They’ll be reading your browser cookies to make it work. If this doesn’t bother you, browse as you normally would. If it does bother you that the big G is going to be reading...

Yesterday a ton of people (possibly you included) received an auto-update from Microsoft patching the security flaw recently discovered in IE 7. If you haven’t received it yet for auto-update you will soon enough. Not to be outdone, malware authors have already begun work on alternate ways of exploiting security holes in that browser. One of the ways...

According to a recent news story, the official release of IE 8 will not be in 2008 as once planned. Basically put, Microsoft feels it needs more shakedown and testing before becoming official – and to be honest I am in 100% agreement with this. I’ve used the beta version of 8 (which obviously isn’t finished since it’s beta), and while the...

A tool every Windows user uses every day without thinking twice is Windows Explorer. Windows Explorer allows you to do everything from browsing to organizing and searching for files. One thing you may not have considered when using this tool is that you can user other file manager applications as well. One such tool is xplorer2. xplorer2 offers many features you...

MSFeedSync.exe is an executable file used by the Windows Internet Explorer 7 web browser to periodically update in-browser RSS feeds. It only appears in the Windows Task Manager if IE7 is running. In addition it only appears from time to time and isn’t in "always on" state. If you use the IE7 feature to read feeds in-browser, you need this...

The last time I used IE 8 I had to stop using it because it was reported that it broke Windows Update. But being that I just reinstalled XP on my older Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop I decided to give IE 8 a go to see what had been improved since it’s in Beta 2. My particular laptop was a good test bed for this because it’s an older machine with a 1.5GHz...

There are times when you just have to ask the question "WHY?!", and this is one of those times. Google has performed a Gmail upgrade for those still using Microsoft Internet Exploder Explorer 6. Yes, you read that correctly. Version 6. Not 7. Evidently there’s still a fair amount of internet users getting by with version 6 of the IE browser. If...

I will admit that I much prefer to do things via keystroke rather than mouse whenever possible. The reason is because keystrokes don’t change. You don’t have to worry about things "going away" or missing from an icon or button you can’t find. Both Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 3 are chock full of keystrokes you can use....

In this video, we will introduce Microsoft’s web browser, Internet Explorer. While we’re at it, we’ll introduce the number one search engine online: Google. [hidepost=1] [flv:http://pcmech.s3.amazonaws.com/SiS2/01_internet_explorer.flv 610 458] [/hidepost] [hidepost=2] Download video...