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because life continues - without IE6?

http://www.infopackets.com/news/security/2010/20100204_homeland_security_warns_stop_using_internet_explorer_6.htm After days of great sadness, it's a bid to get back to some normality. Here is a page to inform you about Internet Explorer 6. Homeland Security (USA) has now also joined in with a warning about using this browser! Why people would want to is beyond me, like lots of things! Chrome, Firefox, Safari are all better, faster, more usable, more reliable- and cost the same as any version of Internet Explorer, they're all  - FREE! Whilst you're on the page - sign up for your FREE news letters from "info packets.com" - there's always something you don't know about! ************* Subscribe   Remove   |      Free Homepage Deliciously Addictive Tech News Served Daily home archive about top 10 team contact Homeland Security Warns: Stop Using Internet Explorer 6 by  John Lister  on 20100204 @ 10:48AM EST...

It's Winter-do something useful.....!

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It's winter, you're snowed in? Well - do something useful for your PC - it'll thank you later! more space "How to.....on my PC (1)" Nothing more annoying than a PC that won't work well - Try some of these tips! They are all used by (iwmPOP) on a regular basis,  so he KNOWS that they work! I'm not making apologies for these simple tips in the eyes of knowledgable PC users because I know there are many, many people out there who AREN'T knowledgable! The list will be added to over the coming periods, so have a look in now and then! Even better, subscribe to this Blog Site to get easier access to individual articles (see "subscribe to this Blog" on the Blog Site)   Nowadays Computers are being produced and sold with ever increasing "Hard Disc" space. It's not uncommon to find PC's with 500GB's of Hard Disk space. For the average user, such amounts are not really required - to give you an idea, my ...

a little tip...!

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Image via Wikipedia I was watching somebody, this morning, downloading photos from some site or other. He was cursing from time to time (actually - all the time!) because this site let you download , but the download was one of those "SAVE" (all dossiers) which means that if you only want the photo, you'll have to convert it later with an Editor - boring and long when you've got hundreds of photos ro do! I informed him about a little tip, and he thought I was "nuts", but he tried it, and felt really stupid when it worked...! Here it is for those of you who don't know it already: Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia When you download, in the box for the name/title of the image, just tap " .jpg " (without the inverted commas, but a . at the beginning, of course) at the end of your chosen title, press "SAVE" and watch it download as a .jpg image! Image via Wikipedia If you use this to change other formats, l...