With Internet Explorer 8 (Beta) now available, can Microsoft hope to retain market dominance over fierce open source rivals such as Mozilla’s Firefox or the feature packed Opera web browser. Can history give us a clue to what the future of web browsers/browsing might hold? How did Netscape Navigator go from having a dominant 89.36% market share of all web browsers in 1996 to only 3.76% by mid 1999.

Let us take a journey that will begin long before even the intellectual conception of Internet Explorer, that will glance at its long defeated rivals, examine the current browsers available and will end with a prediction of what the future of browsing will offer us - and which browser(s) will still be around to offer it. Read the rest of this entry »

We all forget our passwords. Considering most of us seem to have about 10 unique passwords these days, its not all that suprising. Once you have reset your password, please consider reading how to create a password recovery disk so you cannot forget it again. I have put how to create a recovery disk below the how to reset your password. Read the rest of this entry »

The Blog and Website Promotion Resource List

Want more hits on your Blog? The following is a list of social bookmarking sites. Social bookmarking websites can drive targeted traffic to your own Blog/Website - usually via a link to an article/feature of interest you have. If the community at one of these sites likes what you have posted, then they can (usually) choose to promote it, thus making it more likely to be read by the rest of the community. Know any others? Please let us know.

I have included brief descriptions below each link

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Tired of Firefox 3.0 Beta release? Want to revert to an old version or start using IE(Internet Explorer) again? Well it is a Beta release anyway, so hopefully all the bugs will be ironed out soon.

To remove Mozilla Firefox from your Windows XP running PC simply follow these instructions: Read the rest of this entry »

Tried Firefox 3.0 Beta release? You may, like us, have noticed a few things not ready with it yet and thus want to uninstall it. To uninstall Mozilla Firefox on Vista take the following steps: Read the rest of this entry »

AOL is fairly simple to uninstall on XP, however if it has hijacked your web browser - usually Internet Explorer - then the solution is slightly more complex.

America Online comes pre-installed on many Vista computers and can be a pain to uninstall. If it has taken over your Internet Explorer (or any other web browser), then it can be even trickier to reclaim. This guide will take you through the process in two easy steps. Read the rest of this entry »