لطفا منتظر باشید ...
Browsing Tips
This section contains tips for browsing the web and using Internet Explorer's features.Shortcut menus. Right-click toolbars, Explorer bars, shortcuts, links, or images to select commands quickly (Figure 13.17 ).Figure 13.17. This shortcut menu appears when you right-click an image link. Note that you can save a copy of a web image on your own disk.
Figure 13.18. Each frame is really a separate web page. The three sets of scroll bars show that this page has three frames. On some pages, frame boundaries are invisible.
Figure 13.7). Some rude web pages won't let you change text properties. To override this restriction, click Accessibility (same figure).Full-screen browsing. Press F11 to toggle between full-screen and normal view. In full-screen view, you can right-click the Standard Buttons toolbar at the screen's top edge and choose Auto-Hide. The toolbar will vanish, and you'll have real full-screen browsing; when you move the pointer close to the screen's top edge, the toolbar reappears.Printing web pages. To preview a web page before printing, choose File > Print Preview; then use the toolbar to view each page to be printed. To set margins, headers, footers, and other printing options, choose File > Page Setup. To print a web page, choose File > Print (or press Ctrl+P) (Figure 13.19 ); or click Print on the toolbar to bypass the Print dialog box.
Figure 13.19. The Print dialog box's Options tab lets you print a web page's frames and links. Be sure to click the desired frame before you print.
Figure 13.20. If you make, say, weather and news pages available offline, you can update them periodically to get the latest forecasts and headlines. (Web pages saved with File > Save As, by comparison, are static.)
 | HTTrack (free; www.httrack.com) lets you download entire web sites so that you can browse them offline. |
Figure 13.21. The Image toolbar appears when you point to a picture. Click the Resize button (bottom-right corner) to toggle a picture between its normal and shrink-to-fit sizes.
Figure 13.22. The same page with (top) and without (bottom) banner ads.
.A list of advertising techniques is at www.useit.com/alertbox/20041206l.Detect web bugs. Web bugs are transparent one-pixel graphics on web pages and i236 email messages that determine when you view a message or a page, when you did so, how many times, how long you kept the message open, and so on. You can squash them with Bugnosis (free; www.bugnosis.org). The ad-blocking programs in the preceding tip also catch web bugs.Security settings. IE's Tools > Internet Options > Security tab features help prevent intruders from seeing your personal information, such as credit-card numbers that you enter when shopping online. Security features also can protect your PC from unsafe software (Figure 13.23 ).
Figure 13.23. Click the Custom Level button to specify individual security settings for add-ons, downloads, scripting, and more. Or choose a preset group of settings. The High option provides the safest way to browse but may inactivate some web sites.
Figure 13.24. Drag the slider to the right to increase the size of the cache folder so that revisited pages load faster. If IE displays stale pages from the cache instead of fresh ones from the web, select an option that makes IE check for newer versions more frequently than Automatically.
Figure 13.25. The more paranoid you are, the higher you should move this slider (click Default to show it). Tip: Always block third-party cookies, which come from spying advertisers. Click Sites to specify web sites that are always or never allowed to use cookies, regardless of your privacy-policy setting. Click Advanced to override automatic cookie handling.
Figure 13.26. AutoComplete shows a list of suggested matches based on the previous entries you've typed. For security, uncheck User Names and Passwords on Forms.
Figure 13.27. Configure your existing internet connections or create a new one on this page.
Figure 13.28. To bypass this dialog box, right-click a download link; then choose Save Target As.
Figure 13.29. When the download completes, click Open Folder to open a window containing the downloaded file.
Figure 13.30. Here, IE asks for my permission to let the Apple Computer site install the QuickTime ActiveX control. (An ActiveX control is a small program that runs within the browser window.)
Figure 13.31. If you think that an add-on has been causing trouble or crashes, turn it off. In the Show drop-down list, select Add-Ons That Have Been Used by Internet Explorer; click an entry in the Name column; then click Disable. Keep an eye on the Publisher column for mysterious, and possibly untrustworthy, companies.
[View full size image]
Figure 13.32. Dozens of settings are available to make browsing faster, stop animations, strengthen security, and so on.
| These services are called anonymous proxy servers . Your browser doesn't visit a site directly. Instead, it tells the proxy server which site to visit and deliver back with no direct contact from you. The price of anonymity is slower surfing as you're relayed through a chain of servers and, for some sites, oddly displayed text and graphics.Bypass site registration. Some sites, such as www.nytimes.com, require you to register before you can read their content. Registration usually means handing over your location and email address so that the site can compile marketing and demographic databases. You simply can, like most people, enter fake details, but it's still a waste of time. Instead, use BugMeNot (free; www.bugmenot.com) to bypass logging on to web sites that require compulsory registration (Figure 13.33 ).Figure 13.33. To get logons for registration-required web sites, use the BugMeNot home page (shown here) or install the BugMeNot add-on for Internet Explorer (or Mozilla Firefox). You can link to BugMeNot with, for example, http://bugmenot.com/view.php?url=www.nytimes.com. |
