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If you can save 4 minutes of browsing the internet everyday you can save 1 day over the course of the year! Try some of these time saving tips to give yourself an extra day off each year!
One of the easiest thing to do is increase your internet speed. If you browse twenty pages of a reasonable size (200k) per day you could save 2.5 days a year! And if you are going for a higher speed internet that could mean another 6 hours savings a year.
If you use webmail and don't want to pop off your mail from the internet search toolbars can be great! Personally I prefer Google Toolbar, but you can also try Yahoo Companion or MSN toolbar.
Some toolbars have extra functions as well like synchronizing bookmarks, sharing web pages, news, etc..
Use your browser to store form information and your user name and passwords. Note that you should always protect your security, so if you're using Firefox you can always use the master passwords, otherwise you can use other free tools like RoboForm. There are also variations that allow you to store you data on your USB drive.
Try different browsers! At the time of writing this Firefox claims to be 5 times faster than IE7 (Internet Explorer) and 2 times faster than Opera. What is clear is that Firefox handles memory superbly even after a few hours of browsing compared with other browsers, while Opera and Safari does really well with certain pages. Try different browsers it doesn't cost you anything and and save you up to five times just waiting for pages to load.
Firefox
Opera
Safari
IE 8 (Beta)
If you always use your browser most times or every time you start up your computer, then why don't you put your favorite browser in your startup folder. Your startup folder is located in Start > Programs > Startup. What's easiest is to right click on your startup folder and click on open, then drag your browsers icon to the startup folder not hold down CTRL if you want to copy your shortcuts, instead of moving them. This can save you an hour each year, and maybe more if you open up to a site that you would actually use, like google.
Not all providers are equal and just because you have the highest speed, ultimately you are limited by how many people are on your provider and how fast your providers are connected to other countries.
Get your friends on different providers to try some speed tests like SpeedTest.Net or check out their past results for providers at Global Service Provider results. Search on google for other speed tests!. Note if you are testing cable service providers try getting your neighbors to perform the tests since cable connections share the same pipe while ADSL providers have a dedicated connection to your service provider.
Tabbed browsing can save you lots of time by:
Here are some power tips for tabbed browsing (IE, Firefox, Safari):
Pressing your escape button will generally stop your page from loading. We've all been to pages accidentally that keeps your browser logo rotating (which means that the pages is still load), if you think that you've downloaded what you need or you just want the browser to stop click on the ESC button!
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Get a faster internet connection
One of the easiest thing to do is increase your internet speed. If you browse twenty pages of a reasonable size (200k) per day you could save 2.5 days a year! And if you are going for a higher speed internet that could mean another 6 hours savings a year.
Added by charlene (13 August 2008)
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Search Tool Bars
If you use webmail and don't want to pop off your mail from the internet search toolbars can be great! Personally I prefer Google Toolbar, but you can also try Yahoo Companion or MSN toolbar.Some toolbars have extra functions as well like synchronizing bookmarks, sharing web pages, news, etc..
Added by charlene (13 August 2008)
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251
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Store form data, passwords
Use your browser to store form information and your user name and passwords. Note that you should always protect your security, so if you're using Firefox you can always use the master passwords, otherwise you can use other free tools like RoboForm. There are also variations that allow you to store you data on your USB drive.
Added by charlene (27 July 2008)
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Try other browsers instead of IE like Firefox, Safari
Try different browsers! At the time of writing this Firefox claims to be 5 times faster than IE7 (Internet Explorer) and 2 times faster than Opera. What is clear is that Firefox handles memory superbly even after a few hours of browsing compared with other browsers, while Opera and Safari does really well with certain pages. Try different browsers it doesn't cost you anything and and save you up to five times just waiting for pages to load.Firefox
Opera
Safari
IE 8 (Beta)
Added by charlene ( 7 August 2008)
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Load your browser when you start up
If you always use your browser most times or every time you start up your computer, then why don't you put your favorite browser in your startup folder. Your startup folder is located in Start > Programs > Startup. What's easiest is to right click on your startup folder and click on open, then drag your browsers icon to the startup folder not hold down CTRL if you want to copy your shortcuts, instead of moving them. This can save you an hour each year, and maybe more if you open up to a site that you would actually use, like google.
Added by charlene ( 5 August 2008)
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Compare Internet Providers / Service Providers
Not all providers are equal and just because you have the highest speed, ultimately you are limited by how many people are on your provider and how fast your providers are connected to other countries.Get your friends on different providers to try some speed tests like SpeedTest.Net or check out their past results for providers at Global Service Provider results. Search on google for other speed tests!. Note if you are testing cable service providers try getting your neighbors to perform the tests since cable connections share the same pipe while ADSL providers have a dedicated connection to your service provider.
Added by charlene (13 August 2008)
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Power users use tabbed browsing!
Tabbed browsing can save you lots of time by:
- Letting you load pages in the background, saving you previous loading times
- Saves you from pressing back to get to a main page
- Helps you keep track of multiple pages, without overloading your task-bar
Here are some power tips for tabbed browsing (IE, Firefox, Safari):
- CTRL+T opens a new tab
- CTRL and clicking on a link generally opens the link in a new tab.
- ALT+D brings you to the address bar
- CTRL+PageUp and CTRL-PageDown brings you to the next / previous tab (Firefox only)
- CTRL-W close the current tab
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Use bookmark toolbar
On Firefox it's called the "Bookmarks Toolbar Folder", Safari it's just your "Bookmarks Bar", Seamonkey (a derivative of Firefox) it's called the "Personal Toolbar Folder". Sorry IE users, don't see anything there at least in IE7, but IE has the links sidebar, which I personally think takes up too much real-estate.
If you are using tabbed browsing just drag the tab to your toolbar and there you go. Normally the titles don't fit so right click and change the properties or the name of the site so that it makes sense to you.
If you are using tabbed browsing just drag the tab to your toolbar and there you go. Normally the titles don't fit so right click and change the properties or the name of the site so that it makes sense to you.
Added by charlene (12 August 2008)
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Escape, stop your browser from loading
Pressing your escape button will generally stop your page from loading. We've all been to pages accidentally that keeps your browser logo rotating (which means that the pages is still load), if you think that you've downloaded what you need or you just want the browser to stop click on the ESC button!
Added by charlene (13 August 2008)
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Media player classic tips, the best video player for windows
Do you hate it when you never have the right codecs for your videos, feel like your player is slow to start, takes up too much memory, having different default players for different formats like mp3, quicktime, flv, mobile phone video formats? Media player classic is the simplest way to solve all your video woes!
Optimizing / Speeding up Vista
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