Tag: Internet Explorer

Anyone who works on a computer day-in and day-out, for any extensive period of time, dreams of the day when a product will be developed that will end the tyranny of our endless tapping at the keyboard. Wouldn’t it be swell if we could simply speak and the computer recorded and typed what we said? Oh, yeah, it also has to be affordable for the average consumer.
That day, my friend, has come courtesy of Nuance and Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred software. This unique software has won over 140 major awards worldwide for accuracy and ease of use. This accurate, affordable, and easy-to-use speech recognition program enables small/home office, business, and educational users to create and edit documents, reports, spreadsheets, and email all by voice.
With this software, you can accurately turn your voice into text. You can dictate continuously and naturally at up to 160 words per minute. The software is fully integrated with Microsoft Word, Excel, Internet Explorer and Corel WordPerfect. It can be used with virtually any Windows-based application.
Other product features include:
A comprehensive vocabulary of over 250,000 standard and business terms, with the ability to add new words easily.
The ability to insert text and graphics with a spoken word or phrase.
The capacity to dictate into any L&H certified handheld recorded while you are on the road.
Text-to-speech technology that allows your documents and emails to be read back to you in a human sounding voice.
Searching the Web, accessing information, and navigating web pages by speaking URLS and links.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 boasts a speech to text conversion accuracy rating of 99%. The standard version is available for just under $100 while the preferred version retails for approximately $200. Among the main usability differences between the two versions is that the standard version does not do dictation playback, work with a handheld digital recorder, dictate into a PocketPC or PalmOne Tungsten handheld device, and does not possess the smart formatting feature.
By effectively harnessing the power of Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8, we can improve the way we perform work on our computer.

Computer viruses are rampant in the world today and its important to know about them before they wreak havoc on your computer. Computer security is something that you have to take seriously for the life of your computer. In this article, we will take a look at some tips that you can use to secure your computer and keep it safe at all times. Heres tip number 1.

1) Make backups

Always make backups of your computer files. You never know when your system will go down or when you need to find old copies of files on a particular day. You can make backups to a flash drive or even CD-ROMs and use these as your storage devices. Backing up your computer system is pivotal, and is something that you should start doing today.

2) Update your computer

Microsoft has a website where you can go to get updates for your computer system. Its best to find out if there are any new updates each month to stay on top of things. If youre someone who uses Microsoft Office alot also, you will want to find patches and updates for your office programs also. Staying protected in this way will protect you from the latest virus and hacker programs out there. Be sure to do this right away so that you can stay on top of things.

3) Get a firewall

You can install a firewall on your computer system in either a hardware form or a software form. Microsoft Windows XP already comes with a pre-built in firewall that you can use to protect your computer. When you dont have a good firewall setup, all kinds of worms and trojan horses can attack your computer via the internet. To prevent this from happening, you will want to have a good firewall setup and installed.

4) Check your browser settings

Never install active-x and javascript unless you absolutely have to. If it is apart of a work or employment function, then it is probably safe to do so. But if youre just browsing online and a website wants to install active-x on your computer – dont do it. This is what the hackers use to put bad programs onto your computer.

If youre using Internet Explorer as your web browser, you will want to put your security setting to High and your trusted sites zone to Medium Low. This will keep you protected from the harms online.

5) Use antivirus software

Companies such as Symantec and McAfee have good antivirus software but you should know that there are alot of other players in the game. Theres a free program called Malwarebytes that checks for harmful programs on your computer. The free version does a good job of protecting you and the paid version works to stop viruses and harmful programs before they even get to your computer. You should consider the use of these programs if you want to keep your computer safe.

All 5 of these tips for keeping your computer safe are excellent uses for computer security.

Be sure to start using them today so that you can secure your computer now.

One important feature of the computer is the Internet history feature, which enables users to retrace the websites they have visited previously. Sometimes it may be important for the user to be able to go back to the previously visited sites and the links are still in the history feature.

However, as the user continues to surf the internet, the history will just pile up until eventually it slows the performance of the computer and makes it sluggish. Therefore knowing how to delete internet history is useful to free up some space on your computer and continue to enjoy a trouble free computing experience with a faster and more effective computer.

Deleting internet history is not difficult to do. Anyone can learn how but first having a key board will be important with Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer.

With all these key elements present, then just double click on the Internet Explorer icon. This is usually present in the start menus of the computer. When you have opened the internet explorer icon look for the tools option and click it. This is usually found on the top left hand of the computer screen. Then a selection of applications will appear in a column. This is where you look for the internet options menu and clicking it will open up a dialog box. Internet explorer 7 and earlier versions will have similar features. From there in the dialog box just click on delete browsing history.

There is a section named browsing history commonly found at the middle part of the column box that appears. Look for the delete button, click it and it will start clearing the history of your visited sites, once that is done, and the rest of options appears. Explorer 7 users will have a dialog box that has several options to choose from what to erase.

To makes sure that all the past visited websites are deleted, it is important to click the button labeled Delete History. A dialog box usually appears after that to double confirm whether you are sure that you wish to delete the history of visited websites. When you click yes, the computer starts deleting and of which you may have to wait a few minutes, depending on the volume of files that has accumulated in your computer. Obviously, with bigger files, you may have to wait longer. Finally, when it is done just click on the close button and then select the Ok and you can exit. Clearing up the files and deleting them will free up a lot of processing space that can let your computer run more efficiently. In addition, as you delete the internet history in your computer, deleting of the temporary internet files is possible. The more files you delete, the more space you will clear up. This is especially for files that is no longer needed and serves no purpose in your computer.
Deleting files clears up space on Your computer.

Just remember to save your favorite websites or passwords when you use this feature.