FAIL Grade

Google chrome get’s a fail because it can not detect an RSS feed. I would have hoped if the browser can’t understand it, at least program the darn browser to add the feed to your Google “IG” account with one or two clicks.

Pass Grade

Firefox does a good job at displaying the data of the RSS feed. It however can not get top marks because although it does know how to display the output it doesn’t understand the META text of the categories from the RSS feed. I actually like the look of the HTML layout in Firefox the best but it does have rendering issues if you make the window too small.

Gold Standard

Internet Explorer might not have the speediest javascript engine out there, but it does in my opinion understand RSS feeds the best. Just look. It knows that my blog limits 10 posts to the RSS feed. It also understands that I have different categories in each on of my posts. Even if make the window really narrow the contents are not effected the way they are in Firefox.

Fix IE Utility v 1.0 has been released. This freeware portable utility re-registers all the concerned dll & ocx files required for the smooth operation of Internet Explorer.

Simply extract the contents of the .zip file and run the  utility.

If you face any problems while running IE, maybe after recovering from a malware attack, run this tool to re-register around 89 dll & ocx files, which are required for the smooth running of Internet Explorer.

Fix IE Utility has been tested on IE 7 and IE 8, on Windows Vista & Windows 7.  Before running the utility, make sure that all your Internet Explorer windows are closed.

Download Fix IE utility

I couldn’t find anything that showed me how to do this for Internet Explorer 8. You basically do it the same way as Internet Explorer 7 but unfortunately Microsoft no longer gives you an easy way of doing this anymore. I have documented how to do this.

Step 1: Left click on "Windows Internet Explorer"

Step 2: Left click in “New Tab” button in Internet Explorer

Step 3: Left click on “Address bar” in Internet Explorer

Step 4: Click Address title bar. Enter this address “http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/searchguide/en-en/default.mspx” and hit “Enter” to go to this website.

Step 5: Go back to the website you want to create the custom search for. In my case I click back on the my Blog’s Tab.

Step 6: Left click on “Search box”.  

Step 7: Input in “Search Box” the word “TEST” and hit “Search”.

Step 8: Select URL text in address bar. In my case it was “http://jaredheinrichs.com/?s=TEST”

Step 9: Hit “Ctrl+C” to COPY the text of the URL.

Step 10: Go back to the “Add Search Provider page” you opened in “Step 4”

Step 11: Left click the Text box in Step 3.

Step 12: Hit “Ctrl+V” to enter “http://jaredheinrichs.com/?s=TEST” in the step 3 text box.

Problem Step 13: Left click on “Sepcify a name for the search provider”.

Step 14: Enter name for the name of the search provider. This name is what is going to show up when you click on the search provider box.

Step 15: Left click on “Install button”

Step 16: Left click on “Add” button. If you want to make this your default search engine you may do this now by clicking the “Make this my default search provider” box.

Step 17 -  Left click on the search box drop down arrow

Step 18: You will now see the search provider "Heinrichs Family Blog" as a selectable search provider. Now without actually having to go to the page. Enter some text to search. You can now search the entire site from the comfort of your browser window!

Happy Searching!

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The original article can be found here.

Missing Microsoft RDP Client Control System: On a fresh install Windows XP SP3 system with all the Windows update

Symptom:
When try to use IE7 to initiate a terminal service connection, you find that it won’t work and you see a little pop-up message saying Add-ons disabled.

Add-on Disabled message

When you go to Manage Add-ons, you find no Add-ons are disabled and you also cannot see the Microsoft RDP Client Control Add-on.
Everything enabled?

Solution:

1. Go to Internet Option and go to Advanced tab,
2. click on the Reset button to reset Internet Explorer settings.
3. Restart the Internet Explorer and retry again and this time it should work.

Click on Reset button

After restart your Internet Explorer, you can see Microsoft RDP Client Control!

www.dontcensorme.org lets you browse the web uncensored using it’s collection of suffix proxy servers. Suffix proxy servers are chosen, because they are easier to use than regular proxy servers.

A suffix proxy server allows a user to access web content by appending the hostname of the proxy server to the URL of the requested content. To use a suffix proxy server with hostname “6a.nl” to visit “www.google.com” you simply enter “www.google.com.6a.nl” in your browsers address bar.

Don’t censor me” uses proxy servers meant to bypass censorship, not for anonymous Internet access or protecting your privacy. Every request the proxy makes for you will contain your IP address in the “X-Forwarded-For” header.

The consequence of using a proxy (in general) is that you send all your data unencrypted through some other server. The person running this server can look at or into your traffic. Therefor DO NOT log in to any accounts (not even using a secure connection) unless you FULLY trust the person running the proxy server.

The Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides several features for exploring and understanding Web pages. These features enable you to:

• Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a Web page.
• Locate and select specific elements on a Web page through a variety of techniques.
• Selectively disable Internet Explorer settings.
• View HTML object class names, ID’s, and details such as link paths, tab index values, and access keys.
• Outline tables, table cells, images, or selected tags.
• Validate HTML, CSS, WAI, and RSS web feed links.
• Display image dimensions, file sizes, path information, and alternate (ALT) text.
• Immediately resize the browser window to a new resolution.
• Selectively clear the browser cache and saved cookies. Choose from all objects or those associated with a given domain.
• Display a fully featured design ruler to help accurately align and measure objects on your pages.
• Find the style rules used to set specific style values on an element.
• View the formatted and syntax colored source of HTML and CSS.

The Developer Toolbar can be pinned to the Internet Explorer browser window or floated separately.

Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Please visit the IE Web Development Forum on MSDN to enter bug reports, comments, and suggestions.

System Requirements

Instructions

Additional Information

Release Notes:

• The Developer Toolbar is not compatible with Internet Explorer 8.  Please use the developer tools included with Internet Explorer 8.  Press F12 or click the ‘Developer Tools’ entry in the Tools menu to begin using the tool.  Click here for more information on IE8 Developer Tools.
• If Internet Explorer is running while you install the Developer Toolbar, you must restart Internet Explorer before the Developer Toolbar will work properly.
• The Developer Toolbar icon may not be visible by default.  If you do not see it after restarting Internet Explorer, click the right-facing arrows at the end of the IE7 command bar to view all available toolbar buttons.
• Some menu items are unavailable (grayed out) when running Internet Explorer in Protected Mode on Windows Vista.  To use those options, temporarily turn off Protected Mode or right-click the Internet Explorer icon in the Programs menu and choose ‘Run as administrator’.
• In IE6 or in IE7 with tabbed browsing off, using the validation links will navigate the current window to the validation page.  To launch the validation links in a new window, open the Tools menu, click Internet Options…, and uncheck “Reuse windows for launching shortcuts” in the Advanced tab, or use IE7 with tabbed browsing enabled.