One of the most important novelties in Internet Explorer 8 is the InPrivate Filtering feature. This new feature gives users increased security and control over their browsing sessions. However, there is one downside to it: InPrivate Filtering is turned off each time you start Internet Explorer 8 and you have to manually turn it on each time you want to use it. In this guide I will show how you can turn it on so that it remaines on at all times. There will be no need for you to manually activate it.

Our next guest in the 'Getting to know the Microsoft enthusiasts' series is James M. Fisher, Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) and the man behind Windows Talk. If you want to know more about him as a person and learn more about Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals and what they do when they are not helping people with their IT problems, don't hesitate to read this interview. You will surely enjoy it.

One of the most important features of modern browsers is the possibility to extend their default functionality using add-ons to integrate new features that satisfy different browsing needs. Internet Explorer 8 delivers the possibility to extend the default functionality much more than Internet Explorer 7 did with its add-ons. Internet Explorer 8 allows you to use more types of add-ons such as: toolbars, extensions, accelerators, web slices or additional search engines.

In this article I will share with you the best add-ons for Internet Explorer 8 that we could find a few weeks after its launch.

In this article I will discuss about Internet Explorer 8 Add-ons. I will show you the following: how to find add-ons, how to install and remove them, how to enable or disable them. I will also show you how to find more information about installed add-ons and how to configure the InPrivate filters and rules used by your Internet Explorer.

Internet Explorer 8 was released a few days ago, on 19 March after almost 3 years of development and it introduces a series of useful features to the browsers world. It will be delivered as an update for Windows Vista, via Windows Update and it will also be the default browser for the upcoming Windows 7 operating system.

In this article I will talk about the features and improvements introduced by Internet Explorer 8 and I will also show you how to use them.

Firefox 3 has been our browser of choice since its June 2008 launch. In this article, I will share with you a list of useful extensions each beginner should install & use. As you will see for yourself, they will greatly improve your browsing experience by providing additional features which cannot be found in Internet Explorer.

In this article I will talk again about Windows Speech Recognition and how you can enhance its functionality by using macros. I will show you how to create macros which do things such as: insert specific blocks of text, run programs with specific parameters and send keystrokes to any application. You will also learn how to create aliases for existing Windows Speech Recognition commands which are are hard to remember and replace them with more meaningful voice commands. At the end I will detail how to create macros which execute more advanced commands such as searching weather information for a given location.

This year we continue our series of interviews with a very special guest: Vishal Gupta, the man behind AskVG.com. Vishal is one of the most well known Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals on the internet, author of great themes for Windows Vista and writer of countless tutorials about Windows. His site won last year the "The Best Windows Vista Website 2008" competition, a competion where our site won third place. If you want to know more about him on a more personal level, check out our interview.

In previous articles I talked about how to use Windows Speech Recognition and how to take advantage of its advanced configuration options so that you can have a great experience. In this article I will talk about Windows Speech Recognition Profiles and how to easily backup and restore them any time you need to. As you will see for yourself, the procedure is very simple and involves using a small tool.