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Me neither to be honest. When asked by my boss some years ago to use one note, it was met with the response "Are you having a fcuking giraffe?"
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on my ipad, when using safari - if i have different tabs open, whenever i try to flick between them the one i want to look at automatically resubmits, therefore quite often returning to the homepage or login page... extremely annoying! any ideas?
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OK .... so, here I am slowly getting used to Windows 8.1. I don't like it and I know it'll be gone in a year or so's time, which is good.
As a search engine I've always kept to using Internet Explorer. I've avoided Chrome ... & Bing is a fckg nuisance. I've messed bout with Firefox, though I understand Firefox abandoned it's attempt to finalise a Windows 8 version.
However the current IE is simply being overtaken by adverts and things which have presumably paid to come up on page 1 of any search. It's now got to the point where, for any search on a laptop, I have to scroll down a screen to get to what are genuine finds.
I appreciate this is hardly life threatening, I know, but it's fckg irritating.
Can I bar these superfluous adverts somehow ? Or am I condemned to this for now ?
As a search engine I've always kept to using Internet Explorer. I've avoided Chrome ... & Bing is a fckg nuisance. I've messed bout with Firefox, though I understand Firefox abandoned it's attempt to finalise a Windows 8 version.
However the current IE is simply being overtaken by adverts and things which have presumably paid to come up on page 1 of any search. It's now got to the point where, for any search on a laptop, I have to scroll down a screen to get to what are genuine finds.
I appreciate this is hardly life threatening, I know, but it's fckg irritating.
Can I bar these superfluous adverts somehow ? Or am I condemned to this for now ?
Not advocating mass-murder as an entirely positive experience, of course, but it had its moments.
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pah - moaning IE users - same class as Apple-users as far as I am concerned - you get what you deserve! there's sympathy for you!bobo the clown wrote:OK .... so, here I am slowly getting used to Windows 8.1. I don't like it and I know it'll be gone in a year or so's time, which is good.
As a search engine I've always kept to using Internet Explorer. I've avoided Chrome ... & Bing is a fckg nuisance. I've messed bout with Firefox, though I understand Firefox abandoned it's attempt to finalise a Windows 8 version.
However the current IE is simply being overtaken by adverts and things which have presumably paid to come up on page 1 of any search. It's now got to the point where, for any search on a laptop, I have to scroll down a screen to get to what are genuine finds.
I appreciate this is hardly life threatening, I know, but it's fckg irritating.
Can I bar these superfluous adverts somehow ? Or am I condemned to this for now ?
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Thanks for that positive input.
Not advocating mass-murder as an entirely positive experience, of course, but it had its moments.
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I'm a bit confuzzled by this. I use IE11, but all IE is, is a browser (like Chrome and Firefox). Bing is a search facility. So generally IE doesn't "advertise", but the page you land on does. My landing page for IE is Google. You can set your landing page by going into options in IE (top right - thing that looks like a cog wheel), then click "Internet Options" and in the General Tab you can set what page opens up, when you fire the thing up. If you type google.com or google.co.uk then when it opens, it'll open on the google search page which is ad free (other than generally the advert you can click to switch to Chrome)...bobo the clown wrote:OK .... so, here I am slowly getting used to Windows 8.1. I don't like it and I know it'll be gone in a year or so's time, which is good.
As a search engine I've always kept to using Internet Explorer. I've avoided Chrome ... & Bing is a fckg nuisance. I've messed bout with Firefox, though I understand Firefox abandoned it's attempt to finalise a Windows 8 version.
However the current IE is simply being overtaken by adverts and things which have presumably paid to come up on page 1 of any search. It's now got to the point where, for any search on a laptop, I have to scroll down a screen to get to what are genuine finds.
I appreciate this is hardly life threatening, I know, but it's fckg irritating.
Can I bar these superfluous adverts somehow ? Or am I condemned to this for now ?
I guess they might have tinkered with it in a Win8 Context, but I don't use Win8, so can't help.
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bobo the clown wrote:Thanks for that positive input.
you're welcome, as ever!
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OK, that is due to my awful explanation.Worthy4England wrote:If you type google.com or google.co.uk then when it opens, it'll open on the google search page which is ad free (other than generally the advert you can click to switch to Chrome)...
I guess they might have tinkered with it in a Win8 Context, but I don't use Win8, so can't help.
It was Google that I meant (not Google Chrome). Sorry.
I've set it up so Google is the norm but any search I do is getting 6,8 or up to 10 stock responses before the proper search replies & I'm asking if there's any way to block tem.
Not advocating mass-murder as an entirely positive experience, of course, but it had its moments.
"I understand you are a very good footballer" ... "I try".
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Yes you can block them using Google's ad settings. But I think your ability to do so might be based on whether you're logged into Google or not. I log into Google, so I have an account and therefore it has preferences - one of the preferences is called Ad's Settings - You can usually get to this from one of the adds displayed (where it has a little i in a circle) - from Ad's Settings you can opt out.bobo the clown wrote:OK, that is due to my awful explanation.Worthy4England wrote:If you type google.com or google.co.uk then when it opens, it'll open on the google search page which is ad free (other than generally the advert you can click to switch to Chrome)...
I guess they might have tinkered with it in a Win8 Context, but I don't use Win8, so can't help.
It was Google that I meant (not Google Chrome). Sorry.
I've set it up so Google is the norm but any search I do is getting 6,8 or up to 10 stock responses before the proper search replies & I'm asking if there's any way to block tem.
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Install Ghostery as an extension if available for IE - you can get it for Chrome, Firefox and Opera for sure. It will basically block (if you set it to) all the advertising cookies websites try to put on your computer, meaning it will block much of the annoying stuff. You can also try adblock, another extension that will block adverts etc.
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Ta. I'll give it a go
Not advocating mass-murder as an entirely positive experience, of course, but it had its moments.
"I understand you are a very good footballer" ... "I try".
"I understand you are a very good footballer" ... "I try".
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You could always use:
https://ixquick.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
or
https://duckduckgo.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Both are pretty good search engines that will do a good job for most people.
https://ixquick.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
or
https://duckduckgo.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Both are pretty good search engines that will do a good job for most people.
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I'm in the market for a new printer. Has anyone got any recommendations?
Will use it to print photos and the odd document. Must have scan and would prefer a doc feed. Decent resolution and print quality a must. Oh, and I want it to be connectible on WiFi.
Cheers.
Will use it to print photos and the odd document. Must have scan and would prefer a doc feed. Decent resolution and print quality a must. Oh, and I want it to be connectible on WiFi.
Cheers.
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My director has asked me if I'd be interested in installing a 3d printer in our office.
'It would be useful for printing 3d models of sub-terranean streetscapes to illustrate our utility services' he says.
I can't get past* making little models of me to give away as Xmas presents.
*Actually I can't get past Page 1 of our Smileys but that's an entirely different story
'It would be useful for printing 3d models of sub-terranean streetscapes to illustrate our utility services' he says.
I can't get past* making little models of me to give away as Xmas presents.
*Actually I can't get past Page 1 of our Smileys but that's an entirely different story
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ooops - you can't use this one...Gary the Enfield wrote:My director has asked me if I'd be interested in installing a 3d printer in our office.
'It would be useful for printing 3d models of sub-terranean streetscapes to illustrate our utility services' he says.
I can't get past* making little models of me to give away as Xmas presents.
*Actually I can't get past Page 1 of our Smileys but that's an entirely different story
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You fecking stay well away from it, you.Gary the Enfield wrote:My director has asked me if I'd be interested in installing a 3d printer in our office.
'It would be useful for printing 3d models of sub-terranean streetscapes to illustrate our utility services' he says.
I can't get past* making little models of me to give away as Xmas presents.
*Actually I can't get past Page 1 of our Smileys but that's an entirely different story
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I get 1st dibs on the sweepstake. GtE will break it within the 1st hour
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4cough the lot of you.
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I'll have a Fiver on him then coming on here asking if anyone knows how to fix it.Abdoulaye's Twin wrote:I get 1st dibs on the sweepstake. GtE will break it within the 1st hour
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And I'll stick a tenner on him losing the thread he asks for help inBruce Rioja wrote:I'll have a Fiver on him then coming on here asking if anyone knows how to fix it.Abdoulaye's Twin wrote:I get 1st dibs on the sweepstake. GtE will break it within the 1st hour
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