| Happy Holidays, everybody! This is a very busy time | | | | advertising!!" |
| of year for all of us, so I am going to get straight to | | | | But this add-on for the Internet Explorer Browser |
| the point and offer a bit of a solution for a problem | | | | goes much further than that, and I feel comfortable |
| that is shared by anyone and everyone that spends | | | | recommending it to my clients. It offers an inline |
| time on the Internet. | | | | search, which is a feature that I enjoy using. The |
| This time of year advertising is all around us and | | | | program improves tabbed browsing for the new |
| there doesn't seem to be much we can do about it. | | | | version of Explorer, and if you use the older version |
| Even Talk Radio seems to run endless ads during | | | | like myself, you still get to enjoy about twenty other |
| commercial time, and it's only going to get worse. | | | | features. |
| Why do we need to put up with this on our Internet | | | | If you use Firefox as your browser, there is an |
| too? | | | | add-on available for you that comes right from the |
| WE DON'T! | | | | Firefox Developers. It is called "AdBlock Plus" and it's |
| There are a large handful of tools available to block | | | | just as easy to use. When you see an ad banner or |
| ads from appearing within web pages, and some are | | | | something you don't want to ever see again, you |
| free. The one I use is IE7Pro, which is for the | | | | can just click on it with the right mouse button. A |
| Internet Explorer that comes with windows. | | | | menu will appear that allows you to choose to |
| This is a free download, and it very effectively | | | | 'AdBlock' the image. It's as simple as that! |
| blocks website ads that flash at you begging to be | | | | I hope these tips help. This time of year it's very |
| clicked upon. From their own website: "Blocks all | | | | hard to avoid being bombarded with ads for |
| forms of advertising, including Flash ads, rich media, | | | | everything from apples to xylophones. Don't let |
| fly-ins, slide-ins, pop-ups, pop-unders, spyware and | | | | these ads spoil your Internet Experience also. |
| adware ads, and messenger ads." | | | | You may now return to your regularly scheduled |
| Heck, they had me at "blocks all forms of | | | | shopping. |