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Many PC users believe that if they clear their computer history and close their browser, the trails of whatever sites they have surfed will disappear forever. However, this is not always true. In fact, a lot of such information stays back on the hard-drives. Unless we know the exact location where such information lay hidden, they could stay in the system and may act as a potential threat to our privacy by disclosing the browsing habits. Just imagine what will happen if your spouse, boss, kids or a friend becomes curious to know what you have been doing online, the websites that you have visited, the music that you have listened to or the movies that you have watched. It will not be hard for all these people to use some software or dig out the required information manually from your PC.

To protect your online browsing habits from falling into the wrong hands or to prevent your privacy from being compromised, you should clear computer history. If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer, you can view your browsing history by selecting \”Tools\” menu followed by choosing the tab marked \”Internet Options\”. Next, click the button labeled \”Settings\” and click the \”View Files\” button after that.

Web surfers using Microsoft Internet Explorer can clear computer history by following these steps:

IE 6 and 7 users can delete their history files by choosing the \”Tools\” menu, \”Internet Options\”, and then selecting the \”Delete\” or \”Delete Files\” button. Web surfers can also click the \”Advanced\” tab, go to the \”Security\” section and check the tab marked \”Empty Temporary Internet Files folder when browser is closed\” to erase their computer history. Web surfers using IE 4 on an Apple Macintosh can clear computer history by clicking these tabs in succession-\”Hard Drive\” icon, \”System\”, \”Preferences\” and \”Explorer\”. Finally, they should move the history file into the trash folder. Web surfers using IE 3 can delete their browsing history by selecting the \”View\” menu, going to \”Options\” from there, open the tab marked \”Advanced\”, click the \”Settings\” tab, and then finally select the \”Empty Folder\” button.

 

Mozilla Firefox users can clear computer history by clicking in succession the following: \”Tools\” menu, \”Options\” tab, the \”Privacy\” button, and then click the \”Clear Now\” or \”Clear\” button listed under \”History\” tab. Alternatively, these users can also press three keys marked Ctrl, Shift and Delete so that the Clear Data Window opens. From there, they can check the relevant boxes to clear some specific browsing history or delete the saved Internet history totally.

For Netscape users, history files can be deleted by clicking the menu marked \”Edit\” and then selecting \”Preferences\”, \”History\”, and finally clicking the \”Clear History\” button.

Opera users can clear computer history by clicking the \”File\” menu at first and then selecting \”Preferences\” and \”History\” in succession. After that, the button marked \”Empty now\” should be clicked. In addition to this, Opera users can also check \”Empty on exit\” if they want their browsing history to be deleted every time they exit their browser.

 

American Era History Resources – Antiquarian History eBooks by Spencer Holly

What is American Era History ?

American era history is not about American history, only, but about world history since the dawn of America. The exact dawn of America is debatable; did America begin when the Puritans began to colonize America, in the early 1600’s, or did it develop slowly and then begin with the Revolutionary War ?

In general, I would say that American era history includes world historical events that have occurred since the early 1700’s. I arbitrarily mark the beginning to include the life of Benjamin Franklin who is a prime example of American spirit; his life story was one of rags to riches and world wide prominence; his was a living and breathing example of what is possible.

American history, and the American era, at large, is a defining period because it represented a break from the old world that, in time, affected a large part of the existing world. Because of the then modern printing presses, this is a well-documented era, that is a nearly endless resource of for historical study and research.

Unfortunately, many of those old, antiquarian (antique) books have been lost to the ages. However, many do survive, and have been reprinted and republished, and many more have been used as resources by modern researchers, etc.

And many American era antiquarian history books have been, and are being preserved through digitization; they are being converted to electronic books, i.e., ebooks.

This is a wonderful development for many reasons because it has extended the life of books that may otherwise have eventually been lost, and the knowledge they contain is being added to our ever growing knowledge base. In a way, the creation of ebooks is retroactively modifying our existing knowledge base.

And this knowledge is now available to the average person. Prior to this, antiquarian history books were not really available to masses of people, as are ebooks. The books are often rare, and hard to find, and expensive. And they really are not suitable for every day reading; they are delicate, and the simple act of reading them can destroy them.

And this new-old knowledge is valuable, and adds new perspective to existing perceptions. Antiquarian history books are very similar to any modern history book. They contain all of the usual elements; they are nonfiction, contain facts and figures, anecdotes, and a record, and/or descriptions of events, and their sequence, etc.

They have an intrinsic historical value simply because of their age, regardless of whether they are a work of fiction, or nonfiction. While the historical value of nonfiction books is obvious, works of fiction can also have an historical value; for example, the fictional stories written by Mark Twain teach us about the people, racial attitudes, and morals of the times in which they were written.

Antiquarian history books retain their original historical value and content, and also provide a charming perspective of the times in which they were written. For instance, a modern reader of a Civil War history will gain a unique historical perspective through the eyes, words, phrases, and style of an author who created their work in the post-Victorian era. The dramatic prose, and phraseology, are wonderful, and extremely fun to read. The reader cannot help but smile at colloquialisms that we now find silly, or even embarrassing, but fun.

The Future of American Era Antiquarian History eBooks is Now.

An ebook version of an American era antiquarian history book has many advantages, such as:

1) Cost and availability. Antiquarian books will no longer be hard to find, or rare.

2) You can actually read them; they won’t be destroyed by using them.

3) Obviously, they won’t wear-out, or degrade with time.

4) They are easy to store.

5) Their information is still valuable, readily available, and easy to search.

6) The original printed book version can be enhanced with modern multimedia effects.

7) Readability is enhanced; and the publication can be colorful, and soundful, and printable, and bookmarkable, and searchable. It can include slideshows, and music, and video, and audio, and can include additional information and resources.

Of course, there are always disadvantages to ebooks. For example, you need a computer, or some kind of electronic device to read the ebook. If your ebook is designed for a computer, then you need to read it at a desktop computer, or a laptop. Unless you have a laptop, it would be difficult to sit in your easy chair and enjoy your ebook.

I’m sure in the future there will be electronic devices that have all the multimedia capabilities of a desktop computer, packaged in a device that can be easily accessed while you’re sitting in your favorite chair, or sitting on an airplane, etc.

Digitization of antiquarian history books is the Gutenberg Press of the current era.

Your browser stores several temporary files and saves browsing histories while you surf the Internet. This information is saved on your computer’s hard drive. You should erase your Internet history after every browsing session so that others are unable to trace back the websites that you have visited.

Before we start talking about erasing Internet history from your PC, you should have some knowledge about what browsing histories and temporary files are. Browsing histories are the trails of web pages visited by you. On the other hand, temporary files consist of cache files. These could be some pictures stored by your browser so that you can access them again with ease.

Though there is no harm if you don’t erase these browsing histories and temporary files, they are likely to be major threats to your privacy as anyone sharing the same computer can know about your online browsing habits. Moreover, a lot of space of on your computer is eaten up by these browsing histories and files. So, it is wise to erase your Internet history. You can perform this by following the steps listed below:

For Internet Explorer:

After choosing “Internet Options” from the Tools menu, click on the “General” tab when the Internet Options window pops up. For deleting cached files, opt for the “Delete” button in the Browsing section. A window will come into view where you will find several sections like Form Data, Cookies, Passwords, Temporary Internet Files and History. If you want to erase only some selected files, click the corresponding buttons that you can see in this section. However, to erase your Internet history completely by a single click, go for the “Clear History” or “Delete All” button. You will find this button at the lower section of your browser window.

For Firefox:

Erasing your Internet history is a child’s play if you are using Mozilla Firefox. To begin with, open the drop down box by selecting “Tools” and then click on “Clear Private Data”. The window that opens after this stage has different sections such as Saved Passwords, Browsing History, Cookies, Search History and Saved Form. Check the corresponding boxes from this section for erasing selected items. However, if you would like to erase your Internet history totally, click the button that says “Clear Private Data Now”.

For AOL (America Online):

Locate the “Settings” button at your browser window’s top segment. Click on it at first and then go for “Preferences”. After that, choose “toolbar and sounds” and then click the button marked “clear history trail now” to erase your Internet history.

Apart from the steps mentioned above, you should also wipe out any third party applications that you have installed on your computer. As these applications store text, passwords, images as well as some other sensitive statistics in your hard drive, failure to erase them will make your browsing habits vulnerable to be known by others using the same PC. To perform this task, you may even use some software as finding and deleting these files manually is a difficult task.