PowerPoint slide show presentation, which was open in an auxiliary browser window on each viewer's computer.
Popup Browser launches a new browser window when a user clicks on a link embedded in an email.
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Then, someone downloads it into a browser window in order to read it.
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U-Haul and Wells Fargo lost lawsuits against WhenU, whose software monitors surfing and inserts relevant ads behind the browser window.
Worse, some airports insist on placing a "frame" around your Web browser window with airport-related ads, limiting valuable screen real estate.
Use software that adds a padlock icon in the user's browser window.
Don't close your browser window out yet -- we'll walk you through these so that you know them like the back of your hand.
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What I find most interesting about the launch is the decision to go with the iPad as the next step after the desk bound web browser window.
Look for a small padlock on the bottom of your screen and the letters "https" at the beginning of the Web site's address in the browser window.
Login at Instagram.com and you'll get a replica of your Instagram home screen with photos from everyone you follow unfurling as you scroll down the browser window.
You can do this a number of ways, including using an FTP client, or with Internet Explorer you can simply drag and drop them into the browser window.
Once I completed my album, I selected a few images to send to the handheld by clicking the Palm icon at the lower left of the browser window.
Just highlight the word or passage of text in the browser window that you are interested in and then right-click it and select the Hyperwords menu to see your options.
He also avoids Web-based tools, because "when you open up a browser window, there are 35 tabs there staring at you with stuff you need to get done, fighting for your attention, " he says.
In the past, you had to give it an email address, wait for the email, open it, hit the link in the body, and bring up a browser window with the boarding pass and 2D barcode.
And when you do jump back to your own browser, Facebook will likely be one of the top sites shown in a new browser window, which will be clicked on, and thus continuing the cycle of click capture.
The issue is an Adobe software called Flash, which does many things, most notably letting Web surfers view streaming video inside a browser window. (As opposed to downloading the file and then playing it with something like Windows Media Player.) For a long time, this was the easiest way for Web sites to deliver video, and Flash has been almost universally adopted.
Even in more recent years, you were "online" for as long as you were looking at a web browser or a chat window.
That opened a small, Skype-like window in the browser with shots from cameras facing forward and down.
Now when people using Rockmelt and click to chat with someone on the Facebook site, the chat window will open in the Rockmelt browser, not in the Facebook site.
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Once we made the right connections--connecting the DSL modem to the router, then the router to the PC--we opened a Web address that brought up a configuration window in the PC's Web browser.
Click the icon at the top of a window, and the computer will resize the window so you have room to view a browser and Windows Media Player, for example.
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Time savings aside, the new design simply feels more intuitive: though everything from email to photo editing still takes place in the browser, just knowing there's something behind that window makes the experience feel a little more familiar.
Technological changes such as the rise of collaboration tools make it easier to multi-task: you can have a chat window, a word-processing document, a Web browser, and other applications all open at the same time on your computer, and switch easily between them.
The bar intrudes into available desktop viewing space inside the browser and needs re-loading every time the user opens a new window, slowing surfing considerably.
How about eight-window simultaneous multi-display, an Opera-based web browser, DLNA, and a 3TB hard disk drive, 2TB for "time-shift" recording recording up to 26 hours of programs, up to eight channels simultaneously.
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Within that window, anyone can access the handset's clipboard or point the browser to sites holding personal data.
And as with Lookout, the results of an MSN search are displayed in a window that looks a lot more like a mail client than a Web browser.
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