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Friday Donut tip: selectively delete cookies

June 01, 2012 by Imanuel Votteler

Biscuit barrell{{}}When you’re making changes to your website, generally browsing, or are having trouble with something stuck in your shopping cart – there’ll come a time when you want to delete some cookies. You can delete your entire history, which will also delete all of your cookies – but sometimes you might want to be a bit more selective about what you delete.

Here we cover how to do just that in the top 3 browsers:

Chrome

Click the spanner icon in the top right

Click ‘settings’

Click ‘Show advanced settings’ (at the bottom)

Click ‘Content settings’

Click ‘All cookies and site data’

Search for the domain name of the website in the top right

Click the X alongside each cookie you want to remove

Firefox

Click ‘Tools’ then ‘Options’

Select ‘Privacy’ along the top

Select ‘Remove individual cookies’

Search for the domain of the website

Select a cookie and click ‘Remove cookie’

Internet Explorer

Click ‘Tools’ then ‘Internet options’

Click ‘Settings’ under ‘Browsing history’ on the ‘General’ tab

Click ‘View files’ under ‘Temporary internet files’

Using the standard Windows search feature, search for the domain of the website

Select the cookies you want to remove and press delete on your keyboard (or right click and select delete)

You’ll need to refresh the page in all of these browsers in order to see any changes having removed the cookie.

Bonus joke: A website asked me if I minded if they store some cookies on my machine. I said that I do. They then asked if I wanted them to remember that preference – which would involve storing a cookie on my machine. Tough one.

Friday Donut tip: save a web page as an image

March 09, 2012 by John McGarvey

Page Saver in action{{}}Every Friday afternoon we bring you a great business IT tip. From nuggets that make repetitive tasks easier to simple ways to banish business tech annoyances, we’re here to help.

If there’s something you’d like our help with, send an email to [email protected] or just leave a comment on this post. We’ll try and cover it in a future IT Donut tip.

Copy and paste with print screen

Assuming you use a computer running Microsoft Windows (like most of us do) or Linux, you might know that you can use the Print Screen button on your keyboard to take a snapshot of whatever’s on your computer screen.

It copies the image to your computer’s clipboard, which means you can paste it into another document using the Paste command.

That’s a really useful trick to know. Often it’s the easiest way to show someone an error that’s appearing on your computer. Hit print screen, paste the image into an email … job done.

But it’s not so good if you want to save an image of a whole web page, because using print screen doesn’t copy anything that you have to scroll to see. It only grabs what’s actually on the screen.

Getting Firefox and Page Saver

There are lots of reasons you might need to save a whole web page as an image. Often, using the Save option in your web browser gives you a page that doesn’t look right when you reopen it. The only way to capture exactly how the page looks is to save it as an image.

To do this, we recommend using the Firefox web browser. It’s a fast, reliable way to view websites, and if you’ve never tried an alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, it’s a good idea to give it a go. Firefox is completely free and should only take a couple of minutes to install from here.

Once you’ve got Firefox, you’ll need to add an extension called Pearl Crescent Page Saver. (Extensions add extra functions to Firefox.) Here’s how to get Page Saver:

  1. Visit the Page Saver website
  2. Click the Install Page Saver Basic button
  3. Firefox will ask if you want to install the extension. Click Allow.
  4. The extension will download, then Firefox will ask if you’re sure you want to install it. Click Install Now.
  5. You need to restart Firefox for the extension to appear. It should offer you a Restart Now button, so click it. (Firefox will remember what websites you’re looking at and reload them, so don’t worry if you’re in the middle of something.)

Saving your image

Once you’ve installed Page Saver, it’s really easy to save a web page as a single image file:

  1. Use Firefox to visit to the page you want to save
  2. Look for the Page Saver icon. It’s a little camera and usually appears at the top right of the screen.
  3. Click the small downward pointing arrow beside the camera.
  4. A menu will appear containing some options. Click Save Image of Entire Page.
  5. A Save as… window will appear allowing you to choose where to save the image.
  6. Choose where to put the image, type a file name for it and click Save – it’s just like saving any other file.

That’s all there is to it – you’ll find your image file right where you saved it. You can attach it to an email, import it into a document, use it in a presentation, or use it in any other way you choose.

Do you have an alternative way to save images as web pages, or any questions about how this works? Leave a comment and let us know

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