Supercookies are stored in different places than regular cookies, such as within the Web browser's "cache" of previously visited websites, which is where the Microsoft ones were located.

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Clear your browser cache, remove passwords to Web sites you use from work, such as your personal email or online bank account and delete any personal files on your work computer that aren't relevant to work.

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There are so many things that can slow web apps down, and even if you cache and optimize your data feeds, move the heavy lifting from the server to the client and all of the other things that smart app developers have been doing, you still will bump into the limitations of the browser.

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But unlike YouTube-style Flash video, which fetches streamed bits in a series of requests from a set of servers at the sender's end, Move gets bits from the closest storage cache (similar to technology from Web video giant Akamai) and brings them back to the screen at the best streaming rate based on the network's traffic load.

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TweakDUN: Improve the speed of your dial-up connection by adjusting the Windows 95 MTU. TweakDUN also lets you create and edit a host file, which can dramatically speed up Web browsing: Instead of contacting a domain name server to look up every IP address, your browser will cache them on your hard drive.

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