11:37:00 AM
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Yahoo! Mail has been around a very long time. The main difference
between Yahoo! Mail and many of the other online email programs is that
you are able to retrieve email from other email addresses using it on
top of your Yahoo! Mail email.
This is what I mean; When you
sign up for your Internet connection with your local Internet service
provider (ISP) you often get some email addresses to go along with it.
Using Outlook Express or another desktop type email program you can't
get your email when you are on vacation or at a friends house. Using
Yahoo! Mail you can. Sign up for Yahoo! Mail and enter the email
information from your ISP. Then you can retrieve your email from any
computer with an Internet connection just by going to Yahoo! Mail and
signing in.
Setting Up ISP Email With Yahoo! Mail
- Sign up for and sign into Yahoo! Mail.
- Click "Options" listed at the top, right hand side of the page.
- Click the link that says "Mail Addresses".
- Click the "Add" button to start adding your email address to Yahoo! Mail.
- Name
your account. This is whatever you want to call it. Call it "My email"
if you want to. Then click "Continue listed at the bottom of the bottom
of the page.
- In the box where it asks for "Mail Server"
put the server name your ISP gave to you. It will look something like
mail.server.com or pop3.server.com .
- In the box labeled
"Username" put the username you use to get your email from your ISP.
This may have been something you chose or it could have been given to
you.
- Next put in your password. This was given to you at
the same time as your username by your ISP. It's usually something
personal that you chose yourself.
- If you want emails
received from this email address to show up in Yahoo! Mail in a
different color then choose the color here. Then click the button that
says "Setup Mail Server".
Edit Yahoo! Mail Options
- When
you get back to the page that has all your email addressees accounts
listed click on the name of the one you want to edit. Click the "Edit"
button. Editing the email address may be very important.
- Look
down to the "Deliver To" box. You can put your emails from this email
address in another folder other than the Inbox if you want to.
- See
where it says "Leave mail on POP server". This means that if you want
to read your emails on Yahoo! Mail but you still want to be able to
retrieve them on your other email program later you want to check this
box. If you are always going to read your emails on Yahoo! Mail and you
are never going to download them to another email program then uncheck
this box.
- "Retrieve new messages only" is useful when
you have the "Leave mail on POP server" box checked. You've already read
yesterdays email but you still have it stored on the server so you can
download it to Outlook Express when you get home from vacation. You only
want to retrieve messages you haven't already downloaded and read.
- "Use
filters" allows you to set up filters for certain messages. Say you
want all the messages from your mom to go to it's own folder. You can
set that up using the filter option that Yahoo! Mail also offers.
- Click "Save changes" when finished.
Checking Your New Email
- When
you're finished setting up your ISP email address on Yahoo! Mail you can
start retrieving it. Click on "Mail" in the menu at the top of the
page.
- You'll see a box in the left hand column called
"Check Other Mail". In this box is the names of the ISP email addresses
you set up. Click on the one you want to check.
- You will now be taken to your new emails. Click on the one you want to read and you are reading your ISP email on Yahoo! Mail.
1:38:00 PM
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Tabbed Browsing
Tabbed browsing is my favorite thing about using the Firefox browser. Tabs
are like having more than one window open, but they are all in one
window. There are tabs at the top of your browsing window, each with the
name of the Web site they have on them listed in the tabs. You can have
as many tabs open at a time as you want, I'm not sure what the maximum
amount of tabs you can have open at once, but it's a lot.
When
using the Firefox browser you can use tabbed browsing for many things.
One common thing you can use tabbed browsing for is when you are reading
the news or your favorite forum. You see a link you want to read but
you don't want to loose the page you are already reading. You right
click on the link and choose the menu link that says "Open Link in New
Tab". The new Web page now opens in a new tab while the Web page you
were reading remains open. Now you can finish reading the Web page you
are reading and read the other one when you are finished.
Pop-Up Blocking
Pop-up blocking is built right into this
browser. No longer will you have to put up with obtrusive ads popping up
all over the place while you are trying to surf the Web. This pop-up
blocker works really well. I never see pop-up ads while browsing.
Windows I want to pop-up work fine though.
Integrated Search
Search the Web right from your browser
with Firefox. There is a search bar right on the top of the browser so
you can search the Web without having to go to your favorites search engine's Web page first. You can search Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Answers,
Ebay and Creative Commons.
If you want to add a different
favorite search engine to your Firefox browser's search bar you can.
When you click on the "Add Engines" link you can choose from a large
list of sites you can add to the search bar. Some of the sites you can
choose from are The Weather Channel, Food Network Recipes, Wikipedia,
Webster's Dictionary and many more.
Customize Firefox
Change the way your Firefox toolbar
looks and works. Install extensions and themes to make your Firefox
browser look different and do more. There are all sorts of themes, so
you can customize the way your Firefox browser looks. There are also
extensions you can add to your Firefox browser. Some of these extensions
make your tabbed browsing better, some make Firefox's accessibility
better for the disabled, and some are just fun.
Overall
I highly recommend Firefox over Internet Explorer
as a browser. In my opinion, Firefox is a much better browser than
Internet Explorer, and has a lot more features and extensions you can
get for it. Firefox also doesn't crash as much as Internet Explorer for
me. That may be just me, but I think it's significant to mention it in
this review. I find Firefox to be the best browser I have tried. I
haven't tried all of them, but I have tried several and this is my
favorite.
1:52:00 PM
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Creating a Web site has never been easier. Google has again outdone
itself with Google Page Creator. There is a waiting list for Google Page
Creator right now and you must have a Google account to even sign up to
sign up for Google Page Creator. To get a Google account you either
have to know someone who already has one and have them send you an
invite or you can get a Google invite by cell phone if you have a cell phone with text messaging.
After
you sign up for an account with Google you will need to request a
Google Page Creator account. To get a Google Page Creator account you
need to go to the Google Page Creator
page. Enter your Google email address, that's the one you received when
you signed up for a Google account, into the box and click on "Add to
Wait List". Then you wait until you receive an email from Google Page
Creator telling you that your Google Page Creator account has been
enabled.
Once your account has been enabled, this could take
weeks or even months, you will be able to create your first Web page in
minutes. The simple to use point and click design will have you creating
great looking Web pages and and an entire Web site without really
thinking too much about how to do it. Google hosts the pages you create
with Google Page Creator too so you know your Web pages will be safe.
There
are 4 different layouts and 41 different styles you can choose for the
look of your Web pages. You can change the way your text looks too.
Choose different colors, styles and size for your words. Make them bold,
italic or change the font style. When you want to add text just click
on the page right in your browser and start typing. When you are ready
to publish your page just click "Publish" and your done.
This is
great for those of us who have very little time, energy or patience to
create a Web site and yet want one or need one. It took me only a couple
minutes to create my first page and you can do it too.
12:50:00 AM
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123 Greetings
has all kinds of e-cards you can send to your friends and family for
special occasions. There are e-cards for just about anything. Send
e-cards for birthdays, Christmas, Hanukah, Mother's Day, Father's Day,
graduations, just for fun and whatever else you might want to send a
greeting e-card for.
Send cute e-cards or serious e-cards. You
can just look through the site and send e-cards to your friends for fun.
Some of the e-cards are really funny or cute and sometimes people just
send them to each other so their friends can see them too.
If
you're looking for a special kind of e-card to send to your mother for
Mother's Day or to your wife for Valentine's Day you are going to have
some tough choices. There are so many e-cards to choose from for each
holiday or special occasions. There are animated hearts, flowers, cats
and anything else.
If you want to celebrate other special days
they even have e-cards for Hug Your Cat Day, Plant Something Day, Lilac
Festival, International Pickle Week, Circus Day and many others.
You
could just send e-card for friendship too. There are many friendship
e-cards as well as thank you e-cards that you can send to your friends
too. There are also good luck e-cards and get well e-cards you can send
to your friends when you need to.
Happy birthday is probably one
of the most popular and they have e-cards for that too. There is an
animated bear hugging a heart, hearts full of surprises, pat-a-cake cake
and much more. These e-cards are interactive, that means they do
special things when you click on them.
All you have to do to send
an e-card is find the one you want to send. Then you enter your email
address and name and the name and email address of the person you are
sending the e-card to. Enter a personalized message for that person and
send it. Your friend may be so happy that you sent them an e-card that
they will send you one back.
1:42:00 PM
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Download and watch videos from around the Web for free. Some are movies
and TV shows, and others are videos that other people have created
themselves. Some are humorous, and some are not safe for children to
watch. These are free and legal.
- AltaVista's Video Search
- Search for videos online with this video search engine from
AltaVista. You can choose to search for short clips or something longer.
Videos you can search for are in several different formats.
- Atom Films - Funny, short videos. Some, many, are not safe for viewing by children. Some are funny and silly, others are just plain weird.
- eBaum's World Humor Portal - Another site full of humorous videos. Whenever you have humor you may find that some are not suitable for children.
- Free Movies by Entertainment Magazine
- Classic films for you to watch, free. Cartoons, comedy, adventure,
horror, romance and much more. These are the classics. You can watch
them for free from here. There's The Three Stooges, Charlie Chaplin and
many others.
- Google Video - Music videos, TV shows, movie trailers and more. Some are free, others you have to pay a small fee.
- MilkandCookies - Movie clips, parody and more.
- National Lampoon Videos - Videos by National Lampoon.
- Singing Fish - Search for videos online.
- Truveo - Another video search engine.
- vMix - Parody and other funny videos. Advertisements, animation, celebrities and more.
- Yahoo! Video Search - Search for videos online with Yahoo!.
- You Tube - People upload videos they make and you can watch them. You can upload your own too.
2:29:00 PM
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As the search for a common platform between computers which run on
different operating systems started, the internet was the answer.
Internet was invented in 1991 and around the same time, text only
browsers were also programmed. So, in theory, browsers have existed since 1991 but they didn't support images until 1993 through Mosaic 1.
As
the internet advanced, so did the browsers. This article talks about
the 'behind the scenes' of a browser, layman comparison of browsers and
an insight into the future of browsers.
A browser is a simple
computer program that can detect the code and execute it not on the
user's computer but on the host server. Hence, a website that is loaded
from a server works on all the operating systems as the actual code is
being executed on the server and not on the user's computer. A browser
just shows you the result of the code. Hence the name browser.
Presently we have a big choice of browsers to choose from. Some popular browsers are Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Flock
etc. We have different browsers written by different companies. Some
browsers like firefox and flock are open source i.e different people
contribute code to the program with a view of developing the program and
not for financial gain. Internet Explorer is from Microsoft and it
comes pre-loaded on all Windows machines. Hence Internet Explorer has
become a generic name for a web browser. Mac has its own set of browsers
like Safari and Camino along with Firefox.
Just
listing the available browsers is no fun. The truth remains in the
backend as to the main differences between the browsers.
There is an organization called W3C
which makes the coding rules for all the browsers. In the sense, W3C
specifies how a particular code should be executed and the general set
of code that it recognizes. Internet Explorer is a browser which does
not adhere to the W3C rules and they made their own set of rules and
their own functions. This has caused a big controversy in the browser
industry. Many geeks like myself have not supported Internet Explorer's
stand on code deciphering. Firefox is the browser that is most popular
with people who are knowledgeable about computers and internet. It
follows the rules very closely and web designers often do not have
problems with firefox but on the contrary Internet Explorer is a
nightmare. I wrote an article on why Internet Explorer shouldn't be used a while back. Opera and Flock are popular but not as much Firefox. Read an article by me on browser wars. It talks more about different browsers and there are some interesting comments as well.
Modern
browsers are developing many features that make our browsing experience
a wonderful one. All the latest browsers have tabs. If more than one
website needs to be browsed, a new window need not be opened but a tab
would accomplish the job just as good or maybe better. Firefox uses extensions
which can extend the functionality of a browser from just browsing to a
lot of different functions. There are rumors that 3D browsers are going
to be a reality in the very near future.
These are some of the
basic things that one needs to know about a web browser. If you feel
that there needs to be more information covered under this topic, do let
me know. I will be eager to hear your opinions.
1:07:00 PM
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WoWeb
MySpace
is a place where you can create your own space online. Maybe you want
to put up a page on the Internet that says a little bit about who you
are. You want to add pictures of you and your family. Maybe you even
want to create a blog so you can keep track of the things that are going
on in your life.
MySpace will let you do all of that.
Creating a space with MySpace will give you a place on the Net to call
your own. You can list your hobbies and favorite things to do. You can
talk about your life and your family. You can show off pictures you have
taken. This is your place to talk about you. It's kind of like a
personal business card of yourself, online.
Go go MySpace.com
and set up an account. Add a photo of yourself if you have one. Fill
out the profile and start adding friends to your profile. MySpace is a
community so find your friend's MySpace account and add them. If your
friends don't have MySpace accounts yet you can send them an invite
right from your profile.
Don't, however, add information like
your address and telephone number to your MySpace account. You don't
want strangers showing up at your house or calling you on the phone.
Also don't talk about where you work or go to school, for the same
reason. Also be careful what you write about online. You never know if
your employer, teacher, parent or someone else important in your life
will be reading your MySpace profile.
There is a way to make your
profile private or password protected if you don't want other people
seeing it. This would be your best bet for privacy but not very good if
you're on there to make friends and meet people. Use some common sense
when posting things on your MySpace account and you will be fine.
