Tech Tips

July 2002

Javascript Email Address

by Barbara J. Feldman July 29, 2002

If you have a personal or professional Web page with your email address posted, you are an easy target for spam robots that crawl the Internet looking for email addresses to add to their lists. One way to avoid this is to use a bit of Javascript to break your email address into so many [...]

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Digital Rights

by Barbara J. Feldman July 22, 2002

Music, music everywhere. But is it legal to copy it, share it, rip it, or pass it on? Learn your digital rights at Satefyed.org. For more general copyright education, try Copyright Kids.

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Keyword Search

by Barbara J. Feldman July 17, 2002

After you’ve mastered the basics of entering keywords into search engines, the next step in refining your skills is adding the math operators “+” and “-” to your repertoire. The plus symbol in front of a search term means the results must always include that keyword. The minus is used for words you never want [...]

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Long URLs

by Barbara J. Feldman July 8, 2002

If your Web site is on a free server (such as space provided by your Internet service provider or Yahoo! Geocities) you might suffer from long URL syndrome. You know what I mean. Long Web site addresses that look like http://yourinternetserviceprovider/users/~yournamehere/mybestphotos are unwieldy, hard to remember, and difficult to click on in email messages because [...]

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Search Trends

by Barbara J. Feldman July 3, 2002

Whether your work involves spotting trends or you are just plain curious, knowing what millions of people are looking for on the Internet is pretty interesting stuff. Four search engine pages that provide glimpses into search behavior and patterns are Google Zeitgeist ( http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html ), Lycos 50 ( http://50.lycos.com/ ), Jeeves IQ ( http://www.jeevesiq.com/docs/about/jeevesiq.html ) [...]

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