Tech Tips

March 2003

Google News

by Barbara J. Feldman March 25, 2003

Google News allows you to limit your news article searches to one publication with the use of the “source:” parameter. For example, to search for news on “Iraq” from the BBC, use “iraq source:bbc”. For publications with multiple words, use an underscore instead of a space. “UN source:new_york_times” will search the New York Times for [...]

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Dictionary and Thesaurs

by Barbara J. Feldman March 18, 2003

For those times when a dictionary is nowhere in sight, but your email-enabled cell phone is handy, check out the free dictionary and thesaurus email services from Wordsmith.org. To access, send an email to wsmith@wordsmith.org with a command (“define” or “synonym”) followed by your word in the subject line. For example to get a definition [...]

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Saving Web Pages

by Barbara J. Feldman March 12, 2003

When you save an Internet page with Internet Explorer, a folder is created on your hard disk to store all the images needed to properly recall the page. A neater, more compact way of saving a Web page locally is to save it as a single file in Web archive format with a “.mht” extension. [...]

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Toolbars

by Barbara J. Feldman March 4, 2003

The buttons and links on your browser can be changed and moved around. In both Internet Explorer and Netscape, you can drag and drop toolbars (sets of buttons) by pushing the left-hand vertical bar around. When you are happy with your layout, Internet Explorer (but not Netscape) allows you to fix the toolbar locations by [...]

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