Tech Tips

August 2003

RSS

by Barbara J. Feldman August 26, 2003

RSS (Rich Site Summary) is an up and coming online format that allows subscribers to receive feeds (such as headlines or full-content newsletters) from their favorite websites. But RSS feeds can not be read by your existing browser or email client; they require a special RSS newsreader. My two favorite RSS readers are NewsGator, and [...]

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Internet Faxing

by Barbara J. Feldman August 19, 2003

There are many ways to send and receive faxes over the Internet. Interpage allows you to send free text faxes from your web browser as a demo of their paid service. eFax is another paid service that allows you to send and receive faxes via e-mail. For reviews and user ratings of over a dozen [...]

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Google Toolbar

by Barbara J. Feldman August 12, 2003

Google , my favorite search engine, is also the publisher of my favorite Internet Explorer add-on: the Google Toolbar. If you are a Windows user with IE version 5 or higher, this handy plug-in will give you in-browser search, the ability to highlight your search terms on a page found via search, and a handy [...]

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Segregating Newsletters

by Barbara J. Feldman August 5, 2003

In these days of e-mail overload, segregating newsletter subscriptions into a separate e-mail account can be just what you need to help you cope. Free web accounts are perfect for this, as long as you remember to login frequently and delete old messages so you don’t exceed your storage limit. Hotmail is a particularly good [...]

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Trellian

by Barbara J. Feldman August 2, 2003

If you are a big instant message user, you probably have accounts with multiple vendors such as IRC, AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo! Messenger. But switching between so many applications can be cumbersome. Trellian gives Windows users access to all their instant message accounts from one application. There are free and fee versions to fit [...]

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