Tech Tips

June 2004

Opening Email Attachments

by Barbara J. Feldman June 29, 2004

Although you are wise not to open email attachments you are not expecting (even when sent from someone you know), sometimes an attachment needs to be opened. The most reliable way to deal with attachments is to download and save them to your computer, rather then opening them on the fly. Be sure to remember [...]

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Wikipedia

by Barbara J. Feldman June 28, 2004

Wikipedia ( http://www.wikipedia.org/ ) is an open-content encyclopedia that you can both read and contribute to. This collaborative, open-source resource is one of the largest of its kind. Topics are organized in a variety of ways, including Dewey Decimal, alphabetically, and chronologically. Become an active contributor, or just browse by hitting the “random page” button. [...]

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Google Local

by Barbara J. Feldman June 13, 2004

Google Local offers a local search for businesses and services by keyword and zip code, or city and state. For example, you can search for coffee (or Starbucks) using either your city and state or zip code. Each result is linked to Mapquest driving directions, or you can see all the results plotted on a [...]

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Writing URLs

by Barbara J. Feldman June 11, 2004

When writing about your website, should you include the “http://” in your URL? Here’s a rule of thumb. For offline use, such as business cards and envelopes, drop the “http://” prefix. But for anything electronic, such as word processing documents or e-mail messages, always include the “http://” because in many applications it makes your link [...]

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Spyware

by Barbara J. Feldman June 8, 2004

If you and your computer are suffering from an endless stream of pop-ups, the culprit may be spyware, software inadvertently installed on your computer that watches what you do, where you go, and serves up ads based on your actions. Spybot Search & Destroy is a free Windows tool that will disinfect your machine. More [...]

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Search Engine Robots

by Barbara J. Feldman June 8, 2004

If you have a website and occasionally look at your site traffic logs, you may notice visits from robots with funny names like Slurp, Scooter, or GoogleBot. These automated programs are search engine robots that crawl the Web looking for pages to add to their search data bases. To learn which robots belong to which [...]

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