Tech Tips

July 2006

1-Click Answers

by Barbara J. Feldman July 25, 2006

Finding answers to simple questions (“Where is Basle?”) is pretty easy if you are in a browser. For those time when you not, 1-Click Answers is a free tool from Answers.com that provides short pop-up answers in any computer application, such as a word processor or PDF document. The small answer screen will not interrupt [...]

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What is a Permalink?

by Barbara J. Feldman July 18, 2006

If you’ve spent any time wandering around the blogosphere (the world of web logs and social networking) you’ll have come across the term “permalink”, a concatenation of “permanent” and “link.” Because blogs post only the most recent stories on their front pages, the permalink gives you a URL where a story will always be accessible, [...]

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Default Browser Search Engine

by Barbara J. Feldman July 11, 2006

Many people do not realize that their browser address bar can act as a search engine. For example, instead of a URL, you can enter a search query, such as “Who is Barbara Feldman?” Here are instructions from Google on how to change your default search engine. Of course, these instructions assume you are changing [...]

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