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The Internet: A look into its fascinating history (02/13/2011)
(...) Because of this need, someone wrote a program that allowed text messages to be sent from one node to another. Electronic mail was born.
While ARPANET quickly gained popularity in research and academic circles, many years passed before the public at large became aware of it. (...)
Internet protocols are known as IP and TCP (02/13/2011)
(...) A node cannot directly use a domain name to send data, but it can use it to acquire the IP address it needs. A special computer called a domain name server, or DNS, can return the IP address for a given domain name.
Because so many computers use the Internet now, most home users are not given a permanent IP address in the way that a Web site is. (...)
Browsers, exact layout and web programming (02/13/2011)
(...) In a perfect world, all browsers would display the same page in exactly the same way. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Early in the history of the Web and HTML, the companies developing browsers were in a hurry to introduce new features, moving faster than the organization responsible for developing HTML itself. (...)
Government decisions regarding the use of the Internet (02/13/2011)
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From the amount of deposits, the bank can make some assumptions about the overall financial status of the depositor and may target offers based on these assumptions. To most people, this practice crosses no boundary. If, however, someone receives a mailing from Big Lots because the bank has identified him or her as a small depositor and passed this information on, the person may feel that a trust has been violated. (...)
Your online social life also has downsides you must be aware of (01/15/2011)
(...) When it comes time for you personally to apply to a college or for a job, you will be doing fairly much the same sort of thing: putting yourself and your experiences in a neat package and presenting it to someone else to evaluate, hoping they'll choose you.
In a less formal way, you do something like this whenever you meet someone in a social scenario: You select the clothing and arrange your hair and do whatever else you do to show the image you would like to present. And then you polish your lines so that the people you meet wish to include you in their world. (...)
4 things to be aware of on social networks (01/15/2011)
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Don't say you are 18 if you're really a few years younger. For that matter, don't say you're 18 if you're 17 years and 11 months old; there is a large distinction in many states that impact the rights and responsibilities of minors and adults.
The same goes the other direction. (...)
Basic ways to shop online and how each one works (01/15/2011)
(...) The way eBay works is to serve as a vast, highly organized electronic flea marketplace that matches sellers with shoppers. You can sell your closetful of Beanie Babies or your drawerful of last month's hottest video games with out having to speak to or meet the buyer.
All you need to complete is list the items, send them by mail or delivery service, and collect the money by check or direct deposit into your bank account. (...)
Risks of online auctions and how to avoid them (01/15/2011)
(...) " The product might be new, reconditioned, or used.
Make sure you find out which category items applies. Items that are used, reconditioned, or sold on the gray market may not have a full manufacturer's warranty or might not have any guarantee at all. (...)
Understanding online auctions and making payment (01/15/2011)
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Buy it now
Some sellers conduct an auction but also list a "buy it now" price. In that situation, anyone who offers that quantity can win the item instantly. If there is only one with the items provided for sale, the auction ends; if there is more than one item available, other people can continue to make offers. (...)
Think like an employer when looking for a job on the Internet (01/15/2011)
(...) If there's a reason why you cannot list a reference for all of your current employers, give an explanation in the résumé or your cover letter. For example, "My former employer, Ace Speedy Messenger Service, is no longer in business."
Don't assume that employers will call only the references you list or that they may not call a place if you don't provide a name. (...)
How you can protect yourself from dangerous file sharing (01/15/2011)
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Unless you have a very good reason to complete so, set up your P2P software so that your computer is not connected to the network all the time. Be sure you understand how the service operates; some file-sharing networks automatically load every time you turn on your machine and might be active in the background even if you aren't using the network yourself.
Run an individual scan on any downloaded file before you first play it or use it. (...)
Understand file sharing and be careful when sharing files online (01/15/2011)
(...) Like an electronic chain letter, it does not take many actions before your computer is recognized to hundreds of thousands of other people - most of them strangers.
Once your machine is on the network, it can then search through any shared directories it finds. If you are looking for a particular song, your computer will hunt from machine to machine in search of it. (...)
Nigerian scams are cross border email scams (01/15/2011)
(...) government has agreements with most countries across the world that allows the arrest and prosecution of people who attempt to run away; the same applies amongst all the states.
But in the modern Internet world, things have gotten sticky when someone attempts or really commits a crime from outside the United States against an American citizen. As a consumer, you should be extremely careful about any provide you obtain from someone outside of your home country. (...)
Multilevel marketing scams also happen online (01/15/2011)
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Again, think about the math. In theory, the person in the top of this pyramid stands to make money from dozens or hundreds or thousands of people who buy into the MLM scheme. The further down the chain you are, the smaller your cut. (...)
Ordering medication over the Internet can be a dangerous thing (01/15/2011)
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Many of the prescription drugs that you purchase at your neighborhood pharmacy might actually have been manufactured in foreign countries. But they are made for main companies, pass American inspection, and almost usually are precisely what your physician has ordered. You do not have those same promises if you buy on the gray market. (...)
How to manage the information you get online (09/10/2010)
(...) Roper Starch Worldwide, a marketing firm, calls not finding what you want "web rage." A survey by Roper Starch Worldwide found that seventy-one percent of internet users regularly encountered frustration during searches about twelve minutes after trying to make sense out of inaccurate or irrelevant search site results. But there are lots of ways to organize your information and reduce information overload. (...)
What types of public records can be found on the Internet (09/01/2010)
(...) Several companies offer nationwide bankruptcy indices, including Lexis-Nexis, Banko, ChoicePoint and Merlin Data Systems.
Corporate Records
To do business in your state, a corporation must register with the Secretary of State's Office, which in most states collects and maintains extensive information on corporations, other business entities, and some political contribution records, depending on the state. Most offices have some sort of an online presence, but actual availability varies by state. (...)
Where to search for fictitious business name statements (09/01/2010)
(...) Most likely you will find them at county or city level sites. The assessor's records are updated annually and generally searchable up to five different ways - by name, property address, legal description, file number issued, or physical location. The file will likely refer to the property deed on file at the recorder's office, so it makes sense to visit the assessor first. (...)
Records and certificates that you can find online (09/01/2010)
(...) The actual records often include much detail about the divorcing couple - everything from assets to pet custody.
Death Certificates
Death certificates lead you to the existence of possible probate court filings. Probate court records, in turn, might provide the names of relatives and other family members, as well as lists of liabilities and assets. (...)
Vehicle recods and consumer affairs records can also be found online (09/01/2010)
(...) States differentiate between permissible uses - fourteen are designated in DPPA - and casual requesters to determine who may receive a record and/or how much personal information is reported on the record. Effective June 2000, if a state DMV chooses to sell a record to a "casual requester," the record can contain personal information only with the consent of the subject.
A 2001 amendment to the DPPA prohibits the states from selling lists of drivers or vehicle owners to commercial vendors and marketers unless the driver "Opts in. (...)
Were to find online versions of TV news (09/01/2010)
(...) Others require passwords or payment. Some publications provide access to one or two stories to encourage you to purchase the hard copy of the magazine, and still others provide free access to that day's news, but make money by selling copies of archived material for a modest fee.
More In-depth Coverage of a Subject
Generally speaking, the free news resources do not come anywhere close to replacing commercial online news databases; the main commercial news vendors are Factiva, Thomson's Dialog, and LexisNexis. (...)
Comparison between free and fee news sites (09/01/2010)
(...) One example is the relaying of Federal Reserve Board announcements that influence the world markets. News wires are staples of online news services and key components of news filtering tools.
International news wires all operate differently and have varying standards of editorial quality, journalistic integrity, and credibility. (...)
Advantages and disadvatages of using toolbars (08/28/2010)
(...) Most will not work if you have a version of IE before 5.0.
Advantages of toolbars
All web browsers have a variety of operations, so what are the advantages of adding a toolbar? Toolbars provide all kinds of quick links, search tools, and easy to use features into a small part of your browser screen. (...)
Local searching will become the new trend of the Internet (08/28/2010)
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At the summit, Yahoo! and AOL officials said that about five percent of all searches through the main search bar included explicit local terms such as a city, area, or neighborhood. In addition, the officials said that between fifteen and thirty percent of all searches wanted a local result, but did not include a local search term. For example, they suggested that a search for "auto repair" probably wanted local auto repair shops instead of the sites on the history of auto repair. (...)
How to search for help on the Internet and find it quickly (08/28/2010)
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If you cannot find something, do not despair: somewhere on the 'Net is someone who knows about the subject you are looking for. There are several types of discussion groups, chat rooms and other interactive resources. Many of them accommodate unconventional points of view and personal accounts. (...)
Voice and video chat became some of the best features of the Internet (08/28/2010)
(...) Internet telephony companies have been converting sound into data packets since the mid-1990s. With the right equipment, you can make a one-to-one call from a personal computer to a telephone, and the other way, or go from phone to phone. To cut costs and without us knowing it, many long-distance phone services now route calls over the Internet by using the same technology as voice chat. (...)
Use fee based online services in a smart way (08/28/2010)
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If you are looking for news archives, many news-based websites will provide a few weeks for free. For more obscure or specialized trade publications, or anything more than six months back, you will have to use a fee-based database. If language is the determining factor, then you are best to use a free web-based tool if you are fluent in that language. (...)
Subject directories and their most common characteristics (08/27/2010)
(...) Commercial web directories focus on advertising and other ways to generate a profit.
You can tell the non-commercial directories because they have no advertising, and they look for quality and authority of the underlying content rather than trying to create the largest directory. Several general directories put together by non-commercial organizations are excellent alternative resources for Internet researchers. (...)
When to use a subject directory and not a search engine (08/27/2010)
(...) If you are set on going to Grenada, you would be better off submitting "Grenada" to a search engine.
Popular topics and subject directories
Let us say you are looking for information about basketball superstar Shaquille O'Neal. Logically, you would start looking under basketball. (...)
Why and how do spammers get my email address (08/23/2010)
(...) Spammers cull names and addresses from the email headers.
From "do not mail" lists - which are often sold to the very advertisers you want to avoid.
In databases of list brokers who sell and buy lists, including lists built by computers. (...)
How to save links and use compression to send compressed files (08/23/2010)
(...) Normally, compression reduces files between forty to seventy-five percent of their size. If you want to transfer a file or group of files across the Internet, it is a lot faster to transfer a compressed file than an uncompressed one.
How does it work? It gets kind of techno-geekish, but all compression programs rely on the fact that there are many instances of lengthy, repeated information in program code. (...)
Detect computer viruses before they attack your system (08/23/2010)
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In Windows 2000, users will find the settings under the "Tools" menu, then click "Folder Option," click on the "File Types" tab and then select whichever programs you want to see the extension on and click the "Advanced button." Then check the box "Always Show Extension." In Windows XP, users will find the settings under the Tools menu, then select "Folder Options" and "View," and uncheck "Hide Extensions for known file types. (...)
Crawlers and the way they work (08/23/2010)
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These pages that fall through the cracks are part of what Price and Sherman describe as the "invisible web," an area that is growing considerably larger than the huge growth of the Internet. A Cyveillance.com study of July, 2001 estimated the size of the Internet at 2. (...)
How to understand what Internet protocols are (08/21/2010)
(...) The receiving computer tests to ensure that all the packets arrive correctly, and if errors are found, it asks the original computer to send the packet again.
The specification standards by which all these computers send each other information - or "talk" - are called protocols. There are hundreds of different types of protocols including ones to send email and ones to copy files from one place to another. (...)
What is a URL and how do domain names work (08/21/2010)
(...) (or "dot") - is a two- or three-letter abbreviation that indicates the top-level domain. This part of the domain tells you the kind of organization the website you are looking at is, or the country where the host server is located.
What are HTML tags and how do they work? Will they be around for a long time?
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is a set of special codes referred to as "tags," which instruct a web browser how to display a hypertext document. (...)
What is a browser and how to customize it (08/21/2010)
(...) The intense, costly battle has prompted steady improvements to the browsers. Both companies provide free versions and if you have one, you should definitely check out the other as each has different features. There are differences between the Mac and Windows versions. (...)
How to follow and remember your favorite websites (08/21/2010)
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Beware of the temptation to put hundreds and thousands of sites into your bookmark list. Often when people do this, they cannot locate the one site they really need when they are looking for it. Instead you may want to pick the handful of sites you will regularly use and bookmark those. (...)
Speed up page loading with these simple tips (08/21/2010)
(...) com. Because IE will fill in the rest of the site, all you need to type is "phonebashing" and hit "Ctrl+Enter" and IE will bring you to whatever the domain you chose by automatically adding the .com part. (...)
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