With Google becoming the most popular and most powerful search engine on the Internet, many people have wanted to make it their home page. However, with no link on the Google home page to click to make it one’s home page, it leaves people unsure on how to proceed. Fortunately, making Google your home page is one of the easiest things to do and requires only a few clicks of the mouse. Open up your Internet browser and allow it to load. Chances are, the home page that loaded is Read More

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a application based protocol or set of rules used to transfer files such as text, image, graphics, audio, video and other multimedia files on the World Wide Web. It sets the guidelines on how files and messages are set up and transmitted, and how web servers and browsers should act in response to various instructions. HTTP standards were developed and released as a result of a collaborative effort between the World Wide Web Consortium and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). HTTP 1.1 is the Read More

A pop-up is a type of advertisement that appears when surfing the Internet. Specifically, it is an advertisement that pops up when you happen upon a specific web page. The purpose of a pop-up is to divert your attention from the content that you were reading on the web page and focus on the ad. The ultimate goal is to get you to click the ad to bring traffic to the website or punch in your email in the hopes of gaining a lead. Some popup advertising firms limit popups Read More

Virtual memorials are a way to remember and commemorate a loved one or friend via the web. Virtual memorials usually come in the form of a special domain set up for an individual. However, there are also many web services that offer the ability to create a virtual memorial page and then have it hosted by the service. Virtual memorials can include photos, videos, a slideshow, audio files, etc. of a person that you would like to remember. With virtual memorial services, web page templates are usually available to quickly Read More

With millions of websites on the World Wide Web, it is a daunting task to try and remember their names or addresses. Few famous websites like Google.com or TopBits.com are easily remembered, but smaller and rarely used websites tend to slip of our mind. Hence, all major browsers provide a feature called Bookmarking. Bookmarking is an activity of creating bookmarks within the web browser. A bookmark is essentially a stored link address that, when clicked, will take you to the destination web page. How to Bookmark Internet Explorer Step 1: Read More

Most people that use MSN take advantage of its book marking feature called MSN Favorites. MSN users who come across a great website can easily save the address to visit it later with a simple mouse click. One way in which MSN goes beyond the traditional browser favorites feature is that it allows users to easily save their favorites, even when they are not on their own computers (e.g. work computer). While MSN Favorites has received high marks for its service, it can be quite difficult to export one’s MSN Read More

In the ever-increasing race to create a more user-friendly World Wide Web experience by expanding options for Internet users, the opposite outcome can happen by isolating many users with complex Internet functions, programs, and terminology. So it is nice to see that the Internet user experience is getting easier and less complicated in some ways. One of these ways is with the implementation and use of widgets. The term “widget” can refer to any icon or graphical interface element that is manipulated by the computer or Internet user to perform Read More

A chat room is a virtual place on the Internet where people from all walks of life from around the world can get together in one place and textually chat with one another. The only two things a person needs to connect to a chat room are a computer and a internet connection of any speed. There are, however, Chat Rooms that require client programs, as with IRC (Internet Relay Chat). The term chat room was coined by the mass media as the World Wide Web began to take off Read More

A multi-search engine combines many search engines into one unified search engine. It is a fast and comprehensive way of casting a wide net on the Word Wide Web. There are thousands of search engines on the Internet. Although some are quite good, none of them is comprehensive. Some may use a small database to create your result set, some may not be updated regularly, and still others may be quite slow. Thus, you may need to use several search engines to ensure an all-inclusive search result. Multi-Search engines may Read More

A web browser is a software application that enables users to access the World Wide Web (WWW) or the Internet. Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari are some examples of widely used web browsers. To do this, a web browser must provide the following capabilities: A web browser must be able to understand data protocols utilized by web servers, such as HTML and XHTML. A web browser must be able to format (or render) the output of these languages. Web Browser Protocol Support All web browsers Read More