Streaming audio involves transmitting music files over the Internet in real-time and playing it on a client-side computer as it arrives. Streaming is different than podcasts because it allows for continuous, live music rather than scheduled uploads. Streaming is often used for music, talk radio, and live web events by radio hosts, politicians, and even average people. Streaming audio can be entertaining, useful, and fun but to do it, the user needs a service that allows them to stream audio to the Internet. Several of these services are listed below. Read More

Backing up your Internet Explorer Favorites is very important. By doing this regularly, you will be able to retrieve your favorite URLs in the event that your personal computer crashes. Backing up your Internet Explorer Favorites is certainly preferable to having to search for your favorite websites again and building up your bookmark list from scratch. Steps to Backup your Internet Explorer Favorites For Internet explorer, you can back up your bookmarks by doing the following: Click on the file tab at the top of the page and choose import Read More

Users of popular instant messaging services such as MSN messenger or the Microsoft Live services may run into the dilemma of one or more of their contacts blocking them. This curiosity can really cause issues, especially if the person on the other end is of some importance to the user. The ability to check the person’s status is really dependent on a variety of factors. In essence, users are not supposed to know who blocked or deleted them unless they are told. The program was designed to help ensure the Read More

Skype is an instant messaging software that the international community uses because of its vast collection of features and interactive social networking options. Although Skype was first introduced as a basic instant messaging software, it has included audio and video conversations to its tool set over recent years. Additionally, each user has a unique profile and can modify text via font options and emoticons while conducting audio and video conversations with the aid of a microphone and/or webcam.   What is Skype Video? Skype Video is a Skype feature that Read More

MILNET (Military Network) is the traditional part of ARPANET (Advanced Research Project Agency Network) that was assigned to be the backbone for the U.S. Department of Defense’s unclassified Internet email and web traffic. ARPANET referred to the entire network and later evolved to what is known as the Internet today. MILNET split away from ARPANET in 1983 so that additional security protocols could be added to MILNET, which would be used with sensitive but unclassified U.S. Military/government transmissions. ARPANET focused primarily on academic research and evolved into modern day Internet. 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

SMTP is short for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and it is used to transfer e-mail messages between computers. It is a text based protocol in which message text is specified along with the recipients of the message. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol is a 'push' protocol and it cannot be used to 'pull' the messages from the server. A procedure of queries and responses is used to send the message between the client and the server. An end user's e-mail client or the relaying server's Mail Transport Agents can act as Read More

Social networking websites distract students at school much like how they distract employees at work, so many schools block Facebook on their computers. However, students can still access Facebook while at school by using a proxy server that the school’s network has not disabled.   What is a Proxy Server? A proxy server is one that reroutes browsing activity through its own hardware, hides the user’s IP address, and allows the user to access websites that have been blocked or disabled on his/her own network. Though a school’s network may Read More

Affiliate programs are a way to make money with your website without actually selling anything. Affiliate programs enable the webmaster (publisher) to display advertisements and be paid for doing so. Types of Affiliate Programs There are three types of affiliate programs: Pay Per Impression (PPI) Pay Per Click (PPC) Commission Pay Per Impression (PPI) Affiliate Programs Pay Per Impression (PPI) affiliate programs pay the webmaster (publisher) a very small amount of money each time a user sees an advertisement. Pay Per Impression (PPI) programs have become significantly less popular with Read More

Yahoo password recovery methods include: Reset your Yahoo password online Recover your Yahoo password from your web browser Recover your stored password from the Windows Registry Reset your Yahoo password The easiest way to recover a Yahoo password is to go to the Yahoo! Sign-in Problems page. To use this page, first enter your Date of Birth, Zip Code, and Country to verify your identity. Next, enter your Yahoo ID and Yahoo will e-mail your Yahoo password to the e-mail account associated with it. If you can not remember your Read More