Even if you’ve only recently opened up a MySpace, there is a good chance that you are receiving emails and profile comments from your friends and others who you do not know. In order to access your MySpace inbox messages, follow these simple steps below. First, log into your MySpace account with your email address and password, and press the login button. You will be taken to your main MySpace control center page, where you can edit your profile or your account information from the links near your selected picture. Read More

Mozilla Firefox, which the Mozilla Foundation runs and Netscape owns, is a powerful web browser that allows users to browse the Internet, play online games, and check email. Since Mozilla Firefox was designed to be efficient, functional, and user friendly, users are able to easily access administrative tools from the Firefox button, obtain step-by-step support from the Firefox Support Homepage, and access thousands of free add-ons that no other web browser provides. Because of these features, Mozilla Firefox is one of the most widely used web browsers in the world. 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

  XML (Extensible Markup Language) has become one of the most widely used methods to represent information in a self-describing format across computing devices running all manner of operating systems and programming languages. XML is designed to transport and store information independent of how it may be viewed, displayed, or otherwise processed in a simple, formatted manner. Similar to HTML in concept, the qualities of XML allow it to be used as a universal data format that web services and other applications can leverage to build complex web services or Read More

Hotlinking, also known as deep linking, occurs when one web site links directly to graphics files on another web site. The site which serves the images pays for the bandwidth. The site which links to the images gets free content for its users. Many webmasters object to being hotlinked to, but hotlinking is difficult to prevent. Preventing Hotlinking with Apache On an Apache web server, you can use mod_rewrite and .htaccess to prevent any web page other than your own from accessing your graphic images. Your .htaccess rule to block Read More

A JavaScript redirect can be used to redirect a visitor from one webpage to another. This could be your site moving to a new domain. Some download sites have a time delay during redirections, which is basically the JavaScript redirect in action. If you are having some external servers mirror your site for you, you would need JavaScript redirect. Implementing the JavaScript Redirect First open up your HTML page (most often the index.html) and within the tags, place the following code: <script type=”text/javascript”> <!– window.location = “http://www.byteguide.com” //–> </script> Note 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

Apple TV is a streaming digital media receiver that Apple Inc. markets. The first mention of the design was in 2006 at a press conference held as the iTV project in San Francisco. It was debuted as Apple TV in March of 2007 and was shipped to users who had pre-ordered the device. In September of 2010, the 2ng generation of the Apple TV device was announced. Both Apple TV generations were designed to work with the Apple iTunes store and for the user to share content from his/her computer 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

Whenever Internet Explorer is used to browse the Internet and view pages, a copy of the most frequently visited web pages’ files and graphics are automatically stored by in the computer hard disk. As such, when a particular web page is requested, Internet Explorer just pulls the required graphics and files up from the temporary Internet files folder located in the hard disk instead of loading the entire page and its elements from the Web. This facilitates easier transition from page to page if multiple tabs are open. This also Read More