Online tutoring is the use of the Internet for tutoring activities. It is the process by which a student learns via the Internet with the help of an subject matter expert or a tutor. This type of tutoring can make use of several web-based programs to achieve its goals. Some of these programs or applications are email, an instant messaging, online whiteboards (as provided with Microsoft netmeeting), etc. Through these programs or applications a tutor can send quizzes, receive accomplished exams, send quiz results and recommendations, teach concepts, etc. Moreover, Read More

More and more people are realizing that they can connect with people through Internet radio stations and that, for the first time, the average individual who doesn’t have the backing of a major radio station can still gain the support of thousands of listeners. With this in mind, more and more people are moving into the Internet radio station niche and creating all different sorts of radio stations. Some play different types of music while others are talk radio stations. Regardless of the type, creating a internet radio station is Read More

Many businesses have realized that a fan page on Facebook is a very inexpensive way to get more traffic to their website and to bring more customers in the front doors. By getting people to become fans, a business is able to target them, send them messages and let them know about specials and deals. Big businesses and small businesses alike have all started creating pages. Doing so isn't difficult at all. To begin with, login to your Facebook account. You'll need an account to do this so create one Read More

Most Internet users need to block websites at some point. Reasons for doing so include keeping known malicious or spam-ridden sites from being loaded onto the computer and preventing children from accessing adult or other content. Users may block a website via existing tools or browser options on the computer, third party applications, or browser ad-ons. How to Block Websites on Safari If the computer has Mac OS X, the user can block websites on the Safari web browser via the operating system’s built-in parental controls applications. This program can Read More

Spam is unsolicited e-mail which is sent in massive quantities to unsuspecting Internet email users. Most spam tries to sell products and services such as mortage refinancing, memberships to pornograpic web sites, and drugs such as Viagra. A more dangerous category of spam tries to convince the recipient to share their bank account numbers, credit card numbers, or logins and passwords to their online banking systems or services such as eBay and PayPal. Spam is sometimes referred to as Unsolicited Commercial E-Mail (UCE). Not all spam is commercial. Some spam Read More

NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) is the protocol used by Usenet news servers and clients (readers). Usenet is a huge shared message system which is used on the Internet. Usenet consists of newsgroups such as comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video and rec.collecting.sport.hockey. The NNTP protocol exists on the Application Layer of the OSI Model. NNTP utilizes TCP port 119; NNTP with SSL utilizes TCP port 563. NNTP Servers Popular NNTP servers include INN and Diablo. NNTP Clients Pan is a newsreader for the Gnome environment, which runs under Unix, Linux, Mac OS, and Microsoft Read More

iTunes is a popular free digital media application provided by Apple for use on the iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac and PCs. After being used for a significant amount of time users may accrue a large number of songs in the iTunes library, increasing the chances that some of them may be duplicates. Finding and deleting duplicate songs may save a significant amount of space, depending on how many duplicate songs exist. How to Consolidate the iTunes Music Library If users have only purchased music through the iTunes or Amazon music Read More

CAPTCHA is actually an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”. As the name implies, it is a computer-generated test which aims to separate a bot (automated program) from a live, breathing human being online. The “Turing” refers to Alan Turing, a computer scientist who, in the 1950s, undertook research to distinguish a man from a machine. CAPTCHA typically involves a computer which ‘serves up’ a puzzle (this usually involves number and/or letter combinations) that a user has to input into a designated box Read More

Changing a Facebook layout at the moment is only possible through single sided, third party applications. Most of the services that allow this only work on the user’s side and no one else is able to see any of the changes that have been made. It is important to note that a majority of the Facebook layout services take the form of spyware/adware, which generally make them bad for computer systems. The other problem with these limited Facebook layout services is the fact that they do not work on all Read More

Yahoo Mail is an email software that Yahoo provides that comes with every new Yahoo account. Yahoo Mail allows users to receive email, compose new messages, and organize email in different ways, much like many other browser based email clients. Yahoo Mail also automatically detects spam and forwards it to the user’s Spam folder without ever alerting the user to the numerous junk messages accumulated.   Yahoo Email Clients Although Yahoo Mail should never stop working properly, the user’s account may be deleted or become inaccessible for a number of Read More