In a basic email system, incoming and/or read emails are automatically saved onto the user’s browser-based email account. These messages can be accessed from any browser in the world. To access old emails offline, however, the user must download and install an email client and then download his/her emails to that client. This is relatively easy to do and there are a number of email clients that users can choose from. To make the selection easier, several free, cross-platform email clients are listed below. Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is a Read More

Websense is a company that has created web filtering software called the same name- Websense. Web filtering software is designed to limit an end users access to specific sites on the Internet. Websense was started in 1994 by Phil Trubey and is one of the most popularly used web filtering software packages available. This type of software can be used by many different types of organizations and for many different purposes. Organizations that use Websense and what Websense is mainly used for Many different types of organizations can use Websense Read More

An intranet is an internal or restricted access network. It is very similar to the Internet except it is used within organizations and businesses. The intranet uses the same types of web technologies that the normal Internet (or extranet) uses, except the content and data that is transmitted and received occurs internally. An intranet website appears like a regular website, but instead of being available to any random visitor on the World Wide Web, instead, it is only available to those that have access to the server. In other words, Read More

WAMP is a mini-server that runs on almost any Windows Operating System. WAMP has Apache 2, PHP 5 (SMTP ports are disabled), and MySQL (phpMyAdmin and SQLitemanager are installed to manage the user’s databases) pre-installed. An icon on the taskbar tray displays WAMP’s status, which lets the user know if: a) WAMP is running but no services are opened (the icon will appear red), b) WAMP is running and one service is opened (the icon will appear yellow), or c) WAMP is running with all services opened (the icon will Read More

Apple iTunes is a favorite for downloading inexpensive music right to one's computer. Before iTunes, most people got their music by going out and buying CDs or downloading illegal versions of the song. However, this led to viruses. What it demonstrated, though, was that people were not always interested in entire albums, but instead, in particular songs. This led to the iTunes revolution. Downloading music on iTunes is not difficult. To begin with, make sure to download the latest version of iTunes. Every time you turn on the program, it Read More

Closing a GMail account may be required for several reasons. People who create a Gmail account and no longer need it may want to close it. Closing a GMail account only takes a moment if these steps are followed: Step 1 – Getting Online Go online and open a Google browser. The Google.com address is usually the simplest to navigate from. Step 2 – Signing into Google Accounts Click the “Sign In” option in the top right corner of Google. This will prompt you to sign into your Google account. Read More

Google is the most widely used search engine on the web. It has a 65% market share and despite the fact that Yahoo and Bing are gaining some traction, it continues to rank as the favorite. While doing a very basic search on Google is very simple, searching for anything slightly complex can be tricky. Therefore, it is important to conduct a proper search to get the desired results. Searching by Region One of Google’s most important characteristics is its billions, if not trillions of indexed pages. Therefore, if a Read More

Yahoo Messenger is an instant messaging software provided by the popular search engine company, Yahoo. Yahoo Messenger allows users to communicate with each other via instant messages, SMS messages, and emails. Yahoo Messenger also allows users to view each other’s Yahoo profiles and share files. Although there are some slight differences, Yahoo Messenger is available as both a desktop instant messaging software of the same name and a browser-based messenger called Yahoo Web Messenger.   How To Launch Yahoo Messenger Users can launch Yahoo Messenger by downloading and installing the Read More

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language, and is used to describe the visual appearance of a document to be displayed by a internet browser. HTML documents consist of document tags which act to directly describe the visual appearance of a web page or to provide a directive command such as inserting imagery or a link to another web page within a document. HTML documents are saved in text format and are designed to be viewed or edited on any operating system that is able to connect to the Internet. XHTML Read More

robots.txt is a text file which can be used to restrict web robots to accessing your web site only in ways of which you approve. This robots.txt file blocks Google's Imagebot from the entire web site: User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: / For more information on robots.txt, read A Standard for Robot Exclusion. Check the Syntax of your robots.txt Several web-based tools are available which will retrieve the robots.txt file from your web site and check it for syntax errors. Robots.txt Checker Robots.txt Validator Robots.txt syntax checker Bad Robots Some web robots Read More