Uninstalling Internet Explorer because it is giving problems or for any other reason is a relatively simple task. How to Uninstall Internet Explorer Click the “Start” button on the desktop’s bottom left hand corner. Double click “Control Panel.” The Control Panel window will open and display a variety of tasks. Double click “Add or Remove Programs.” The “Add or Remove Programs” window opens and displays a list of programs on the computer. Find the version of “Internet Explorer” that is installed on the computer. Click it once to highlight it. Read More

Facebook is designed for various purposes, including social networking, communications and gaming. This combination of functions makes Facebook popular with people of all ages. The target audience has shifted from college students to teenagers, middle aged and even elderly. The Facebook website concept was originally “FaceMash”. It started in 2003 and then evolved into “TheFacebook” which made a great success in a short period of time. It shortened the name to simply Facebook.com. The Importance of Social Networking The concept of Facebook was originally very simple. It was designed to allow people Read More

A spam filter is a piece of software that filters incoming email to separate unwanted email–junk email commonly referred to as spam–and normal, desirable email. Spam is something that no one wants because, while it is annoying, it can also hold viruses, malware and other programs that can do considerable damage to one's computer. Therefore, a spam filter is an important asset to the computer's longevity. A spam filter works by comparing certain details of an email to a long list of rules. For example, it checks out the title Read More

A mashup is anything that results from a combination of data from different sources. Mashups could be accessed and found across the World Wide Web. It is considered to be one of the new types of web content today – an indication of the Web 2.0 phenomenon. A mashup usually refers to the merging of two or more sets of content from different sources using a web application. A good example of a mashup site is the www.chicagocrime.org. This website is a result of the merging or “mashup” of Google Read More

As the Internet has expanded and it has become cheaper to host files on the Internet, more and more people have been using online file storage. What an online file storage provider allows is for an individual or a company to take important files on their computer–be they text, image, video or music–and transfer them to the Internet. This results in two benefits. The first is that the files can be pulled from the Internet on any computer. The second is that, if something were to happen to the computer, Read More

Usenet is a global Internet discussion system. It was created and implemented by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis in 1979. It comprises of a collection of newsgroups that are classified and structured on the basis of subject. Messages or articles are placed and read by users within these newsgroups. Usenet is considered the predecessor of today’s Internet forums. Usenet is distributed through an informally connected variable server mesh. It does not use the traditional central server setup nor does it have a dedicated server. In simple terms, Usenet permits newsgroup Read More

If you are using Yahoo Messenger With Voice, you have the option of using your Yahoo ID profile or creating up to five different profiles. A Yahoo Messenger profile is a unique way of creating a short homepage to let people know information about you. By creating different profiles, you can select a different one while using Yahoo services. For example, if you are using Yahoo Messenger, you can create a business profile with information containing your business website and services offered by your company. Another example would be to Read More

OBL is “Out Bound Links” — these are links from your web site to other web sites. IBL is “In Bound Links” — these are links from other web sites to your web site. Inbound links are also referred to as “backlinks”. Inbound links are very important in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) because inbound links raise your Page Rank (PR), which in turn raises your SERPS.

There are times when someone on Facebook can become a little too annoying and deleting them is the only thing left to do to ensure that they leave you alone. Deleting a friend is not difficult, but it is permanent. Once you delete them, you’ll have to add them all over again, so make sure you want them gone. You will no longer have access to view their wall and their pictures. Before making any attempt at deleting anyone, you need to be logged in. Therefore, log into your Facebook Read More

You must have heard about Yahoo Widgets? The most recent Windows Vista operating system even has Yahoo Widgets which can be seen on the desktop, but they are also common on computers with the Mac OS X system. Yahoo Widgets were known as Konfabulator in the past; they came to be known as Yahoo Widgets after the original company was taken over by Yahoo. JavaScript Yahoo Widgets run on the JavaScript runtime environment, so your computer must have the JRE engine running. Yahoo Widgets are really just small applications that Read More