Cybersquatting refers to using, trafficking in or registering a domain name with the intention of taking advantage of the popularity of another company’s trademark. These cybersquatters generally register these domains before the target company, thus forcing the latter to buy the domain from them at a higher price. Cybersquatting comes from the term squatting, which describes the act of occupying a land, building or any other property without the knowledge or permission of the owner. In a sense, cybersquatting entails cybersquatters registering a company or a trademark for his domain Read More

Web hosting works by taking a website and connecting it to the Internet. Because the Internet is a collection of millions of computers all connected together, a web host has a series of servers that are connected to high speed Internet lines that allow data packets to be sent to and from the individual websites on the server. Web hosting works by handling a multitude of different websites on the World Wide Web. A web host works by serving the web page that is requested by a browser. For example, Read More

Different media types can be displayed on a Facebook account through one’s profile page wall and status updates that are posted in one’s news feed. One of the most attractive media types that one can provide is video. Videos on Facebook add the elements of motion picture and sound rather than just a series of photos on the page. Posting a video on Facebook is possible through a variety of methods. Each method has its advantages and disadvantages.   Record a Video Facebook is equipped with the ability to capture Read More

How to Prevent Caching The web documents, media and other web resources that are retrieved by a web browser are often saved, or cached, locally on the user’s hard drive. Caching reduces load times when a user browses the Internet by reducing the amount of new data that needs to be transferred. The next time the cached media or web resource is requested, the web browser may load the local (cached) file instead of downloading it over the Internet. Caching may be desirable for web content that doesn’t change often, Read More

One of the many features that Google offers to users is their maps program called Google Maps. Similar to MapQuest, this service allows people to get directions from point A to point B as well as provides numerous different routes based on their users’ needs. Not only does Google Maps help users to get from point A to point B in car, they also provide information about using public transportation. Specifically, users can determine which train they have to take and how long it is going to take using that Read More

Almost every anonymous proxy on the Internet runs either PHProxy or CGIProxy. You cannot access MySpace anonymously using a PHProxy. PHProxy removes all traces of anonymity whilst having Client-Side Scripting enabled. CGIProxy has Client-Side Scripting Enabled and still offers full anonymity. You can still use PHProxy to access MySpace, but you will not be anonymous. Why CGIProxy? CGIProxy offers full anonymity, no matter what it is that you do with it (unless the code has been edited to use PHP/MySQL queries); a PHProxy only offers full anonymity when the default Read More

The World Wide Web (commonly known as ‘The Web’ and abbreviated as WWW or W3) is a way of accessing information over the internet. Typically these two terms are used interchangeably, but there is a very real and significant difference between them. The Internet is a medium which consists of a network of computers connected on a global level. Any computer can communicate with any other as long as they are both connected to the network. The World Wide Web, however, is an information centric model built on top of Read More

Mozilla Firefox is a web browser that the Mozilla Foundation runs and NetScape owns. It provides users with add-ons and plug-ins that other web browsers do not, while allowing them to browse the Internet, search for and read email, and play online games. Mozilla Firefox also provides users with advanced options for controlling how webpages are displayed and recorded, as well as how they interact with computers. These advanced options are easy to access and do not require the user to have an advanced understanding of web options.   How Read More

New users and those who have not yet used iTunes may have a difficult time getting their music into their iTunes library. The process is relatively simple and can be done in a variety of ways. The most common ways to transfer music to the iTunes library are: Songs from Music CD Music from CDs can be imported to iTunes with the handy features that iTunes software provides. Simply load a CD into the computer's CD reader and allow iTunes to locate it. Once it is located, the CD will Read More

Cloaking is a black hat SEO technique where one set of content is shown to human visitors and another set of content is shown to search engines. In cloaking, human visitors are shown the actual web page, but search engines are shown a web page which is full of spammy SEP techniques such as keyword stuffing. Cloaking by User Agent To effectively cloak a web page, the web server must be able to determine if the visitor is a human or a search engine. One technique for doing this is Read More