General
Email: This is activity is one that nearly everyone
who is "online" shares. You can
get started on this topic at the email page.
There's many other good sources of help and
knowledge on line. "Inside OE Home" is a definitive site that covers all
aspects of Outlook Express. About.com has
a good primer on email. Spam and email security are covered at this site, with links to
lots of resources.
Browsers retrieve text, image, sound and other files
from Web servers, then combine and present
them to the user. Using your browser is covered
at the browsing page.
Connect to the Internet
Find and choose the right ISP for you.
Get more than twice the speed from your dialup connection.
Privacy and security online
Cookies: Got milk? Don't forget, not all cookies
are bad. In particular, some sites use them
to remember you so you don't have to enter
your password each time you go there. If
you do delete a cookie like that -- no problem
-- unless you have forgotten your password.
When you give them your password again the
cookie will be regenerated. Find more information
at: [Junckbusters] [PurgeIE ] [CIAC.org] [more] And don't forget IE Help if you have IE
6.0. Open Help and use keyword cookies. If
you don't have 6.0, but are brave you can
remove cookies by following the instructions
on the cookies page.
Security: There are big black spiders out there on
the wild and woolly World Wide Web. Do they
bite? [more] [email security] Worried about identity theft? [one solution]
Privacy: There's a whole lotta snoopin going on.
Internet resources
Browsing: A few tips and tricks to make browsing
work better. [browsers]
Search: An overview of search, plus a metasearch
engine, links to more search engines and
links to search help. If you're looking for
people, email addresses, etc., try "Find".
Download: Warning -- downloading can become addictive.
Some of my favorite software for the Internet.
Tutorials and more Internet resources.
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