by Gabe Goldberg
One reason the Firefox Web browser and Thunderbird email software applications are so popular is the facility for users to enhance and tailor their behavior to satisfy individual needs and preferences. But their many hundred add-ons can be a bit intimidating, leaving people wondering what areas to consider tweaking and which add-ons to install.
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by Gabe Goldberg
All too often, just when you think your computer, your ISP, and your favorite Web sites are all behaving themselves — Zap! — you’re plagued by strange and alarming messages which don’t offer clues about what’s wrong, let alone tell what you might do to fix the problem.
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by Gabe Goldberg
Since this Tiplet is written in in English, I assume that most people reading it surf the Web primarily in English. And fortunately, there’s abundant English Web content, so we’re usually happy.
But occasionally I — a native English speaker with two long-ago years each of French and German classes but bare fluency in them — must read a non-English Web site or understand a bit of non-English text on a Web page I’m perusing.
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by David Hakala
Online auction sites are tremendous marketplaces in which to buy goods. Competition among sellers keeps prices low, prices that others have paid are usually available for comparison, and you can find almost anything (legal) on one auction site or another.
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by Tina Gasperson
One of the best home use peripherals to come along in the last 10 years is the wireless router. With one of these, you can have an unlimited number of computers sharing one Internet connection. And to think my ISP used to charge an extra $10 a month for more than one computer on the same connection. Those days are long gone. Today, it’s inexpensive and easy to set up a wireless router.
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by Tina Gasperson
Yahoo! announced it is discontinuing its free Geocities hosting service later this year. If you’d like to get a jump on transitioning to a new host, here are some ideas for you.
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by David Hakala
Occasionally while Web browsing or checking email, you may get an error message to the effect that your browser or email program “cannot find the server at…” some address. Therefore you can’t get the email or Web page that you want. There are several possible causes and cures for this problem.
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by Tina Gasperson
Javascript is a very important programming language that, along with its cousin Java, makes it possible for most of the user-interactivity that happens when you’re using a browser application to navigate the World Wide Web. Without Javascript, your ability to experience the richness of some of your favorite Web sites is curtailed. However, it is still completely possible to browse online without Javascript enabled.
Most browsers have security settings that can disable Javascript, since it can pose a security threat when malicious coders write a program with Javascript that is designed to invade your system and take it over. And while this happens only when Javascript is given unfettered access to your computer and you aren’t using an antivirus program, many users, especially those running Internet Explorer, prefer to completely disable Javascript
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by Cameron Laird
A family friend first asked this one: her camera uploaded photographs as:
001.JPG
002.JPG
003.JPG
… and so on.
but her “content-management” software would only incorporate .jpg files to her Web site. What to do?
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by Tina Gasperson
JavaScript is a very important programming language that, along with its cousin Java, makes it possible for most of the user-interactivity that happens when you’re using a browser application to navigate the World Wide Web. Without Javascript, your ability to experience the richness of some of your favorite Web sites is curtailed. It is still possible to browse online without Javascript enabled. Most browsers have security settings that can disable JavaScript, since it can pose a security threat when malicious coders write a program with Javascript that is designed to invade your system and take it over. This happens only when Javascript is given unfettered access to your computer and you aren’t using an antivirus program. A happy medium is to enable JavaScript, but to limit its application, and make sure you have a fully up to date antivirus running, as you always should any time you go online.
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by Tina Gasperson
Java Runtime Environment (JRE) is the application that allows Java programs to run on your computer, whether online or offline. The JRE executes JAVA code and makes sure that whatever application you want to run looks and feels right on your system, whatever your operating system version and whatever hardware you have.
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