How to Find and Use an Online Backup Service

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To keep your data safe from hard drive failures and other mishaps, consider using an online backup service that will store your documents, photos and videos until you need to retrieve them.

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When a Non-Secure Site Wants Personal or Financial Information

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If you don’t see the telltale “https” or padlock when accessing a Web site, don’t share your financial information or other private details. Only perform online transactions with “secure sites.”

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How Can I Avoid Losing Real Email in My Spam Folder?

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Spam filtering is a great tool, but if your ISP has set your filters too restrictively, you could miss out on real email. Fortunately, in many cases you can set your own mechanisms for identifying email as spam. Failing that, check your spam folder regularly.

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How to Use Whois to Learn Who Is Behind a Web Site

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If you want to know who is behind a particular Web site, out of curiosity, as a precautionary measure or because you want to take legal action, Whois is usually the best way to review details about site ownership and contact information.

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Launching an URL When the Computer Thinks It Is Text

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If your Macintosh thinks a URL is text, you can prompt the computer to “Open URL” using the menu in the seldom-used Services menu.

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Twitter Clients for Mac OS X

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There are several Twitter clients available for Mac OS X that will organize your Twitter feeds into manageable columns or categories. Besides making Twitter more user friendly, these clients may allow users to Tweet and reply, mark messages, shorten URLs and create groups.

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How to Disable Browser Cache

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Browser caching makes Internet surfing faster, but in some cases you may want to bypass, clear or disable your browser cache so you get a fresh look at a Web page’s files.

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Using Windows Remote Desktop Function

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If you’re away from your home or office computer, you can still access it if you’d set up the Windows remote desktop function, which allows you to access the computer over the Internet just as if you were sitting in front of the “host computer.”

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Amazon’s MP3 Downloader and iTunes

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Amazon’s MP3 store offers affordable (and even free) music downloads that are automatically added to iTunes for the listener’s convenience.

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How to Enable and Disable Cookies

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While browsing the Web, you’ll need to have cookies enabled to take advantage of many site features. However, if you’re concerned about the information that will be shared from your computer due to cookies, you can disable them, or just disable third-party cookies.

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How to Install Java

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To view interactive applications on the Internet that use Java coding, you’ll need to have Java on your computer or install it. Java is free to download.

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