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Search the Internet Quicker

Many Internet surfers have discovered and benefited from a great search engine called Google. Doing basic searches with this engine can reduce the time it takes to find relevant information.  Most good web sites will have a search engine that just searches its own site (see ours on the bottom of most of our pages). As helpful as these can be, they sometimes fall short in finding...
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Quickly Navigating to a website

When you read about a web site or hear one advertised on the radio or TV, do you know hot to get to it quickly?  If no, here’s how: This tip will work with ANY online service or browser or operating system.   As you are reading this tip, look toward the top of your monitor.  Do you see a long white box with an http:…. address in it?  This is called the browser address or location...
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Navigating the Web

Just starting out on the Web? This tip is for you! This tip will work with ANY online service or browser or operating system.   When you are looking at your Internet screen,  do you see a long white box with an http:…. address in it?  This is called the browser address or location bar.   Click ONE time anywhere in the long white address bar toward the top of the...
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Our Top Internet Information Sites 2005

We started publishing this list about three years ago. I fully admit that I am an information junkie and enjoy finding the answers to questions as soon as they come up. I tend to use a core group of sites to find my information. In this list you will see some perennial favorites and some new ones that I started using over the past year. In no particular order, my favorite information gathering web sites...
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Making the most of a dialup connection

This tip has the dual function of teaching you how to not only get around the Internet faster, but also understand how Windows can allow you to do more than one task at a time. First, when you use a search engine, it returns many different answers for you to sift through.  The common way to sift through these is to click on one of the answers, examine it and then hit the back button on the browser to return to the list....
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Lose the ads in the Netscape Messenger (email) Pre...

Here is how to get rid of those email ads from Netscape: 1. Click on Start –> Find –> Files or folders  2. Type: *prefs.js in the "find" box  3. Make sure the Look in box says My Computer  4. Click Find now  5. The search should yield at least two files (depends on how many profiles you have set up in Netscape)  6. RIGHT click on each of the files and click...
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Learn To Identify Search Engine Ads

Learn To Identify Search Engine Ads

A search engine is a website or part of a website that allows you to search either the entire Internet, or a given website for specific information. Google, Yahoo, Excite and Dogpile are just a few of the common search engines that search the entire Internet for information on any word or topic you type into their search box. As you may well imagine, it is not an easy thing to create software that searches the entire...
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Learn about Your Favorite Hobby or Share your Expe...

With over a half billion people online worldwide and growing by more than one hundred million annually, the Internet is a great place to congregate and discuss hobbies, politics, sports and more. Are you interested in Model A Ford restoration, raising cockatoos, RV traveling, cross breeding tulips, or programming Access? These and thousands of other topics are freely available for discussion on the Internet. In the beginning,...
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Internet Speed Tip

The Internet’s prowess for finding almost any type of information continues to grow.  Today’s tip focuses on how to get back to where we have been on the Internet. There are many times that I need to get back to a web page that I was viewing earlier in my Internet session and pushing the Back button a gazillion times seems silly and slow.  Internet Explorer (version 4.0 and greater) users note...
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Internet Explorer Quick Navigation Tip

Sometimes the simple tips provide the most usefulness. Try this tip to gain a little speed when navigating to a new or favorite web site. As the title suggests, this tip only works with Internet Explorer. Do not add or subtract any steps from this tip: Click on one time in the address bar at the top of the browser Type the name of the web site in the bar (eg. for www.helpmerick.com just type helpmerick, for...
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