Ever come across a Web page that you've just got to tell your friends about? Send it to them by email.
Here's how:
1. In Internet Explorer, click the Mail button on your toolbar (the one shaped like an open envelope).
2. Click Send Page on the drop-down menu. This automatically opens your default e-mail program with the page attached.
3. Type your friend's e-mail address in the To box and click Send.
You can also send the link to the page from the drop down menu but why not send the page?
Note: If you don't have the envelope icon on your Internet Explorer bar, right-click on an empty space on IE and hit Customize... One window will open containing two windows. In the left window under the heading Available toolbar buttons: you will see a list of icons you can add to IE. Scroll down until you see the envelope. Select the envelope and hit Add (in the middle between the two windows). The envelope icon is now on IE and you can send neat pages to your friends by email.
If you're using Firefox, you can't send the page by email but you can send your friend(s) the link to the page. Right-click on the page and select Send Link...
If you want to find out who owns a domain name or website, even where they live, when it was created etc., you can make what is called a WHOIS inquiry. Simply enter the web address into the search box and in a second you will have the website's info right there for you.
I think the biggest, most comprehensive Whois database is ALLWHOIS . There are a lot of WHOIS websites on the net, for example WALTBREN ,Whois.netWhois Source and CompleteWhois just to name a few.
I use Network Solutions, more out of habit then anything.
You can make a WHOIS inquiry right here. Just type in the address of the site and select .com or .net or one of the other endings and press Go
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Do you remember the U.S. Presidential campaign of 2000? Remember what a sensation the internet became as all the candidates put up their websites? Well with the Way Back Machine you can surf those sites and relive those and other moments in time. With the Way Back Machine you can view the origins and evolution of the internet. You can access snapshots of various sites as they appeared in the past.The Way Back Machine is an archive, a digital library of over 10 million websites dating back to 1996. It's a service created by Alexa and maintained by the Library of Congress, Alexa Internet and a host of other individuals, institutions and companies. It's even got a feature that allows you to add the Way Back search to your browser thereby allowing you to take the way back search where ever you go on the net.
Travel back in time to the 2000 Presidential Campaign
(They don't have McCain 2000 I'm sorry to say)
or take a look at the very first websites that started it all!
Good old IE (Internet Explorer). What with all the new search tools out there these days it is easy to forget just how serviceable IE really is. Most of us who use a toolbar or a search engine page (them all have web search boxes on them) to help us search the net don't realize or have forgotten just how effective a search tool your IE address bar is.
From your IE address bar you can not only travel to specific websites by typing or pasting URLs (Uniform Resource Locator(s)) into it, but you can also look up words, terms, phrases, names dates etc. and get the results you are looking for.
In short, you can use it just like you use your toolbar. This function is all the handier now that MSN has improved its search technology so much. In fact, I'd say it's darn near on a par with Google now.
To search from your IE address bar simply type in go, find or ? then the term or phrase you want, hit Enter and Voila!
Actually, you can just enter the search term into the IE address bar and hit Enter, but IE won't respond as quickly as simply typing in go, find or ?.
Interestingly, each method sometimes generates different search results.
If you want to access the power of Google search technology and still use IE, you can go to this Google page and make Google your default search engine in IE. This allows you to use Google wherever you go in the net without complicating your browser by installing the Google toolbar.
Now that IE comes with a popup blocker you don't lose the security advantage the Google toolbar's popup blocker provided>
You can use the Acronym Finder right here. This little search box will take you to a page listing every possible definition for the initials you type into the box
If you can't open a new window on a website, it could be your toolbar or SP2 popup blocker. Try pressing "Ctrl" as you click on the link for the new window. Or go toToolsat the top of the IE bar, click onPop-up BlockerthenTurn Off Pop-up Blocker. If you're using a toolbar, say the Google toolbar click on the "# blocked" icon/label on the toolbar.
Be careful though, popups can be dangerous. If a popup appears that you did not ask for, click on theXand close it out immediately. If it keeps reappearing on that page then leave the pageDo notclick on any option in the unwanted popup window. Doing so may trigger a download of garbageware to your system.
Be on the lookout for popups that say:
They can speed up your internet connection enabling you to get to sites more quickly.
They have discovered a security flaw on your system and that you can fix it by clicking "Here".
They can make your PC run faster.
Right off the bat here there's a big and very obvious problem and the popup people either don't care or don't know about it.Nolegitimate PC or internet related company would use any file or script to check out your PC's security setup, your internet connection or your PC's speedwithoutyourpriorpermission and knowledge.
It's none, repeatnoneof their business. If you want an honest assessment of your PC's setup and internet connection, go to PC PitStop.
I'm not going to spend much time on free popup blockers or payware popup blockers because many (Free)programs come equipped with effective popup blockers.
Here's a short list:
Most toolbars, Google ,Yahoo!, MSN and Mamma, for example. Mamma's toolbar also has a pop-under blocker.
Windows XP SP2. Go to Internet Explorer Menu-Tools, Pop-up Blocker, Turn On Pop-Up Blocker
You can also prevent popups coming at you from a particular site by disabling Active Scripting for that site. Start Internet Explorer Go to Tools - Internet Options, click on the Security Tab then Restricted Sites- Sites. Now,in the Add this website to the zone box, enter the web address of the site whose popups you want to stop. Click Add. Click OK Click Default Level to set the Restricted Sites zone to the recommended level, which disables Active Scripting.
Click OK.
So much for the"less than 100 links per page"rule for web design. The Drudge Reference Desk (DRD) has hundreds, and I mean hundreds, of links to all manner of reference resources. News, dictionaries, encyclopedias, search engines, almanacs... If you're researching a project online, start here.
I don't think I've never seen so much information packed into one web page. You could spend days at this one page. And it's not just information. It's humor, prayers, photos, editorials and a number of other "diversions".
It's also, in my opinion, a good place for webmasters to get creative leads for their websites. I got the idea for the email checker from the DRD. That's why I put it together with the DRD logo.
