WARNING Junk
e-mail
. More and more e-mails/adverts are either trying to get you to agree
to terms that mean you are automatically opted in or they try to get
you to leave your mobile number which means you agree to them sending
you texts at exhorbitant rates, again it's down to you to opt out. Most
of these sites are telling you, you have won or are about to win
something, Ipod, laptop, car etc... ALWAYS READ THE SMALL
PRINT and confine these crooks to the waste bin as JUNK.
-- Tony Lowery
Scammed by Domain
Registry of America. A client of mine has been
hoodwinked into paying thru the nose to change his website name
registration by a letter which appears to be an invoice. If you get
such a letter then simply send the envelope back empty without a stamp,
they will have to pay postage. Better still, if you have time take it
to the police or local trading standards organization. Do a Google
search and see how many angry people have been conned out of their cash
- F McCall
Domain Registry of
America: We have had a similar experience of junk mail from
these people. We should report them to spambusters or similar. --
DWK Alonso
Sending files by
Email. Avoid Files Being blocked - If you wish to send
program files by E-Mail, you can rename the blocked file to include a
temporary file type that is not on the list of blocked file types. For
example, you can rename program.exe to program.txt -- Stephen
Walden Portsmouth UK
HOW TO PROTECT YOUR ADDRESS BOOK;
I learned a computer trick
today that's really ingenious in it's simplicity. I received it from a
friend. As you may know, when/if a worm virus gets into your computer
it heads straight for your e-mail address book, and sends itself to
everyone in there, thus infecting all your friends and associates. This
trick won't keep the virus from getting into your computer, but it will
stop it from using your address book to spread further, and it will
alert you to the fact, that the worm has gotten into your system.
Here's what you do; first,
open your address book and click on "new
contact",
Just as you would do if you were adding a new friend to your list of
e-mail addresses.
In the window where you would type your friend's first name, type in
AAAAAAA, Also use address AAAAAAA@a.aaa
Now, Here's what you've done and why it works: The name AAAAAAA will
be placed at the top of your address book as entry #1. This will be
where the worm will start in an effort to send itself to all your
friends.
But, when it tries to send itself to AAAAAAA, it will be
undeliverable because of the phoney e-mail address you entered.
If the first attempt fails (which it will because of the phoney
address),
the worm goes no further and your friends will not be infected.
Here's the second great
advantage of this method: If an e-mail cannot
be delivered, you will be notified of this in your IN BOX almost
immediately. Hence, if you ever get an e-mail telling you that an
e-mail addressed to AAAAAAA could not be delivered, you know right
away
that you have the worm virus in your system. You can then take steps
to get rid of it! Pretty slick, huh?
If everybody you know does this then you need not ever worry about
opening mail from friends. Pass this on to all your friends.
-- Julie
My first
one is one that your site could probably use. There are spiders
(internet programs) which collect email addresses by searching all web
pages email addresses or for a mailto: link. These are added to the CDs
of "over a million internet addresses" which are sent to spammers. A
better idea now is to use a form or CGI which does not have the email
address on the html page. Another option is to make your email address
a gif image so that it can be easily be read by real people but not
automatic programs -- Gandalf Parker
PC
Safari?
Did you know that the browser used on the Apple can be loaded on the
PC? The cover flow feature you get on itunes has been carried over? It
makes it really swish, It will stay on my main machine. I will still be
using Chrome on my laptop but the visual quality and power of Safari is
unmatchable -- David Kellerman
DOS Web browsing: If you have an older computer-
or just want speed and no frills web browsing - Opera software (http://www.operasoft.com)
have a web browser that does not use Windows. Another
advantage is that it is considerably less memory intensive --
Esmeralda Magnifico
If you get an email warning
you about some virus or other problem and it urges you to "send this
message to everyone you know" (or something similar then it is almost
certainly a hoax.
When setting out to design
your WebSite get some post-it-notes, write down the names of the pages
you need to start with and stick them on a wall. You can then shuffle
them around to figure out the best way of linking them together. -- Emily
Peck Wimbledon England
Internet Tips :
7 R's BEFORE
you forward a letter
READ
IT! : Do you, seriously, want your name on a hoax letter?
Moreover, some are sent out without being read (Ex. Researcher gets an
inquiry and finds out it is a true report just sent out)
REALITY CHECK -
If it is a health warning or a virus, you will hear about it on TV or
read about it
RESEARCH - 25 yr old petitions are being
circulated; Congress passed a bill against tax n email in hopes of
stopping inquiries on the bogus chain letter;
REMEMBER - Forwarded
emails can not be counted/tracked.
REACHING - for your
checkbook may be a reality as higher user fees could result if
server/provider has to increase expense by buying more bandwidth.
RETHINK - before you add
to a long list of forwards (learn to cut and paste).
REALIZE - that continued
sending of chain/hoax letter could raise user fees (See SLOW DANCE at
About.com) -- Hoaxbuster - NanB20
Web Page
Production
The Newbie Developer Building a website and you are using Microsoft
Front Page or even Publisher. Most of the time newbie developers like
to use these software because they offer easy to use wysiwyg templates.
You just wrote a 3 page word document and you want to make it a html
document for your new site.
Tip
Well first of all I would suggest a web master be hired, but if you
have to do it yourself please just copy the content into notepad first.
Then you just copy and past it into the html document with no
formatting. Use CSS for formatting in HTML instead of the
<font>
tag. I would consider using Macromedia Dreamweaver as a development
software to build your site. You will love your self in the morning.
John Catalfamo Webmaster Albany Graphics.com
Search Engines are the single
most important means of getting your Website noticed, however doing it
wrong can get you chucked off for some time. We inadvertently
used the same word several times in a meta tag and it took us months to
get back our rating with one of the really important search engines. --
Adrian Dnes
The words
you have used as meta tag keywords should be included in the body of
your text in
the headings -- Davie
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We
can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking as
we used when we created them. -- Albert Einstein