Okay so you’ve clicked on something that swapped out the default search engine in Firefox. How annoying IS it when small things change on your just gotten it perfect browser. It’s even more annoying when some company or web site does it without so much as a by your leave, leaving you to try to figure out how to fix it. You can change the default search engine in Firefox back  to what it was quite easily , although it’s a hidden facet of the [...]

We’ve all heard the buzz on SEO and for most of us, who have a web site that’s just never going to be a million dollar seller, what SEO is really all about escapes us somewhat. We’re not sure exactly what it is, or exactly how to do it, or even why we should. If your site is a private site, made just for you and the enjoyment of your family, if its a cooking or gardening site thats small and probably isn’t going to [...]

So you think  you have the perfect idea for a brilliant new web site right? You have a kick @ss design, your content is perfect and things are looking just like they should for you to make a few dollars on your site from advertising and affiliate sales… the thing is, since the site is new, how are you gonig to get that traffic there. Competing with another site, who buys your keywords, probably isn’t going to cut it. How can we as individual compete [...]

Having a small business or personal web site is nearly a requirement today, and if you’re going to do business of any kind, people are going to be looking for your website to offer them the low down on what you do and how you do it, from a printing business to ebay marketing. One of the fastest and easiest ways to accomplish your online presence is going to be with a word press blog. While Word Press began as a blog type software, the [...]

The web has made buying things a lot easier over the years, as we’ll all agree. Point and click and those apples from Washington will be at your Nebraska doorstep in a day. The ease of it all can bring the whole world a lot closer to you.You can buy better on the internet. Of course you have to watch things like the shipping prices to make sure your bargain is really a bargain, but you do get a good deal if you pay attention.

I don’t normally recommend sites with an article but this one has a great deal of useable information and things that everyone needs. Its called SPELL CHECK.NET, click here to view it , and it offers so much more than just a spell checker. Also on the site, a thesaurus, a calculator, periodic tables, kitchen math converters, dictionaries, translators and a whole host of useful information for those of you who have kids and grand kids who are back to school again. I don’t know [...]

There are virtually millions of graphics and photos on the internet that are beautiful beyond compare. Go to any travel or nature site and you’re going to find photos of your favorite animals, places or places you’ve never been. It’s easy to use one of those photos as your Desktop background, which is the image that shows up on your computer before you have opened any windows or used any programs. The background, in other words. While you are out web surfing, if you see [...]

In all honesty, not too many people care about that, but its a great question. Most folks are just glad it DOES work, and they have no real interest in the wherefores and why’s. The internet has become more and more popular the past few years, and its nearly impossible to view television, listen to the radio or read a book that doesn’t have a reference to some web site or another on the internet. Since its become such a huge part of todays society, [...]

You’ve got your brand new computer and arranged your email address. You’re all ready to set that up and start communicating with the outside world. One small problem! When you click the magic link. It tells you that Microsoft Outlook or Microsoft  Outlook Express is not yet configured for your email. Well what that heck? You mean you have to do this yourself? Well yes, thats why its called do it yourself computing. You need to configure your email  Windows email client. Click the start [...]

Now I KNOW I said the internet was relatively safe, and I meant it. The internet is a marvelous tool that can be used to glean information, wonderful new purchases and a lot more. If you use it correctly and take a few precautions. It honestly isn’t that much different than the real world. I know that when you go home at night you probably lock the door and you don’t invite the drug dealer from the corner to sleep in the spare room just [...]

The Online world is a fairly slippery entity to explain to anyone who is stepping into it for the first few times. Granted its a cool new thing to explore but for those who are older, or even younger people who aren’t overly into the culture, its like speaking another language. Very clearly, the internet is it’s own world.For the most part, as you’re going to find out, we’ve even got our own language. While the graphical, user friendly, self navigating style of today’s internet [...]