Subscriber Richard Fuller wrote from New Zealand (not Australia, as I mistakenly wrote in an earlier article) to ask about a fairly common problem. Most web sites have some JavaScript, whether it’s used for interactivity, automatic page updating (e.g., quibids.com updating with every bid that anyone makes), as part of their advertizing, etc. Our web [...]
Google’s New Privacy Policy — Read it and Weep
Google announced that it is consolidating all of its myriad privacy policies (roughly one per service that Google offers) into one over-arching privacy policy. They’re written it at an easy to understand level, too. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it’s scary. I’m not sure that it really says anything new, but [...]
Deleting Web Site Password From Internet Explorer 9
Subscriber Don Newsham followed up his earlier question with one to address a problem he was having with Internet Explorer. Terry , Thanks for the info on my "rev" up problem. How do I delete a password that automatically fills in with Windows I E ? I go to this website and it doesn’t fill [...]
Fun With a Spoof Web Site
When you have a web site design program, you can have fun with it. Back in the days of Microsoft Frontpage 98, I developed a fake web site to tease my son. It was developed in a wild fit of humor. My son was a student at a local high school with the initials PBS. [...]
The Network Is Down – No Internet Access
I sat down at my computer recently to finish writing my newsletter, only to find the hated words "Not connected." Windows 7 was informing me that I had no network connection. Not just no Internet access, but not even access to the other computers on my home network. This was a horrible morning. Everything worked [...]
Saving Web Pages to the Hard Drive, Part 2
After my article on saving web pages to a hard drive, Richard Fuller wrote to tell why he wanted to do it. Richard wrote: Hullo Terry, Me again! Just a note about saving web pages to the hard drive. I do this habitually with financial sites where, for instance, I wish to have a "virtual [...]
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