I ordered my new Kindle Fire during the first week after they announced it, as soon as I realized it might be on the Amazon site. Priced at only US$ 199, it has undercut the pricing on the tablet comput Even though I’ve got the Amazon Prime service which would have given me free 2-day [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Apple iPhone 4 For $26.06?
I’m sure you’ve seen some of the ads for the bidding site QuiBids recently. I decided to sign up and check my bidding luck…and got a really great "win." First, QuiBids is not eBay. Although they’re both auction sites, they operate in totally different ways. eBay auctions items being sold by individual sellers, whom you [...]
Saving a Web Page to Your Hard Drive
Subscriber Chester wrote to ask how to save a web page so he could access it again in the future: Terry, how do I save a web page to thumbdrive or place on the computer? Help That’s a pretty good question, but the underlying question is "why would you want to do this?" Unless you’re [...]
To Update Web Browsers Or Not?
Longtime subscriber Chet wrote to ask about the need to update Internet Explorer and Firefox: Hi Terry Is it wise to update every time you get an email…for instance I’m still using IE8 and am hesitating to go to IE9…and now it seems FIREFOX, MY BROWSER OF CHOICE, (V3.6.18) is updating every 10 minutes! I [...]
To Update Web Browser Versions or To Use Old Versions?
I recently wrote that Mozilla was changing its support model for Firefox. They announced that, when they release a new browser version, they will discontinue support for earlier versions. I recommended that all of my readers using Firefox immediately upgrade to Firefox 5, as I had done. Subscriber Richard Fuller wrote from New Zealand to [...]
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