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 [...]
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 [...]
What is CAPTCHA and Why Do Web Sites Use It?
Every once in a while, I get a strange message from a subscriber. They might be confused. They might feel frustrated. Or, like this one, they might be unhappy… In this one, it was all a matter of misunderstanding — a misunderstanding by a computer user about "confirmation" requirements on web sites. Cass wrote: If [...]
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