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Beta Testing (30 Views)
2008-01-31 18:59:04 | Computers I'm sure as you've cruised around the web you've run across the term "beta release" or "beta test version" or something to that effect. You may also have heard "alpha test" or "publi.........
Awards Programs: Handling The Winners (29 Views)
2008-01-31 18:59:04 | Computers Someone has sent in their site to be reviewed as part of your awards program. If you've done everything correctly, this should happen several times per week or even per day. You could .........
Sins Of The Internet: Email Spiders (27 Views)
2008-01-31 18:59:04 | Career Warning: this article is not for the squeamish. It contains graphic descriptions of one of the biggest evils on the internet. If you can face down this evil you can reduce your load of.........
Cyber Warfare (26 Views)
2008-01-31 18:59:04 | Computers
In these days of all-out combat in Afghanistan, terrorist attacks in New York and Anthrax in Washington, it's easy to lose one's perspective. I know I've become addicted to checking the m.........
DNS (26 Views)
2008-01-31 18:59:04 | Computers When you enter a web site address (a URL) into your browser's address bar (or click on a hyperlink), you actually set in motion a complex series of events. It sounds simple - the name .........
Bad Web Design: Mistakes With Text (26 Views)
2008-01-31 18:59:04 | Computers Even in today's world of Flash animation, animated GIFs, sound files, VRML and other dazzling special effects, the basic reason why people surf the web is to read. Yes, the pictures ar.........
Unsubscribing from lists (25 Views)
2008-01-31 18:59:04 | Computers
I'm sure you've received messages from mailing lists and wanted to unsubscribe. Perhaps you don't remember subscribing in the first place, or maybe you've just grown tired of the subject..........
Bad Web Design: ActiveX (25 Views)
2008-01-31 18:59:04 | Computers ActiveX uses an interesting method for enforcing security ... it doesn't. Well, that's not exactly true. What happens is when a web page requests an ActiveX control the browser determi.........
Awards Programs: Submitting Your Site For Awards (24 Views)
2008-01-31 18:59:04 | Computers All right, you've got a nice site. You've worked long and hard to make it as good as you can. Now you want to get a little recognition for your efforts. You want someone to take a look.........
Graphics for the web: GIF Format (23 Views)
2008-01-31 18:59:04 | Computers The GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) format was invented in 1987 by Compuserve to allow images to be displayed. This format allows for 256 colors (which was a lot at the time), compre.........
Awards Programs: Ethics (23 Views)
2008-01-31 18:59:04 | Computers One of the characteristics of an excellent awards program is the presence of solid ethics. This is very important as all awardmasters must understand that they weld a certain amount of.........
Backing Up Your Stuff Part 1: The Problem (23 Views)
2008-01-31 18:59:04 | Computers I don't know about your, but I depend upon my computer system daily to help me survive and prosper. I keep everything there:
- My daily journals - My writing - Letters and me.........
Backing Up Your Stuff Part 6: Where Is It #2? (23 Views)
2008-01-31 18:59:04 | Computers Paint Shop Pro In my humble opinion, Paint Shop Pro is one of the best bargains available on the internet. This inexpensive (less than $100) shareware program provides most of the f.........
A Change in Paradigm: Dedicated Server (22 Views)
2008-01-31 18:59:04 | Computers I found it hard to believe, but suddenly I was faced with a real problem. Well, I suppose most people would not consider it a huge problem, quite the opposite, in fact. However, it was.........
A Note On Microsoft Security (22 Views)
2008-01-31 18:59:04 | Computers I've been reading a lot of postings to various message boards, newsgroups and talkback boards on how evil Microsoft (often spelled as Micro$oft or more simply M$) is. The foam-at-the.........
Backing Up Your Stuff Part 4: Preparing For Disaster (22 Views)
2008-01-31 18:59:04 | Computers Okay, picture this ... your computer system has been destroyed by the most recent outbreak of the dreaded typhoid Mary virus. You never knew what hit you. One minute the system was fin.........
Backing Up Your Stuff Part 7: Where Is It #3? (22 Views)
2008-01-31 18:59:04 | Computers These items are all stored by the operating system in your system folder. On Windows 95, 98 and ME, this is generally called "WINDOWS", while on Windows 2000 and NT it is usually calle.........
Awards Programs: Handling The Losers (21 Views)
2008-01-31 18:59:04 | Computers Sometimes it's an easy decision, sometimes it's more difficult. Occasionally you find a site which on the surface looks very good and you spend hours looking it over, comparing it to e.........
Backing Up Your Stuff Part 2: A Solution (21 Views)
2008-01-31 18:59:04 | Computers So what do you do when you have so much stuff on your computer that it becomes difficult, if not impossible, to back up the whole thing on a regular basis? You know that you must perfo.........
Backing Up Your Stuff Part 3: Software (20 Views)
2008-01-31 18:59:04 | Computers All right, now you need to consider what software you will use to back up your data.
Do it by hand - One possible method (which will not work if you are using a tape drive) is t.........
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