| INTERNET TIPS |
| Protect Your Primary E-mail Address (DG) |
| Chat rooms and message boards are among the most appealing places for spammers to gather e-mail addresses. Protect your primary e-mail address by creating other "throwaway" e-mail addresses for posting on message boards and for giving out to people and sites you're not sure you can trust. Many ISPs allow you to create secondary screen names or additional e-mail addresses at little or no cost, or you can get free e-mail addresses from Yahoo!, Hotmail, and other free-e-mail services. |
| If spam comes flooding into those accounts, you can always delete them and make a new one, all the while shielding your primary address from the flood. |
| Reloading Web Pages (DG) |
| When your browser retrieves a page you have asked to see, it stores the page on your computer. If you ask for the same page again five minutes later, the program doesn't have to retrieve the page again -- it can reuse the copy it already has. The space your browser uses to store pages is called its cache (pronounced "cash"). |
| Some of us hardly ever exit from our browsers, which is probably not a good idea for our long-term mental stability. If you are one of us, however, remember that the pages your browser has cached aren't normally reloaded from the Web (they're taken from your disk) until you reload them. |
| If you want to make sure that you're getting fresh pages, reload pages that you think may have changed since you last visited. Your browser is supposed to check whether a saved page has changed, but because the check sometimes doesn't work perfectly, an occasional Reload or Refresh command for pages that change frequently, such as stock prices or the weather report, is advisable. |
| Click the Reload or Refresh button on your browser's toolbar, or press Ctrl+R. |
| What Happened to the Back Button? |
| Pikes Peak Computer Application Society, Colorado Springs, CO. |
| Ever visit a Website, and find that the browser's Back button was disabled? Some Websites disable your back button to keep you on their site. If this happens, right click on the back button. You'll see a list of pages that you have visited. Click something on that list to move back. This works for the Forward button, too. |