Browsers - General

1. Disabling Call Waiting
   How to disable call waiting for an individual phone call when you use Telstra or Optus.
    
2. Checking that a Site is Secure
   How to confirm that a secure site is actually secure and belongs to who you think it does.
    
3. Viewing Someone Else's Source
   If you can view a web page then you can view its source, here's how.
    
4. Checking Your Display in Different Window Sizes (for webmasters)
   Not everyone views the web at the same resolution. Here's how to see what it looks like at different resolutions.
    
5. Bypassing or Clearing the Browser Cache
   How to reload an updated web page or clear your cache.
    
6. Text Only Browsing (Turning off Images)
   How to speed up your web access by not downloading images.
    
7. Some HTTP Codes
   A list of some of the error codes that a web server can send to your browser.
    
8. Reading Your Mail Offline
   How to read your emails without having to remain online.
    
9. Hits, Views, and Visitors - What's the Difference? (for webmasters)
   Understanding the meaning of some web site statistics.
    
10. Checking Root Certificate Authorities
    Working out whether the certificate issuer can be trusted.
     
11. Bypassing No-Right-Click Scripts
    How to access the right click menu when the page author has used a no right click script.
     
12. Last Modified Date
    How to find out when a page was last updated.
     
13. What Time is it?
    What time is displayed on a web page.
     
14. File Downloads and Email Attachments
    File formats used to compress files available for download or to be sent as email attachments.
     
15. Linking/Embedding Images in HTML Emails
    The advantages/disadvantages of linking versus embedding images in HTML emails.
    • More on Embedding Images
      Multipart MIME encoding to embed images.
       
16. Blocking Inappropriate Sites
    How to stop your children accessing inappropriate web sites.
     
17. Country Specific Top Level Domains
    A list of country specific top level domains.
     
18. Clearing Address History
    How to remove the list of addresses in the address/location field.
     
19. Unknown Link
    What it means when you see a red X in place of an image.
     
20. Blind Copy with AOL
    How to blind copy people in an email using AOL.
     
21. Processing Emails Offline with AOL
    How to read your emails and reply without going online using AOL.
     
22. Changing your Browser Home Page
    How to change which page your browser opens when it first starts up.
     
23. Sending One Email to Many People
    The best way to send one email to a big group of people.
     
24. PHTML?
    What is a phtml file?
     
25. Cookies
    What are cookies and what security settings should we use with them?
     
26. Types of Links
    There are three different types of external link that can be used on a site.
     
27. Document Referrer
    Disabling document.referer can disable some web pages. It is up to you to decide whether not letting a web page know which page you last visited is worth that loss of functionality.
     
28. Anatomy of a Web Address
    The parts of a web address.
     
29. Cleaning up Cookies
    Sort out what cookies you want from those you don't.
     
30. Australian Taxation Office Business Portal
    This web site requires that you install a digital certificate for access.
     
31. "Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML"
    Looking to move from web surfing to web writing. This O'Reilly book may be just what you need to get started.
     
32. No Images
    What to do when your browser doesn't display any images.
     
33. Including Web Addresses
    How to include web addresses in emails so that they wont be broken across multiple lines.
     
34. The Web Your Way
    How to configure your web browser so that it displays web pages the way that you want rather than the way the author suggests.
     
35. Install on a Separate Computer
    When can you download files using a browser on one computer and install those files on a different computer?
     
36. Missing Images
    Reasons why images may not appear when you visit a web page.
     
37. Connecting from a Different Location
    Under what circumstances can you use the same internet connection from more than one place.
     
38. Blocking Sites
    Speed web page loads by removing useless third party scripts from the sites you visit.
     
39. Offline Email Programs
    Which email programs can you use to read your emails when you are not online?
     
40. Google Tools
    Quick Reviews of several tools offered by Google
     
41. Multipart MIME Emails
    Emails can contain multiple parts (alternate versions, attachments etc.). Here are how all the different parts are defined.
     
42. Email Certificates
    Having an email certificate allows the recipient to confirm who sent it and to encrypt a reply.
     

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