How to block a website?

The ways to block the website are very much important for the internet users. There are many ways by which the spammers can access your PC by using adwares and pop ups to attack your PC. The children can also uses chatting sites more in the school which can divert their mind. So the sites [...]

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Tune Up Utilities

Tune up utilities is software which is designed to give the brief overview of the PCs health at a glance. It provides a direct access to all features and also easy to use interface. It is basically designed to remove all the bottlenecks which are displayed from time to time. The updated version is now [...]

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Subscribing to an RSS Feed

Before subscribing to a site’s RSS feed, you can usually click the active RSS button to use a webpage that displays all current RSS feeds for the site Fig below shows the FoxNews.com website’s RSS feed page that appears when you click IE’s RSS button while viewing www.FoxNews.com On the RSS page, you’ll see the [...]

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What RSS is really all about ?

One of the features that web users have now used and relied on for several years is RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication. Websites that support RSS make their  content available to you and everyone else who has an RSS reader of some kind. The bottom-line advantage of RSS is that your favorite website’s [...]

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Airtel Website Builder

Another exciting new stuff from Airtel –The Website Builder .The leading Mobile Service provider has now entered into Website Designing Technology. It is an easy-to-use and affordable online solution that helps you to build website the way you like. The best part of this application is the simplicity it provides. Some of its features includes [...]

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Google Transliteration

Google has provided an amazing interactive tool which allows you to type in over  17  languages like Arabic, Bengali, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu – The Google Transliterate Here’s how the interface of Google transliteration looks like : Unlike translation, transliteration requires you to [...]

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Adding a Website to Search Engines

To enable other users to view the content on your website and make it easily accessible to end users looking for information about particular topics discussed in your website, you need to add your website to a search engine. This is similar to advertising products in a newspaper that addresses a large customer base. The [...]

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Search Indexes

Search engines are programs that enable you to search for information using indexes. The indexed information can be retrieved quickly. This is similar to using the index of a book to locate the page number corresponding to a particular topic in the book. There are three types of indexes : Static index : Is specific [...]

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Former Search Engines or Tools

Before the advent of the current search engines, a variety of text-based search tools were used to archive, locate and download files and resources from the Internet. Some of these tools  include Gopher, Archie and Veronica. Gopher Gopher was a text-based document-retrieval Internet application that was used to browse and search for information on Internet [...]

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Working of a Search Engine

Search engines use programs that gather Web pages that are relevant to the keyword specified in the Search text box. These programs are called spiders or crawlers. Spider programs visit a Web page, read the information present on the Web page, interpret the keywords on the Web page and follows the links connected to the [...]

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Components of Web Browsers

Web Browsers are the software programs that provide an interface to explore the Web with the help of the following components. Toolbar Location Bar Menu Bar Access Indicator Status Bar Scroll Bar The following figure displays the Internet Explorer Web browser window. Toolbar A Toolbar contains a set of buttons or icons for the community [...]

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Web Browsers- Part 2

National Center for Supercomputing Applications Mosaic National Center for Supercomputing Applications(NCSA) Mosaic was the first Web Browser to support both text and graphics. It was developed at the NCSA at the University of Illinois. Internet Explorer Internet Explorer is a product of Microsoft and is available for download free of charge on the Internet. The [...]

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Web Browsers

A web browser is a program that allows you to view and search for information on the  WWW. The web browser provides a GUI (Graphical User Interface) through which  the user interacts with the Web server. The user types the URL of the website in the Web browser, which is forwarded as the request to [...]

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Connecting to the Internet

For connecting to the Internet, you need hardware as well as software components The hardware components required are as follows : A computer Telephone connection or cable connection An external or internal connection An external or internal modem. The software components required are as follows : Internet connection from an Internet Service Provider (ISP) Modem [...]

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