Get a faster connection
If you still use a dial-up account, it's time to upgrade. Consider getting a high-speed service such as DSL or a cable modem. It may cost a bit more, but it will greatly improve your experience and productivity.
If you have a slow connection, use the Stop button
When you access a website, what you are actually doing is downloading digital files. You can see how the download is progressing by looking at the status bar located at the bottom of your web browser. If you get tired of waiting, click the Stop button to view the files that have already downloaded. Then you can decide if you want to continue. If you do, click the Reload or Refresh button.
View sites in text-only mode if you have a slow connection
Sure, web designers spend a great amount of time creating wonderful graphics, but it can take quite a while to download large graphic files. If you only have a dial-up and you want to speed things up, turn off the images in your web browser.
With Internet Explorer 7.0, under the Tools menu, select Internet Options, then click the Advanced tab. Now uncheck Show Pictures.
Thoughtful designers include something called an ALT tag, a written description of the image. If you want to see a particular image, click on the tag with your right mouse button and select View Image. For Mac users, just hold down the mouse button over the graphic.
Increase your cache
Files you download are stored in a cache (pronounced like "cash") on your hard drive. That way when you return to a site, you don't have to download the files again from the server, just access them locally from your cache. After a while though, the cache becomes full. Your web browser automatically deletes old files as you continue to surf the Web. But if you visit many of the same sites regularly, you can speed up access by caching more of them. To do this, increase the size of your cache. 10 MB is optimal.
- With Internet Explorer 7.0, click the Tools button, and then click Internet Options. On the General tab, under Browsing history, click Settings. In the Disk space to use text box, type the amount of disk space (in megabytes) that you want to be set aside for temporary storage space, and then click OK twice.
- With Firefox 2.0 or later, under the Tools menu, select Options, then click Advanced and then the Network tab. Now type in the amount of cache you want to allocate.
Save keystrokes by using Bookmarks or Favorites
Web addresses or URLs can be unwieldy. Worse, if you type them wrong, you get an error message. To avoid these problems, save the addresses of sites you want to revisit. For details on how to do this, read the Bookmarks and Favorites article.
Use the Find feature of your web browser
Explorer Find Window Once you've accessed a web page, use the Find feature under the Edit menu to quickly locate a particular term that interests you. Don't take the time to scroll through the entire document.
Pick two search engines and learn how they work
With the vast amount of online content, the biggest difficulty is finding specific information. Although dozens of search engines are available, pick two, then take the time to learn them well. For more on this read Searching the Web. In case you're interested, our top choices are Google and Yahoo!.
Choose your own home page
If you want to begin surfing by reading a daily newspaper or better yet, Learn the Net, why not start there first? Here's how to select the home page of your choice.
Open a new window or use tabbed browsing
While you are downloading one web page, you can access another by opening a second browser window. With Internet Explorer 7.0 under the File menu select New Window. With Firefox 2.0 under the File menu select New Window. Both Internet Explorer 7.0 and Firefox 2.0 have a feature called tabbed browsing. Instead of opening a new window, you just open a new tab with a new window. You can have multiple tabs open at the same time and easily switch between web pages.
Open a new tab in Internet Explorer
A word of caution: Although you can open multiple windows or tabs, this will slow down your computer, so don't go overboard. Remember to close the additional windows to free up disk space.
Surf during off-peak hours
Commuters experience rush hour, when highways bog down with traffic. The same phenomenon happens occasionally on the Internet--although not nearly as often as in the past--usually in the late afternoon and early evening, when people log on to check e-mail, chat and play games. If you want to avoid the slowdown, go online in the morning or late at night, when traffic is lighter.
Usage History
On the web page data contained in the cache, which records are stored within a list of names and URLs (universal resource locator; Internet address) at each site you visit. You can also use the history list to return directly to the site.
In order to clear the history list on the list of communicator
- Click edit, select preferences, highlight the category navigator,
- Click the Clear History button.
While in Internet Explorer
- Click on tools, select Internet options,
- Select the General tab and click the Clear History button.
Settings can also be done to keep the history of data for some time according to need.
Time Out
Many ISPs (Internet service providers) who use the system for automatic monitoring disconect dial-up connections. This is done ISP to load the latest messages every 20 minutes. Such messages could be news or e-mail. If you stay active, usually will happen separation (Disruptive) between the active site is the site of the revised ISP every 20 minutes. That way you always do a refresh.
To avoid this, you can set up e-mail applications to perform checking every 10 or 15 minutes.
In the communicator,
- Open the preferences dialog box, double-click Mail & Newsgroups category.
- Highlight the sub categories mail servers.
- Create mailpada filed keneksitas incoming mail servers.
- Then click the edit button.
- In the next dialog box, click the check-box to check for mail every-minutes.
- Set to always check every 10 or 15 minutes.
In IE able to set the dialog box and search options for new options masseges check every-minutes.
On microsoft outlook, find the tab on mail delivery, in the dialog box options.
For microsoft internet mail, settings can be read in the tabs in the dialog box options.
Security
Paa netscape and microsoft securiy usually offer protection, both of which also support the security and protection standards at the time online. For example you click a button in security in the communicator's standard toolbar buttons to find the original site, if this is a local cache so the page will be updated following the specification of other sites. Click the button where you conduct transactions online.
For Internet Explorer, you can configure security settings. You can choose from low, medium-low, medium, and high-security settings, to get the full security you can choose a high setting, if you do not want to use the full security, you can use low and medium settings.
Protection
Try each in a particular site you must complete a user name and password. To enter a pass word and username is very easy, where you live just typed. Usually a good working system for data protection. But more important is if you enter data are also other, more important, such as credit card number. Use a unique password, such as merge or combine between large and small letters and numbers, in order to obtain maximum protection.
Start Up
Arrange for Internet applications on the default position, to avoid confusion at the time of start-up Internet applications. If you are using netscape communicator, configuration settings can be e-mail application, calendar, or HTML in order to open the application by default. In the preferences dialog box, highlight Categori Appearances, and you will see a list of applications displayed on the communicator on startup launch area. Select the default option on the navigator. To change this, click the navigator options to deselectnya, click the options you iginkan (messenger, composer, or the calendar) as the default Internet applications, click OK. Now you have created a default application for the Internet.
Adding Toolbar
In Internet Explorer, the user is permitted to add a button on the standard toolbar, which is found on the toolbar buttons to default to the standard toolbars, like, back, forward, stop, reload, and print.
To add these buttons, you can do, right-click on an empty toolbar area, select customezi the pop up menu.
Then will appear the toolbar customize dialog box, choose the button that often or always you need, click Close. If you want to restore its original (default toolbar settings), click the reset button.
Avoiding Spam
Spam? Perhaps it is the least desirable at the time of opening the e-mail. Although now many software to eliminate spam, but has not appeared efektiftasnya level. The easiest way is to use two e-mail address.
You could have made a lot of e-mail, but may be confusing your own. We recommend that you use e-mail address as an alternative. Eg for e-mail using such ana first on Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com/), excite (http://www.excite.com/), or GO. Com (http://www.go.com/).
Use e-mail address of the second to connect with anyone, without exception. And certainly in the e-mail address that the two will have a lot of spam. To e-mail address of the primary, use to connect with friends, relatives, or anyone who you believe.
