There are a number of tutorials, hints and tips here.

Tips on using the Web

Choose a useful Home page. If there is one site you find you visit very frequently why not make it your Home page so that every time you connect to the Internet you see something useful rather than a load of advertising junk from your Internet provider.
Go to the page you have in mind, click on Tools on the Menu bar, click on Options (make sure you are on the General page) and click on Choose Current in the Home Page box then click Apply. That's all there is to it!

Cut down on printing out web pages. Many web pages have a load of advertising surrounding the article you want to print. To print just what you want, select the text by dragging the mouse over the text (holding down the left button) then go to the File menu. choose Print and look for the option to print Selection and click the box. Click OK and only the useful part of the page will be printed.

Worried about buying by credit card on the Net? You do it over the telephone; you hand your card to the waiter in a restaurant and credit card receipts drop out of your pocket. These are far more likely to used by unscrupulous characters.

Use your Favourites folder - To avoid repeated typing of web site addresses click on Favourites then choose Add. In the future you simply have to call up Favourites and click on the link.

 

Some Interesting Websites

Google have produced a wonderful digital photo cataloguing system that is free at the moment. Once installed the program will search your hard disk for all images and videos and collate them for retrieval.

Go to http://picasa.google.com/

There is another fascinating free Google program named Google Earth. It shows satellite images, roads, restaurants and points of interest over most of the developed world. You simply type in your postcode or town and watch the earth spin in space before zooming down on your chosen locality.

Go to http://earth.google.com/

If you find yourself using Google on a regular basis, download the Google Toolbar from here

For maps and directions try Multimap or Streetmap

Have you lost all hope of finding a copy of that out-of-print book you lent to someone who never returned it? Worry no longer, the chances are very good that you will find it at Abebooks and at a very reasonable price.

Want to know the 5 day forecast for Colchester or Columbo? Go to the BBC Weather site.