Terry's Guide To The Internet

Hello and Welcome to my free Internet guide.

This blog was originally created to give you free tips and information to enhance your Internet experience with the best FREE (and legal) tools available on the Internet to make your life easier. I have created links to the recommended items that will send you directly to the most recent download site. Just click on the links to start you download.

Brand new modem setup guides will be posted soon to Support you as a user and help-desks for end user support. Popular modems like the Netgear DGN2200, D-Link DSL-2750U will be discussed and screenshots will be added as a step-by-step setup guide. In the mean while you are welcome look around my blog to see what other exciting information there is to find over here.

Getting Started

1. If you don't have an Anti-Virus installed on your Computer then the most popular choice would be AVG 8.0 Free to protect you against viruses, worms and Trojans.

Here is list of the Top 3 Anti Virus Software: ESET NOD32 Antivirus, Kaspersky Internet Security, BitDefender Internet Security2. is the most popular Web browser as it has security,

speed and new features that will change the way you use the Web. Don’t settle for anything less.

Here's a list of recommended extensions for Firefox

• Get international weather forecasts from Weather.com, and display it in any toolbar or
  status bar Forecastbar Enhanced

• FlashGot Download one link, selected links or all the links of a page together at the maximum speed with a single click, using the most popular, lightweight and reliable external download managers. Here is one of the most popular ones...Free Download Manager

• Google Toolbar for Firefox will help you take the power of Google with you anywhere on the Web

• Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox's tab browsing capabilities. FoxFilter is a personal content filter that helps prevent stumbling onto inappropriate content and block access to user-specified content and Web sites.

• Public Fox can block downloads and prevent browser changes. All with a central password.

• IE Tab - an extension from Taiwan, features: Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox...

• KeyScrambler Personal encrypts your keystrokes at the kernel driver level to protect your login information from keyloggers...

• Channel surf the internet with the StumbleUpon toolbar to find great websites, videos, photos and more based on your interests.

• In one click, Fast Video Download will save embedded video files from popular sites like YouTube, Dailymotion, Break.com and more. 100% Free!

• Get Java support for Firefox.

• Speed up Firefox

Some more Firefox Goodies

• Browse for more Firefox Extensions.

• Themes are like new clothes for your Firefox. A theme can change only a few colors, or every piece of Firefox's appearance. It's another great way to personalize Firefox to your tastes.

• Plug-ins help your browser perform specific functions like viewing special graphic formats or playing multimedia files. Plugins are slightly different from extensions, which modify or add to existing functionality

3. Free Download Manager is an indispensable tool for download acceleration. It splits files into several sections and then downloads them simultaneously allowing you to increase your download speed up to 600%.

4. Use Skype to make free PC-to-PC calls! Talk, listen, watch, read, write to anyone, anywhere in the world without worrying about cost, distance or time.

5. Kids can surf the Internet with FREE KidRocket Web Browser. Designed for Kids to safely surf the Internet's top child related web sites. Password-protected lockdown mode and Parental Admin Area, interactive Math Flashcards, Art section, Games, Internet Filter and Web Blocker.

6. Give your thumbs a break, and MXit from your PC!!!
Download MXit PC from their official site...

7. GOM Player is a FREE media player with popular audio & video codecs built-in. Get additional codecs to play your video files and for DivX movies from here.

8. Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings and even explore galaxies in the Sky. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places and share with others.

9. Use Picasa to easily find, organize, edit and share your photos.

10. Folder Size for Windows allows you to easily track big folders on your drive by adding a new column to the Details view in Windows Explorer that shows that size of files and folders. It's very useful for cleaning up your disk.

11. Zapgrab is a very useful tool that will help you to take snapshots of practically everything that appears in your monitor.

12. Google Chrome promises to run web pages and applications with lightning speed! Give it a try and see for yourself.

10 Tips for Navigating More Efficiently in Firefox

If you use Firefox all day, as I do, you may have mastered a few of the navigational tools it offers, but there are a lot of them under the hood. You can be faster and more efficient with the browser if you learn some easy ways to use your mouse and keyboard to navigate. In this post, I’ll round up 10 tips for more efficient surfing. Quite a few of these will work in other browsers as well.

Open a Link in New Tab. Firefox lets you open any link you see at a site in a new tab if you right click on the link and select Open Link in New Tab. If you have a scroll wheel on your mouse, it’s even faster to do this by clicking once on the scroll wheel while hovering over the link. If you don’t have a scroll wheel, you can hold down the Ctrl key and click your mouse to open a link in a new tab (or Command-click if you’re using a Mac).

Close a Tab with the Scroll Wheel. If your mouse has a scroll wheel click on any open tab with it to close the tab.

Open a Link in a New Window. To open a link in a whole new instance of Firefox, right click on the link and select Open Link in New Window. You can also hit Shift-click to open a link in a new window.

Increase/Decrease Text Size on any Page. You can increase the size of text you are reading on a given page by holding down the Ctrl key and using the mouse scroll wheel to scroll down. Hold down Ctrl and use the scroll wheel to scroll up to decrease text size.

Scroll Slowly, One Line at a Time. To scroll up or down a page of text one line at a time, hold down the Alt key and move your scroll wheel.

Flip Pages with the Scroll Wheel. To avoid using the navigation arrows atop Firefox to flip pages, hold down the Shift key and move your scroll wheel down to go back a page, and up to go forward a page.

Quickly Select a Whole Line of Text. Within any word your mouse cursor is in, click your left mouse button three times rapidly to select the whole line.

Scroll Without a Scroll Wheel. If your mouse has no scroll wheel, hold the Tab key on your keyboard down until the page you’re on starts to rapidly scroll.

Scroll with Gestures. If your mouse does have a scroll wheel, click once within a body of text, and your cursor should change its form factor. Now just move the mouse up or down to scroll.

Use Navigational Extensions. There are several good, free extensions you can download to make navigating in Firefox easier and more flexible. Super DragandGo is a good one for dragging anything on a page, such as a link, to a blank spot in the page to open it in a new tab.

email Setup for Outlook 2003

Getting Started

1. Open Outlook.
2. Click the Tools menu, and select E-mail Accounts...
3. Click Add a new e-mail account, and click Next.
4. Choose POP3 as your server type by clicking the radio button, and click Next.
5. Fill in all necessary fields to include the following information:

User Information
Your Name: Enter your name as you would like it to appear in the From: field of outgoing messages (eg. John Smith)

Email Address: Enter your full email address
(eg. johnsmith@telkomsa.net)


Server Information
Incoming mail server (POP3): pop3.telkomsa.net
Outgoing mail server (SMTP): smtp.dsl.telkomsa.net


Login Information
User Name: Enter your email username (eg. online123456, do not add @telkomsa.net at the end)
Password: Enter your email password (eg. yjkklmt)


6. Click More Settings... and then click the Connection tab.
7. Ensure that Connect using my local area network (LAN) is selected.


8. Click OK.
9. Click Test Account Settings...


After receiving Congratulations! All tests completed successfully, click Close.
10. Click Next, and then click Finish.

Congratulations! You're done configuring your client to send and retrieve email messages.

Note: Examples shown in this setup guide is there as a guide only, to assist you in finding the information on your Service provider Account Settings form.

Please do not use these examples as your actual settings!

Scheduling an automatic send and receive:

1. Click on tools
2. Click on send/receive
3. Click on send and receive settings
4. Click on define send and receive groups
5. In the settings for group All Accounts, select the following two items:

• Include this group in send/receive (F9), and

• Schedule an automatic send/receive every 5 minutes. This setting is most commonly used on Outlook and can be changed to your preference.

Gmail (Google Mail) - Free Email and Chat Service

The Bottom Line

Gmail is the Google approach to email and chat. Practically unlimited free online storage allows you to collect all your messages, and Gmail's simple but very smart interface lets you find them precisely and see them in context without effort. POP and powerful IMAP access bring Gmail to any email program or device.
Gmail puts contextual advertising next to the emails you read.

Pros

• Gmail offers continuously growing storage, free IMAP or POP access and sending from any address
• Smart sorting, searching and starring let you find and organize emails and chat conversations
• Gmail's web interface is both fast and rich, comes with useful keyboard shortcuts

Cons

• Gmail does not support secure (signed and encrypted) email natively
• Rich HTML formatting does not support inline images and lacks an undo feature
• Gmail does not offer unlimited online space

Description

• Gmail offers free email with growing storage space. Additional storage can be purchased and shared among Google services.
• Next to mail, Gmail shows contextual ads machine-matched to keywords found in messages.
• Starring and custom color labels let you neatly organize threads (conversations) and precise search options find emails fast.
• Gmail's filters can archive, star, label, forward or delete messages automatically.
• You can access a Gmail account via IMAP or POP in any email client or forward its messages elsewhere.
• A mobile Gmail application tailored to specific phones lets you access mail including attachments fast.
• Gmail retrieves mail from up to 5 POP accounts and lets you use these email addresses (or others) in the From: line of mail.
• Connecting to Google Talk, you can IM and group chat. Integration with Google Calendar lets you create events and invite.
• Gmail supports rich text formatting and can display many attachment types (PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.).
• A spam filter tries to sort out the junk and fraud, and Gmail scans for viruses and worms, too.

Guide Review - Gmail (Google Mail) - Free Email and Chat Service

What do you expect from Google? Search, simplicity and speed? That's what you can get from Gmail, Google's approach to email and web-based instant messaging and group chat.

The interface is simple and elegant, but also remarkably clever with useful keyboard shortcuts and fast operation. A simple HTML version of Gmail should work in all browsers.

Of course, Gmail boasts a search box, which usually returns useful results. But finding single emails precisely is not even the best thing about Gmail. Smarter still is keeping everything in context, always and automatically.

With nary a miss, Gmail identifies the relationships between emails to construct "conversations". You can quickly see what has happened previously, or whether somebody has already replied. Gmail also offers "stars" for quick flagging and free-form color labels that can work wonders to organize an inbox.

If a contact is currently online in either Gmail or Google Talk, you can chat right from Gmail, with the conversation archived and indexed. Turning emails into Google Calendar events is just as easy.

All this makes no sense if you can't keep all relevant data, of course. So Gmail grows as you use it, and you can purchase additional storage. To avoid the truly unneeded mail, Gmail sports efficient and effortless spam and virus filters.

If you do not like the idea of Google displaying ads next to emails based on keywords found in the messages (the emails themselves remain private), you can use encryption or access your Gmail using a POP interface. Even better, the flexible IMAP access offers up all labels as folders.

If, conversely, you want to use the Gmail web interface for all your email, you can have it collect mail from up to five POP accounts automatically and put these accounts' email addresses (and all your others) in the From: line of messages you send.

Sign up for Gmail

Visit Their Web Site

Setup Gmail in Outlook 2003

Welcome to my Guide for setting up Gmail in Outlook 2003.

If you don't have a Gmail account yet, please Sign up for Gmail before continuing with this guide.

Getting Started

If you're setting up Outlook 2003 to work with Gmail for the first time, you'll need to:

A. Enable POP in Gmail.
B. Configure your Outlook 2003 client.
C. Download the latest updates from Microsoft.


A. Enable POP in Gmail:

You can retrieve your Gmail messages with a client or device that supports POP, like Microsoft Outlook or Netscape Mail.

To enable POP in Gmail:

1. Sign in to Gmail.
2. Click Settings at the top of any Gmail page.
3. Click Forwarding and POP/IMAP.

1. Select Enable POP for all mail or Enable POP for mail that arrives from now on.
2. Choose the action you'd like your Gmail messages to take after they are accessed with POP.
3. Click Save Changes.

B. Configure your Outlook 2003 client:

1. Open Outlook.
2. Click the Tools menu, and select E-mail Accounts...
3. Click Add a new e-mail account, and click Next.
4. Choose POP3 as your server type by clicking the radio button, and click Next.
5. Fill in all necessary fields to include the following information:

User Information
Your Name: Enter your name as you would like it to appear in the From: field of outgoing messages.
Email Address: Enter your full Gmail email address (username@gmail.com)

Server Information
Incoming mail server (POP3): pop.gmail.com
Outgoing mail server (SMTP): smtp.gmail.com

Login Information
User Name: Enter your Gmail username (including @gmail.com)
Password: Enter your Gmail password


6. Click More Settings... and then click the Outgoing Server tab.
7. Check the box next to My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication and select Use same settings as my incoming mail server.



8. Click the Advanced tab, and check the box next to This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) under Incoming Server (POP3).


9. Check the box next to This server requires an encrypted connection (SSL) under Outgoing Server (SMTP), and enter 465 in the Outgoing server (SMTP) box.
10. Click OK.
11. Click Test Account Settings... After receiving Congratulations! All tests completed successfully, click Close.
12. Click Next, and then click Finish.

Congratulations! You're done configuring your client to send and retrieve Gmail messages.


C. Download the latest updates from Microsoft:

Update Outlook

Many Outlook problems can be solved by updating your client software to the latest version. Please verify that you have all the latest updates available for your version of Microsoft Office software. Here's how:

1. Visit http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdate/
2. Click Check for Updates or just download Office 2003 Service Pack 3
3. Restart your computer after you have verified that all updates are installed.
4. Try sending and receiving mail via Outlook.

How does a website work?

The first question I am always asked when talking to people about websites is always, "how does a website work?". I will explain the answer to the question as plain and thorough as possible. When you need a website there is three different things needed.

You firstly need a website design.This is the content (pictures, words and stuff) that you see when you visit a website address (url) or search a topic on a search engine (Google, Yahoo, MSN etc.) The cost of the website normally depends on the amount of time spent creating it and production costs (photos etc.). The amount varies from designer to designer. Once the website designer has finished developing (putting the pictures, words and stuff together so that it can work on the internet) the website now needs an address (name i.e. www.itdesign.co.za etc.)

The address is called a domain. This is what people will type in the address bar of their browser (big word for the software you are using to surf the internet) to access your website. The right domain name is very important, but difficult and lengthy to explain here. I will explain it to you when you contact me for a website. The cost of your domain depends on the amount of space your site will take up, the amount of email addresses you need and how many people use your website and download information from it. A domain is bought annually and is payable on it's birthday once a year. Cost varies from company to company.

Hosting your website is the final part of the puzzle. Once you have a website and a domain name you need to park (put all your pictures, text and stuff on a computer that is permanently connected to a very fast internet connection) your content on the internet. The guy, me for instance, will charge a monthly fee to allow you to have your website available to anybody in the world on his computer. This amount varies from company to company.

Riaan Miles

This website banner was created by www.itdesign.co.za

NATO phonetic alphabet

Letter	Code word	Pronunciation	IPA from ICAO
A	Alfa (ICAO, ITU, IMO, FAA) Alpha (ANSI)	AL FAH	ˈælfɑ
B	Bravo	BRAH VOH	ˈbrɑːˈvo
C	Charlie	CHAR LEE or SHAR LEE	ˈtʃɑːli or ˈʃɑːli
D	Delta	DELL TAH	ˈdeltɑ
E	Echo	ECK OH	ˈeko
F	Foxtrot	FOKS TROT	ˈfɔkstrɔt
G	Golf	GOLF	gʌlf
H	Hotel	HO TELL (ICAO) HOH TELL (ITU, IMO, FAA)	hoːˈtel
I	India	IN DEE AH	ˈindiˑɑ
J	Juliett (ICAO, ITU, IMO, FAA) Juliet (ANSI)	JEW LEE ETT	ˈdʒuːliˑˈet
K	Kilo	KEY LOH	ˈkiːlo
L	Lima	LEE MAH	ˈliːmɑ
M	Mike	MIKE	mɑik
N	November	NO VEM BER	noˈvembə
O	Oscar	OSS CAH	ˈɔskɑ
P	Papa	PAH PAH	pəˈpɑ
Q	Quebec	KEH BECK	keˈbek
R	Romeo	ROW ME OH	ˈroːmiˑo
S	Sierra	SEE AIR RAH (ICAO, ITU, IMO) SEE AIR AH (FAA)	siˈerɑ
T	Tango	TANG GO	ˈtængo [sic]
U	Uniform	YOU NEE FORM or OO NEE FORM	ˈjuːnifɔːm or ˈuːnifɔrm
V	Victor	VIK TAH	ˈviktɑ
W	Whiskey	WISS KEY	ˈwiski
X	X-ray or Xray	ECKS RAY (ICAO, ITU) ECKS RAY (IMO, FAA)	ˈeksˈrei
Y	Yankee	YANG KEY	ˈjænki [sic]
Z	Zulu	ZOO LOO	ˈzuːluː

Speed Up Firefox 3

With this tweak you can make Firefox 3 up to 30 times faster! (Please be cautious when applying these settings)

Here we go: Open your Firefox web browser. In the address/location bar type about:config and then press Enter.

Step #1:
In the bar below the address bar type network.http.pipelining.ssl Then, right click on it and select Toggle.That changes its value from False to True



Step #2:
Now in the Filter bar write network.http.pipelining.maxrequests Right click on that and select modify and select and value more than 4 . (I selected 30)



Step #3:
Now go to network.http.proxy.pipelining Then right click on it and select toggle. That sets it to True from False.


Step #4:
Now go to network.dns.disableIPv6 And toggle its value from False to True.



Step #5:
Now in the Filter bar write plugin.expose_full_path Then, right click on it and select Toggle.That changes its value from False to True.


Step #6:
Now write this in the Filter Bar network.protocol-handler.external.ms-help Now, you are going to create a new Preference Name with an Integer Value. To do this, right-click on this line under Preference Name and select New, then Integer.


In the New Integer value box type in nglayout.initialpaint.delay and click OK. Then in the Enter Integer value box type 0 (yes, a zero) and click OK.



Step #7:
In the Filter bar again type network.protocol-handler.external.ms-help Now create another Preference Name with an Integer Value. In the New Integer value box type in content.notify.backoffcount and click OK. Then in the Enter Integer value box type 5 and click OK.


Step #8:
In the Filter bar again type network.protocol-handler.external.ms-help One last Preference Name with an Integer Value. In the New Integer value box type in ui.submenuDelay and click OK. Then in the Enter Integer value box type 0 (also a zero) and click OK.


Step #9:
Now, restart Firefox.

You would certainly notice the change in speed of your browser.
The pages will load much faster!

Please comment if it worked for you ...