Basic Internet Skills Archives

How to Email Photos in Windows

You get photos emailed to you from friends and family in all the time. But do you know how to email photos to someone?
We have 2 sets of instructions here for you on how to email photos:

Sending a Photo in an Email
Emailing Multiple Photos in Windows

Sending a Photo in an Email
Sending a single photo [...]

The New Yahoo! Search

Yahoo! Search has a new look as of September 22, 2009. Seems they have decided to go for a sleeker look.

The official announcement on the Yahoo! Search Blog says:

“Today, we are launching an all-new Yahoo! Search experience that makes search more personally relevant. We tested the changes in August with a percentage of users, [...]

Sending Emails

Once you have composed your email, it’s time to send it. You’ll need to set who you will be sending the email to. There are different choices for sending emails:

To
Cc
Bcc

Who to Send the Email To
Before hitting the Send button, determine who really needs to receive your email. Sending the email to just [...]

Composing Emails

These days email is an important communication tool for your business. In this article we’ll cover some tips to efficiently compose emails.
Composing an Email
A business email should be treated with the same attention to projecting a professional image as any other piece of business correspondence. When composing an email, keep these tips in [...]

Google Chrome Beta is Out

Google has released their Google Chrome browser for download to Windows XP and Vista machines today in approximately 100 countries.
Download Google Chrome (BETA) for Windows
Google Chrome is available for download at the Google Chrome home page.
Before installing, be sure to read the terms of service. ReadWriteWeb has an interesting post about a section of [...]

Web Mail vs Email Clients

When new to the internet, the difference between web mail and email clients can be confusing to a person. You may have been shown how to use one way but don’t know how to use the other. We’ll explain here the difference between web mail and email clients.
Both web mail and email clients [...]

ClearType for HTML

One of the first things you might notice after installing Internet Explorer 7 is that the type on the page seems darker.

Internet Explorer 7 has ClearType for HTML turned on by default (if you weren’t paying attention when IE 7 was being installed or didn’t know what ClearType for HTML was on the list of [...]

Internet Explorer 7 Released

Today on the IE Blog it was announced that Internet Explorer has been released.

“Today we released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. I encourage everyone to download the final version from http://www.microsoft.com/ie. …”
Source:  IEBlog : Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Available Now

There is another post on the IE Blog regarding the release of Internet Explorer [...]

Internet Explorer 7 Coming Soon

Microsoft’s latest version of Internet Explorer is due to be released soon.
On the IEBlog Microsoft announced on October 6, 2006 the latest version of Internet Explorer (now called Windows Internet Explorer) will be released to consumers very soon.
The post was directed to website owners and web designers/developers asking if the website(s) in their care are [...]

Leave Copy of Email on Email Server

Sometimes when you pick up email with your email client (email software) you would like to be able to also pick it up from another computer but still be able to pick it up from your main computer.
Scenario:
During the day you work at your main location of your business (job). In the evenings and [...]