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As most of you probably know, Internet Explorer is the king of web browers, but this hasn't been the case since the start the World Wide Web... At the begging of the WWW, the king browser was Mosaic which was avaiable before any other browser, but this quickly changed around the mid of 1990's (mainly 1994, 1995 and 1996), when the most used browser was Netscape navigator (taking around 80% of the browsers usage) and IE was way lacking behind with around 10%. With time, this also changed...

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Go to http://dictionary.reference.com/, and search for google! Yes Google has become a verb, from 'Webster's New Millennium? Dictionary of English':
Definition: to search for information on the Internet, esp. using the Google search engine
Example: We googled to find the definition of the new word.

Most of email providers do not support sending very large files in your attachments. This makes emailing large files a very hard task to accomplish. What would you do if you had a 100MBs file you need to urgently email to someone? A simple and easy solution would be to split up the file and have it re-constructed at the receiver end. To accomplish this, Fast File Splitter is used.

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Here is a list I have compiled of 'secure' and 'known' sites where one can send or receive money online:
- PayPal: One of the mostly known sites to transfer money but it might not work in your country.
- Western Union: You can send money online, but you can't pick it up online!

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There are some times when you need to gather some information regarding an IP address or a given domain name. When in need for such a thing, there are a bunch of online tools that can be of great help. One such tool is: nwtools where you can ping/lookup/trace/whois and do other things with a given IP

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Imagine yourself searching for someone online but instead on entering the person's name, you upload a picture of that person! The search engine would then look for the person through the Internet to find his or her images online! This is not fiction, this is reality...

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When I first found Digg I liked it and I immediatly joined and used it for a while. Later I came to a decision that it is not worth it, here are my reasons:
1. Digg can be easily manipulated and tricked into pushing some posts to the top even if they are not worth seeing. This can be easily done using a large group of people who are 'tricked' into digging a certain article (maybe for a price).
2. The quality of posts are low: Anyone can post anything.
3. People are getting crazy about it: I hate it when people make a big deal out of something simple.

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Here is a list of answer sites such as the 'disconnected' Google Answers

Yahoo Answers: Get answers from real people. Free of charge.

AllExperts: Since 1998, free of charge and 'including top lawyers, doctors, engineers, and scientists, waiting to answer your questions'.

Able2Know: A forum where you can ask questions and get answers. Free service.

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RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS is used to publish frequently updated on the Internet (such as blogs, or news). RSS has a very simple XML format. The latest version for RSS is 2.0. Here is an small example of an RSS file:

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Do you know there are some special Google searches for special purposes, here are some:
- Apple Machintosh Search: You search Mac sites and Mac downloads.
- BSD Search: As it says :)
- Linux Search.
- Hackers Search
- Microsoft Search.
- US Goverment Search.