Number 287 - April 2007

Web Surfing Time Saver
In the "old days" of the Internet, the only way to surf to a Web page was to type its complete address into your browser. That meant typing "http://" along with the address each time you needed to visit a Web site.    Luckily, that's no longer necessary. Your Web browser is now smart enough to automatically add the "http://" for you. But if you're still typing "www" at the beginning and ".com" at the end of each Web site you visit, there's a faster way still.    If you use Internet Explorer as your browser, simply type the main part of the address you want ("Amazon," for example), hold down the control key (it's labeled "Ctrl" and lives in the bottom left corner of your key board), and press "enter."	Presto! The "www" and ".com" are added automatically.    Of course, if you're visiting a .gov, .edu., .net or other "non-.com" site, you'll still have to enter that manually. But given that the vast majority of sites end in ".com," you'll find this time saver worth memorizing! TOGGLE Ed Note:    Also it is easy enough to backspace over .com in the command line and enter the required site-related suffix.
Number 287 - April 2007