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There are many, many, great resources on the web, especially in the area of education. There are thousands of sites dedicated just to teaching languages, for example.  My Life Scoop recently listed a few of the best sites for education, and there are more created every day.  Another startup recently received $1 million in seed funding to “democratize learning on the web.”  Do you think the internet will ever truly replace the classroom, or will it always be a supplement to improve the classroom experience?

When you purchase a product from a secure site, you may notice the lock icon at the bottom of your web browser. That icon means that you’ve established an encrypted Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection. This connection keeps your information safe and secure while it is being transmitted. To display that icon, a website needs to have a Certificate, which can be expensive. There is a free alternative, though- StartSSL. Read on for more.

RSS is a great tool for keep tracking of updates to a web site. Twitter can be used in a similar fashion for those sites that announce updates via Twitter. It’s a sad fact, though, that not all websites have RSS feeds or Twitter updates. Don’t give up hope, though. Here are four other methods for monitoring sites for updates.

Have you ever been curious to find out when a web page was updated? There’s a little trick that you can use to determine the date and time that a specific page was updated. Simply type the following bit of code into your address bar, and then hit “Enter” on your keyboard. If you want to automate this with a bookmark, you can place the code in the address line of a bookmark. Read on for the details.

About a month or so ago, I came across a few articles about Salmon Protocol – an open protocol that allows for communication beyond the confines of social networks; as well as a centralized conversation that brings comments from everywhere home to their source. Imagine, if you will, being able to communicate with people on Facebook from Twitter, or on MySpace from Facebook – and without having to join multiple networks. Wouldn’t that just make life peachy? Or maybe you are a blogger and would like to know about conversations that have sprung up around your post on the various social networks out there. Salmon Protocol plans to take you there – and may well be the future of the web…

Do you want to be able to send faxes from home, without having to install another phone line, or share your current line?  How would you like to be able to receive faxes anywhere that you have an internet connection?  Or how about sending a fax via email?  That is all possible now, using online [...]

Your browser start page, also known as your Home Page, is a launching pad of sorts.  The first page that you see when you open your web browser, your start page can impact your browsing session in a couple of ways.  First, the type of page you use as your start page can impact the [...]

Using bookmarklets has become a staple item for me in internet browsing — I use everything from Readability2Evernote, to a multitude of sharing and tracking tools, each with its own nifty difference from the other. My only qualm has been the way they clutter up my toolbar. No longer! I have now installed the bookmarklet [...]

Many people are annoyed by the country-blocking that is imposed by massive multimedia companies regarding their content; especially since the rise of sites like Hulu, Pandora, and Last.FM. The lure of legitimate, free, and easy to access streaming content is a hard one to pass up! If you happen to live outside of the US, [...]

It never ceases to amaze me what you can learn online. From the interesting psychology reflected by the average user to the most basic of instructions for the tiniest task that may simply have eluded you, the worldwide web is that bit of tech that just keeps on giving. There are several places you can [...]