When browsing the Net, you have probably noticed that the text portion of Web pages typically loads relatively quickly when compared to the images on a page. The main reason for this is that the image files that are downloaded to your computer are often times larger and more numerous than the text files. They […]

Internet e-commerce has become big business in recent years. Because of the ease in which consumers can research products, the increased number of online options, and the potential cost benefits, 2005 is proving to be a record year for Internet purchasing. In the first three months of the year, online sales accounted for over 2% […]

In any type of business, there is an industry lingo of words, acronyms, and phrases that those familiar with the business understand and take for granted. Problems then arise when they assume other people know this lingo and then use the industry specific terms when trying to communicate. If you’ve spent any amount of time […]

If you have ever become frustrated because your search engine results returned pages in different languages or returned pages with unsavory content, then you could benefit from customizing your search engine.

Most major search engines give you the option to adjust a handful of settings. You can choose to search only the sites written in […]

A continuing problem for all Internet users is harm caused by those who want to create disruptions by writing viruses and worms. The manufacturers of operating systems and other software continue to battle these virus writers by reviewing their own software for security vulnerabilities and releasing patches for them. These patches created by software manufactures, […]

Here at GoBigWest, we have received numerous replies to our virus warnings from concerned customers wanting to know about how they can identify e-mail viruses and make sure that their computers do not become infected. Because of this, we would like to provide a simple guide of sorts that you can use to help weed […]

In ever increasing numbers, people are using their laptops and other computing devices to connect to the Internet while traveling. In most cases, this requires that they change the phone number that their computer is dialing to make sure that their computer is connecting to a number that is a local call. If you are […]

In a recent post, we described configuring mail filters in webmail and organizing e-mail using custom folders in your GoBigWest webmail interface located online at http://mail.gobigwest.com. This week we want to point out a couple of additional tricks that you can use with your webmail folders.

Trick 1: Automatically direct mail into one of your webmail […]

Search engines such as Google and Yahoo! have become the tools that many people use to navigate through the Internet. They allow users to quickly find information about people, events, products, or other topics of interest. In fact, in the month of May alone, Google, the most popular search engine in the U.S. received over […]

In last, we mentioned that it is easy to disguise the true identity of the person who sends you an e-mail message. In this week’s letter, we want to focus more on this topic and describe what it means to you as an Internet user.

E-mail spoofing, or the technique of making an e-mail message appear […]