GoBigWest would like to share with you all the good work from our customers that take advantage of their 250MB of web space. We encourage everyone to use their free web space. Share your hobbies, pictures, files and much more with the world using this feature. Send us an email if you would like to […]

This post will wrap up our recent series tips about using your GoBigWest personal server space. This last topic, posting a personal web page on the Internet, is the most advanced one of the series and because of that, we will not be as detailed in this post as we have been in previous ones. This post is merely to let you know what can be done with your personal server space so if you would like to make a personal web page available on the Internet, you know that GoBigWest has the capability to do that for you.

In our last post we have described possible reasons why you would want to use your personal server space and briefly mentioned how you would do this. In this week’s letter, we will go into more detail about specific steps that you would need to take in order to use your server space.

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As a GoBigWest subscriber, one of the features that is included in your account is the freedom to use a substantial amount of space on GoBigWest’s server for storage of files or to post your own personal web page. The use of this space is a slightly more advanced topic than standard emailing or web browsing activities, but interested users should have no trouble navigating through the GoBigWest help pages.

According to a recent survey in which Internet users were asked about online jargon, a surprising percentage of users were not able to define the terms that are frequently used by the media and the industry in security warnings. Clearly, this can be a problem for Internet users who are unable to understand the warnings that are designed to help keep them safe.

Some of the findings from the survey indicate that more than 4 out of 5 Internet users could not identify phishing as a type of online scam that uses fake e-mail messages and only 1 in 4 users claimed to know what spyware is. Of those users who did claim to know what spyware is, however, 10% of them erroneously thought that spyware was a program designed to monitor the habits of unfaithful partners.

At one time it was the exclusive domain of Internet mavens basking in the muted blue glow of their VGA computer monitors, but today online instant messaging is almost as popular as e-mail when it comes to online communication. Instant messaging first became a widespread Internet application in the mid-90s with the introduction of ICQ (“I Seek You”) and has since become a commonplace tool in the home or the office.

Instant messaging was born from a desire to use the Internet to communicate in real time with anyone, anywhere on in the Internet and it does this very effectively. For many, however, it would seem that the time spent typing and sending an instant message is simply too much time to spend between communications. As a result, a large collection of acronyms and abbreviations has been created as a sort of instant messaging shorthand. This is great for saving time, but as you may have experienced if you are a new instant messenger user chatting with a long time user with a fully developed vocabulary of Internet shorthand, trying to figure out what others are saying can be quite a chore. Some of the shorthand is fairly easy to decipher such as THX , but I have to confess that I was stumped the first time I saw the letters ROTFL as a response.

You have probably noticed while using your computer that when you are in certain menus, there is text next to the menu options such as “Alt + Left Arrow”. This text is a keyboard shortcut that can be used to perform the desired action without having to use the menu or the mouse. These shortcuts are designed to make the time you spend using your computer more productive.

For example, if you are using Windows and for some reason you wanted to copy the entire text of this letter into another document, you could use your mouse to drag and select all of the text to be copied, click edit at the top of the window, click copy, open the second document, click edit again, click paste, and be finished. If you use shortcut keys, however, you could do the same thing by pressing Ctrl+A, pressing Ctrl+C, opening the second document, and pressing Ctrl+V. The same thing can also be done using a computer running the Macontosh operating system although the shortcut keys are slightly different.

update A deeply divided Federal Communications Commission suspended on Friday state rules forcing phone providers to offer “naked” DSL, in the commission’s first serious look at the controversial issue.

The ruling kicks off an investigation into naked DSL–selling broadband access by digital subscriber line without attaching it to other services, such as a local phone line.

The FCC voted 3-2 to suspend public utility commission regulations in Florida, Georgia, Kentucky and Louisiana that had forced BellSouth to sell DSL service to other telephone operators, separate from its local phone service. In the past, the two services had been inextricably linked.

That decision sends a strong message to other state utility commissions that might be considering similar rules, which were intended to encourage the widespread availability of naked DSL. The Bells–BellSouth and the nation’s three other top phone and DSL providers–have warned that slightly different naked DSL rules in each state could slow broadband growth in the United States and undermine BellSouth’s incentive to invest in the service and the underlying network.

In terms of enterprise VoIP deployment,I think much of the battle will be fought over the “form factor” - which type of device VoIP subscribers will use to access their services.

Specialized VoIP phones offer call configuration, control, management and data import capabilities that traditional phones tied in to the VoIP network via an Analog Terminal Adapter and a router cannot. Yet such phones are pricey.

According to a Reuters story, VoIP phone prices now average around $250 per set. For some budget-conscious enterprises, that could be a barrier to use.

Every major mail program such as Outlook Express, Netscape Mail, and Eudora has the ability to let you create custom filters that can be used to sort incoming messages, automatically delete messages, or block all messages from certain addresses. These filters, when set up properly, can be a very useful time saving tool because they can help to reduce the number of emails that you have to wade through or they can separate emails according to sender and content so you can only open the emails that you want to view.