Google Alerts: Your Free Internet Research Assistant

Google Alerts is your free internet research assistant.  Using Google Alerts you tell the Google search engine what topic to look for, and how frequently you want to receive tracer reports about it.  Then you click on the links in those reports, which you receive by email, and go right to the source material. Research […]

How to Share Files with An Online Team Using Dropbox

Want to share files of any kind, even very large ones, with friends, or between two or more of your own computers?  Dropbox will probably be your best tool for the job.  You can join Dropbox for free, and get extra storage space for every new customer who registers with them following your invitation.  Here’s […]

What’s the Best Way to Organize Bookmarks?

Every web browser (the program you use to visit websites) can save the addresses of sites you might want to return to later.  Microsoft’s browser, Internet Explorer, calls these “favorites.”  Firefox, a free browser, calls them “bookmarks.”  With any browser you can organize favorites or bookmarks so that you can find them easily again (that […]