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CyberArtisans Newsletter Vol 5, Number 10 Welcome to the October issue of the CyberArtisans monthly newsletter! We skipped the September issue for a trip to Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. Our goal is to present information that will be useful to you as a website owner and as a user of the web. If these newsletters are useful, please forward this to a friend. To unsubscribe, follow the directions at the bottom of this email. This Month's Topics
Go to Google and type in your URL. If you are in their database your site will come up in the listing. (If your page does not come up, this is a bigger problem -- call us immediately.) On the last line of the listing for your page you will find the word "Cached." Click on it. The page that comes up is the last version of your home page that Google has recorded. At the very top, on the first line will be a date and a time. This is when Google last hit your site. You can repeat this for any other pages of your site listed in Google. If you run Windows XP and if your system is set to receive updates automatically, some time after November 1 you will receive Internet Explorer 7. You will most likely not be asked if you want it, you will just get it. Is this a good thing? We're not so sure. IE7 has been in Beta for quite some time. Users who tested the Beta report that some websites that worked in IE6 don't work with IE7. They also report a variety of other problems, including conflicts with a few other programs, that may or may not get fixed in time for the final release. Many web gurus are advising that users should avoid being an early IE7 user. They suggest waiting a month or two for some of the early bugs to get worked out. Fortunately, Microsoft has released an IE7 blocker that will prevent Automatic Updates from installing IE7. You can get that blocker at http://tinyurl.com/kwkgt. Instructions for using the blocker are on that page.
Ms. Dewey (http://www.msdewey.com/) will do your search for you and provide some distraction while she is doing it. Ms. Dewey is played by Janina Gavankar, an actress of mixed Indian and Dutch ancestry, who plays the Papi character on The L Word, a program on the cable channel Showtime. Ms. Dewey responds differently to different search terms. If you search for bondage, for example, she reaches under her desk and comes up with a whip. There are other scenes that come up for bill gates, microsoft, and boxing. As a practical search engine, it leaves something to be desired. It's pretty slow because of the video running in the background. It's also distracting and not just because of the cleavage -- if you follow a link and start reading the text on the other site, Ms. Dewey knocks on the glass (from inside your monitor...) to get your attention. But it's an interesting demonstration of what is now possible on the web. Admittedly they threw a lot more money at this than most of us could afford, but the history of the Internet is that everything starts out expensive and becomes more affordable fairly quickly. Want to see back issues of this newsletter? Go to http://www.cyberartisans.com/newsletter and select an issue. Jonathan Spencer |
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