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...players who earned Jackson's opprobrium are gone; even Gates has receded under the considerable shadow of CEO Steve Ballmer. Windows XP, due out this fall, is much more respectful of non-Microsoft software than its predecessors (they've made it very easy to choose Netscape as your default browser, for example). Dubious add-ons like the "smart tags" that linked words to websites chosen by Microsoft have been quietly ditched...
...worm"--out there. It afflicts only PC users of Microsoft Outlook and would not damage my computer. But it would immediately mail itself to everyone in my address book--that is, everyone to whom I've ever sent a Reply message. The worm also resets your browser's home page to one of four porn sites. This last bit had not happened to mine. Was I spared...
Even better, some WYSIWYG programs are actually free. Most websites that give away home pages gratis, such as Homestead www.homestead.com and GeoCities www.geocities.com) supply you with WYSIWYG tools as part of the deal. These tools work entirely within your Web browser. Just go to the site, register for a free page, and the program starts up right there in the browser window. With Homestead, my favorite of the free services, you get the choice of building a page from scratch or choosing from a menu of prefab styles and templates. Personally I found their styles a little tacky ("Pastel Waves...
...global fascination with mountaineering - fueled by news of the death of eight climbers on Everest on a single day in May 1996 - has fused with the broadcasting power of the Internet to bring the world of rock and ice into the living room, via the Web browser. When Simonson's party set off in 1999 to find the remains of Everest pioneers George Mallory and Sandy Irvine, and then found Mallory's body, the world learned about it online. The website (the now dot-bombed mountainzone.com) that hosted the dramatic pictures and first-person storytelling clocked more than 5 million...
...easily use "anonymizer" sites to circumvent the blockers and surf freely and in secret. "Our technology restricts the ability of governments to censor the Internet," says Stephen Hsu, founder and CEO of an anonymizer called SafeWeb, from where users can load a tool for blocking traces onto their browser windows before they begin surfing. "It promotes freedom of expression and the right to privacy...