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Depending on the source, RSS will deliver the entire text of the story to your newsreader, or just the first paragraph or just the headline. In any case, clicking on a headline will take you straight to the full story via your web browser. Almost every major newspaper and news website has an RSS feed these days. (The Los Angeles Times and Denver Post are probably the most significant exceptions, and that's because they are working on advertising-driven newsreader software...
...challenge nowadays is to stay anonymous while you're sitting at your computer, potentially in plain view of hackers or spywaremakers. Anonymizer's new Total Privacy Suite for the PC anonymizer.com $50 per year) provides a toolbar for the Mozilla Firefox browser that keeps you safe in three ways. First, with Anonymous Surfing, it keeps websites from tracking your physical location by scrambling the address given to you by your Internet service provider. It also provides a spyware-removal tool and a Digital Shredder that makes it easy to ditch your history and other browser info so that nobody looking...
...make sure no one is spying when you send personal information over the Web, use only a secure connection--indicated by a key or lock icon at the bottom of your browser window...
...dozen languages, widgets that converts currency, weights and measures, and a widget that searches the entire Oxford American dictionary and Thesaurus (which also ships with Tiger). Widgets do all the workaday stuff of the web-local weather, flight times, Yellow Pages-without you having to boot up a browser or remember a web address. Dashboard starts with 14 widgets; the idea is that amateur programmers will create hundreds more once Tiger gets up and running. (Windows users can begin to get the widget experience by downloading Konfabulator...
Thunderbird, an open-source application, was developed by the not-for-profit Mozilla Foundation, the same organization that created the popular Firefox web browser. Though Thunderbird is available both from the HASCS site and directly from the Mozilla site, the Harvard version has been specially adapted for FAS affiliates and includes an integrated Harvard phone and e-mail address book...