Sunday, December 25, 2011
Merry Christmas!
Just a brief note to wish you all a very Merry Christmas. Pray you have an enjoyable time partaking of the season's festivities with family and friends. Please remember those less fortunate and share/help when and wherever possible. Thanks!
AvaByGrace
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Our Condolences

Web Bytes Blog extends our sympathy to the family and friends of Steve Jobs and we would like you to know he will be truly missed not only in the field of technology, but business as a whole.
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Happy Birthday!
Today, Web Bytes Blog celebrates its 4th birthday. This past year has not been a very productive one due to other commitments and I pray this would improve as we go forward. There are a wonderful array of technological advances being made at this time and I would like to be able to research and write about them here. Again, I implore you to give your input into the type of articles you would like to see published here on Web Bytes Blog.
Thanks again for your continued readership and support.
In His service,
AvaByGrace
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Saturday, June 4, 2011
Tid Bit: Hidden
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Google's E-guide To The Web
Some of the topics covered in this E-guide are:
• What is the Internet
• Cloud Computing
• Web Apps
• HTML5
• Plug ins
• Browser Cookies
• Browser Privacy
• Malware, Phishing and Security Risks
• Open Source and Browsers
As stated in the E-guide, just remember it takes a modern browser to take advantage of most of the Web’s modern features. If we are or are not seasoned user of the Internet, this E-guide has things to offer every user. Try it out and let me know your opinion.
As always, post your comments, email me with your topics and let’s have a good time learning together!
In His Service,
AvaByGrace
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Friday, June 3, 2011
Google Browser Support for Google Apps
It behooves users to keep their browsers up-to-date in order to take advantage of all the benefits available with the new capabilities housed in modern browsers. Initially when this change takes place, apps such as Gmail desktop notification for email and chat messages, and Google Calendar may not work properly and eventually would not work at all. So as stated by Venkat Panchapakesan, Vice President of Engineering at Google, “As the world moves more to the web, these new browsers are more than just a modern convenience, they are a necessity for what the future holds.” Others are taking strides to help users transition to current browsers such as: Microsoft (Internet Explorer 6 Countdown, Apple (Apple – HTML5), and Mozilla (Showcased HTML5 through videos) to name a few. Vendors are looking to the future and embracing HTML5 through their various applications.
HTML5 dominating the Web and putting HTML4 out to pasture is not in the very near future; however, the rate times are changing and technological advances are emerging it does not hurt one to stay abreast of modern technology and have fun doing so.
As always, post your comments, email me with your topics and let’s have a good time learning together!
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Monday, May 30, 2011
Today in Computer History
…1996 – AT&T announced video phone call system, a system which allowed personal computers to make and receive video calls over a standard telephone line.
…2001 – Microsoft released Office XP
In His service,
Avabygrace
References
Computer History Museum
Computer Hope
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Dropbox
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Gmail Labs - Background Send
When you enable this feature and ready to send an email, as you click the ‘Send’ button you will get a message “Sending in the background” (images taken from Gmail Blog at reference link below).
If your message was sent successfully, you will get “Your message has been sent”.
If there is a problem with sending the email, you will get a ‘send error’ stating “There was a problem sending your message. Fix. Fix later”. You can continue working and fix the problem later or fix it right away as the options imply. The ‘send error’ will remain until you fix the problem.
If you are still seeing “Sending in the background”, it is advised not to sign off or close your browser until the mail has been sent because you will probably lose it.
I enabled and used this feature and the emails were sent faster than prior to enabling it. If you decide to try it out, I would be interested in hearing how it is working for you.
As always, post your comments, email me with your topics and let’s have a good time learning together!
In His Service,
AvaByGrace
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Reference
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/new-in-labs-background-send.html
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Monday, April 25, 2011
Tid Bit - Chrome OS
If you are interested on more information on this rumor, PCWorld.com has an article that could give you an expanded view on this Tid Bit topic. Daniel Ionescu of PCWorld.com, in another article, also mentioned the devices for the Chrome OS (netbook) is scheduled to be in stores by mid-2011.
As always, post your comments, email me with your topics and let’s have a good time learning together!
In His Service,
AvaByGrace
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Thursday, April 7, 2011
Gmail Tweets
Recently, there have been some changes made to Gmail in response to users stating the one thing that would make them love Gmail even more. There was such a terrific job done on the original article that I won’t reiterate the intricate details of the changes. Here is a list of the tweets made and the link to the original article in the Official Gmail Blog:
• Auto-save contact setting
• Better warnings for typos in email addresses
• Fewer annoying error pop-ups
• Easier transition between certain actions
• Keyboard shortcut guide for everyone
• Refresh button
To read the description of the changes visit the Official Gmail Blog link.
As always, post your comments, email me with your topics and let’s have a good time learning together!
In His Service,
AvaByGrace
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Saturday, April 2, 2011
Web Browsers
A web browser is a software program that allows one access to the Internet and programs on a computer’s hard drive. It provides other functionality not often thought of by the average computer user while navigating the various programs on the computer and sites on the Internet such as spell check, password management, tab browsing, run large applications and download items to name a few. You can have more than one web browser installed on your computer at the same time, in fact I encourage you to do so in case there is a problem with your main browser, you would have another way of accessing the Internet and performing browser-tasks; I have three currently installed on my desktop.
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) – First released in 1995, IE was the most widely used web browser for many years and continue to be one of the most popular. Statically, according to w3schools.com as of February 2011, IE is used 26.5% of the time. The latest version of IE is 9 and there is a mobile version.
Mozilla’s Firefox – Released in 2004, this browser is currently the most widely used web browser as shown by w3school.com with 42.4% user rate in February 2011. Additionally, it is one of the most standard-compliant web browsers available. The latest version of Firefox is 4 and there is also a mobile version.
Google’s Chrome – Released in 2008 and is one of the most popular browsers with a 24.1% statistical user rate. The latest version of Chrome is 10 with 11 beta format.
Apple’s Safari – Released in 2003 and is the default browser for Mac with a 4.1% user rate, but is also available for Windows and iPhone operating systems. The latest version is 5.
Opera – Released in 1996, this is the smallest and fastest web browser in the world according to Opera software and has a user rate of 2.5%. The browser is used in smartphones, internet activated mobile phones PDAs, Windows, Mac, and Linus operating systems. The latest version of Opera is 11 for Windows.
As always, post your comments, email me with your topics and let’s have a good time learning together!
In His Service,
AvaByGrace
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
Google Account Advance Sign-in Security Feature
This 2-step verification process offers more security since for hacking to occur, the hacker would need to know your username and password as well as have access to your phone. As seen in figure #2 above, you can choose to have your code remembered on this computer for 30 day, but in my opinion this weakens the security process we are hoping to enforce. The post also mentioned one-time application-specific passwords to sign in to non-browser base applications that can ask for the password, but cannot prompt for the code.
In His Service,
AvaByGrace
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Saturday, January 29, 2011
OpenOffice.org 3.3
OpenOffice.org 3.3 addressed current and future user requirements and the folks working on the project also mentioned this version being faster in start up and overall operation. Below is a brief list of the new elements:
• Embedded standard PDF fonts
• New document security and collaboration options
• Provisions for one million rows in a spreadsheet
• New Options for CSV (Comma Separated Value) import in Calc
• Ability to insert drawing objects in Charts
• Improved slide layout handling in Impress
• A common search toolbar
A complete list is available at
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.3/ and the security bulletin with full details of the potential vulnerabilities fixed is at http://www.openoffice.org/security/bulletin.html.
If you haven’t taken a look at OpenOffice.org yet, visit “The Case for OpenOffice.org”. This information enables you to see why you should seriously consider giving it a try or at least be aware you have a free option.
As always, post your comments, email me with your topics and let’s have a good time learning together!
In His Service,
AvaByGrace
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Sunday, January 2, 2011
New Year's Note
In His Service,
Ava
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