Techincal Issues

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Web technology

Technology explored and explained

The workings of the web

	How email gets from one place to other and what can go wrong
	Summoning a page - what happens when you summon a page.
	Header information - what does it do?
	Computer ports and why we need them
	Measuring web traffic - the difference between hits, pages and sessions.
	Web metrics - making some sense of web statistics.
	What is bandwidth?
	RSS explained

Email questions - frequently asked email questions for beginners and advanced users.

Multiple emails - guidelines for setting up more than one email address, for those who operate from work and home.

Checking your email header

Poorly Outlook - What to do if your outlook email does not work

The technology

	Inside the box - Caring for your computer
	Keyboards - how to look after them: cleaning and when to replace plus some useful keystrokes to save time.
	Looking after your mouse all you ever wanted to know about your mouse.
	Slow computers - Why computer slow down and how to fix them.
	Print technologies and how they have evolved.

Useful technologies

	Making PDF documents read to you!
	Deleting data is harder than you think
	Picture technologies - Do we need so many different formats?
	Scanning - Converting your old typescript to a digital file using OCR.