It’s easy to print your bookmarks in Netscape 3.0. When you go to Edit your Bookmarks, just choose the FILE menu – and then choose PRINT. It does a pretty good printout.

If your Net connection is extremely slow ---- or if you’re going online only to retrieve sports scores, stock quotes, or health tips ---- you can gain some speed by turning off your browser’s graphics capability for that surf session.

In Netscape Navigator 3.0, go to "Options", and uncheck "Auto Load Images". In Navigator 4.0, go to "Edit", and then choose "Preferences". Double-click on the "Advanced" category. Uncheck "Automatically load images." In Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0, go to "Preferences" and then choose "Web Content". Uncheck "Show Pictures". In Internet Explorer 4.0, go to "View" and then choose "Internet Options". Click on the "Advanced" tab, and uncheck "Show Pictures".

If you want to load a particular image in this graphics-less mode, all you have to do is right-click on it, and choose "Load This Image" or "Show Image".

Hotmail, one of the many free email accounts that are offered on the internet, has added the ability to have your attachments scanned for virus’ before you open them or save them. That’s a very nice feature. I have checked the other free email accounts, but I would assume that they are all doing the same thing.

When in the composition window (where you type your email message), you can create a link to a website that you enjoy so that the person that you are sending the message to can easily get there.

Here are five ways to do it.

1. Type in the web address (remember to include the http://) <<both Netscape and Internet Explorer>>

2. <<Netscape>> Type in your description of the website – select the text – right click with the mouse and choose create link. When the window opens, type in the web address. << Internet Explorer>> Type in your description of the website – select the text and then from the Insert menu, choose Hyperlink – and then type in the web address.

3. <<Netscape>> Choose Insert from the menu – choose Link – and then fill in your description of the web site and the web address.

4. When you are at a website and determine that you wish to send this address to a friend, then right click on the web page and choose Send Page (from Internet Explorer – from the File menu, choose Send – then Page by Email). This opens up your email composition window and inserts the web address into your message.

5. <<Netscape and Internet Explorer>> When you are at a website and determine that you wish to send this address to a friend, then highlight the web address in the URL (location) box –right click and choose Copy . Now open your email composition window and right click in the message area and choose Paste.

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