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How to settle the top 10 annoyances things during online
Internet is very good, but we always feel not very well when some annoyances come out to disturb you during online. The following show you most 10 annoyances things and how to do with that problem.
1 Flash Spoils Appetites
I don't understand restaurants' fascination with Flash Web pages. Maybe they're intentionally trying draw out the navigation process to make us hungrier, thereby ordering an extra appetizer or two. It's not working.
The tip: Why bother with restaurant Web sites any more, especially if you're dining in a city? Use sites like Yelp and UrbanSpoon for information, OpenTable for reservations and MenuPages for menus.
2 The protected music
Did you boring with that when you want to store songs into some music player but it is not in the support format.
For example, if you buy music from Napster, it's delivered to you in protected WMA format. If you want to play it on your iPod, you have no choice but to burn it to CD and import it as an MP3 file that your iPod can handle.
The Tip: if you want to store songs into your ipod you can go to the apple store to buy one or there are many music converter software, which support you to change the music in different formats as you want in the market.
3 This Search Bar is Worthless
As a whole, Web sites' internal search engines are so bad that I rarely trust them anymore. They'll fail to dig up that article you read a few months ago, or they'll bury it among countless irrelevant results, and they lack the tools of a real search engine.
The tip: Head to your search engine of choice and precede your search with site:nameofsite.com "what you're looking for” for a surprisingly good index of what you seek. Google can even display results by date when you click “Show options.”
4 Social Networking Overload
Between Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Foursquare and now Google Buzz, there are just too many social networks to keep track of. Sure, you could pick one and stick with it, but then you might only be paying attention to some friends while neglecting others. It's the worst kind of information overload.
The tip: Use a program that aggregates several social networks into one interface, such as Digsby or Meebo. You might not get the full functionality of your favorite network, but at least you can keep an eye on status updates with minimal effort.
5 Too Much Phishing
The number of schemes that pop up on the Internet are too numerous to mention, but recent attacks on Twitter, Facebook, Hotmail, Gmail Talk, and Adobe PDF files come to mind. Even if you've never been hit, you can't help but be annoyed that these scams exist.
The tip: Here are some tips on how to avoid getting scammed, and how to spot malicious links buried in TinyURLs. Fortunately, most browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera, all include some sort of anti-phishing filters.
6 This Ad is a Video
Is it just me, or have Web sites with auto-playing video ads become more prevalent lately? Congratulations, advertisers, you got me to listen to your pitch by sheer force. Only now, I hate your brand, if only I could remember what it was.
The tip: Here's a neat piece of Windows software called FlashMute. It installs to your system tray and can deny Flash access to your audio hardware. Just click the icon or hit Ctrl-Alt-M to switch it on and off. Note: Anti-virus programs tend to flare up when visiting FlashMute's download page. The developer says it's because FlashMute uses the same method of hooking into your browser as some types of AdWare, but it's only intercepting sound from Flash and other Web sources. Fair warning.
7 You Must Register
My abbreviated rant on pay and registration walls: No. Impressive as it as that sites can track your visits without any sign-in process, asking to cough up money after a limited number of articles--I'm looking at you, Financial Times--is silly if you're not a regular reader.
The tip: Some sites, such as the Wall Street Journal, will let you in via aggregators like Google News. So if you're blocked, try a Google News search on the subject. You can also try snipping some of the text and plugging it into a search engine, in quotes, to see if another site has quoted or summarized the article.
8 A Frame to Block Your View
I thought browser frames went out with Netscape Navigator, but once again our Web browsers are being invaded by the DiggBar and its ilk. These are sad attempts to keep us penned in to one site's pages.
The tip: Once again, add-ons save the day, at least for Firefox users. The DiggBar Killer script for Firefox's Grease Monkey add-on will ensure that you never see the DiggBar again.
9 We Don't Serve Your Browser Here
Just because Internet Explorer has over 60 percent of the Web browser market, some sites don't support any other browser, such as page for HP computers. If you use something else, opening a page in IE feels like sleeping in a stranger's bed.
The tip: Use the Coral IE Tab add-on for Firefox and the IE Tabs extension for Chrome. The former even lets you mark specific sites to automatically open an Internet Explorer tab in the future.
1 Flash Spoils Appetites
I don't understand restaurants' fascination with Flash Web pages. Maybe they're intentionally trying draw out the navigation process to make us hungrier, thereby ordering an extra appetizer or two. It's not working.
The tip: Why bother with restaurant Web sites any more, especially if you're dining in a city? Use sites like Yelp and UrbanSpoon for information, OpenTable for reservations and MenuPages for menus.
2 The protected music
Did you boring with that when you want to store songs into some music player but it is not in the support format.
For example, if you buy music from Napster, it's delivered to you in protected WMA format. If you want to play it on your iPod, you have no choice but to burn it to CD and import it as an MP3 file that your iPod can handle.
The Tip: if you want to store songs into your ipod you can go to the apple store to buy one or there are many music converter software, which support you to change the music in different formats as you want in the market.
3 This Search Bar is Worthless
As a whole, Web sites' internal search engines are so bad that I rarely trust them anymore. They'll fail to dig up that article you read a few months ago, or they'll bury it among countless irrelevant results, and they lack the tools of a real search engine.
The tip: Head to your search engine of choice and precede your search with site:nameofsite.com "what you're looking for” for a surprisingly good index of what you seek. Google can even display results by date when you click “Show options.”
4 Social Networking Overload
Between Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Foursquare and now Google Buzz, there are just too many social networks to keep track of. Sure, you could pick one and stick with it, but then you might only be paying attention to some friends while neglecting others. It's the worst kind of information overload.
The tip: Use a program that aggregates several social networks into one interface, such as Digsby or Meebo. You might not get the full functionality of your favorite network, but at least you can keep an eye on status updates with minimal effort.
5 Too Much Phishing
The number of schemes that pop up on the Internet are too numerous to mention, but recent attacks on Twitter, Facebook, Hotmail, Gmail Talk, and Adobe PDF files come to mind. Even if you've never been hit, you can't help but be annoyed that these scams exist.
The tip: Here are some tips on how to avoid getting scammed, and how to spot malicious links buried in TinyURLs. Fortunately, most browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera, all include some sort of anti-phishing filters.
6 This Ad is a Video
Is it just me, or have Web sites with auto-playing video ads become more prevalent lately? Congratulations, advertisers, you got me to listen to your pitch by sheer force. Only now, I hate your brand, if only I could remember what it was.
The tip: Here's a neat piece of Windows software called FlashMute. It installs to your system tray and can deny Flash access to your audio hardware. Just click the icon or hit Ctrl-Alt-M to switch it on and off. Note: Anti-virus programs tend to flare up when visiting FlashMute's download page. The developer says it's because FlashMute uses the same method of hooking into your browser as some types of AdWare, but it's only intercepting sound from Flash and other Web sources. Fair warning.
7 You Must Register
My abbreviated rant on pay and registration walls: No. Impressive as it as that sites can track your visits without any sign-in process, asking to cough up money after a limited number of articles--I'm looking at you, Financial Times--is silly if you're not a regular reader.
The tip: Some sites, such as the Wall Street Journal, will let you in via aggregators like Google News. So if you're blocked, try a Google News search on the subject. You can also try snipping some of the text and plugging it into a search engine, in quotes, to see if another site has quoted or summarized the article.
8 A Frame to Block Your View
I thought browser frames went out with Netscape Navigator, but once again our Web browsers are being invaded by the DiggBar and its ilk. These are sad attempts to keep us penned in to one site's pages.
The tip: Once again, add-ons save the day, at least for Firefox users. The DiggBar Killer script for Firefox's Grease Monkey add-on will ensure that you never see the DiggBar again.
9 We Don't Serve Your Browser Here
Just because Internet Explorer has over 60 percent of the Web browser market, some sites don't support any other browser, such as page for HP computers. If you use something else, opening a page in IE feels like sleeping in a stranger's bed.
The tip: Use the Coral IE Tab add-on for Firefox and the IE Tabs extension for Chrome. The former even lets you mark specific sites to automatically open an Internet Explorer tab in the future.
10 I Don't Care About Farmville
Farmville ribbons, quiz results, articles on subjects you don't care about--isn't Facebook magical? As nice as it is to keep in touch with friends (or “friends”) and look at photos from bar night, constantly hearing about the time-killing habbits of others can be downright boring.
The tip: Firefox users can check out Facebook Purity, a script that's part of the browser's Grease Monkey add-on. It automatically strips quizzes and other application notices from your Facebook home page For everyone else, there's Facebook Lite, which strips your feed down to its bare essentials.
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