HTML Meta tags were originally designed to provide information to browsers and search engines. Many different Meta tags evolved in the early days of the Internet, but due to widespread abuse, many are ignored by search engines today and are therefore useless. Others have been rendered obsolete due to browser evolution.
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You may be wondering why you cannot see an .htaccess file on your server when using WS_FTP or Cute FTP. Perhaps you checked the server and didn’t see the file, so you created one and transferred it, only to find that it does not appear to be there.
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Mozilla’s Thunderbird is a free and very popular e-mail client. Thunderbird is actually very configurable, but the methods required to change certain aspects of the program are not very intuitive. One issue that I ran into is related to doing backups. The default location for files is buried in a special Application Data folder in the Documents and Settings folder. That makes it difficult to remember that these files should be backed up along with Word documents, Excel spreadsheets or any other files that your business cannot afford to lose.
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