In the context of this article I’m referring to the Windows Live Mail the email client and not the email service (Hotmail). When composing an email in WL Mail, most people use HTML to use features such as colored text, bold/italic/underline, and so on. It is true that any email composed in WL Mail can be saved as a web page, and it’s quite easy to...

People save web pages to ensure they can retrieve information later without having to load it on the internet. It also is a way of retrieving a web page just in case the original web site has an outage or goes offline for whatever reason. There are two basic ways of saving web pages, that being via the browser or "printing it" to a PDF. Via the...

Most web sites will work with no issue using Firefox 3 or Internet Explorer 8. But there will be times you encounter a web page that will instantly crash your browser. One such example is crappy MySpace pages. It is very common to find pages with the following junk in it:Animated background graphic Animated Flash graphics Auto-play music player Other...

By default when you use the OpenOffice Writer application it does not have page numbering enabled (much like all other word processor applications). To enable it only takes a few clicks for some footer configuration and inserting the appropriate field. It sounds confusing but it’s actually very simple to do. [hidepost=1] Step 1. Go to the Page Format...

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