At the start of this month the work to upgrade the link to the rest of Internet was completed. Now BigPond is connected by a 256k link to Sydney and from there directly to the West Coast of America, as well as to several Asian destination. This is four times the capacity we started out with in June 1997 and demonstrates, we believe, a committment to invest in the infrastructure necessary to continue to provide a high quality service.
The BigPond Cambodia Calendar is THE place to publicise your event and it is free. Medicam are using to announce their meetings and Hotel Le Royale for their special anniversary celebrations. So have a look at http://www.bigpond.com.kh/scripts/calendar/calendar.pl To add an event you will need to register with a username and password of your choice which is not related to your BigPond username.
Quess Co. are inviting BigPond customers to email them with contact details for their Organisation or Business (including email address!) for free inclusion in the second edition of The Complete Phnom Penh Guide. Email them atinfo@interquess.com by the 1s December.
So which is the best search engine for you ? It is worth investing some
time in understanding the differences between the various search facilities
so that you can search more efficiently. The sites below provide tips and
comparisons of search facilities and techniques.
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
This comprehensive tutorial developed by the Teaching Library at the
University of California, Berkeley, contains information useful to searchers
at all levels of experience. It covers the features of major search engines
as well as search techniques.
Search Engine Watch -http://www.searchenginewatch.com/
The Spider's Apprentice - http://www.monash.com/spidap.htm
The Internet Sleuth http://www.isleuth.com
Search.com http://www.search.com
What is a Portal ? Answer - A recent development on the Web, portals are web
sites that allow you to customise the contents for your own personal taste
and interests. So you might be offered a choice of news feeds, weather
updates for your region, currency conversion, stock quotes, calendar of
events and your horoscope of the day. Some also provide industry updates,
web-based email and shopping facilities. Most portals grew up from web
directories and so offer web indexes and search facilities. You are usually
required to register with the site (usually free) which enables your
personalisation settings to be stored for your next return to the site.
Some portals to try :-
http://www.snap.com/ Click on the MySnap button.
http://www.excite.com
http://www.yahoo.com Click on the My button
http://www.msn.com Click on the personalise button
http://www.netscape.com
http://www.aol.com/mynews/
NB: A lot of these sites are still dominated by US news and financial
information. Some sites offer other servers in Europe and Asia with content
that may be more relevant to you. Netscape for instance has sites in
Australia, Brazil , Canada , China , Denmark , France , Germany , Hong
Kong - Italy - Japan - Korea - Latin America. Netherlands , Spain, Sweden,
Taiwan, UK ,- USA
Most Microsoft email programs require a little bit of maintenance to stop
the message store from becoming very large.
* In Internet Mail and news select the File -> Folder -> Compact - > All
Folders option to get rid of wasted space.
* If you use MS Inbox or Outlook choose Tools, Services and then the
Personal Folders item. Then click the Compress button.
* In Outlook Express select File -> Folder -> Compact All Folders
If you find you are not receiving attachments within messages from certain people it is probably because they are using Microsoft Inbox or Outlook 97/98. They need to ensure that they are not using the MS Exchange Format to send as this is not supported by many other email programs.
We have had many warnings about email viruses. In most cases we believe these to be hoaxes and so do not pass them on to our customers. In fact, the warning becomes a nuisance when everyone copies the warning to everyone else and this has been known to crash networks. To help avoid email virus's do not open attachments from unknown senders. Two interesting sites and http://www.kumite.com/myths give more information about viruses and the myths that surround them.
To find out how much free time you have left on your BigPond account simply
send a blank email tofreetime@bigpond.com.kh
If you would prefer a summary-only monthly invoice rather than the full
details from BigPond visit the account management page on our web site and
select the appropriate option. This is also where you can opt whether to
appear in our free upcoming email directory.