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A permalink (permanent link) is a type of URL (Uniform Resource Locator) set up for a specific item of information, often a news story or weblog item. The Techie Blog has a permalink at the end of each blog entry for referencing that specific entry instead of the entire blog.

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, has a more detailed explanation on Permalinks.

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Speaking yesterday (February 15, 2005) at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco, Bill Gates announced a new version of Internet Explorer (IE 7) which will be released for preliminary testing this summer. Please read the following news story for more details:

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MSNBC - Microsoft to release new Internet browser
SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft will release a new version of its Internet Explorer browser with improved security features, Bill Gates announced Tuesday.

Although some Internet surfers have switched to other browser products, Microsoft's Internet Explorer is still the most popular web browser.

Do you have McAfee's antivirus software installed on your computer? If so, you may be interested in the following news story:

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McAfee plans daily virus updates | CNET News.com
Security specialist McAfee said Monday that it will start updating its virus-matching database every day, and that it will launch a customizable Web site that offers incident and threat information.

McAfee is a leading provider of network security and availability technology.

According to CNET News.com, Bill Gates announced in a speech yesterday (February 15, 2005) at the annual RSA Security Conference that Microsoft AntiSpyware will be free. Last month Microsoft released a free test version (Beta) but had not announced until today whether the software would be free in its final release.

Microsoft's monthly security bulletin (February, 2005) includes several high-priority updates for Windows, according to the recent news story:

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MSNBC - Microsoft releases 8 'critical' patches
SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. released eight security fixes Tuesday that carry its highest threat rating and urged computer users to install them quickly because all the vulnerabilities they address could let attackers take complete control of systems.

You can use Windows Update if you need to apply these patches to your own computer. Better yet, you can set up your computer (Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Me) for Automatic Updates so that Windows will find the updates you need and apply them directly to your computer. There is also an option for Automatic Updates to just prompt you whenever any updates are ready to be downloaded and installed. (The Automatic Updates icon will appear in the notification area of your computer's taskbar.)

Users of Bloglines will be interested in the following news story:

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MSNBC - Ask Jeeves Buys Bloglines

SAN FRANCISCO - Underdog online search engine Ask Jeeves Inc. has bought Bloglines, a Web log index and Internet news funnel popular with serious readers of online journals, in its latest bid to gain ground on heavyweight rivals Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.

Bloglines is a comprehensive, integrated service for searching, subscribing, publishing and sharing news feeds, blogs, and web content.

Do you have the Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) software installed on your computer? If so, you may be interested in the following news story:

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MSNBC - Microsoft probes spyware system attack
REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. is investigating a malicious program that attempts to turn off the company's newly released anti-spyware software for Windows computers.

For more details on Microsoft's AntiSpyware product for Windows (Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003), read a helpful overview provided by Microsoft.

Read the MSN Search Blog to keep updated on the latest news about MSN search technology. It was recently added to our Blogroll on The Techie Blog.

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You can easily build your own weblog (blog) to share your thoughts and experiences, include information, make recommendations (lists), display photos, and more. MSN Spaces also has a category feature that allows you to organize your weblog entries into as many as 25 categories.

If you would like to see an example, The eNetSC Journal was created with MSN Spaces.

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FeedBurner is a free service that allows you to republish your RSS or Atom feed into a variety of formats. It is a very helpful tool for providing a compatible RSS version to readers that do not support Atom.

It will also format your raw feed XML into a browser-friendly, subscriber-friendly format that displays like a web page and includes information on subscribing to your feed. For example, the raw feed XML for The eNetSC Journal was republished with FeedBurner into a browser-friendly, subscriber-friendly format.

Free RSS to JavaScript conversion tools are available to easily integrate an RSS feed into a web site. For example, the RSS feed for The eNetSC Journal has been converted to JavaScript code so that it can be viewed on the eNetSC.com web site as one of its web pages.

If you are interested in converting an RSS feed to JavaScript code for a web site, check out RSS-to-JavaScript and Feed2JS. Both tools are easy to use and allow you to customize the content to match your web site design. Please view the web page, The eNetSC Journal, if you would like to see an example.

With just a few easy steps you can convert RSS feeds to HTML links for your web site! The free RSS2HTML tool allows you to select a layout and color scheme to generate a URL that can be added to a web site. Please view an example that was created from the RSS feed of The eNetSC Journal.

Microsoft has released its MSN Search tools that include a new search engine, index, and crawler built on Microsoft technology.

If you are a web site owner, you can add MSN Search tools to your web site so that your web site visitors can perform both a web search and a site search.

Do you use Microsoft FrontPage? The FrontPage Include Bot is a very helpful tool for webmasters. If you have content (data or images) that will be included on all your web pages, you can set up an include bot to quickly and easily make a change to your web site without having to update each web page separately.

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