Some Informative Websites You Should Visit Truth or Lies? ,,,Some words on Email Hoaxes What are Cookies? Spam and What to Do About it Virus Rx - Preventive Medicine Update your Web Browser Having Problems with our Website? Glossary Please let us know if you're having any problems with our website Important Notice from Microsoft: Feb 2004: If you've recently had trouble logging on to Web sites or completing Internet transactions - or if you have started seeing the message "HTTP 500 internal server error" when trying to visit secure Web sites - then you might need this update. You can download this Microsoft update free by clicking here. Great Websites Your Should Visit! To learn more about web browsers (and lots of other great information about the Internet and your computer) visit these websites and search for what you want to learn about. CNET www.cnet.com Trend Research www.trendmicro.com/ ZDNET www.zdnet.com Spam and What to Do About it -- many of the website links we've listed in the Sites You Should Visit will give wonderful advice on how to fight spammers. Or you can click on "Spam and What to Do About it" for a link to www.Abuse.net for some specific information You can look up suspect URL addresses at Abuse.net at: http://www.abuse.net/lookup.phtml Email Hoaxes Everyone has received e-mail messages from friends who wanted to share some information with them. Unfortunately, sometimes the good people who want to share this information didn't realize that the message they pass along is an E-mail Hoax. Here are a few sites to look at first before you send along that message: http://www.eff.org/pub/Net_culture/Folklore/Hoaxes/ www.kumite.com/myth Here's one of the latest Hoaxes to beware of: Virus Rx - Preventive Medicine They are out there on the internet and they can be nasty. The most important thing you can do is get a good anti-virus software and KEEP IT UP TO DATE with all the updates. The next important thing, especially if you have any version of Windows running your computer, is to visit the Microsoft website often and update your system with any security patches necessary. Don't wait to be reminded automatically. For information on the latest viruses and worms to be aware of, please visit the TREND website at: http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo , the AVG Anti-Virus website and the Symantec Website http://www.symantec.com/ Click on the animated link to check your system for Free! ...Please be patient.... Our secure shopping feature takes a little while to connect at times. This is because it IS secure. Our on-line catalog pictures all of the items we carry. When you visit each page of our catalog for the first time, the page may take a while to load. We designed each page to preview just a few items at a time, so no page will take longer than 18 to 29 seconds to completely load. Once you've visited a page it's stored in your computer's Temporary Internet Directory, and the next time you visit us (or even go back to that page during your current visit) the page will "come up" on your screen right away. This is how your Internet browser works, and every website you visit on the Internet does the same thing. It's a great time-saver because you don't have to wait for a website page to load each time you visit. But it also means having your computer's disk space cluttered up with files that you may not need anymore. It's a good habit to "clean out" the old files stored in your Temporary Internet Files Directory every week or two to free up computer space and to make sure you see everything that may have been added to a website. What are Cookies? Cookies are small text files Mini World uses (thousands of sites are currently using them) to recognize a repeat visitor to its site. Cookies are not programs that come onto a user's system and damage files. For more information about Cookies, please visit the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Mini World utilises cookies that contain no information about you. Cookies enable sites to store information on the user's computer so that the information can be referenced later. Don't be alarmed, the cookies' file stored on your computer is just a harmless text file. At Mini World we make use of cookies to make sure that whomever enters the store is who they say they are. Some people have heard bad things about cookies, such as them being able to track where you have been etc. As just mentioned, the use of cookies here is purely for identification purposes. If you get sick of your browser constantly asking you about accepting a cookie, consult your browsers documentation on how to disable that feature that asks you if you want to accept a cookie. BUT remember that you must have cookies ENABLED to shop online since cookies are necessary to utilize our shopping cart. When you add a product to your shopping cart or log in to Mini World, your browser is sent a cookie containing a unique number. If you have any further inquiries, contact us Problems...... Sometimes people email us saying they have experienced problems with pictures not showing up or type running together. Unfortunately different web browsers understand what webpages do in different ways, and what some browsers see aren't what other browsers see. And older versions of the same browsers have difficulty seeing anything. Here's a few things that may help you in when you're "surfing the net". If you're having problems with the type scrambling or running together, try reloading or refreshing your screen. Generally you can right-click your mouse button (or choose from the top menu display) and choose the Refresh or Reload option on the menu. The biggest culprit in not properly seeing a website may be the age of your web browser. Older browsers just don't want to do what a website is asking them to do. You must have Cookies Enabled in order to shop online at Mini World. Check your browser defaults and make sure you have cookies turned on. You need to have a medium Security setting How to update Your Web Browser Check to see what version of the web browser you are using. Then visit the website of the browser you are using to see if there is a newer version available for you to download. Here are the links for the top 2 web Browsers: NETSCAPE http://home.netscape.com/download/index.html Internet Explorer http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie5/default.asp     Glossary Browser Web Browser. The software program that allows you to view websites and web pages on the world wide web. html Hypertext Markup language. The language "native" to the World Wide Web, and used to construct web pages. http Hypertext Transfer Protocol. A system for transferring files across the World Wide Web. ISP Internet Service Provider. The company that provides you with your Internet access. Links or linking. Also called hyperlink. A connection between one web page or website to another. PGP Pretty Good Privacy SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. What happens when you're sending e-mail. URL Uniform Resource Locator. Each bit of information on the Internet is known as a resource. A URL specifies the type of software used to handle the resource, the computer on which the resource is located, and the name of the resource. The URL adds a specific resource name, such as a filename, to the IP address and port-number combination. The first part is called a prefix., such as http. www World Wide Web. The total selection of web sites interconnected via the Internet. Web page Also called HTML page. A display composed using html that is viewable with a web browser. Website or Web Site. Any presence on the World Wide Web. Website is usually the term used for a collection of web pages.