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               Two potential causes of your internet browser beginning to run slowly are website cookies and the browser cache. A cookie, put simply, is data that is saved by your computer’s browser that contains information about the settings and preferences that you have set on the websites that you visit, as well as information from previous browsing sessions. For example, if you tell a website to save your login information so you don’t have to enter it every time you visit the website, this is done using an authentication cookie. When information is cached by your browser, this means that a copy of the data is stored by your browser so that it can be retrieved quickly. However, if there are too many cookies stored, or too much data stored in the cache, web browsing activity can actually slow down. You can prevent this by clearing your browsing data from time to time. Here’s some examples of how to clear the cookies and cache in some of the mo...

       “SEO” stands for “search engine optimization”. Search engines, such as Google or Bing, utilize different tools to search the Internet for content related to your searches and organizes that content in order of relevancy. There are three steps in this process – crawling, indexing, and ranking. Search engines crawl by searching the Internet for any content it can find that is related to a search, stores the content in an index to be displayed later, and ranks the content by displaying the content with the most relevant content displayed first. Search engine optimization is a process that makes your website and the content of the website more visible to search engines, making your website appear earlier and more often in searches. When you have a website built by Net Diatom, our custom SEO is built into the code of the website, making the SEO compatible with all search engines. Your website will be placed higher in the ranks of relevancy during searches, and th...

       At Net Diatom, we are currently working on expanding our own wireless network. We offer paid premium wireless internet services, as well a free, ad-supported network. After watching 30 seconds of ads, you will be granted 60 minutes of free Wi-Fi access. Our ads support local businesses, and the range of our free network currently covers the Marshall downtown square, and is expanding all the time. Our premium plan is $15 per month. For 30 days, you will receive access to our secure internet, with no limit on uploading or downloading data. Unlike a traditional ISP (Internet Service Provider), Net Diatom operates a P2P (Peer-to-peer network). This means that as our internet service gains more clients, the range of our network will expand, which is beneficial to us as well as all of our customers. If a client’s location is deemed a good candidate for a network hub, we can install a hub to expand our network. For $150, we can install a hub in your building, which...

             If a hacker wants to gain access to your private information, a common tactic they will use is called phishing. Phishing, put simply, is when someone sends you an email while pretending to be someone that they are not in order to trick you into giving them information that they are not entitled to or clicking on a link that will download malware onto your computer. Here are some tips that can help you spot phishing attempts:   1. False Urgency Phishing emails will often try to make you think that you need to act quickly in order to get your information before you look too closely at the content of the email. Let’s look at an example. Say you get an email from an e-commerce website, claiming that someone is using your account for fraudulent activity, and that you need to click on a link and provide your username and password to verify your identity and secure your account. Before you click on the link, stop and think. Do you real...