Tips, Tricks, Easter Eggs..............

[Lionel]

In IE 6

Instead of typing the entire URL in the address bar, just type the name of the site and press Ctrl+Enter, the http://www and .com will be added to the URL.

For Ex

Instead of typing http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com

Just type unexplained-mysteries and press Ctrl+Enter the rest of the URL will be added automatically.

Anybody else got some tips or tricks to share ? Anybody needs some tips ?

[Lionel]

Windows 98/2000

Included with Windows 98/2000 is a program called Trace Route. Open a DOS window and type tracert location name. The location name can be any IP address or number, for example tracert www.unexplained-mysteries.com.

The program will then trace the route from your Internet provider to that location, and show you every computer system along the way.

Watch as you jump from coast to coast and over oceans via satellites and high speed connections instantly. Also very useful for when you can't connect to a site - it will show you if something is down along the way.

The following is the route from my system to www.unexplained-mysteries.com

Tracing route to unexplained-mysteries.com [69.56.130.147]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 109 ms 109 ms 94 ms 203.200.15.18

2 94 ms 109 ms 94 ms 203.200.15.1

3 94 ms 109 ms 94 ms PPP12-146.bng.vsnl.net.in [202.54.12.146]

4 125 ms 109 ms 109 ms mum-bgl-atm-pvc.Bbone.vsnl.net.in [202.54.2.61]

5 329 ms 312 ms 328 ms 202.54.2.18

6 391 ms 391 ms 406 ms ge3-0-0.pr1.lga4.us.mfnx.net [198.32.118.8]

7 407 ms 390 ms 406 ms core1-lga4-oc48.lga2.above.net [64.124.232.5]

8 421 ms 407 ms 406 ms pos0-0.er1.atl4.us.mfnx.net [208.184.232.165]

9 438 ms 421 ms 422 ms so-5-0-0.cr2.dfw2.us.above.net [216.200.127.226]

10 438 ms 422 ms 437 ms so-0-0-0.cr1.dfw2.us.above.net [216.200.127.209]

11 437 ms 438 ms 421 ms 216.200.88.141.available.above.net [216.200.88.141]

12 438 ms 422 ms 437 ms car2-1-v2.dllstx2.theplanet.com [12.96.160.45]

13 437 ms 438 ms 437 ms cpanel18.gzo.com [69.56.130.147]

Trace complete.

[DarkShade]

In most Unixes (Not the latest Darwin however), if you type in "Bill Gates" in the CLI, it'll ask "kill Gates?" Then it will say command unknown. Heheh.

[thedemonof69]

press Ctrl+Enter, the http://www and .com will be added to the URL

That only works if you have AutoComplete on...and it is supposed to work with other versions of IE not just 6...but for some reason it does and doesn't work sometimes....'cause it's not really about the version of IE you have, it's about the version of Windows you have..

[Mentalcase]

www.eeggs.com

I used to visit this site a while back, looks like they have updated their eggs.