For example, instead of using “hunter” as your password, make up a sentence like “my black lab hunter loves playing frisbee”. Now, take the first letter of each word ('mblhlpf') and use that for your password.

Another variation on the same concept is to take a favorite affirmation and use it to make your password: “the early bird gets the worm” becomes “tebgtw”. For an even more secure password, substitute a number or other symbol for one or more of the characters in the password. For example, replace any I's in your password with ! and any S's with $. A more secure version of "Iwhasfl" ("I will have a salad for lunch") is "!wha$fl".

            http://intersites.com/services/creative_design/ 

We’ll start from the left at ‘http://.’ This section simply tells your browser how the data is transferred and you usually don’t need to concern yourself with this section. The next part, ‘intersites.com,’ tells you which main website you are on. Intersites is the name of the company and com is a generic domain used by the internet. Its name is derived from commercial, indicating its original intended purpose for networks of general commercial character.

   As we move along to the right in the url we begin to get more specific. ‘Services’ tells us that we are in the services section of the site and ‘creative_design’ tells us that we are on the page about creative design. So reading from right to left, more specific to more general, we find that we are on the creative design page, which is part of the services section, which is all on intersites.com.

   We hope this article has made using the internet easier for you. You can read more about URL's in this article.

Sometimes you come across links in emails or on websites that you aren't sure if you should click on or not. How can you tell if these links are safe? There are generally 3 things that can happen when you click on a link. The link could take you to a different page on the same site, a different site altogether, or start a download. A link can be anything from an image, to a block of text, to a single word. Your internet browser will usually give you a clue when you are on a link by changing your mouse cursor in some way.

To get an idea of what a link will do when you click on it you should look at the bottom left of your browser while your mouse is on the link. This will show you the url of where the link will take you or what it will do. Try to tell if the link is safe by first looking at the beginning. Is the website one that you know and trust? If the url is to a different website, is that what you would expect from the link? Do you trust the new website? You can also look at the url of the link to see if it includes the word “download” or ends in “.exe.” This can mean that clicking the link will begin a download. If you aren’t trying to download something, reconsider clicking the link. Look at the first part of the url to see if it’s a site you trust. For example, even though google.com/downloads contains the word “download” the website google.com is known to be safe so clicking this link is OK.

Try reading the urls of these two links by putting your mouse over the link and looking to the bottom left of your browser. Link 1 Link 2 The first link is OK but you should be cautious about the second link (I wouldn’t actually include a malicious link in this article so clicking the 2nd link just takes you to an error page). Hopefully reading this article will keep you safer on the internet! Remember, think about where you expect the link should take you and use your common sense when deciding whether to click a link!

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Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks, two farmers, in a one-room log cabin on the 348-acre Sinking Spring Farm, in southeast Hardin County, Kentucky, making him the first president born in the west. His ancestor Samuel Lincoln had arrived in Hingham, Massachusetts from England in the 17th century. His grandfather, also named Abraham Lincoln, had moved to Kentucky, where he owned over 5,000 acres, and was ambushed and killed by an Indian raid in 1786.		Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, to Thomas Lincoln (click here) and Nancy Hanks (click here), two farmers, in a one-room log cabin (click here) on the 348-acre Sinking Spring Farm, in southeast Hardin County, Kentucky (click here), making him the first president born in the west. His ancestor Samuel Lincoln (click here) had arrived in Hingham, Massachusetts (click here) from England (click here) in the 17th century. His grandfather, also named Abraham Lincoln (click here), had moved to Kentucky, where he owned over 5,000 acres, and was ambushed and killed by an Indian raid (click here) in 1786.

In the example on the left, you should be able to quickly get a sense of the topics and keywords in the content by simply looking for the blue underlined text. The example on the right provides no such hints. All the links are simply named "click here", giving you no clue where they will take you.

Second, how you name your links has an impact on your search engine ranking. Google and other search engines use the link names to help them understand your content. In the example on the left, it's clear to the search engines where each link goes. The example on the right gives the search engines no such helpful information. The example on the left will be ranked higher than the one on the right.