How to Finding Old Web Pages

The Web changes constantly, and sometimes that page that had just the information you needed yesterday (or last month or two years ago) is not available today. At other times you may want to see how a page's content or design has changed. There are several sources for finding Web pages as they used to exist.

The Internet Archive’s WayBack Machine allows users to search for web pages that are no longer online. According to the Internet Archive, "the average lifespan of a web page is 44 -75 days," making it that much more important to preserve the designs and styles of our Internet past.

The WayBack Machine actually saves working versions of millions of sites and billions of pages (85 billion as of June 2008), an amazing resource for designers looking to see the look of the internet, and specific sites, going back as far as 1996.

To use the WayBack Machine, simply type a URL in the search field, and you are given a list of approximate dates that the archive has stored pages from. Choose a date and view a saved version of the site. While you will often come across broken links and images, this does not take away from the value of the service, as this huge archive of old web pages is a great research tool.

Some Screenshots : Google.com's History

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How To Enable Right Click on Right Click Disabled Websites

Main reason to disable right click on a website is to prevent visitors from downloading or stealing their images and contents by blocking right click. But it will no longer work as there are so many other ways to download an image and contents from a website without using the right click. Sometimes this is very annoying as you may need that content for your college project or some other urgent purpose.

Here is the best and the most simple trick.You don’t require any software or addon for this trick. With the help of Java script website are block the right click. If  javascript code in your browser is blocked then your right click cannot be blocked.

( Note : Blocking JavaScript may result into unusual rendering of web pages)

How to Enable Right Click

Internet Explorer Browser

- Goto Tools>Internet options>Security

- Now Click on Custom Level

- Now find Scripting Section it will be around the end.

- Now disable Active Scripting.

- This will disable JavaScript and vbscript in your browser.

- Click on OK.

- Now restart your browser

Mozilla Firefox Browser

- Goto Tools>Options>Content

- Uncheck the box Enable JavaScript

- Click Ok

- Open the website that have blocked your right click.

Google Chrome Browser

- Click on the Wrench Icon on the top right side on your browser.

- Click on OptionsNow goto Under the Hood tab

- Click on Content Setings and then on JavaScript

- Disable java script and open the website.

There are a lot of other tricks to bypass blocked right click. Here only discussed the most basic trick that you can use anywhere without any special software.

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4 Ways to Identify Safe Websites on the Internet

 On the whole Internet, there are approximately more than 150 million active websites up and running. As a result, it often becomes a real challenge for the users to identify safe websites that are trustworthy and reputed. Have you ever wondered to know the reputation of a website before placing the order? Need to know
whether a given website is child safe? Well, here are some of the ways to identify safe websites on the Web.

1. WOT or Web Of Trust (www.mywot.com):

WOT is a great place to test the reputation of your favorite website. WOT gives real-time ratings for every website based on the feedback that it gets from millions of trustworthy users across the globe and trusted sources, such as phishing and malware blacklists. Each domain name is evaluated based on this data and ratings are applied to them accordingly. A snapshot of WOT ratings for gohacking.com is shown below:

As shown in the above snapshot, the reputation of each website is shown in terms of 4 components where green means excellent, yellow warns users to be cautious and red indicates potential danger.

Trustworthiness signifies the overall safety of the website. A poor rating may indicate that the site is associated with threats like Internet scams, phishing, identity theft risks and malware. For more information on phishing, you may refer my other post on how to identify and avoid phishing scams.

Vendor reliability tells you whether a given site is safe for carrying out buy and sell transactions with it. An excellent rating indicates superior customer satisfaction while a poor rating indicates possible scam or bad shopping experience.

Privacy indicates about “to what extent the site respects the privacy of it’s users and protects their personal identity and data”.

Child Safety indicates whether the content of a given site is appropriate for children. Site contents like sexual material, nudity and vulgarity will have a poor Child Safety rating.

In most cases, the WOT ratings are found to be highly accurate. To check the reputation of any given website, just visit www.mywot.com type-in the address of your favorite website and click on “Check now”. This tool alone can tell you a lot about the reputation and safety level of a website. However, in addition to this, I am giving you another 3 handy tools to identify safe websites on the Web.

2. McCafee SiteAdvisor:

McCafee SiteAdvisor is a free tool that is available as a browser add-on. It adds safety ratings to your browser and search engine results. You can download it fromwww.siteadvisor.com.

3. StopBadware:

Using this tool, you can check whether a given site is said to have involved in malware activity in the past. To check this, go tohttp://www.stopbadware.org/home/reportsearch and enter the URL or domain name of a website and click on “Search Clearinghouse ”. If the search does not return any result, that means the site was never involved in any of the malware activity in the past.

4. Google Pagerank:

Google PageRank is another great tool to check the reputation and popularity of a website. The PageRank tool rates every webpage on a scale of 1 to 10 which indicates Google’s view of importance of the page. If a given website has a PageRank of less than 3, then it is said to be less popular among the other sites on the Internet.

However, PageRank will only tell you how much popular a given website is and has nothing to do with the safety level of a website. So, this tool alone cannot be used to evaluate a website’s safety and other factors.

PageRank feature is available as a part of Google Toolbar. You can install Google Toolbar from http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/toolbar/ie/index.html.

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