Abstract: A persistent position method disclosed. The method includes obtaining position data associated with an object. The position data and the object are sent to a client requesting the object. The position data is usable by the client to position a presentation of the object.

Abstract: A number of records are displayed. Each record has one or more values for a number of fields. The fields includes one or more non-displayed fields. The values of each record for each non-display field are not displayed. The records are filtered by one or more selected values for each of one or more filter fields to yield one or more result records. Each of at least one of the filter beings is one of the non-displayed fields. The one or more result records are displayed. The values of each result record for each filter field are displayed, such that at least one of the non-displayed fields is displayed automatically without user instruction to be displayed.

Abstract: An authorization method includes establishing a password for a user, wherein the password includes password characters in a defined order. The method further includes assigning a code character to each of the password characters at an authorization site, transmitting the code characters assigned to the password characters to a remote client and authorizing a user at the remote client upon entry of the code characters corresponding to the password characters in the defined order.

Abstract: Attributes of a digital image are conveyed using the case of letters in an extension of a file name associated with the digital image. The technique is applicable to a wide variety of image attributes, including orientation.