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BEFORE WE GET STARTED…
Please turn your cell phone to stun! Rest rooms are down the hall, on the right. We’ll take a 5 minute break at 11:00 a.m. Please hold questions about your own
computer for the question and answer period at the end.
WHAT IN THE WORLD DOES THAT MEAN?PART 2
WHAT IN THE WORLD DOES THAT MEAN?PART 2
DEFAULT
How it comes from the manufacturer What it does if you don’t make any changes Examples: Speedometers in US: MPH main measure. In Canada: KPH is main measure. Email addresses – more than one – one of
them will be the default. Printers – more than one printer – one of
them will be the default.
BROWSER
Software which interprets webpage instructions into a user-friendly page
Examples of browsers: Internet Explorer FireFox AOL Explorer Opera Netscape Safari
HOME PAGE
This is the web page which opens when you first open your browser.
You can change your home page. In IE: Internet Options In FireFox: Options In Safari: Preferences
FAVORITES AND BOOKMARKS
Favorites and bookmarks – the terms are interchangeable.
Bookmark can be a noun or a verb, e.g., “to bookmark a site” means “to mark the site so that you don’t have to type it in again the next time you go there. As a noun, a site saved for later is a bookmark. The word favorite is only a noun: a site saved for later is a favorite. Bookmarks and favorites are time-savers so that you don’t have to retype a website address all the time.
ADDRESS BAR VS. SEARCH BAR
When you know the URL of the site you want to visit and you don’t have it bookmarked, you should type the address in the address bar.
When you have no idea of the URL of a site you want to visit, you should use the search bar.
Don’t type http: or www. in the search bar.
TABS
Tabs are really browser windows inside a browser window
Most browsers now offer tabs. Exceptions include AOL and CompuServe
TAB DEMO
RSS
Really Simple Syndication A publishing format that lets people view
headlines of the latest updates from their favorite blogs and Web sites all from within a single newsreader program.
ATOM
Atom is the name of an XML-based Web content and metadata syndication format, and an application-level protocol for publishing and editing Web resources belonging to periodically updated websites.
RSS DEMO
EMAIL CLIENT
A software program which resides on the user’s computer to handle email is called an email client. (As opposed to the software on the server which is called email server.)
Examples include: Windows Mail (found in Vista) Outlook Express Outlook Thunderbird Eudora Pegasus IncrediMail
BCC
Blind Carbon Copy Use BCC whenever you are emailing to a
group of unrelated people
DRAFTS
You can save your emails as you write In most clients, you save your email into the
Drafts folder
EMAIL DEMO
SPAM
Unsolicited email. A neat idea that went bad. How to fight spam:
Use BCC. Don’t unsubscribe to anything to which you
didn’t actually subscribe. Don’t buy anything from a spam email.
ERROR MESSAGES
HELP!
Virtually every software program includes a Help file.
Most Help files allow you to search by subject, content and word.
SHAMELESS PLUG