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Computer Basics. Email - prashkin@gmail.com Web site - www.1400ml.com/CarsonLibrary. Email Basics. Attachments Cc v. Bcc Contact Lists Folders Spam. Surfin’ the Web. Browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari Google and other Search Engines
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Computer Basics Email -prashkin@gmail.com Web site-www.1400ml.com/CarsonLibrary
Email Basics • Attachments • Cc v. Bcc • Contact Lists • Folders • Spam
Surfin’ the Web • Browsers:Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari • Google and other Search Engines • Wikipedia: World-wide cooperation for the benefit of all. • Bookmarks(Favorites)
Cool Stuff from the web: • Calendars That Workhttp://www.calendarsthatwork.com/ • Playing for Changehttp://www.playingforchange.com/ • Ethan Zuckerman: Listening to global voiceshttp://www.ted.com/talks/ethan_zuckerman.html
From your computer you can: • Upload to the web:an email to a friend, a blog for all to see, photos to share, or many other posts. • Download from the web:A web site, an email from a friend, a video, a song, a pdf file. Information.
Using a search engine such as Google, you can easily find newspapers, such as: • http://www.nytimes.com/ • http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2010/12/17/index.php • http://www.haaretz.com/ • http://www.manilatimes.net/ • http://www.abante.com.ph/issue/dec1810/default.htm • http://english.aljazeera.net/
What Everyone Should Know • How to go to a web page • Type the URL (web page address) here. • Press Enter. Note: You must type the URL exactly, with no extra spaces or punctuation and exact capitalization, or you won’t get the page.
What Everyone Should Know • Select your browser’s home page • Click Tools • Click Internet Options
What Everyone Should Know • Browser home page (2) • Click Use Current
What Everyone Should Know • Change desktop background (PC only) • Hold down the Start key (Windows key) and click D to show desktop. • Right click on desktop. • Select Properties. • Click Browse and find the pictureyou want to use, or select an image from the list. • OR, in Internet Explorer, rightclick on an image and choose“Set as Background.”
MS Word project 4-fold greeting card • Fold blank sheet. • Roughly sketch front and inside panels. • Unfold. This is what we have to reproduce in Word. • Open new Word doc. • Change Page orientation to landscape • Create new 4x4 table • Insert art in upper left cell. Rotate 180º • Insert text in lower left cell. Format it. • When it looks good, print it and fold it. If necessary, tweak the layout. • When the fold looks good, trim it with scissors. paper cutter or knife and straight edge.