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Before We Get Started…

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.

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  1. 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.

  2. What In The World Does THAT Mean?Part 2

  3. What In The World Does THAT Mean?Part 2

  4. 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.

  5. Browser • Software which interprets webpage instructions into a user-friendly page • Examples of browsers: • Internet Explorer • FireFox • AOL Explorer • Opera • Netscape • Safari

  6. 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

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. Tabs • Tabs are really browser windows inside a browser window • Most browsers now offer tabs. Exceptions include AOL and CompuServe

  10. Tab Demo

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. RSS Demo

  14. 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

  15. BCC • Blind Carbon Copy • Use BCC whenever you are emailing to a group of unrelated people

  16. Drafts • You can save your emails as you write • In most clients, you save your email into the Drafts folder

  17. Email Demo

  18. 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.

  19. Error Messages

  20. Help! • Virtually every software program includes a Help file. • Most Help files allow you to search by subject, content and word.

  21. Shameless Plug

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