Transcript part 2 what in the world does that mean?

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.
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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.
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BROWSER
Software which interprets webpage instructions
into a user-friendly page
 Examples of browsers:
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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
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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.
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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.
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TABS
Tabs are really browser windows inside a
browser window
 Most browsers now offer tabs. Exceptions
include AOL and CompuServe
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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.
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ATOM
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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:
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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
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DRAFTS
You can save your emails as you write
 In most clients, you save your email into the
Drafts folder
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EMAIL DEMO
SPAM
Unsolicited email.
 A neat idea that went bad.
 How to fight spam:
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Use BCC.
 Don’t unsubscribe to anything to which you didn’t
actually subscribe.
 Don’t buy anything from a spam email.
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ERROR MESSAGES
HELP!
Virtually every software program includes a Help
file.
 Most Help files allow you to search by subject,
content and word.
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SHAMELESS PLUG