Computer
Info
This Weeks Meeting
We will be taking a look at
Bookmarks and Favorites how to add them and organize them. And as usual, question and answers.
Mouse Buttons in Internet Explorer
That
wheel on your mouse (if you have one) can be useful with Internet Explorer.
With the CTRL key depressed, moving the wheel forward or backward resizes the
font! Now you can read the print with ease. Wait, there's more---
With
the SHIFT key depressed, the wheel moves you backward or forward to other sites
visited in the current browsing session without having to cursor up and click
the "back" arrow
DVD Writer
Well,
we finally got around to trying out our DVD writer. So we are sharing our thoughts and learning
with you.
First
we started with a DVD-R (this is a writeable disc). It will hold 4.7 Gigabytes of
information. We used Roxio
EasyCD Creator 5.0 Platinum to write to it. One of the choices with this version of EasyCD is the choice for writing a Data DVD. So we wrote a DVD with over 4 Gigabytes of
pictures on it. It took about 56
minutes. We found that many of the
pictures in subfolders that were three levels deep were listed in the folder
but they contained 0 bytes therefore all of these pictures were no
viewable. Havent been able to discover
why this has happened.
Next
we used a DVD-RAM (this is a single sided rewriteable disc). It is called a Type II and is in a
cartridge. When you wish to use it in a regular
DVD drive, it can be removed from the cartridge. With this DVD, you place it in the DVD writer
drive and it is recognized and then you can write to it in the same manner
that you do your hard drive. You can
copy files from a folder on your hard drive and then paste them onto your DVD
drive or you can use the Send To command. Since this is a rewriteable disc, you can
delete files overwrite files add a few files at any time.
Sorting Files Windows XP
I
just discovered this but I havent been able to find out WHY. When you sort your files by
NAME and you have numbers as the first part of the file name (ex. 105 getting ready.jpg and 1051 on the road.jpg and
106 arriving Denver.jpg ) they will be sorted numerically and not alphanumeric. In all previous versions of Windows, they
have ALWAYS sorted alphanumeric.
Organizing Your List of Favorite Websites
Internet Explorer.
First, terminology. Internet Explorer calls it FAVORITES.
When you are at a website that you would like to visit again save
it to your list of Favorites. You
do this by clicking on FAVORTIES from the top menu and then click on ADD TO
FAVORITES. This will open up and windows
for adding your favorite.
Now
here is the BIG secret. Be sure to
choose the folder that you want to place it in by clicking on it to select
it. If you do not have a category (or
folder) to place it in --- then click on NEW FOLDER (in Internet Explorer 6)
or a button labeled CREATE IN (in some of the older versions). Give it a name that will identify the
category that you are trying to create.
In
Internet Explorer 6 there are two ways that you can clean up your list of
favorite websites If you click on FAVORITES from the top menu locate a
website that you no longer want right click on it and choose DELETE. If you want to move it to another location, then left click on it hold the mouse button down and drag
it to the new location. Another way is
to choose ORGANIZE FAVORITES from the FAVORITES menu.
Netscape. First,
terminology. Netscape calls it BOOKMARKS.
When you are at a website that you would like to visit again save
it to your Bookmarks. You do this
by clicking on BOOKMARKS and then choosing ADD BOOKMARK which will add it to
the bottom of the list or in a folder called New Bookmarks. Or you can choose FILE BOOKMARK which will
list the various folders or categories that you have and you can then choose to
place the bookmark in one of those folders.
In
Netscape 4.7 you can clean up your list of bookmarks by clicking on BOOKMARKS
and choosing EDIT BOOKMARKS. Locate the
website that you no longer want right click on it and choose DELETE
BOOKMARK. If you want to move it to
another location, then left click on it hold the
mouse button down and drag it to the new location.
Both
Internet Explorer and Netscape allow you to place bookmarks on your personal
bookmark toolbar. In Netscape, when you
are at a website that you wish to add, Place your mouse cursor over the little
green ribbon icon (to the right of the word bookmarks and to the left of
the word location) you will see your cursor change to a hand. Now hold your left mouse button down and
while keeping it down, drag your mouse down to your personal toolbar you will
notice that the cursor then changes to a chain link release your mouse button
and an icon for the website should appear.
In Internet Explorer, place your mouse cursor over the little e icon
in the address box, you will see your cursor change to a hand. Now hold your left mouse button down and
while keeping it down, drag the mouse to your LINKS toolbar you will notice
that the cursor then changes to a shortcut arrow. Release your mouse button and an icon for the
website should appear.
It
is very handy to place folders on your personal toolbar and then you can
easily organize many bookmarks (or favorites) to be accessed quickly.
Start Menu Windows XP
You
can have the Start menu in Windows XP in two different modes one is known as
the Windows XP mode and the other is known as the Classic mode. In the Windows XP mode, when you look at your
Start menu, it is in two columns. The
column on the left is where your most used and recently used programs are
listed. I was ask
how do you delete an icon from the left side and then keep it from
automatically being added again? dont worry about it, just let it be
there. As I just mentioned, it is
automatically added because it was being used.
In the Classic mode, the Start menu will look just like it did under
Windows 98.
To
change between these two modes of the Start menu, right click on the taskbar
and choose PROPERTIES and then the START MENU tab. Here you can choose between the Start Menu
and the Classic Menu.