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Welcome to today's edition of the Computer Kindergarten Newsletter.
Today is Sunday, January 12, 2003
In this Issue:
Special Feature: Create a Shortcut to Turn Your Computer Off
Featured Webpage: Did You Know?
Featured Computer Term: Killer App
This Week's Topic: Check Email While Away From Home
Question: Adding an Additional Computer with Internet Access
Featured Website: Religious Freedom Day; Online Reference; Video CD DVD Help Online; Books Online
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Using Links
A Link is a reference to a website. In this newsletter you will see links to many worthwhile, informative and fun websites. Here are the instructions on how to use links:
A link will be used one of two ways, depending on your email program.
If you see the link in blue, underlined text, all you have to do is click on it and a window with the Website in it will automatically appear on your screen.
If you see the link in plain text, you can copy and paste it into the address bar on your browser. Highlight the link with your mouse, click Edit up on the menu bar, and then click Copy from the menu that you just opened up. Open your browser (click the Start Button, point to Programs, click on Internet Explorer); click on the address bar. Click Edit up on the menu bar, and then click Paste from the menu that you just opened up. Press the Enter key on the keyboard and this will take you to the Website.
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Visit our Newsletter Archives to learn about the following:
Print Part of an Email http://stsico.com/html/printemail.html
Spot and Avoid Email Hoaxes http://www.stsico.com/html/hoaxes.html
Viruses and How to Avoid Them http://www.stsico.com/html/viruses.html
Viruses http://www.stsico.com/html/virusnewsarticles.html
How to Eliminate, or at Least Minimize, Spam (junk email). http://stsico.com/html/spam.html
All About Cookies http://stsico.com/html/cookies.html
Work Less and Get Your Computer Projects Done Faster with Keyboard Shortcuts. http://stsico.com/html/kbshortcuts.html
Email: Downloading and Attaching Files http://stsico.com/html/downattach.html
and more! http://stsico.com/html/newsletter.html
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Special Feature: Create a Shortcut to Turn Your Computer Off
If you’re in a hurry to shut down your computer, you can create a shortcut icon to turn the computer off by following these directions:
For Windows 98
Point to a blank area on the desktop. Click the right button on the mouse. On the menu that appears, point to New. Another menu will come out to the side; click on shortcut. In the Command line box, you'll see the insertion point (flashing vertical line). Type the following text in the command line box. (This text must be copied in EXACTLY as it's written. Hint: copy and paste the text from here into the box.)
C:\WINDOWS\RUNDLL.EXE user.exe,exitwindows
Click the Next button. Type a name for the Shortcut. (Suggestion: ShutDown) Click the Finish button.
For Windows XP
Right-click on your desktop, point to New, then click on Shortcut.
In the Create Shortcut window, enter the following in the location box.
SHUTDOWN -s -t 01
Click Next and then click Finish.
You'll see the new icon on the desktop. When you're ready to turn your computer off, close all open programs. Double click this icon instead of clicking Start, Shutdown and OK.
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Featured Webpage: Did You Know? New!
Visit our Newsletter Archives page for a daily interesting and informative fact from the Did You Know website. Click on the fact and you’ll be taken to didyouknow.cd where you can find fascinating facts on just about everything.
Bookmark our website to visit everyday for your daily Did You Know fact. http://stsico.com/html/newsletter.html
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Today's Computer Term: Killer App
An application that surpasses (kills) its competitors.
The term killer app is a given to a program that changes the way we think and operate our computers on a daily basis. Web browsers were considered killer apps -- as they persuaded people to run out and buy a computer to join other computers on a global network.
Killer app was first used in the mid-1980s to describe Lotus 1-2-3 when demand for that product became the major driver of the popularity of PCs. After 1994 the World Wide Web became known as the Internet's killer app.
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Today's Topic: Check Email While Away From Home
Question: We’re going to Florida for the winter and I would like to keep up with my email while I’m down there. We won’t have a computer with us but our friends have one. Is it possible to check my email from their computer? Thank you in advance. I have learned so much from your newsletter. Someone finally speaks a computer language that I can understand.
Answer:
In most cases, you can check your email on a computer other than your own. If you can, and how you do it, depends on whom you use for your email.
Free Accounts
If you use Hotmail, Yahoo, Lycos or some other web-based provider, go to their website (ex. hotmail.com) and you can access your account from there. You’ll be able to read, send, and delete email just like you do from home.
America Online
If you have access to the AOL program: At the Sign On screen, click the arrow to the right of the box where you see the screen name. This normally allows you to choose from among the screen names you've created on your account. One of the names that will always be listed is Guest. Click on Guest and then click on the Sign On button. The AOL software will dial and connect, and, once connected, you'll be prompted to enter your screen name and password.
If you don't have access to the AOL program:
If you don't have access to the AOL program but have Internet access, go to AOL’s website, aol.com. Type in your screen name (email address) and you’ll be prompted to your mail.
Optimum Online/Other Email
Go to any computer that has Internet access and go to the website mail2web.com and type in your e-mail address and password. You can read and send emails, and delete or reply to the e-mails that are waiting for you.
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Question: Adding an Additional Computer with Internet Access
Question: I was just given a second computer, which I would like to use to go on the Internet and send email. I use Optimum Online on my first computer and they suggested I buy a router for the new computer to put it online. Would the router need a cable connection to the new computer? Thank you for this great newsletter. I learn so much every week.
Answer:
The cable comes into your house and goes into the cable modem.
If you have one computer, the cable modem connects to your PC via a network cable.
If you want to hook up more than one computer, you can. The cable modem would plug into the router. Each computer in the house would then have a cable that runs from the computer to the router. Think of the router as a splitter where all the computers in your home can share the cable modem and Internet Access -and it doesn’t cost anything extra.
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Today's Featured Websites:
Religious Freedom Day
On January 16, 2002, President Bush proclaimed this date as Religious Freedom day. You can read the proclamation at the Whitehouse website at:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/01/20020116.html
Online Reference
Use the Internet to look up words. For spelling and definitions, try dictionary.com. for synonyms and antonyms, there’s thesaurus.com
http://www.thesaurus.com/ http://www.dictionary.com/
Video CD DVD Help Online
For online help with your video or digital camera, recording your tapes onto DVDs, working with CDs and much more, take a look at VCDHelp.com.
http://www.vcdhelp.com/
Books Online
While most people prefer reading a book with it sitting in their lap, at the On Line books website, you'll have access to over 18,000 books that you can read online.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
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