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Welcome to today's edition of the Computer Kindergarten Newsletter.
Today is Sunday, December 9, 2001
In this Issue:
Featured Computer Term: Server
Topic: Bookmarks and Favorites
Progressive Learning Series: Address Labels for Holiday Cards
Featured Website: Quackwatch
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Today's Featured Computer Term: Server
A server is a computer that delivers (serves up) Web pages. Every Web server has an IP address and a domain name. For example, if you enter the URL http://www.stsico.com in your browser, this sends a request to the server whose domain name is stsico.com. The server gets the page named index.html and sends it to your browser, which is then displayed on your computer's screen.
Any computer can be turned into a Web server by installing server software and connecting the machine to the Internet. There are many Web server software applications, including public domain software from NCSA and Apache, and commercial packages from Microsoft, Netscape and others.
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Today's Topic: Thanks to newsletter subscriber Lorraine for the following question:
Question: What is a "bookmark" is and how is it accomplished?
Answer:
Bookmark means to mark a document or a specific place in a document for later retrieval.
Nearly all Web browsers support a bookmarking feature that lets you save the address (URL) of a Web page so that you can easily re-visit the page at a later time. Bookmarks are also known as Favorites or Favorite Places.
Netscape Navigator
When you have come to a site on the Internet that you would like to come back to on another day, go up to Bookmarks in the menu bar and drag down to Add Bookmark. This will place the title of the site you bookmarked in your list of bookmarks.
To use the bookmark at a later point, go to Bookmarks in the menu bar and click on the bookmark you want.
To sort and organize your bookmarks 1. Go up to "Window" in the menu bar and drag down to "Bookmarks." A Bookmarks window will appear.
2. To create a new folder for common subject bookmarks go up to "Item" in the menu bar and drag down to "Insert Folder."
3. To place the bookmarks in that folder, click on the bookmark and drag it to the folder. (You can select more than one bookmark at a time by holding down the shift key).
4. Select (by clicking on) the folder you would like to sort. Go up to "Item" and drag down to "Sort Bookmarks." This will sort your bookmarks alphabetically within the selected folder. If you want to sort all folders and bookmarks select the top folder before going to "Sort Bookmarks" all folders and bookmarks within those folders will sort alphabetically.
Saving Bookmarks to a Disk
1. Go up to "Window" and drag down to "Bookmarks."
2. Go up to "File" and drag down to "Save Bookmark file as...." Name your bookmarks and navigate to where you want to save the file.
Opening your saved Bookmarks on another Computer
1. Put your disk into the computer.
2. Open Netscape
3. Go up to "File" and drag down to "Import Bookmarks." The computer will prompt you to select a file. Navigate to where your file is; either your disk or server.
Internet Explorer
Once you get comfortable with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, you will most certainly find sites you really like or you visit quite often. Given the length of some of the URL's out there, the typing can get pretty long, and the longer the URL, the more likely you are to either forget it or mistype it. This is why the Favorites feature is included in Internet Explorer.
Favorites are just bookmarks you can create that will contain the entire URL of the sites you want or need to remember. You can add, remove, and organize the Favorites however you choose. With that in mind, let's tackle this simple concept of adding, removing, and organizing your Favorites.
Adding Favorites By learning early how to add Favorites you will quickly compile a good sized list of useful shortcuts to points of interest.
To add a Favorite is easy. When you have reached a site that you will want to return to, notice the icon of a folder on the main toolbar. If you click that once, a window will appear, giving you the option to Add to Favorites which you'll want to move over to, and click once again. This will bring up a window asking you what you would like to name it. You can name this anything you like, and the URL will remain the same. It's always safe to accept the default given and click OK.
Organizing Favorites Into Folders If in the last step you noticed the button "Create in" then you are on your way to organizing your Favorites. A good idea is to index your favorites into different folders based upon subject or importance.
By selecting the button "Create in" a new drop down menu will appear, listing the available Favorite folders already present. If there are none at this time, which is likely, and you had one in mind, select "New Folder." Suppose you found a page on Classical French Cuisine, you might want to put that Favorite in a new folder named Cooking. You would need to click Add to Favorites, then name the book mark French Cuisine, then click Create in, which would give you the option to click New Folder, which you would name Cooking. After you have named the folder, be sure you are in the Cooking folder, and once again, click OK to finalize your addition of a new Favorite.
Supposing you decide a particular Favorite or even an entire Folder needs to be moved into a different Folder, you'll want to use the move button, from within the Organize Favorites windows. By selecting a one or a Folder of Favorites, this button is enabled. With your selection made, click the Move button. This will bring up a new window listing, once again, all your Folders. Select the one you want to move to, and click OK.
Removing Favorites
If at some point you find that you no longer need a particular entry in your Favorites, or perhaps an entire Folder of Favorites, then you'll want to remove them. If you recall, when you clicked the Folder icon, there was an option to Organize Favorites. If you select this, a window appears listing all your Folders and the Favorites contained in them.
To remove a single entry, browse through the folders you have by double-clicking the folders one at a time. Each time you do this, you narrow down the list to only the Favorites contained in the Folder you selected. When you find the particular entry you want to remove, click once on it. As you do this, the option to delete the Bookmark is enabled. When this happens, click Delete, and you are all set.
Removing whole Folders follows the same steps. Browse through the folders, and find the one you want to remove. When you are in that folder you will see the contents of it and no other folder. Keep in mind though, there may be folders within folders. If you remove one, and there are folders within it, those folders will be removed. When you are sure you want to remove, click Delete.
America Online
As you explore America Online, you're going to find places that you enjoy and want to visit again. When you encounter an area that you'd like to return to, add it to your Favorite Places. You can even add an e-mail to your list.
To add a Favorite Place to your list
1. Navigate to the site you want to mark as a Favorite Place.
2. Click the heart icon at the top right of the window.
3. In the dialog box that appears, click Add to Favorites.
To return to your Favorite Places
1. On the Favorites menu on the AOL toolbar, click Favorite Places. The Favorite Places window appears.
2. Scroll through the list and double-click the Favorite Place to which you want to return.
You can organize your Favorite Places by creating folders in your list and grouping your favorites into those folders. You can also modify your favorites as needed.
To create a new folder in Favorite Places
1. On the Favorites menu on the AOL toolbar, click Favorite Places.
2. Click New.
3. Click New Folder.
4. Type a name for the folder, and click OK.
5. Select an item and drag it into the new folder.
To edit a Favorite Place
1. On the Favorites menu on the AOL toolbar, click Favorite Places.
2. Select the item or folder you want to change.
3. Click Edit.
4. Type the new name for the Favorite place and/or update the Internet Address.
5. Click OK.
To edit a Favorite Place folder
1. On the Favorites menu on the AOL toolbar, click Favorite Places
2. Select the item or folder you want to change.
3. Click Edit.
4. Type the new name for the Favorite place.
To move an item in Favorite Places
1. On the Favorites menu on the AOL toolbar, click Favorite Places.
2. Drag the item to the new location in the list box.
To share your Favorite Places
1. Navigate to the online area that you'd like to revisit.
2. Click the heart icon at the top right of the window. A dialog box appears.
3. Do one of the following: Click Insert in Instant Message to put a hyperlink to the area in a blank Instant Message note.
Or
Click Insert in Mail to put a hyperlink to the area in a blank e-mail note.
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Progressive Learning Series: Microsoft Word - Address Labels for Holiday Cards
You can use your word processing program to create mailing labels for your holiday cards and newsletters.
To set up the labels, click on Tools on the menu bar, then Envelopes and Labels. Click the Label tab at the top of the dialog box. Click the Options button where you will choose the product type.
You'll find the Avery Standard number on the box of labels. Scroll down (or up) in the Product number area and click on the number for your labels. Click OK.
Click the New Document button, which will create a new page. In it you'll see gray lines representing labels. Type the first label. Press the tab key to move to the next label. Continue typing all labels.
To print, insert the label paper into the printer. Since all printers are different, you may want to print a test copy to determine direction the paper goes in.
Click File on the menu, then Print. Click the OK button.
Note: to print labels from an existing database, use Word's mail merge function. For specific directions on this, visit the following Website:
http://stsico.com/html/merge.html
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Today's Featured Website: Quackwatch
There's a lot of information on the Internet about health care and health related matters. As with anything, there's bound to be a mix of good information and bad information.
Quackwatch.com is there to help rummage through the information. The site's purpose is to "combat health-related frauds, myths, fads, and fallacies."
Operated by psychiatrist Stephen Barrett, M.D., you'll find articles under the sections Questionable Advertisements and Questionable Products, Services and Theories, Nonrecommended Sources of Health Advice, Consumer Protection, and Consumer Strategies. And there's an area where you can ask questions or submit suspected health scam activity.
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