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You can quickly bookmark any Web
page by pressing the CTRL key and the D key at the same time. (Don't worry
about making the D capital. Just press two keys: the one marked CTRL and the
one marked D.)
This nifty little keystroke will
bring up your bookmarks or favorites. It works in all the major Internet
browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera. Just go to the page
you want to bookmark (the term used in Firefox and Opera) or create as a
Favorite (the term used in Internet Explorer) and click CTRL+D and a window
will pop up allowing you to save the address for that page and give it a name.
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Experts estimate that 5% of the electricity used n the United States goes to standby power. They say we could save almost $4 billion a year just by unplugging battery blocks when the device is charged. Most of us just unplug the device and leave the charger plugged into the wall when we really should unplug the cable from the wall. While this advice is perfect for cell phones, it also applies to PDAs, toothbrushes, and portable tools. Many of these devices trickle a charge even after the device is fully charged.
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A wild card is a character that can be used in a search to
represent unknown characters, words, or phrases. The most common wildcard is
the asterisk -- *. It can be used in a search to represent zero or more
characters.
The asterisk can be used as a kind of fill-in-the-blanks for
Google searches. For instance, if most people who are searching for the person
who invented the sandwich, will type in invented
sandwich or who invented the sandwich.
This will bring up a list of information, which may or may not contain the name
of the inventor. However, if you search for the
sandwich was invented by *, the name of the inventor will likely be one of
the top three choices.
At the present time Google only supports searches where an
asterisk indicates a whole word or phrase.
The asterisk is even more useful when you are searching for
things on your computer. In this case it
can be used to indicate a part of a word. For instance, using the Windows
search to search for *.jpg will return a list of all the pictures on your
computer that have the jpg extension. Searching for j* will give you a list of all the files that
begin with the letter j. Searching for *j* will give you every file
that has a j in it.
The question mark can also be used as a wild card, but it
can represent only one character, so for the average user, the asterisk is much
more useful.
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The new flat panel LCD monitors use up to 66% less electricity
than the big old chunky CRT monitors. They don't flicker like the old CRTs, so
they are easier on the eyes. They take up much less desktop space. The price of
LCD monitors has plummeted dramatically recently. This gives you 4 good reasons
to invest in a new flat panel monitor.
If
you can't make the investment right now, turning the CRT's power switch off
when it is not in use, will save energy.
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If you want to print
a copy of what's on the screen, press the key marked "Print Scrn" or "Print Screen". Although you won't see anything happen, this will put a copy
of the screen into the Windows clipboard. Open the Paint program that can be
found by going to Start - Programs - Accessories - Paint and select Edit -
Paste. This will copy the desktop image from the clipboard into the program.
Then Select File and Print.
If you prefer, you can also paste the picture from the clipboard into any paint-type program, or even Microsoft Word or a word processing program. It's a little bit of work, but when you need to save a copy of something on the screen, being able to print the screen can be invaluable.
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