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Beginner

Posted by thetechmanual on May 26, 2008

Here’s a list of things to do some research in, if you are new to the internet.

Google.com - This is the best search engine bar none

Gmail.com - Free webbased email

Yahoo Mail - Free webbased email easy to use for beginners, just make sure you use the classic interface. They have the best tutorial section.

Yahoo! is great for people who are starting out. Explore as much as you can. After you setup your email with them you can use that user name to customize My.Yahoo.com this is a great way to customize your internet sources. You can setup RSS feeds which is a way to get news about subjects you are into. A quick way of doing this is:

  1. make sure you have signed in to your email then
  2. go to news.yahoo.com
  3. locate the Search all news field
  4. type in a subject you are interested in: NFL Falcons
  5. find the: and click on it.
  6. you’ll get dialog confirming that you want it added to your personal page

This personal page is just like your own personal newspaper. You can add pages and sections. Add a Sports page. A National news page. Even an Entertainment page. Its a great morning paper.

Well explore and enjoy.

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Getting started

Posted by thetechmanual on May 24, 2008

Key Word surfing like AOL with Google.

Are you knew to the internet?

If so the first thing to learn is how to do a Google search. If you are not new still read this quick tip there is something new here for most people.

  1. Type in Google.com in the address bar.
  2. Type in cnn on the search field.
  3. Click “I’m Feeling Lucky”

Notice what happened. You didn’t get a search results list. You got CNN.com. Go back and try MTV, Yahoo, AOL. What you are getting is the best result for the keywords. You can even try “Yahoo Mail”. Using the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on Google.com is a great shortcut that seems to be underused.

Alright, hope this was new to you and see how simple the web can be.

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