Make A Name For Yourself
Sydney Morning Herald
Saturday May 19, 2001
Helen Bradley turns saving favourites and bookmarks into a memorable experience.
Whenever you bookmark a site using Netscape Navigator, it will be given the name specified by the site's developer. That can be a problem if the name doesn't easily identify the site.
When you save a Favorite using Internet Explorer, you'll find life is a little easier as the Add Favorite dialogue displays the name the Favorite has been given in an editable box. If the name isn't to your liking, simply click in the box and edit it to suit before clicking OK. If you're using Netscape Navigator, you can determine ahead of time what the Bookmark name will be if you read the page title from the browser's title bar. It is this text that Netscape uses as the Bookmark's title when you choose Bookmarks, Add Bookmarks. If you want to alter this, first add your Bookmark then choose Bookmarks, Edit Bookmarks and select the Bookmark to alter. Choose Edit, Bookmark Properties (or right-click the Bookmark and choose Bookmark Properties) and alter the text in the Name field. When you have finished, choose OK to confirm your changes.
Share genius
Sharing a home computer often means prying eyes. You will probably want to keep your details private so others can't access your Yahoo! ID and password and use your account. To avoid this, make sure you log out of Yahoo! Messenger before leaving your computer and leave unchecked the box that tells Yahoo! to remember your ID and password.
It's your call
If when you dial your ISP, you often find the line is engaged or not connecting, why not set your dial-up connection to automatically redial for you?
Choose My Computer, double-click the Dial-Up Networking and, from the menu, choose Connections, Settings, General tab and enable the Redial checkbox. Set the number of times to retry the number and the interval to wait between tries. Click OK to confirm your settings and in future the computer will automatically redial when the number doesn't answer.
Don't move!
When the antics of an animated image on a Web page get too much for you, you can stop it from playing by clicking the Stop button in Internet Explorer. To make this permanent, choose Tools, Internet Options, Advanced tab and scroll down to the Multimedia section. If you deselect the Play animations option and click OK, you won't see them play again.
What's in a name?
All those with an obscure email address such as abc123@isp.com.au, please stand up. You don't have to live with this. You can help your recipients identify your email if you specify your real name in your messages.
In Outlook Express you can check the details included in your outgoing emails if you choose Tools, Accounts, Mail tab, click the email account to change and click Properties. Select the General tab. In the Name box is the name included in the From field of all outgoing messages. You can alter this to anything you want (your real name is a good choice) then click OK to finish.
Such a drag
Does Word's drag and drop feature irritate you? To disable it, choose Tools, Options, Edit tab, deselect the Drag-And-Drop Text Editing checkbox and click OK.
Keep your notes visible
If you use the Mac Stickies application you can make the notes appear every time you start your computer by adding the Stickies application to your Startup folder. Open the Apple Menu Items folder and create an alias for your Stickies application and then drag and drop it into the Startup Items folder (which is in your System folder).
Netscape Knowledgebase
http://help.netscape.com/browse
Tucows
www.tucows.com/Australia.html
Download.com
www.download.com
Mybookmarks.com
www.mybookmarks.com
Unofficial Netscape FAQ
Reader's tip
This week's Reader tip for creating a shortcut to your Program files folder comes from Brett Jack of Bonnyrigg Heights. "A lot of things you want to do on your computer involve the C:\Program Files folder. While you can get there by choosing My Computer, double-clicking C Drive and then locating the Program Files folder, it's simpler to add a shortcut to the folder on your Desktop. To do this, right-click the Program Files folder and choose Create Shortcut. This creates a shortcut inside the current window. If My Computer is taking up all your screen, click the Restore button in its top right corner so the window shrinks and you can see part of the Desktop. Drag the new shortcut out of the window and drop it onto your Desktop. Now, your Program Files folder is only a double-click away." Of course, you can use these same steps to add a shortcut to any file or folder to your desktop.
Published tips earn their authors a copy of Norton SystemWorks 2001 for Windows or Mac (RRP $218.90), courtesy of Symantec Australia. Submit your original tips (100 words or fewer) to icontips@helenbradley.com
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