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Today's Featured Website: imdb.com
This site is the best place to settle a movie bet. Take a look at the Internet Movie Database. Search it's database of facts about more than 200,000 movies, TV shows and news. Use it to keep track of your video collection.
You can also use imdb.com to look up movie times by zip code.
http://www.imdb.com/
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Today's Featured Computer Term: Web Ring
A web ring is a bunch of sites that have something in common and are all connected through a circular series of links.
Usually, there's a link at the bottom of the website that lets you jump to the next site in the ring. If you keep going, you eventually end up back where you started (in theory). You can usually view these sites in pretty much any order you want, too. You can go to the next site in the ring, the previous, or a random site in the ring.
Someone owns the web ring, which addresses a particular subject, and people with sites on that topic can join, or link, their site to the ring.
There are web rings covering just about every subject imaginable. Sometimes the circle gets broken, however; gravesites are everywhere.
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Today's Topic: Taskbar Basics
The taskbar, that gray bar, typically sits at the bottom of your screen, visible at all times. It includes the Start button and, by default, the Quick Launch bar.
Start at the beginning
Click the Start button to see the Start menu, which gives you access to your programs, system tools, Windows Help, and more. With the Find tool you can search for files on your computer. Favorites gives you instant access to all your favorite documents and Web pages. You can rearrange programs on the Start menu any way you like.
Quick Launch for fast access
The Quick Launch bar sits just to the right of the Start button. From the Quick Launch bar, you can open frequently used programs. Each icon on it represents a program or tool on your computer. There's even an icon for the desktop, which you can click to minimize all your open programs. You can add the programs you use most often: Click Start, and then point to Programs. Click and drag the program you want to add to the Quick Launch area in the taskbar.
Keep track of your work
The taskbar also keeps track of all your open programs and documents. Each time you open a program, a corresponding button appears on the taskbar. To switch between programs, just click the button for the program you want. To minimize an open window, click its button on the taskbar. Click once to minimize; click again to restore the window to your screen. You can also use the taskbar buttons to close several programs at once.
Set your clock
The clock is on the far right of the taskbar. Double-click the clock to open the Date/Time Properties dialog box, where you can change the date, time, and time zone.
Move and size the taskbar
You can drag the taskbar to the top or either side of your desktop, or change its size by dragging its edges. |
