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Welcome to today's edition of the Computer Kindergarten Newsletter.
Today is Friday, April 27, 2001
In this Issue:
Today's Featured Computer Term: Firewall
Today's Topic: Improve Your Internet Searches
Progressive Learning Series: Reverse Print Order
Today's Featured Website: digitalcity.com
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Today's Featured Computer Term: Firewall
A firewall is system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a private network or user. Firewalls can be implemented in both hardware and software, or a combination of both.
Firewalls are frequently used to prevent unauthorized Internet users from accessing private networks or users connected to the Internet. All messages entering or leaving the network pass through the firewall, which examines each message and blocks those that do not meet the specified security criteria.
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Today's Topic: Improve Your Internet Searches
There are a number of ways you can improve your searches to get results that more closely match what you're looking for.
Use A Phrase Rather Than A Single Word Type in multiple words or a phrase rather than a single word to increase your chances of finding useful results. To match an exact phrase, place quotation marks around your search words. For example: "Football stats" rather than just "Football."
Use The Word Not To Limit Results
Use the word NOT to limit your results to articles containing only the words you want. For example, if you want articles about pets but aren't interested in dogs, search for "pets NOT dogs."
Use And and Or
And is usually automatic: You don't need to use And to link search words together; you can separate them with a space. Search engines will look for areas or articles that include all of the words you enter. For example, if you enter chicken recipe you'll find all the areas about cake And pudding, but not areas just about chickens, or just about recipes.
Use "Or" between words to search for areas containing any of the words you enter. For example, if you enter "chicken OR recipe" you'll find all the areas about chickens and all the areas about recipes.
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Progressive Learning Series: Reverse Print Order
Windows usually prints each job in page order--that is, page one first, page two second, and so on. Some printers place the most recently printed pages on top of pages printed earlier, face up. So when the print job is over, the results are ordered last page first and first page last.
To avoid having to manually resort the entire stack, use the Reverse Print Order option from your program, if available. For example, in Microsoft Word, Select Tools, Options, Print, then click Reverse Print Order under Printing Options. Once the printer finishes the job, your document will be neatly sorted with the first page first.
Note: you may have to look for this feature in different programs. Check in the Print dialog box for either Reverse Print Order, Start Printing from Last Page, or some similar choice.
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Today's Featured Website: Digital City
For local shopping, entertainment, services and more, take a look at digitalcity.com. Enter your zip code or City and State name to see a list of resources that includes travel, health, jobs, auctions, real estate, weather and much more.
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