Heh. Maybe a Xerox copier for CTRL-C to copy?
The CTRL (control) keyboard shortcuts are common on Microsoft Windows, but Mac users can use the same keyboard shortcuts except holding down Command instead.
Command-Z for undo
Command-V for paste
Command-C for copy
Command-X for cut
Some things need to be explained in visually simple terms..
A computer “desktop” is so named because it’s very similar (at least conceptually) to the top of a real desk:
An actual factual desktop
a “Windows 7” desktop
When the web was created in the early to mid ‘90s, the way we thought about it is like pages like pages in a book. If you have a book you’re reading and you want to get back to a page in that book, what do you do? You bookmark it. It’s the same basic idea.
A bookmark is a way of getting back to a page on the internet that is located on some site on the internet. You just want to get back to it, so you bookmark it.
You do this typically by going to the Bookmark menu. Sometimes there may be a button on the toolbar toward the top of the window that has a little plus symbol on the button. Whatever way you do it, you hit the button or go to the menu that says “Bookmarks” and hit the option that says “Add bookmark” or “Add favorite,” in the case of Internet Explorer.
Excerpt from transcription of audio lesson - What is A Bookmark - see source for full audio & transcript.
Automator is a very handy program that never gets much attention from the general public even though Mac owners will find the program preinstalled in their Applications folder.
Automator’s pretty easy to use and this example shows you how to use it to quickly and easily make your own Mac OS app out of any webpage you like:
Here’s the procedure for building an app that keeps a webpage open in a floating window:
1) Launch Automator.
2) Create a new App. (Or a Workflow. But an App will be cooler because you can have it in the Launchpad and start it up with a single click.)
3) Find and drag the “Get Specified URLs” action into your workflow. Just type the name into the search box until Automator finds it for you.
4) Paste in the URL of the site you want to view.
5) Find and drag the “Website Popup” action into the workflow. Choose a size for the window.
6) Save. Done.
Your workflow will look like this:
And when you run the app, it’ll put up a popup window that looks like this:
It’s a real app. It’ll stick around and float above your other windows until you dismiss it. You can move it into other Spaces and do pretty much whatever you want with it.
Source: Making Desktop Webapps in Lion – Andy Ihnatko’s Celestial Waste of Bandwidth (BETA)
GIFs are correctly pronounced “Jiff” (with a “J” sound, not a hard “G”)
You don’t base the pronunciation of acronyms on the way each letter is pronounced in the original word — if you did, scuba diving would be pronounced “skuhbah” diving instead of “skoo-ba”, for example.
But as the linked Wired document says, the people who invented the file type pronounced it “jiff”…
/Former English and writing major; 16-year computer tech, consultant and teacher, and thus unavoidably opinionated about such things :)
Red. ALWAYS red!
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Hard G. GIF is an acronym: Graphic Interchange Format. Since the G in graphic is hard, so is the G in GIF.
Until someone invents the Giraffe Interchange Format for sending zoo animals via the web, that is. THEN it’s pronounced JIF. And is awesome.
(Source: Gizmodo)
Source: Computer Question: Why is This Hard Drive So Cheap?
from Worth Godwin’s Computer Training
The following is a computer question I was sent by ‘AlainAiso’ who wrote with a question about…
While the principal’s response to the Facebook photos is an absurd overreaction, this is just the kind of risk I talk about in chapter 7 of my recent book on computer mistakes.
24-year-old Ashley Payne, a public high school English teacher in Georgia, was not prepared for what happened when her principal asked to see her in August 2009.
“He just asked me, ‘Do you have a Facebook page?’” Payne said. “And you know, I’m confused as to why I am being asked this, but I said, ‘Yes.’ And he said, ‘Do you have any pictures of yourself up there with alcohol?’”
In fact, the picture that concerned the principal - showing Payne holding a glass of wine and a mug of beer - was on her Facebook page. There was also a reference to a local trivia contest with a profanity in its title.
Payne was told a parent of one of her students called to complain. And then, Payne says, she was given a choice: resign or be suspended.
“He told me that I needed to make a decision before I left, or he was going to go ahead and suspend me,” she said.
She resigned. Attorney Richard Storrs is fighting to get Payne’s job back.
Full story: Did the Internet Kill Privacy? - CBS Sunday Morning - CBS News
In this article I’ll answer a question sent in by a student named Daniel McClutchy who writes: “Hi Worth: Your CDs have helped a great deal to understand the internet and computer basics. Thanks. I…
I’d forgotten I set up a Squidoo lens a few years ago. Just updated it a bit, adding the RSS feed from here, plus a player for some of my computer training MP3s on Amazon
I just posted a new blog post on my blog where I answer a computer question from a student who asks:
“Can you explain what a torrent site is? I followed a recommendation of a co-worker and logged on to one.
My Kasperksy went crazy, not allowing me to access it. Is this because they contain viruses?
Thanks, Daniel”
So, let’s start off by explaining what a torrent site is, and then I’ll answer your question about whether they’re dangerous.
Read full article: Computer Question What Is a Torrent Site and Are They Dangerous?
