Our Favorite Internet Tips and Tricks
John Lortz ([email protected]) DiscoverSkills (www.DiscoverSkills.com)
Our next Using a Browser & Google Search class is Monday, August 8th at 1:00 PM
Browsing Tips
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You can go back and forth through your recent history by clicking the mouse on the BACK and
FORWARD arrow navigation buttons and HOLDING DOWN to see a navigation list.
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Use TABBED browsing to have multiple web pages open at the same time
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DRAG TABS to reorder them on the tab bar of the browser
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To open a link in a new window or tab, RIGHT CLICK the link and choose Open In New Window or
Open In New Tab
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Zoom in and out of web pages by holding CTRL and using the Mouse Wheel
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REFRESHING a page means you re-download it to your computer. To do an ABSOLUTE RELOAD
hold down the SHIFT key as you click the refresh button
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Print just part of a web page by first DRAGGING to select it, and then in the Print window, choose
SELECTION.
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To print only certain pages, and to know what pages you want to print, first choose PRINT PREVIEW
and note the page numbers, then in the Print window choose PAGES and type in the range.
Searching Tips
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When searching at Google:
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After doing an initial search, refine the search by using MINUS (-) in front of a keyword to
exclude pages with that word.
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Use quotes around a group of words to search them as a phrase
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To search a specific site, at the end of the search phrase use site:mysite.com, where
mysite.com is the address you want to search.
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Try using the ADVANCED SEARCH (type that into the Google search box to find it).
Try a different browser:
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Firefox (www.mozilla.com)
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Google Chrome (www.google.com/chrome)
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Apple Safari (www.apple.com/safari/)
Our Best Safety Tips
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Always make sure you have AntiVirus / Antispyware and a Firewall
o Free: AVG Anti-Virus (free.avg.com).
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Make sure Windows Automatic Updates is turned on (Control Panel)
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NEVER click on email links to your financial institutions (banks, PayPal, eBay, etc.) (Phishing)
Our Favorite Internet Tips and Tricks
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One of the great things about our job is that we get to spend a lot of time on the Internet, doing research and
looking for information our students might benefit from. In our browsing, we always run across new
downloads and sites that are especially helpful, and worth passing along to you.
Web Sites:
 Remember the Milk (www.rememberthemilk.com) – A nice online to-do list
 Zoho Writer (www.zohowriter.com) – A very nice online wordprocessor and creative suite
 ThinkFree Suite (www.thinkfree.com) – Another online suite of office-like programs.
 30 Boxes Online Calendar (www.30boxes.com) – A nice online calendar you can share.
 4Shared Online Storage (www.4Shared.com) – 5GB of free online storage for files
 Adobe Photoshop Express (www.photoshop.com/express) – A simple online photo editor
 Download.com (www.download.com) – A safe place to find the best Internet downloads
 The Free Site (www.thefreesite.com) – Loaded with lots of links to free Internet “stuff”
 1001 Free Fonts (www.1001freefonts.com) – When you need a font that isn’t in Windows
 CNet (www.cnet.com) – Technology news, information, tutorials, and reviews
 NOAA (www.noaa.gov) – Local forecasts, radar, and lots more from the National Weather Service
 USA.gov (www.usa.gov) – The best portal to all the government web sites
 YouTube (www.youtube.com) – Every kind of video you can think of, from funny to How-To.
 Google Maps (maps.google.com) – Great for finding locations and even seeing satellite images.
Free Software Downloads:
 Open Office (www.openoffice.org) – An alternative to MS Office
 AVG AntiVirus (free.avg.com) – Free antivirus
 Avast Antivirus (www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html) – Free antivirus
 Avira Antivirus (www.free-av.com) – Free antivirus
 Ad-aware (www.lavasoft.com) – Spyware removal, now also includes antivirus
 Windows Defender (www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software) – Spyware Prevention
 CCleaner (www.ccleaner.com) – Registry and Windows cleanup tool
 Glary Utilities (www.glaryutilities.com) – One of our favorite tools for cleaning up Windows
 Registry Defrag (www.auslogics.com/en/software/registry-defrag) – Registry defragmenter
 TweakNow Reg Cleaner (www.tweaknow.com/RegCleaner.html) – Registry cleaner
 Advanced Disk Cleaner (www.innovative-sol.com/cleaner/) – Clean up hard drive temp files
 Disk Defrag (www.auslogics.com/disk-defrag) – Disk defragmenter
 Quick Startup (www.glarysoft.com/quick-startup/) – Windows startup program manager
 GIMP Photo Editor (www.gimp.org) – Photo Editing
 Paint.Net (www.getpaint.net) – Photo Editing
 Miro Video Player (www.getmiro.com) – A very nice video player and Internet TV player
Our Favorite Internet Tips and Tricks
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