Discovering Keyboard Shortcuts on Your Laptop
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On your laptop, you can do almost everything from the keyboard that you can do with a mouse (or touchpad), including manipulate text. This article shows you some of the most useful commands.
If you want to select, copy, or move text, you can use the commands in Table 1.
Setting Up a Print Server for Your Wireless Home Network
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The most common shared peripheral is a printer. Setting up a printer for sharing is easy, and using it is even easier. You may have several printers in your house, and different devices could have different printers-but they all can be shared. You may have the color laser printer on your machine, a less expensive one for the kids' computer, and a high-quality photo printer maybe near the TV set plugged into a USB port of a networkable A/V device. Each of these can be used by a local device-if properly set up.
Make the Most of Your Keyboard
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Keyboard shortcuts are a great way to keep things moving when you're using your computer, and they let you perform tasks without lifting your hands from the keyboard. These are some of the basics that you should know - at least if you want to cut down on the number of times you reach for the mouse every day.
Just Plug-in the Entertainment
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Your computer has the potential to provide endless fun possibilities.
Not only can you use it for great things like surfing the Web, checking e-mail, and paying bills (OK, maybe paying bills is not so much fun), but you can also attach very useful devices. The computer world refers to these as "peripherals," anything attached to the computer outside of the power trio–the motherboard, the central processing unit (CPU), and the random access memory (RAM).So what?
Clearing Your Cache
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If you have a broadband (very fast) connection, the time you save using a cache might be pretty small. The idea of a Web cache goes back to the days not so long ago when most of us used dial-up access to the Internet. At 56 Kbps (dial-up/modem speed) or slower, shaving off some time to get a few graphics files was significant. Dial-up is still around today, and in these cases it's still a factor, but to most of us, the time-saving benefits of a browser cache are negligible
Cache contents can interfere with Web viewing.
Consider the case where a page has been updated since you last loaded it.
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