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Post by Jaguar on Feb 14, 2014 16:00:32 GMT -5
Who the hell is gonna try that one ? I don't trust Virgil and with good reason.
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Post by Jaguar on Feb 14, 2014 16:03:38 GMT -5
It signs you out peeps. I always gotta try what Virgil says and yeah I don't trust him. My life is screwy.
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Post by Phoenix84 on Feb 14, 2014 16:19:08 GMT -5
I don't know who has time to keep up with all the little "tricks" for stuff like web browsing.
I always type www into the web browser. I guess I knew you didn't have to, but old habbits die hard.
I haven't had a real need to do advanced search options.
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Post by Jaguar on Feb 14, 2014 16:25:04 GMT -5
I haven't typed in www for the longest time.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Feb 14, 2014 16:48:01 GMT -5
I was watching an episode of "The Middle" (hi @shooby! thinking about you right now. ), where the mom felt like the family was constantly making fun of her. While she was on the computer, her daughter walked up behind her and started laughing and said something like "Hahaha, mom just typed in 'www'. I can't believe she doesn't know that you don't have to do that anymore!". I didn't know that you don't need to type "www" anymore! Also, just yesterday, I learned about Google Alerts. If there are certain names or topics that you search for regularly online (like say you are thinking about investing in a particular company so you want to catch any mention of that company or industry in the news), you can set up an alert and google will search those names/topics all day long and if there are any new hits, it'll send the link to your email. It's awesome. But, again, I'll bet this isn't new information to anyone but me. I'm sure I'm not alone in being the last to stumble onto something useful that everyone else has known for awhile. Share your funny stories here if you've been doing anything archaic. OR, if you're somebody that's always "in the know", post about something new that's useful/interesting/fun. LOL! If it makes you feel any better that's probably the only thing I do know. DH does the rest for me or has to teach me if there is 5 steps or less. <<sits in the corner with dunce cap on>>
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Post by chen35 on Feb 14, 2014 17:00:27 GMT -5
I also just learned that this week. My boss, who is 15 years older than me said, "I'm so old school, I still type www into my browser." I laughed, like I already knew you didn't have to do that...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2014 17:58:43 GMT -5
Middle mouse roller ball + Control on your keyboard changes the font size of your browser. Thank you from a woman of a certain age who can use that tip. I started to say I would enjoy a larger font sometimes but I know exactly where that would go on this board .
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Post by Gardening Grandma on Feb 14, 2014 19:46:13 GMT -5
I've known about "www" for some time now, but only recently learned that you aren't supposed to put 2 spaces between sentences. I guess that dates me because back in typing days, you were supposed to put 2 spaces in between sentences. Now I learn that it is a gaffe..
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2014 20:12:09 GMT -5
You can also type your search into the address bar and it will search without having to go to Google or whatever first.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Feb 16, 2014 14:19:52 GMT -5
Hitting Alt+F4 on any Proboards board puts the page into "Moderator Mode" where you can see staff notes about your account. It seems to be a security flaw. I don't know if they're even aware of it. Brat.
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Post by Apple on Feb 16, 2014 14:36:59 GMT -5
Middle mouse roller ball + Control on your keyboard changes the font size of your browser. If you don't have a mouse, pushing CTRL + (plus sign) together will make the size bigger, CTRL - (negative sign) will make it smaller.
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Post by Apple on Feb 16, 2014 14:50:41 GMT -5
I've known about "www" for some time now, but only recently learned that you aren't supposed to put 2 spaces between sentences. I guess that dates me because back in typing days, you were supposed to put 2 spaces in between sentences. Now I learn that it is a gaffe.. We still write like that at work - two spaces at the start of a sentence. Not sure if you do it in"normal" writing though. I do it as well. There is a certain "subgroup" of people who think you shouldn't do it, they say it messes with the flow. I think it still helps differentiate the end of a sentence, helps with that mental "stop".
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Post by Phoenix84 on Feb 16, 2014 15:58:03 GMT -5
I don't know who has time to keep up with all the little "tricks" for stuff like web browsing. I always type www into the web browser. I guess I knew you didn't have to, but old habbits die hard. I haven't had a real need to do advanced search options. Wait...what?!?! You don't have to type WWW anymore? How doe the computer know to go to the World Wide Web It's magic.
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Post by Apple on Feb 16, 2014 16:47:10 GMT -5
Whenever I have to help someone in the shop set up the printer or map a drive on our network, I always have to tell them "backslash...no, the one above the enter key...yeah, that one..." It's funny because there is an example directly above where they type that shows you how to input the location, but people still use the wrong one.
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Post by Cookies Galore on Feb 16, 2014 17:52:13 GMT -5
We still write like that at work - two spaces at the start of a sentence. Not sure if you do it in"normal" writing though. I do it as well. There is a certain "subgroup" of people who think you shouldn't do it, they say it messes with the flow. I think it still helps differentiate the end of a sentence, helps with that mental "stop". It's not a "subgroup" of people, it's typographers and professional style guides (MLA, AP, Chicago, APA in published manuscripts) who have comes up with basic best practices for typesetting a long ass time ago. The monospaced typewriter (no variation for size differences between characters - W and I, for example) caused everyone to type wrong. Modern typeset and computers allow for kerning adjustments between characters in different fonts. Using two spaces says "I'm old and I want to annoy my editor." The extra space does not help with flow, it creates extra pauses. It's ugly as fuck with all those holes.
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Post by Apple on Feb 16, 2014 17:57:34 GMT -5
I do it as well. There is a certain "subgroup" of people who think you shouldn't do it, they say it messes with the flow. I think it still helps differentiate the end of a sentence, helps with that mental "stop". It's not a "subgroup" of people, it's typographers and professional style guides (MLA, AP, Chicago, APA in published manuscripts) who have comes up with basic best practices for typesetting a long ass time ago. The monospaced typewriter (no variation for size differences between characters - W and I, for example) caused everyone to type wrong. Modern typeset and computers allow for kerning adjustments between characters in different fonts. Using two spaces says "I'm old and I want to annoy my editor." The extra space does not help with flow, it creates extra pauses. It's ugly as fuck with all those holes.See, I think without the extra space it looks like one, big, run-on sentence.
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Post by Virgil Showlion on Feb 16, 2014 20:04:35 GMT -5
I do it as well. There is a certain "subgroup" of people who think you shouldn't do it, they say it messes with the flow. I think it still helps differentiate the end of a sentence, helps with that mental "stop". It's not a "subgroup" of people, it's typographers and professional style guides (MLA, AP, Chicago, APA in published manuscripts) who have comes up with basic best practices for typesetting a long ass time ago. The monospaced typewriter (no variation for size differences between characters - W and I, for example) caused everyone to type wrong. Modern typeset and computers allow for kerning adjustments between characters in different fonts. Using two spaces says "I'm old and I want to annoy my editor." The extra space does not help with flow, it creates extra pauses. It's ugly as fuck with all those holes. The "larger than usual space" convention predates typewritten letters. It helps to differentiate between abbreviations and sentence ends. When typewriters came around, since there's no way to insert a larger than usual space, the convention mutated to two spaces. The same convention applies to word processors that don't handle kerning automatically. For most document typesetters that do handle kerning automatically (e.g. LaTeX, Pagemaker), the layout engine will insert a larger than usual space at the end of a sentence. And when laying out text with both margins justified, the engine will distribute much of the "slack space" in between sentences if possible. Personally I don't care either way. The convention really only makes a difference to me in the case of extremely florid, serif-y fonts, and I don't much care for those anyway.
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Post by TheOtherMe on Feb 16, 2014 21:00:40 GMT -5
I've known about "www" for some time now, but only recently learned that you aren't supposed to put 2 spaces between sentences. I guess that dates me because back in typing days, you were supposed to put 2 spaces in between sentences. Now I learn that it is a gaffe.. I'm still putting the two spaces between sentences. I was taught that way in high school when I took typing and until I get told to stop, I will continue to do it. The young things at work have taught me a lot about Excel that I did not know.
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Post by Sum Dum Gai on Feb 16, 2014 23:21:07 GMT -5
You honestly think people pause longer after a sentence that ends with a double space instead of a single space? I'm guessing not. I'd guess most people don't even notice the difference between the two.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2014 11:24:40 GMT -5
I never knew about the change to one space after a period either. I am a two space kind of guy.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2014 11:26:45 GMT -5
That's HOTT!!!
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Post by Icelandic Woman on Feb 20, 2014 17:30:43 GMT -5
I've known about "www" for some time now, but only recently learned that you aren't supposed to put 2 spaces between sentences. I guess that dates me because back in typing days, you were supposed to put 2 spaces in between sentences. Now I learn that it is a gaffe.. Holy Crap!!! What?? I guess I have been living under a rock too. I have always done the www thing and always done 2 spaces between sentences. When did that change and who changed it??
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Post by justme on Feb 20, 2014 17:36:30 GMT -5
I'm a semi expert in Word, ask me just about anything, and I can help you out. My helpful tip: When, I'm working on a report, and it gets passed on to other people to review and/or put in their input, some of the less-able people would always forget to use the "track changes" function, and they always highlight the changes in yellow, which doesn't show you what the exact changes were. So I use the compare two document feature, and I can see all the changes that were made. I've found that if you turn track changes on, then save it, before you send it out that it will be in track changes when you open it again. Now you have me wondering whether turning on track changes and saving it in "final without markups" would stay that way. So then the people making corrections won't realize it's in track changes (and maybe turn it off).
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Post by justme on Feb 20, 2014 17:42:59 GMT -5
I've known about "www" for some time now, but only recently learned that you aren't supposed to put 2 spaces between sentences. I guess that dates me because back in typing days, you were supposed to put 2 spaces in between sentences. Now I learn that it is a gaffe.. My manager still does that. Even after I sent him an article about it. And even when he uses justified! Sometime it makes huge gaps between sentences. When I first started working for him he got mad when the 2 spaces bothered me and I started deleting them. It's such a pain for me to remember to do spaces.
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Post by justme on Feb 20, 2014 17:46:38 GMT -5
You honestly think people pause longer after a sentence that ends with a double space instead of a single space? I'm guessing not. I'd guess most people don't even notice the difference between the two. I immediately noticed the difference in spaces between the first sentence and second one.
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Post by Cookies Galore on Feb 20, 2014 17:47:09 GMT -5
I've known about "www" for some time now, but only recently learned that you aren't supposed to put 2 spaces between sentences. I guess that dates me because back in typing days, you were supposed to put 2 spaces in between sentences. Now I learn that it is a gaffe.. My manager still does that. Even after I sent him an article about it. And even when he uses justified! Sometime it makes huge gaps between sentences. When I first started working for him he got mad when the 2 spaces bothered me and I started deleting them. It's such a pain for me to remember to do spaces. I have to Ctrl+F like it's my job to remove the extra spaces. Oh wait! It is my job!
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Post by hoops902 on Feb 20, 2014 17:54:29 GMT -5
Ifyoudon'tusetwospacesinbetweensentencesthenI'mjustgoingtostartremovingspaceswhereverIfeellikeittoo.
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