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The complete idiot's guide to surfing the Internet with WebTV / by Michael Miller.

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Online Access: Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author: Miller, Michael, 1958-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Indianapolis, Ind. : Que Corp., ©1999.
Subjects:
WebTV (Trademark)
Internet.
Web sites > Design.

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245 1 4 |a The complete idiot's guide to surfing the Internet with WebTV /  |c by Michael Miller. 
260 |a Indianapolis, Ind. :  |b Que Corp.,  |c ©1999. 
300 |a 1 online resource (xiii, 332 pages) :  |b illustrations. 
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500 |a Includes index. 
505 0 0 |t What you'll Find In This Book  |g 2 --  |t How to Do the Things You See in This Book  |g 3 --  |t Extras  |g 3 --  |t Let Me Know What You Think  |g 4 --  |t Get Ready to Use Your WebTV!  |g 4 --  |g Part 1  |t Before You Buy -- Just What Is This WebTV Thing?  |g 5 --  |g 1  |t A Little Bit of Background About the Internet (But Not Too Much!)  |g 7 --  |t What the Internet Is -- And What It Isn't  |g 7 --  |t How an Internet Connection Works  |g 9 --  |t The Most Important Parts of the Internet  |g 10 --  |t Email -- The Most-Used Service on the Internet  |g 11 --  |t The World Wide Web -- Colorful, Graphic, and Interactive  |g 11 --  |t Usenet Newsgroups -- A Kind of Community, Online  |g 13 --  |t Chat -- Real-Time Conversation via Your Keyboard  |g 14 --  |g 2  |t Why WebTV -- Instead of a Computer?  |g 17 --  |t What Is WebTV -- And How Does It Work?  |g 17 --  |t How Is WebTV Different from a Computer?  |g 18 --  |t WebTV Isn't a Computer  |g 19 --  |t WebTV's Internet Access -- Slightly Different from PC Access  |g 19 --  |t Why Should You Use WebTV to Access the Internet?  |g 22 --  |t The Bottom Line: WebTV or PC -- or Both?  |g 23 --  |g 3  |t Which Box to Buy: WebTV Classic or WebTV Plus?  |g 25 --  |t All the Different Types of WebTV: A Comparison  |g 26 --  |t Just the Basics: WebTV Classic  |g 28 --  |t Which Brand Should You Buy?  |g 28 --  |t Is WebTV Classic for You?  |g 29 --  |t The Internet and TV Together: WebTV Plus  |g 31 --  |t What's All the Fuss About WebTV Plus?  |g 31 --  |t Which Brand Should You Buy?  |g 31 --  |t WebTV Plus -- Is It Worth It?  |g 32 --  |t The Net and the Dish: WebTV Plus for Satellite  |g 33 --  |t What's Different About WebTV Plus for Satellite?  |g 33 --  |t WebTV Plus for Satellite -- Is It Worth It?  |g 34 --  |t Whichever One You Choose, Buy the Keyboard!  |g 34 --  |g Part 2  |t You Bought It -- Now What Do You Do with It?  |g 39 --  |g 4  |t Set It Up: Install and Configure Your WebTV Box  |g 41 --  |t Take a Look at the Box  |g 41 --  |t Look at the Front  |g 41 --  |t Look at the Back  |g 42 --  |t The Basic Steps for Hooking Up Your WebTV Box  |g 44 --  |t Three Ways to Hook Up WebTV to Your TV  |g 44 --  |t The Standard Hookup: Use the Coaxial Cable Connectors  |g 44 --  |t The Second-Best (and Second Easiest) Hookup: Use the Audio/Video Jacks  |g 45 --  |t The Best Quality Hookup: Use the S-Video Jacks  |g 45 --  |t Five More Complex Configurations  |g 46 --  |t TV, WebTV, and VCR  |g 47 --  |t TV, WebTV, and Cable Box  |g 47 --  |t TV, WebTV, VCR, and Cable Box  |g 48 --  |t TV, WebTV, and Satellite Receiver  |g 48 --  |t TV, WebTV, VCR, and Satellite Receiver  |g 48 --  |t Log In and Sign Up  |g 49 --  |t Configure WebTV for Your Personal Tastes  |g 51 --  |t Set Up WebTV for Multiple Users  |g 52 --  |t Change Your User Settings  |g 54 --  |t Change Your Dialing Information  |g 54 --  |t Set Up WebTV for Call Waiting  |g 55 --  |t Set Up WebTV for a Different ISP  |g 55 --  |t Play Background Music While Surfing  |g 56 --  |t Change WebTV's Text Size  |g 57 --  |t Change Your Keyboard Layout  |g 57 --  |g 5  |t From Screen to Paper: Add a Printer to Your WebTV System  |g 59 --  |t The Best Printers for WebTV Users  |g 59 --  |t Connecting a Printer to Your WebTV Box  |g 60 --  |t Preparing WebTV for Printing  |g 61 --  |t Printing from WebTV  |g 62 --  |g 6  |t Which Button Does What: How to Use WebTV  |g 65 --  |t Button, Button, Who's Got the Button?  |g 65 --  |t The Buttons on the Remote Control  |g 65 --  |t The Buttons on the Wireless Keyboard  |g 66 --  |t The Secret Buttons: Keyboard Shortcuts  |g 68 --  |t The All-Purpose How-Do-I-Do-That Control -- The Options Panel  |g 69 --  |t Those Things You Do  |g 70 --  |t GoTo  |g 70 --  |t Info  |g 71 --  |t Find  |g 71 --  |t Save  |g 72 --  |t Send  |g 73 --  |t Reload  |g 73 --  |t Print  |g 73 --  |t TV Window  |g 74 --  |t Hang Up  |g 74 --  |t What's All That Stuff on the Bottom of the Screen?  |g 75 --  |t No Keyboard? Use the Onscreen Version!  |g 77 --  |g 7  |t Find Your Way Around the WebTV Network Neighborhood  |g 79 --  |t Going Home: WebTV's Home Page  |g 80 --  |t Go Postal with Mail  |g 81 --  |t Recall the Best with Favorites  |g 82 --  |t Communicate with Community  |g 82 --  |t Find Anything with Search  |g 84 --  |t Access Key WebTV User Services with the Buttons in the Middle  |g 84 --  |t Personalize WebTV with WebTV Centers  |g 84 --  |t See How It's Going with the Status Bar  |g 85 --  |t Home Away from Home: WebTV Plus's TV Home Page  |g 85 --  |t Configure Your Viewing with Settings  |g 86 --  |t See the Schedule with TV Listings  |g 86 --  |t Pick the Channels You Like with TV Favorites  |g 87 --  |t Plan Your Viewing with TV Planner  |g 87 --  |t Program to Record with VCR  |g 87 --  |t From the Screen to the Web with TV Sites  |g 88 --  |g 8  |t Don't Forget -- Save Your Favorite Places  |g 91 --  |t Saving a Favorite Site  |g 92 --  |t Returning to a Favorite Site  |g 93 --  |t Managing Your Favorites  |g 94 --  |t Assigning Favorites to Shortcut Keys on the Wireless Keyboard  |g 96 --  |g 9  |t Find Out What's New with WebTV Today  |g 99 --  |t WebTV News with WebTV Today  |g 99 --  |t Non-WebTV News on WebTV Today  |g 101 --  |g Part 3  |t Join the Online Community -- and Communicate!  |g 103 --  |g 10  |t Keep in Touch with Email  |g 105 --  |t The Ins and Outs of Email: Read, Respond to, and Create New Email Messages  |g 106 --  |t Read a Message  |g 108 --  |t Save a Message  |g 109 --  |t Delete a Message  |g 110 --  |t Forward a Message  |g 111 --  |t Reply to a Message  |g 111 --  |t Get Quoted  |g 112 --  |t Create a New Message  |g 112 --  |t Send a Carbon Copy  |g 113 --  |t Edit a Message  |g 114 --  |t Spell It Rite Right  |g 115 --  |t Book It -- Use the Address Book to Store Your Email Addresses  |g 116 --  |t Add an Address to Your Address Book  |g 116 --  |t Use an Address from Your Address Book  |g 116 --  |t Edit Your Address Book  |g 117 --  |t Create a Mail Group for Large Mailings  |g 117 --  |t Show Off for Other WebTV Users with These Email Tips and Tricks  |g 118 --  |t Add a Signature to Your Email  |g 118 --  |t Add Pictures and Sounds to Your Email  |g 119 --  |t Make Your Email Fancier with HTML  |g 121 --  |t Check Your Messages -- Automatically  |g 122 --  |t Check Your Other Email with WebTV  |g 123 --  |t Add a Hypertext Link to Your Message  |g 124 --  |t Email a Web Page  |g 124 --  |t Send and Receive Even More Mail with Web-Based Email Services  |g 125 --  |t Become an Email Sleuth: Search for Email Addresses  |g 126 --  |t Talk to Other Users with Email Mailing Lists  |g 126 --  |t Stopping the Spam: How to Deal with Junk Email  |g 127 --  |t Other Forms of Junk Email: Hoaxes, Pranks, and Urban Legends  |g 128 --  |g 11  |t Join Your Friends in Coumminty Newsgroups  |g 131 --  |t Join the Community: Find a Usenet Newsgroup  |g 132 --  |t Search for Newsgroups  |g 133 --  |t Browse for Newsgroups  |g 134 --  |t Community Communications: Reading, Replying To, and Posting Newsgroup Articles  |g 135 --  |t Read a Newsgroup Article  |g 136 --  |t Reply to a Newsgroup Article  |g 137 --  |t Post a New Newsgroup Article  |g 138 --  |t Search Newsgroup Archives with Deja.com  |g 140 --  |g 12  |t Chat (For Hours!) Online  |g 143 --  |t Go for the Gossip: Finding and Joining Chat Rooms  |g 144 --  |t Joining the Conversation: Chatting on TalkCity  |g 146 --  |t Whisper a Private Conversation  |g 147 --  |t Issue Special Chat Commands  |g 148 --  |t Open Your Own Chat Room  |g 149 --  |t Other Places to Chat  |g 149 --  |t BTW, Good Spelling Is Optional: Tips for Better and Faster Chatting  |g 150 --  |g Part 4  |t Cruisin' with the Classic -- WebTV and the Web  |g 155 --  |g 13  |t Cowabunga! Surf the Web with WebTV  |g 157 --  |t How the Web Works  |g 157 --  |t Pages and Sites  |g 158 --  |t The Parts of a Web Page  |g 160 --  |t Getting to Where You Want to Go  |g 160 --  |t Navigating a Web Page  |g 162 --  |t Hitting the Links  |g 164 --  |t Button, Button, Who Clicked the Button?  |g 164 --  |t Check, Mate  |g 164 --  |t Get Boxed In  |g 165 --  |t Hidden Lists and Secret Buttons  |g 165 --  |t Let's Go Surfin' Now!  |g 166 --  |g 14  |t Search for Stuff on the Internet -- and Find It!  |g 171 --  |t Searching the Internet with WebTV  |g 171 --  |t Basic Searching with WebTV  |g 172 --  |t Fine-Tuning Your WebTV Search  |g 174 --  |t Other Places to Search  |g 176 --  |t The Big Six  |g 177 --  |t Everybody Else: The Other 200 (or so...) Search Sites  |g 179 --  |t How to Search  |g 182 --  |t Five Tips for More Effective Searching  |g 182 --  |g Tip #1  |t Think Like the Creators  |g 183 --  |g Tip #2  |t Use the Right Words  |g 183 --  |g Tip #3  |t When You Don't Know the Right Words, Use Wildcards  |g 184 --  |g Tip #4  |t Modify Your Words with +, -, and " "  |g 185 --  |g Tip #5  |t Use AND, NOT, and OR in a Boolean Search  |g 185 --  |g 15  |t Family-Friendly WebTV  |g 189 --  |t Making the Internet Safe for Children  |g 189 --  |t A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood: Safe WebTV for Kids  |g 190 --  |t Setting Up SurfWatch and Kid-Friendly  |g 191 --  |t Exploring Kid-Friendly WebTV  |g 191 --  |t Let Your Kids Search the Web -- Safely  |g 192 --  |t Homework Help on the Web  |g 194 --  |t Fun for Kids on the Web!  |g 195 --  |t Family, Parenting, and Women's Resources on the Web  |g 196 --  |t Check Your Health Online  |g 197 --  |t Research Your Roots: Genealogy Online  |g 198 --  |t A More Mature WebTV -- For Seniors!  |g 200 --  |g 16  |t Keep Informed with News, Weather, Sports, and Stocks  |g 201 --  |t All the News That's New -- Online!  |g 201 --  |t Weather or. 
505 0 0 |t Not -- That's the Forecast!  |g 203 --  |t Be a Good. 
505 0 0 |t Sport  |g 204 --  |t Taking Stock with Financial News  |g 205 --  |t Entertainment Tonight -- and This Morning, and This Afternoon  |g 208 --  |g 17  |t Spend Money (and Lots of It!) Online  |g 211 --  |t Online Shopping -- Is It Safe?  |g 211 --  |t Shopping on WebTV  |g 213 --  |t Shopping for Places to Shop  |g 214 --  |t Shop for a New Car  |g 214 --  |t Shop for a Place to Live  |g 215 --  |t Shop for a Great Vacation  |g 216 --  |t Buy -- and Sell-with Online Classified Ads  |g 218 --  |g 18  |t Going Once, Going Twice: Buy and Sell at Online Auctions  |g 221 --  |t What Is an Online Auction?  |g 221 --  |t Two Types of Online Auctions: Person-to-Person and Merchant  |g 222 --  |t A Closer Look at Person-to-Person Auctions  |g 223 --  |t A Closer Look at Merchant Auctions  |g 224 --  |t How Person-to-Person Auctions Work: An Example  |g 225 --  |t The Seller Places an Ad  |g 225 --  |t The Buyer Searches for an Item  |g 226 --  |t The Buyer Makes a Bid  |g 228 --  |t The Bidding Continues  |g 228 --  |t The High Bidder Wins!  |g 229 --  |t Make Contact  |g 229 --  |t Pay the Piper  |g 230 --  |t Ship It Out  |g 230 --  |t Waiting for Your Doorbell to Ring  |g 231 --  |t Leave Feedback  |g 231 --  |t Protect Yourself from Unscrupulous Sellers and Deadbeat Bidders  |g 232 --  |g 19  |t Create Your Own Personal Web Pages with Page Builder  |g 235 --  |t More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Creating Web Pages  |g 235 --  |t Building Web Pages with Page Builder  |g 236 --  |t Build a New Page  |g 236 --  |t Edit an Existing Page  |g 240 --  |t Other Page-Hosting Web Sites  |g 241 --  |t Do It the Hard Way: Coding with HTML  |g 242 --  |t Codes to Get Started  |g 243 --  |t Codes for Backgrounds  |g 244. 
505 8 0 |t Codes for Text Formatting  |g 244 --  |t Codes for Fonts  |g 245 --  |t Codes for Color  |g 246 --  |t Codes That Insert Things  |g 247 --  |t Codes for Graphics  |g 247 --  |t Codes for Links  |g 247 --  |t Codes for Lists  |g 248 --  |t Codes for Tables  |g 248 --  |t Enhance Your Pages with WebTV-Specific Code  |g 249 --  |t Pretty Pictures -- Working with Graphics on Web Pages  |g 251 --  |t Where to Find Cool Graphics  |g 251 --  |t Copy Code and Graphics with a Transloader  |g 251 --  |g Part 5  |t Putting the "TV" in WebTV Plus  |g 255 --  |g 20  |t Watch TV with WebTV Plus  |g 257 --  |t No Clicking -- Use WebTV Plus for Television Viewing  |g 258 --  |t Change Channels  |g 260 --  |t Get More Program Information  |g 260 --  |t Revisit Your Favorite and Recently Viewed Channels  |g 262 --  |t Browse and Search the TV Listings  |g 263 --  |t Let WebTV Plus Remind You About Your Favorite TV Programs  |g 264 --  |g 21  |t Smoosh the Internet and Your TV Together in Some Really Neat Ways  |g 267 --  |t View and Surf at the Same Time with WebPIP  |g 267 --  |t Crossover from TV to the Web  |g 268 --  |t Even More Smooshing with WebTV Plus for Satellite  |g 269 --  |g 22  |t What's Next: Internet TV in the Future  |g 271 --  |t WebTV: The Next Generation  |g 272 --  |t WebTV on Other Platforms  |g 272 --  |t WebTV Plus for Satellite  |g 273 --  |t WebTV via Video Game Console  |g 273 --  |t WebTV via Cable Box  |g 273 --  |t WebTV Built into Television Sets  |g 274 --  |t The Line Blurs: WebTV Becomes Interactive TV  |g 275 --  |t Predicting the Future  |g 275 --  |t The Wonderful Words of WebTV: The Complete Idiot's WebTV Glossary  |g 277 --  |t The Complete Idiot's WebTV Directory  |g 285. 
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