Laptops All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies- P60: Okay, I’ll admit it: I’ve got a strange biography. I’ve been a writer all my life. My first semi-pro job was sports editor of my high school newspaper. (Go Commodores!) After college I was a political reporter for daily newspapers in Ohio and New York (I covered four national nominating conventions and two Presidential campaigns) and a correspondent for The Associated Press. And then, in 1983, I gave in to my inner geek and became the first Executive Editor of PC Magazine, back in the days when most people asked, “What is a PC?”. | 564 Finding Your Way on the Web Hyper indeed One of the original concepts for what we now call the Internet was something called hypertext which was a way to think of data in three dimensions. A reference to something you found on a page did not exist in a vacuum clicking it would link to a definition or to a page with a great deal of detail about the subject. In 1987 Apple introduced a version of this precursor to the Internet with its HyperCard application for early versions of the Macintosh computer. Another way to revisit a page you ve looked at in your current session is to use the Recent Pages menu. In Internet Explorer 7 you find it in the Favorites Center section of the browser it uses a yellow five-pointed star as an icon. You can also jump directly to the Favorites Center by typing the key combination of Ctrl H. At the Favorites Center click the down arrow in the History section and then select a page from the list. You can look by Date Site Most visited In order for visits made today See Figure 4-1. Setting or changing your Internet Explorer home page To set a particular web site as your home page in any current version of Windows Internet Explorer do the following 1. Click Tools Internet Options. 2. Click the General tab. See Figure 4-2. 3. In the Home page section do one of the following Type the web address for the page you want to set Copy and paste the address from an online source. Click Use Current to assign the Web page you re currently viewing. Finding Your Way on the Web 565 Click Use Default to reset the home page to the one recommended by your browser or laptop maker or whichever group of programmers has inserted its preference into the coding for the browser. Click Use Blank to open your browser with a clean meaningless white page. This allows the browser to load slightly faster but some users get the added advantage of being able to instantly blank the screen if someone approaches the workstation unexpectedly then again you could also .
