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In Monk's haphazard and circuitous route toward learning more about computers, he accidently made a discovery this morning that was at first frightening but now rather happy.
The Times has this function where you they will give you some encyclopedic or dictionary information on a word that you click while pressing "ALT." When Monk availed himself of that today, he saw his IE7 bars and task bar disappearing, with the web page taking over the whole screen. While this was admittedly neat, Monk was scared about losing his controls, and the old trusty "Escape" key was no help at all.
But calm eventually and gradually returned. Frantically moving his cursor about, he learned that he can get his top bars and buttons by moving his cursor to the topmost of the screen. Neat! And he at least knew already how to use that 'flag' key to get the START window, which also brings back the task bar. And he finally learned, after getting over his fear of the "ALT" key, that by pressing that again, he can get everything back in dafault mode.
So, that's really cool. I like being able to take advantage of the full screen to see more of the web page. The only potential drawback is that I am still unsure if I will get the notifications from my tray regarding e-mails and other nice notices. I suppose that I will learn the answer to that sometime today.
Wonderful! God, how did we live without computers before. Although I suppose that I might rather have a pretty, little wife, I think computers have to be a close second. "Okay, Bo, maybe a third. But I'm afraid you still might be only a second."
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In Monk's haphazard and circuitous route toward learning more about computers, he accidently made a discovery this morning that was at first frightening but now rather happy.
The Times has this function where you they will give you some encyclopedic or dictionary information on a word that you click while pressing "ALT." When Monk availed himself of that today, he saw his IE7 bars and task bar disappearing, with the web page taking over the whole screen. While this was admittedly neat, Monk was scared about losing his controls, and the old trusty "Escape" key was no help at all.
But calm eventually and gradually returned. Frantically moving his cursor about, he learned that he can get his top bars and buttons by moving his cursor to the topmost of the screen. Neat! And he at least knew already how to use that 'flag' key to get the START window, which also brings back the task bar. And he finally learned, after getting over his fear of the "ALT" key, that by pressing that again, he can get everything back in dafault mode.
So, that's really cool. I like being able to take advantage of the full screen to see more of the web page. The only potential drawback is that I am still unsure if I will get the notifications from my tray regarding e-mails and other nice notices. I suppose that I will learn the answer to that sometime today.
Wonderful! God, how did we live without computers before. Although I suppose that I might rather have a pretty, little wife, I think computers have to be a close second. "Okay, Bo, maybe a third. But I'm afraid you still might be only a second."
