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In Business with the HP Brio PC
Communicating with Others
A view of the Internet that can work quite well is of a worldwide network (a
world wide web
) of computers that have shared files on them. You can read a
file — or
web page
— on someone else’s computer. Each of these pages can
have
links
— like a sort of
go to
button — that send you to another page. This
new page can be on the same computer, or on one in a totally different part of
the world. You are
surfing
if you are following link after link after link! You can
also copy — or
download
— files from people’s pages. Software vendors, for
example, often have the latest updates or the newest drivers on their web site (a
collection of common pages, linked to each other).
Use the Internet wisely; otherwise you might find yourself wasting a lot of time
on it — getting side-tracked by following too many links, for example!
If you regard the Internet as essentially the world’s biggest library, jam-packed
with information that is growing by the second, you’re on the right track; on the
one hand it’s an invaluable source of information, but you can’t afford to spend
all day in it if you’ve got a business to run!
To learn about the Internet, see
Task Helper
in the HP Brio Center.
Once you have learnt how to do this, why not check out the HP Brio PC Internet
site. The address is shown on the front cover of this guide.
HP Message Sender
Want to leave a note for a colleague? Want to be sure they’ll see it? The
HP
Message Sender
lets you post quick reminder notes (which can contain text and
graphics) to anyone else connected to the network. The note appears on the
recipient’s Desktop, on top of all other windows, ensuring they’ll see it!
To learn how to use the
HP Message Sender
, see
Task Helper
.
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