Toshiba 3490CT - Portege - PIII 700 MHz, User Manual

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Enhancing Productivity
Staying up-to-date with your favorite Web sites
Staying up-to-date with your favorite Web sites
If you frequently visit certain Web sites looking for new content,
Windows can automatically deliver the new content to your
computer. This feature is called a “subscription.”
Web site subscriptions work much like magazine subscriptions—
you are notified periodically of new content according to a
schedule that you set up. For example, you can schedule the latest
financial news to be automatically downloaded every night while
you sleep, and it will be ready for you in the morning.
You can subscribe to any Web page that you visit. When you
subscribe to a Web page, you should decide whether the new Web
pages automatically download to your computer. You can save
connection time and expense by having your subscriptions
downloaded so that you can read them offline later at your leisure.
DEFINITION: “Download” means to transmit a file over a
network to another computer. In a communications session,
“download” means receive; “upload” means transmit.
“Offline” means not connected to the computer or not
installed in the computer.
If you do not want the information downloaded to your computer,
you can be notified in the following ways when new content is
available:
❖
Smart Favorites
Your subscription is automatically checked for updates—the
icon changes if the page is updated. You can view the icons
for your subscriptions in the Subscriptions folder.
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Email notification
A copy of the updated Web pages with live links to the World
Wide Web can be automatically sent to you as email.