Friday, February 11, 2005
My Yahoo
Well, somehow you got here, so we won't give you instructions about that. We're going to lead you through some of the crevices of My Yahoo. For now, this will have to serve as the home page for the Right Angle Club of Philadelphia.
To get there, enter its URL (web address), in the place provided by your browser (remember, Firefox is preferred).
URL: www.my.yahoo.com
That will give you a generic entry screen for anybody's Yahoo web page, so you enter its particular name: rightangleclub
Then, you enter its password, which is 12331233
(The reason it has this password is our tradition of going in to lunch at 12:33 PM, and always having to be reminded twice.)
Then, check the box that asks you if you want your computer to remember. Yes, you do, because that will save you a little trouble, and you can go straight to the password.
Then, you will see our orange and black front page in all its glory. Orange and black were selected because our rosette is orange and black. I suspect that's because the Etherington brothers went to Princeton, but you'll have to ask them.
There's a lot of stuff on the screen, so look toward the upper right corner, where there is a calendar. Click on today's date, and you will get today's schedule, once you have linked up. You link up by going down a few lines where there is a box for you to enter your password, which is 12331233, remember? You won't see this box again, because this will trigger the computer to get the calendar for the current week, and keep it updated in that area. But it's only a week's worth, and if you want to look ahead for weeks and weeks, go down just a little where Yahoo calendar is underlined, and click it. This will give you a full year's calendar (for the Right Angle Club only, of course). You'll have to navigate around to see it all, because it's too big to fit on the screen all at once.
Just to the left of the Yahoo calendar link is the word Update, underlined. If you click on this, nothing much seems to happen. It's there in case you forgot to turn things off the last time you used it, and "today" is now some other day. Clicking Update brings it all into order.
If you want to know whether there's a luncheon on a particular date, or who the speaker is, go up higher to the calendar at the top of the page. Try Feb. 18, and you get that day's event.
We've tried to think of every way to remind you of what's going on, but there's no way we could figure out how to remind you to put your green nametag back in the box. Perhaps we could do that by sending out a Request for Proposals.
We'll tell you about other things on My.Yahoo.com some other time. There's lots to learn, particularly if you went to Princeton.
To get there, enter its URL (web address), in the place provided by your browser (remember, Firefox is preferred).
URL: www.my.yahoo.com
That will give you a generic entry screen for anybody's Yahoo web page, so you enter its particular name: rightangleclub
Then, you enter its password, which is 12331233
(The reason it has this password is our tradition of going in to lunch at 12:33 PM, and always having to be reminded twice.)
Then, check the box that asks you if you want your computer to remember. Yes, you do, because that will save you a little trouble, and you can go straight to the password.
Then, you will see our orange and black front page in all its glory. Orange and black were selected because our rosette is orange and black. I suspect that's because the Etherington brothers went to Princeton, but you'll have to ask them.
There's a lot of stuff on the screen, so look toward the upper right corner, where there is a calendar. Click on today's date, and you will get today's schedule, once you have linked up. You link up by going down a few lines where there is a box for you to enter your password, which is 12331233, remember? You won't see this box again, because this will trigger the computer to get the calendar for the current week, and keep it updated in that area. But it's only a week's worth, and if you want to look ahead for weeks and weeks, go down just a little where Yahoo calendar is underlined, and click it. This will give you a full year's calendar (for the Right Angle Club only, of course). You'll have to navigate around to see it all, because it's too big to fit on the screen all at once.
Just to the left of the Yahoo calendar link is the word Update, underlined. If you click on this, nothing much seems to happen. It's there in case you forgot to turn things off the last time you used it, and "today" is now some other day. Clicking Update brings it all into order.
If you want to know whether there's a luncheon on a particular date, or who the speaker is, go up higher to the calendar at the top of the page. Try Feb. 18, and you get that day's event.
We've tried to think of every way to remind you of what's going on, but there's no way we could figure out how to remind you to put your green nametag back in the box. Perhaps we could do that by sending out a Request for Proposals.
We'll tell you about other things on My.Yahoo.com some other time. There's lots to learn, particularly if you went to Princeton.
# posted by grfmd @ 3:38 PM 
