Basic Computer Usage COMP102 Tutorial #2
The Start Menu
The Start Menu is usually located on the bottom-left part of your screen.
Accessing a Web Browser In Windows, the Internet Explorer (IE) web browser is installed by default. You can use it to access the World Wide Web. Click on the Start Menu, move the mouse pointer over the blue e icon, and click once. This will start IE and allow you to browse the WWW. It is assumed, of course, that you have first connected to the Internet if you are not always connected.
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FireFTP Tutorial
FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client (Addon or Extension) for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. With FireFTP, transferring your files to a Web server is quick and efficient. FireFTP also includes more advanced features such as: directory comparison and synchronization, SSL encryption, search/filtering, integrity checks, remote editing, and much more!
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Building the UL Toolbar for Firefox
An extension is an applet that adds new functions and features to the Firefox Web browser, or to any other application that uses the Mozilla Gecko rendering engine. Among the features that an extension can provide is a toolbar of Web links to the services of the University Libraries Web site. This page details how this toolbar was put together
Bundle
An extension is stored in a compressed bundle with the suffix .xpi (pronounced ‘zippy’). You can use any means to compress your extension files into a bundle, such as WinZIP, PKWare or the compression feature in Windows XP.
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Firefox Extension Development Tutorial
All of the guts of your extension will be written in JavaScript. If you already know JavaScript than you are good to go! If you are new to JavaScript it is highly recommended that you read through the next section and the supporting documentation to get used to the syntax.
All of your JavaScript code files should go in the content directory of your extension. This is where the XUL files go as well, so they will be able to easily reference the code. Just insert the following line in an XUL file that needs to run functions from your files.
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WebGL Makes Its Way into Firefox 3.7
It looks like support for the upcoming web 3D graphics project WebGL is building up fast, as, just one week after it made its way into Webkit’s latest experimental source-code releases, Mozilla Firefox 3.7 nightly builds also sport the new feature. The project is still pretty much in the early stages and still has a long way to go until standardization, but the developers believe there should be a much sturdier implementation within several months.
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Using Firefox
Mozilla Firefox (originally known as “Phoenix” and briefly as “Mozilla Firebird”) is a free, cross-platform, graphical web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and hundreds of volunteers. Its current release is Firefox 1.5, released on November 29, 2005. Firefox strives to be a lightweight, fast, intuitive, and highly extensible standalone browser. Firefox has now become the foundation’s main development focus. Firefox includes an integrated pop-up blocker, tabbed browsing, live bookmarks, support for open standards, an extension mechanism for adding functionality and localization for Firefox in different languages. Firefox also attempts to produce secure software and fix security holes promptly. Although other browsers have introduced these features, Firefox is the first such browser to achieve wide adoption.
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Browser Security: Lessons from Google Chrome
The Web has become one of the primary ways people interact with their computers, connecting people with a diverse landscape of content, services, and applications. Users can find new and interesting content on the Web easily, but this presents a security challenge: malicious Web-site operators can attack users through their Web browsers. Browsers face the challenge of keeping their users safe while providing a rich platform for Web applications.
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iColor Output Software
iColor Output is a PDF- and print processor for Mac OS X. It turns a standard inkjet printer into a full-featured contract proofer and it is easy to use. Just start the application, make your selections for paper and workflow and you are ready to go.
Installation
After insertion of the DVD or opening the downloaded image-file, the installation dialogue appears.
Notice: Please make sure that the original driver of your printer has been already installed. Without an installed driver, iColor Output does not work.
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Java performance of Aurora’s DeCaf-M Java bilingual
This white paper discusses the measured Java performance of Aurora’s DeCaf-M Java bilingual processor, and compares it to measured performance of:
• Java on cell phones and smart phones
• Java running under various JVM implementations running on Linux boxes
• The same application re-coded in C
The benchmark used was the CaffeineMarks benchmark. All performance numbers are from running the benchmark on real hardware that was idle except for the running benchmark (and system overhead).
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Power Bank User’s Guide
The Power Bank is practical and easy to use and can be easily charged by Global Solar Energy, Inc. (GSE) solar products. It is compatible with many mobile phones, PDAs, digital cameras and many other devices by using the specialized connectors, making it a versatile travel companion.
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