Even tho the comments are not on the site I have been asking other people to give me comments about the site. I am pleased by their reviews. It is amazing to see this start to take shape. Remember if you do not have a direct way to tell me a personal comment, you can always leave me one on the site right here. If you go to the button that says “Help” at the top of the page, but below the title, there is a post about how to leave a comment.
Once again Thanks!
Everyday we surf tons of pages on the internet. It would be hard to think of the world without the internet now that each of us have fallen in love with it. However, many have seen this great thing turn into a nightmare. What could I mean by this. Well, we use software called Browsers to surf the internet, Internet Explorer is a famous one since Microsoft packs it right in. However there is a few issues with Internet Explore, one is that it seems to slow down majorly. Pages you once could get on in a few seconds now seem to take forever to load, now the browser is not always to blame here, but it can be. Also what about that interface (The interface is what you interact with such as the back and forward buttons, and the address bar). The interface seems to be hard to understand and can quickly have bar after bar added to it. Well, to let you know all this stuff is weight that slows it down. I have a few options for you.
Microsoft Internet Explorer is not the only browser you can get. Many people like yourself have gotten to the point of being feedup with the slowness and have turned to programming (Programming is how people make software, using code, also not as hard as some may think). These people have built new fast browsers that allow you to surf freely again. Here is a few of the better known ones you can look into.
Above, I also put a picture of the site at the current time of the post. Anyways, above is a few browsers you can look into. There is many features to each one, and you can always leave me a comment about a question you may have! In the next lesson post I hope to talk about installing a program like this so that way you can do it all on your own without having to have your friend or family member do it for you. Remember, if you did learn something from my post, and would like to chip in a few dollars you can using the new “ChipIn” tool on the side of the page.
Just click “ChipIn!” to find out how to help Shydex out! Thanks everyone!
Everyday 91 million searches happen on Google.com. However, digging through a claimed 2,000,000,000 pages to find one little piece of information can be hard. So, I wanted to start this helpful site with some nice tricks to help you search. Now, I will tell you that I am a big fan of Google.com, not just for its useful search engine but, more for their group of innovators and, their goal to help organize the worlds data.
Anyways, lets get started. First thing you want to do is to bring up Google.com (You can click on the colored text link to see more about things I may not talk about much). You will notice that the site is clean and, lacking ads and, cluttered news stories that might hid the search bar.
Googles Home Page
As you can see in the picture above googles site is simple, it allows users to search with great speed and results making searching fun and easy. You will notice googles title will sometimes look different based on the day that you visit the site. If you visit on Halloween you would have seen googles leters as droodles (A picture that is maybe makes the “G” in Google a pumkin). However most everyday you will see this same logo. Under the logo is the famous search bar.
The Search Bar and Buttons
The search bar is where you will type your search and then you will hit the “Google Search” button. Now, most people wonder what the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button is about, this button will instead of giving you a list of pages, will just send you to the first page that comes up in the search results.
Okay, so I explained a bit about the main homepage of Google, now lets start learning how to use Google to find information you need. Lets say that you have a friend that collects “Hotwheels” cars and, he is trying to find the rare 1975 van. He has no clue how to use the internet, and you who took this simple lesson and, now can search all day and night. He comes to you for advice. So with that you guys need to look for this car. First, start by going to Google.com, now in the search bar we want to give google as much information we know about this car your friend is telling us about. First we know its a Hotwheels.
"hotwheels", Google also trying to guess
As your typing this in Google is going to guess at what you are trying to find based on status it has collected from other users like you. So what else do we know about this toy. Well, we know thats it its a toy!
We added "Toy" after "Hotwheels"
We also know that this car is rare and also that it is not a car but, a van. It was also made in the year 1975. So what would we add for all this information.
We add the rest of the details!
We add the other information we have like in the picture above. Now remember what I said about the 2 different buttons. Well, “Google Search” will bring up a result page with a list of results, and “I’m Feeling Lucky” will bring up the first result of the search if you were to use “Google Search”. So, if your bored of looking at pages of results that next search you might just be lucky enough to find the information your looking for right on the first site.
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Well, first of all I would like to say hello, I am Shylor and this is my index of computer information. I hope that might at least explain ShyDex aka Shy(lor) (In)Dex.
So why would I want to put a site like this together, well I have had many people ask me for help on their computer and have took my time to help them to fix the problem and also to help them understand what happened. Its just not right to have some tech-minded person fix your equipment and then not even attempt to tell you what happened. I also understand there is many people that do not understand technical lango (Langauge). Well, I had many people tell me I should do some sort of web support. I thought this might be a great idea, but I have little time to devote to it.
However, I came to a choice, one way I could help people with one problem, or the other way I could help people that missed the first technical boat find their way to the second one. So here it starts, and welcome to Shydex!
