| Who else types using a Dvorak keyboard? | | As a young child when I began learning to type (at the age of 6), I was typing only 20 words per minute on the Qwerty keyboard. I was rather disappointed and I was learning on an old DOS program that I really loved (and still enjoy!) even though it is quite the boring program. At the time, our typing instructor told us there was also a Dvorak keyboard, on which you could type faster because of the positioning of the keys. I got the same exact program in DOS made for Dvorak as well, just incase.Fast forward to a couple years ago, when 5 3/4" floppies were a thing of the past for quite awhile. I was still practicing typing, and I was up to a max of 135 words per minute on the standard Qwerty keyboard. I was very disappointed that I could not reach beyond that ceiling. It seemed that that was as fast as my fingers could fly across the keyboard. So I was taking another typing class and it seemed to be the case that I could not get any faster. But once again, the Dvorak keyboard was mentioned. Allegedly, you could type 30 words per minute faster due to the positioning of the letters. Once again, I dismissed the idea.Awhile later, someone told me they actually used it.... | |
| | Computer & Internet Glossary Part 4 | | PDF
Stands for "Portable Document Format." It is a multi-platform file format developed by Adobe Systems. A PDF file captures document text, images, and most impressively, the formatting of documents from a variety of applications. You can send a PDF document over the Internet to your friend and it will look the same way on his screen as it looks on yours. PDF documents also print out the same way they look on your monitor. To view a PDF file, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free application distributed by Adobe Systems. There is also an Acrobat Plug-in for Web browsers that enables PDF files to be viewed from within your browser. Port
As if computer terms weren't hard enough to understand, there are three different meanings of the word "port." 1. An Internet port. This is a number that indicates what kind of protocol a server on the Internet is using. For example, Web servers typically are listed on port 80. Web browsers use this port by default when accessing Web pages, but you can also specify what port you would like to use in the URL like this: http://www.excite.com:80. FTP uses port 21, e-mail uses port 25, and game servers, like a Quake server or... | |
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