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PilotPointer.com - Tips

Setting PilotPointer as your homepage
Internet Explorer 5.x, 6.x & 7.x users
Easy: and select Yes.
Internet Explorer 4.x users
Click here, to download a small file called 'PilotPointer.reg'. Select 'Open this file from its current location'. That's it.

Or do it manually:
1. Select View on the menu bar.
2. Select Internet Options....
3. Highlight the Address field in the Home Page section (on the General tab).
4. type www.pilotpointer.com
5. Click OK
Internet Explorer 3.x (and earlier) users
1. Select View on the menu bar.
2. Select Options.
3. Highlight the Address field (on the Navigation tab).
4. Type www.pilotpointer.com
5. Click OK
Internet Explorer 3.x and 4.x for Macintosh users
1. Click Preferences on the Edit menu.
2. In the list on the left of the dialog box, click the Home/Search button (under Web Browser).
3. Click Use Default.
4. Click OK.
Firefox users
1. 1. Select Tools on the menu bar.
2. Select Options.
3. Click on the 'General' tab.
4. Type http://www.pilotpointer.com in the 'Location' box.
Netscape 4.x, 6.x, 7.x & 8.x users
1. Click Preferences on the Edit menu.
2. Type www.pilotpointer.com in the 'Location' box.
3. Click OK.
Netscape 3.x and 2.x users
1. Click General Preferences on the Options menu.
2. Click on the 'Appearance' tab.
3. Select 'Home page location'
4. Type http://www.pilotpointer.com in the box below.
5. Click OK.

Finding information in large documents

To find specific words or phrases in large single-page documents, you can use your browser's search function:
If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer:
Use the FIND function under the EDIT command, and enter the word, character-string, or phrase in the FIND: box.
If you are using Netscape Navigator:
Use the FIND function under the EDIT command, and enter the word, character-string, or phrase in the FIND WHAT: box.
The search function in these browsers can also be called by hitting Ctrl-F on the keyboard (pc users).

Printing and saving documents

Frames are used on many web-sites for easy navigation. If you'd like to print or save a document that's on a page that uses frames, first make sure that particular part of the screen is 'focused'. You can focus by clicking once in a neutral part of the document you want to print out or save. This way you'll let the computer know which frame you want to print out or save to disk. You can then proceed with the normal procedure for printing or saving documents.

Browser type

Make sure you have a modern browser that supports tables, frames and JavaScript. We recommend Microsoft's Internet Explorer version 4.0 and up, Firefox version 1.5 and up, Opera version 8.0 and up, or Netscape's Navigator version 4.0 and up. If you want to know more about these browsers or if you'd like to download one of them, you'll find the links towards them in the list below:

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Firefox

Opera

Netscape

Browser settings

First of all make sure your browser is set to check for changes in webpages every time you start your browser, or every time you visit a page. Otherwise you could be loading obsolete pages and images every time you revisit a page. These settings can be checked and changed in the browser's options/preferences menu. Browsers are normally set to one of these two options by default, so if you haven't messed around in your browser settings you probably don't have to change anything.

JavaScript

Your browser needs to support JavaScript in order to make optimum use of many web sites. The above mentioned browsers do so. Make sure that JavaScript is switched on. To enable JavaScript check your options/preferences menu. By default JavaScript is enabled.

Cookies

A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser from a web server or a web-page script and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Our use of cookies allows your computer system to 'recognize' the PilotPointer.com web site and add your personal links to the main page. Also we use cookies to assist you in filling out some of our forms, before they are sent to our server. Most web browsers are set up to accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser preferences to prevent their use. At www.tucows.com you'll find several cookie managing software programs, in case you desire to have more control over your cookie files.

Screen resolution

The recommended minimum screen resolution of you computermonitor is 800 by 600 pixels. Many times it will be impossible to view WWW pages in full width on your screen using a lower resolution. Unless you have an older type of computer and/or screen or a older type of laptop/notebook, setting your screen resolution to 800 by 600 or higher should be no problem.

Viewing Flash and Shockwave plug-ins

An increasing number of web sites now make use of this feature to show animated presentations. The 'Flash' plug-in is most widely used and available as a free download from the Macromedia website. The installation of this small piece of browser add-on software is self explanatory. Click here to download.

Viewing PDF and TIFF files

Whenever your browser cannot handle a certain file type by itself, it will ask you what to do with it. You'll be presented the options to save the file to disk, or to open it. In case you decide to open it right away, you'll need a suitable piece of software that can handle the specific file-format. In case of the frequently encountered PDF and TIFF file-formats you'll need a so called 'viewer'. Some viewers act as a browser-'plugin' and will open their assigned file type(s) automatically in the browser's window. Other viewers will open their own separate window for viewing. In case you decide to save the file for later use, just be sure you'll be able to find it later on. You could, for instance, put the file on your system's desktop so you don't have to remember where you've put it. From there you can view, change, move, or trash it. There are many good viewers around nowadays. One that is widely used and will open almost any file is the freeware application 'Irfanview' for computers running the Windows operating system. Check out www.tucows.com or www.download.com to find a viewer of your choice and operating system. For downloading the Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer click here.

Unpacking ZIP files

ZIP files are compressed files, that take less space on a hard-disk and take less time to download. In order to uncompress or 'un-ZIP' these files you'll need a special piece of software that's widely available for free. To download ZIP software search for 'zip' at www.tucows.com.

Clock settings

Often when you see a time or date appear on your screen these data are based on your computer's internal clock settings. Therefore make sure the time and date of your computer's internal clock are properly set as well as the timezone that you are in. There's some real nice software available on the Web that can synchronize your computer's clock time with an atomic clock whenever you are online. This software however is not able to detect your timezone and therefore you'll have to enter the timezone manually to get the right readout whenever you're in a different timezone.

Date format in the USA

You're probably familiar with this fact, but for those that are not, this piece of information might be worthwhile: the date format in the USA differs from that used in many other countries around the world; instead of the commonly used DAY-MONTH-YEAR sequence the following is used in the USA: MONTH-DAY-YEAR. For example 11-04-2000 should be read as November 4, 2000 according to the US standard.

If you feel something should be changed or added to the information on this page, please let us know via our feedback page. Thank you.