1. Always use Firefox, never the blue “E”
2. The blue “E” stands for “evil”.
3. Pirates are good!!
4. Never use symbols other than letters, numbers, and underscores when naming a file.
5. Keep your files in folders, never just on the H drive.
6. Sort files by details when you’re looking for a specific one.
7. When opening a picture, to open it with a specific program, click File, Open, right click, and then open with the program you want to open it with.
8. Use a blog for either academic or personal purposes – it keeps things organized.
9. Power Point – not too many words, high contrast between text and background, don’t distort photos, use constant format, etc.
10. Napster – an illegal online filesharing community.
11. Torrents – illegal filesharing – allows one to download parts of a file.
12. When text editing, try using Google Dox.
13. We already know all the basic history that we need to know.
14. You can get really good jobs while you’re still in high school for fixing computers and whatnot. All you have to do is know the basics about hardware and/or software and take this test. If you pass it, you get pretty good job opportunities.
15. Use “BCC” when you want to send an email to other people without letting the main recipient know that you sent it to another person.
16. Use “CC” when you want to send an email to multiple other people but you don’t want them to reply to the main email.
17. Always include a subject line in an email.
18. Don’t send chain letters because they say cool things. They aren’t that fascinating.
19. Include contact information at the bottom of your email so the recipient can be sure on who to reply to.
20. When replying to a message that was sent out to multiple other people, instead of replying to all of them at once, reply to just the sender. Not everyone needs to know your response.
