On 6/1/19 12:39 AM, VanguardLH wrote:
Ken Springer wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

Ken Springer wrote:

How many people even know what an email client is?

I know folks that only use the web browser to get to their e-mail
service. They have to remember to occasionally go look for new e-mails
rather than get an immediate alert telling them there is new e-mail.

IIRC, notifications are turned on by default. Do those folks not read
them, or maybe don't know what they mean?

Only if the web browser is left running all the time. Do you power up
your computer and leave the web browser running until you power down?

As a matter of fact, I do! LOL But no email tabs.

As for emails clients, most Mac users I know use Apple Mail, which is a
client. And for Gmail, too! I want to find the time to check out the
Mail app for W10, find out how it works.

And now you just conflicted with your prior statement that users don't
know about e-mail clients.

No, no. We were talking about the lack of activity in the Apple
newsgroups. And you said "Those users probably don't know how to use an
NNTP client, either, don't know what is Usenet, so you'll have to
find some flat-hierarchy web-based forums to get help with a Mac. They
probably also don't even know what is an e-mail client." I was
responding to your email client statement.

My comment about users not knowing what an email client is was referring
to Windows users. But, if you want to include *all* computer users, the
statement would still be valid due to the number of Windows users vs.
everybody else.

Which makes me ponder, I wonder how many W10 users are using the Windows
Mail App, and don't know they are using a client.

Most e-mail clients these days have a database of hundreds of e-mail
providers to know how to configure to use them. Most times, you just
enter your e-mail address and the domain for it gets used to
auto-configure the e-mail client.

Why would they need a database? Wouldn't it be possible to just start
with the user's email address, poll the appropriate server for settings,
and go from there?

I hide my taskbar. But some programs don't seem to play well with that.
That comment comes from using W7. No plans for major use of W10. You
could enable the Quick Launch bar in W7, but I've not looked to see if
that can be done in W8 & W10.

Auto-hide of the taskbar only has a problem with a program that doesn't
check what is the currently available screen size. Some will auto-size
when the taskbar is unhidden, some don't change size; however, since the
taskbar auto-hides, you aren't using it for the program on the screen,
so when you move back into the app then the taskbar gets out of the way.
Other than that, I don't know what other problems an auto-hiding taskbar
causes.

Occasionally, in W7, I'll ave a window that is in the taskbar area.
Pull the taskbar down for something, and when I go back to the window,
the taskbar stays pulled down. This used to be a PITA for me in XP. I
don't use W10 enough to know if it happens there or not.

I don't bother with that feature. After about 6-8 years, I end
up getting a larger and higher resolution monitor, anyway.

I'm shopping for a bigger monitor for the new Mac, but for a different
reason. Eyesight. I'm hoping I can run at a slightly lower resolution,
thus accomplishing the magnification result, yet still have the same
amount of info on the screen as I have in the monitor that went away.

Depends on the size of the library, as well as the distance to the
library.

Hence my mention of e-books. The selection, however, is not as great.

I think the selection depends on the category of books. A friend does
this with the local library, but she's always frustrated due to the huge
waiting list for a book, plus the poor selection.

For me, the books I've wanted never seem available as an e-book. I
can't almost guarantee the issue is the age of the book. Virtually no
demand to convert them.

Besides, I like to make notes and highlight things in books,
and libraries frown on that. LOL

Well, they're not your books.

I know. :-) In my case, many of the old books are downloadable as a
PDF, which is what I read. But no one seems to go through the PDF to
check for very obvious errors. :-(

Since you already got a WinX computer,
just buy the book(s). The "Windows 10 All-in-one for Dummies" by Woody
Leonhard is just $25.

And, how old is it now? I see there's 4 versions, so if I want to save
a buck and buy a used edition, I may get version 1. How many things has
MS changed since Woody wrote the current version? I'd rather spend the
$25 on a prime rib dinner. LOL

snip

For Woody's book, my library has e-book versions of it. I don't know if
the free Calibre e-reader works with it (because, I'm sure, there's some
DRM **** attached to an e-book loaned out by a library), so they had me
install Adobe Digital Editions (also free).

The last time I played with Calibre, it would read just about any e-book
format, plus convert between formats. It would also load your book and
turn it into an e-book.


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Ken
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