WebTV® For Dummies®, 3rd Edition
by Brad HillFormat: eBook
Pub. Date: 2001-01-01
Publisher(s): For Dummies
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Summary
WebTV is the fastest growing Internet-exclusive system on the market. This highly illustrated second edition delivers everything one needs to know to become Internet savvy and take advantage of all the latest features that WebTV has to offer.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| About This Book | p. 2 |
| Conventions Used in This Book | p. 2 |
| What You're Not to Read | p. 2 |
| Foolish Assumptions | p. 3 |
| How to Read This Book | p. 4 |
| Icons Used in This Book | p. 6 |
| Where to Go from Here | p. 7 |
| Starting from Scratch | p. 9 |
| What WebTV Is and Isn't | p. 11 |
| Welcome to a New Era | p. 12 |
| It's a Bird. It's a Plane. No It's | p. 13 |
| What's Missing? | p. 15 |
| Java | p. 16 |
| New versions of RealAudio | p. 16 |
| Downloads | p. 17 |
| Multimedia | p. 18 |
| WebTV and Computers | p. 19 |
| How WebTV Works | p. 21 |
| Is WebTV the same as cable TV? | p. 21 |
| Do I have to choose between TV and the Web? | p. 21 |
| Are there different brands of WebTV? | p. 22 |
| Do I have to get a special phone line? | p. 22 |
| Does the Internet cost money? | p. 22 |
| Does WebTV run up the phone bill? | p. 23 |
| Is getting connected difficult? | p. 24 |
| Can I see TV programs on the Web? | p. 24 |
| The big question: Should I buy Classic or Plus? | p. 25 |
| The World's Briefest Internet Primer | p. 26 |
| The foundation | p. 26 |
| The Web phenomenon | p. 26 |
| What to do on the Net | p. 27 |
| Some Words to Know (This Is Not a Test) | p. 27 |
| Everything You Need | p. 33 |
| Opening the Box | p. 33 |
| Hooking Up WebTV Classic | p. 35 |
| Connecting to a TV directly (no VCR) | p. 35 |
| Connecting to a TV through a VCR | p. 38 |
| Connecting to a TV with cable (no VCR) | p. 38 |
| Connecting to a TV with cable and a VCR | p. 39 |
| Using WebTV Classic with a VCR | p. 40 |
| Hooking Up WebTV Plus | p. 40 |
| Connecting WebTV Plus to the TV signal | p. 41 |
| Connecting WebTV Plus to the TV | p. 43 |
| Your First Call | p. 45 |
| The service agreement | p. 47 |
| Finishing up | p. 47 |
| Disconnecting | p. 47 |
| Using the Remote and the Keyboard | p. 49 |
| Firing It Up | p. 49 |
| One-Thumb Browsing | p. 50 |
| Making things happen: The Arrow and Select buttons | p. 52 |
| Back to the future | p. 53 |
| The recent past | p. 55 |
| Oh, Auntie Em, it's good to be home! | p. 56 |
| Options | p. 56 |
| Seeing beyond the edges: The Scroll buttons | p. 59 |
| From Web to prime time: The TV button | p. 60 |
| The Remote Off the Web | p. 61 |
| Two ... Two ... Two Keyboards in One! | p. 61 |
| A dedicated approach | p. 62 |
| Highlighting and selecting with the keyboard | p. 64 |
| The Web Home Screen | p. 65 |
| Starting Point and Launching Pad | p. 66 |
| Three Important Selections | p. 67 |
| Setting Things Up | p. 68 |
| Setting up MSN Messenger | p. 68 |
| Creating family accounts | p. 69 |
| Customizing your screen | p. 73 |
| Whistle while you surf | p. 74 |
| Setting up your mailbox | p. 75 |
| The key to your kingdom | p. 77 |
| The best connection | p. 78 |
| Getting hard copy | p. 80 |
| Viewing and Changing Your Account | p. 81 |
| Peering behind the Home Screen | p. 82 |
| Today in WebTV | p. 82 |
| WebTV Centers | p. 83 |
| It's Someone Else's Turn | p. 84 |
| What kind of mail? | p. 84 |
| Whose favorites? | p. 85 |
| Explore where? | p. 85 |
| Search for what? | p. 85 |
| If You Lose This Book | p. 85 |
| The TV Home Screen | p. 87 |
| Finding TV Home | p. 87 |
| Basic Features of TV Home | p. 89 |
| Getting and Using Listings | p. 89 |
| Getting 'em | p. 90 |
| Using 'em | p. 90 |
| Setting Up Your Cable Box and VCR | p. 92 |
| Changing Channels | p. 94 |
| Customizing TV Home | p. 95 |
| Creating TV Favorites | p. 95 |
| Planning couch time | p. 96 |
| Searching TV Listings | p. 98 |
| Understanding how the Search TV Listings feature works | p. 98 |
| Searching for TV shows by category | p. 99 |
| Searching for TV shows by keyword | p. 99 |
| Getting Comfortable | p. 101 |
| Using E-Mail | p. 103 |
| Cousin Freddy on Your TV | p. 103 |
| Writing and Sending a Letter | p. 105 |
| Checking Your Spelling | p. 107 |
| Adding Pictures and Sound to Plus E-Mail | p. 108 |
| Clipping an image from TV | p. 108 |
| Clipping an image from a camcorder | p. 110 |
| Creating an audio greeting | p. 111 |
| Checking Your Mail | p. 113 |
| You have mail--now what? | p. 113 |
| Keeping a neat mailbox | p. 115 |
| Using Your WebTV Address Book | p. 116 |
| Adding an e-mail address to your list | p. 117 |
| Changing an entry in your address book | p. 120 |
| Discarding an entry from your address book | p. 120 |
| Copying, Cutting, and Pasting | p. 121 |
| Things to Do with E-Mail | p. 123 |
| E-mail on Web sites | p. 123 |
| E-mail subscriptions | p. 124 |
| Mailing lists | p. 124 |
| Choosing Favorites | p. 125 |
| Adding a Favorite Page | p. 125 |
| Saving the right page | p. 127 |
| Exploring, searching, and saving | p. 128 |
| Organizing Favorites in Folders | p. 129 |
| Browsing among Your Favorites | p. 132 |
| Finding and Meeting People | p. 133 |
| Accessing the WebTV Community | p. 133 |
| Live conversations | p. 134 |
| Bulletin board postings | p. 135 |
| Chatting with MSN Messenger | p. 139 |
| Understanding the basics | p. 139 |
| Creating Buddies | p. 141 |
| Removing people from your Buddy list | p. 143 |
| Receiving messages and chatting | p. 144 |
| Group chatting | p. 145 |
| Ending a conversation | p. 146 |
| Accessing the Internet Community | p. 146 |
| Message boards | p. 147 |
| Using message boards on Web sites | p. 149 |
| Mailing lists | p. 150 |
| Chatting | p. 152 |
| How well can you really know someone online? | p. 154 |
| Using Newsgroups on the Web | p. 155 |
| Searching and Browsing | p. 157 |
| Searching with WebTV | p. 159 |
| Interpreting search results | p. 159 |
| Revising your search | p. 162 |
| Getting More and Getting Less | p. 162 |
| Knowing what's good | p. 163 |
| Getting precise in your searching | p. 165 |
| Browsing in the Search Directory | p. 169 |
| How the directory works | p. 169 |
| Entering the second level | p. 170 |
| Working with the Search directory | p. 171 |
| Not the Only Directory in Town | p. 173 |
| The Yahoo! Web directory | p. 173 |
| The Lycos Web directory | p. 176 |
| Other Web Directories | p. 179 |
| Other Search Engines on the Web | p. 181 |
| Yahoo! | p. 182 |
| AltaVista | p. 182 |
| Excite | p. 183 |
| Lycos | p. 183 |
| HotBot | p. 183 |
| Cruising with WebTV | p. 185 |
| Around Town and WebTV Today | p. 187 |
| Getting Around Town | p. 187 |
| Yellow Pages | p. 188 |
| Finding People | p. 189 |
| Finding Flicks | p. 190 |
| For Sale | p. 191 |
| Other Strolls around Town | p. 193 |
| WebTV Today | p. 194 |
| Using Interactive Television | p. 197 |
| The Web and TV--Joined at the Hip | p. 198 |
| Logging on during a TV Program | p. 199 |
| Using WebTV Plus Crossover Links | p. 201 |
| Playing Along with Game Shows | p. 204 |
| Registering for Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune | p. 204 |
| Playing Jeopardy through WebTV Plus | p. 205 |
| Playing Wheel of Fortune through WebTV Plus | p. 206 |
| Making Use of Commercials | p. 207 |
| The Multimedia Web | p. 211 |
| Pictures and Sound on the Web | p. 212 |
| Fun with MIDI | p. 214 |
| Some Excellent MIDI Sites | p. 215 |
| The MIDI Farm | p. 215 |
| Classical MIDI Archives | p. 215 |
| Standard MIDI Files on the Net | p. 216 |
| MIDICITY | p. 216 |
| Ragtimers | p. 216 |
| Even More Fun with RealAudio | p. 216 |
| RealAudio Sites Worth Visiting | p. 219 |
| RealGuide | p. 219 |
| Shadow RealAudio Radio Theater | p. 220 |
| RadioTower.com | p. 221 |
| Artist Underground | p. 222 |
| Video through WebTV | p. 223 |
| Creating Web Pages with WebTV | p. 225 |
| Things to Do with HTML | p. 226 |
| A Shockingly Brief HTML Tutorial | p. 227 |
| Getting started with HTML tags | p. 228 |
| [html] and [body] tags | p. 229 |
| Fun with fonts | p. 231 |
| Adding pictures | p. 232 |
| Adding music | p. 235 |
| Special HTML tags | p. 235 |
| All about Page Builder | p. 236 |
| Choosing a Page Design | p. 238 |
| Adding a heading | p. 239 |
| Adding text to your page | p. 240 |
| Adding pictures to your page | p. 241 |
| Adding links to your page | p. 245 |
| Adding a list to your page | p. 246 |
| Adding page breaks | p. 247 |
| Previewing and Publishing Your Page | p. 247 |
| Previewing | p. 248 |
| Publishing | p. 248 |
| Un-publishing and discarding | p. 250 |
| Moving Items around Your Page | p. 251 |
| About Your Page URL | p. 251 |
| The Internet's Potential | p. 253 |
| News at 11:00 (or 12:00, or 1:00, or ...) | p. 255 |
| Internet News: What to Expect | p. 256 |
| The cost of Web news | p. 257 |
| The three levels of Web news | p. 258 |
| Online Finances | p. 258 |
| What Can You Do with Money on the Web? | p. 260 |
| Family Surfing | p. 260 |
| Shop Till You Drop (the Remote) | p. 262 |
| Buying the old-fashioned way | p. 263 |
| Credit cards on the Net | p. 263 |
| Smart cards | p. 264 |
| E-cash | p. 265 |
| Fitting the Internet into Your Life and Schedule | p. 265 |
| The Part of Tens | p. 269 |
| Ten Tips for Better WebTVing | p. 271 |
| Try the Wireless Keyboard as Your Remote | p. 271 |
| Don't Beat Your Head against a Wall--Just Head to Another Site | p. 272 |
| Give Your Feedback! | p. 273 |
| Save It Now! | p. 273 |
| Send Sites to Yourself | p. 274 |
| Keep Your Waiting Time to a Minimum | p. 275 |
| Take the High Road (Speed Choices) | p. 276 |
| Stay Logged on with Audio | p. 276 |
| The Ever-Present Home Button Shortcut | p. 277 |
| Be Part of the Family | p. 277 |
| Ten More Tips for Better WebTVing | p. 279 |
| See the Next Address | p. 279 |
| Create an Audioscope | p. 280 |
| Jump through Scroll Lists | p. 281 |
| Save Your Communities | p. 281 |
| Rename Your Favorites | p. 282 |
| Use Simple Web Addresses | p. 282 |
| Use Simple E-Mail Addresses | p. 283 |
| Skip from Link to Link | p. 283 |
| Use the Keyboard to Move the TV Window | p. 283 |
| Go Easy on the HTML | p. 284 |
| Ten Tips about Mail, Chat, and Messaging | p. 287 |
| Fun with Weird Characters | p. 287 |
| Send an E-Mail from Anywhere | p. 290 |
| Be Careful when Using WebTV's Name | p. 291 |
| Use Chat Commands | p. 292 |
| Deal with Flames and Trolls | p. 293 |
| Use the Send Key in Mail | p. 294 |
| Include Messages when Sending Pages | p. 294 |
| Insert Spaces in Chat | p. 295 |
| Make Groups of Addresses | p. 295 |
| Try the Tips Index | p. 296 |
| Ten Sites from My Favorites Folder | p. 297 |
| Yahoo! | p. 297 |
| Wired News | p. 299 |
| Yodlee and OnMoney | p. 299 |
| The BigHub | p. 301 |
| MP3.com | p. 302 |
| The New York Times | p. 304 |
| Internet Movie Database | p. 304 |
| TV Guide Online | p. 306 |
| CBS MarketWatch | p. 307 |
| The Onion | p. 308 |
| Ten More Sites from My Favorites Folder | p. 309 |
| C Net | p. 309 |
| Slate | p. 311 |
| Real.com | p. 312 |
| Silicon Investor and Raging Bull | p. 313 |
| SmartPlanet | p. 314 |
| Net4TV | p. 314 |
| eBay | p. 315 |
| Amazon.com | p. 316 |
| U.S. News Online | p. 317 |
| About.com | p. 318 |
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