Asus EEE Tips
From Tech-Help
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Tip #1
Maximize battery life by turning WiFi off when not in use.
To switch the WiFi card on or off:
Hold down the Function Key (on the lower left of the keyboard, marked Fn) and hit the F2 key (on the top of the keyboard).
A light under the WiFi icon on the lower right corner of the top surface of the EEE will shine blue when WiFi is active, and will be off when it is inactive.
Tip #2
Use FireFox at school and Opera at home.
If you are using your EEE at home and at school, instead of switching from using proxies (for school) and not using proxies (elsewhere), you can simply leave the proxies on in FireFox and use FireFox only at school, and use a separate browser – Opera – without proxies when you are elsewhere.
Tip #3
If you’re lost, click on the house icon on the lower left of the screen
Tip #4
Convert AppleWorks files to Word format.
OpenOffice does not read AppleWorks (.cwk) documents. If you have a lot of documents saved in the AppleWorks (.cwk) file format, you may want to save them as Rich Text Format (.rtf) files from within the AppleWorks application, or translate the format into Word (.doc) or Excel (.xls), based on what kind of file they are. You can use the Magic Word Converter on your Mac to automatically translate whole folders at a time, although it will skip any AppleWorks image or database files and only convert word processing files and spreadsheets. This free Applescript is available at:
http://www.nicktech.org/MagicWordConverter.html
Tip #5
Blackslashes & forward slashes are different.
When entering the address for a networked fileserver, you must include the two backslashes \\ (located on the key between the BackSpace and the Enter keys on the far right of the keyboard) which are not the same as the forward slashes // (on the same key as the question-mark) that you typically use in web URLs.
