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PilotPointer.com - Tips

Setting PilotPointer as your homepage
Internet Explorer users
Easy: and select Yes
Or do it manually:
1. Select Tools 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
Firefox users
1. Select Tools on the menu bar
2. Select Options
3. Click on the 'General' tab
4. Type http://www.pilotpointer.com in the 'Home Page' box
5. Click OK
Opera users
1. Click Menu
2. Select 'Settings'
3. Select 'Preferences'
4. Type http://www.pilotpointer.com in the 'Home page' box
5. Click OK
Safari users
1. Select the General tab from the Preferences menu
2. Type http://www.pilotpointer.com in the 'Home page' box

Finding information in large documents

To find specific words or phrases in large single-page documents, you can use your browser's search function:
The search function in these browsers is easiest accessible by hitting Ctrl-F on the keyboard (pc users), or Command-F on the Mac.

Printing and saving documents

Frames are used on some 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 (not a link) part of the document you want to print or save to disk. You can then proceed as normal for printing or saving documents.

Browser type

Make sure you have a modern browser that supports tables, frames and JavaScript. We recommend the latest versions of Mozilla Firefox version, Opera, Safari and Microsoft's Internet Explorer. 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:

Mozilla Firefox

Opera

Safari

Microsoft Internet Explorer

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 local versions of pages and images every time you revisit a page. These settings can be checked and changed in the browser's options/preferences menu.

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.

Viewing Flash and Shockwave animations

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 and other files

Whenever your browser cannot handle a certain file type by itself, it will normally 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 specialized viewer software. 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 (www.irfanview.com)' 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. Our recommendation for PDF software goes to the Foxit PDF reader, freely downloadable at www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/. Alternatively the Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer is a good choice for modern computers although it is generally slower and a much larger dowload. It can be found at the following URL: www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html.

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.

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.