Internet Tutorials
In this section, I have put together a few tutorials telling you how to get around on the net, how to get specific information etc. At present, there are 3 tutorials!
Using Yahoo! Chat
Using ICQ
Downloading Skins For Winamp
Meeting People
One of the nicest ways (I think) of using the net is to use it to meet people and there are various ways of doing this! Here I will list a few. Yahoo Chat is a web-based chat site with hundreds of different rooms and many hundreds of people online at the same time! With Yahoo, you can meet people round the other side of the world from where you are, chat is also useful if you need a bit of advice or if your computer hates you! Yahoo chat is Java based so you have to make sure that your browser is Java enabled, if in doubt, Internet Explorer 3 and above or Netscape Navigator 2 and above both support Java, so the only worry there is that you need to make sure that it is enabled. Basically to sign up for Yahoo Chat, you go to http://chat.yahoo.com and sign onto their service, if you already have a yahoo ID, e.g. you use yahoo mail etc. then you just use this username, you can add Alternate Identities so that people who you are chatting with won't know your real name, for instance, my name is Graham and I have a few alternative identities that I use in the chat rooms, my main one is linuxisverycool because I spend a lot of time in Linux, BeOS and Solaris:1 Yahoo Chat, as I said is a Java applet that loads up on a web page although there is a way to access yahoo chat using client software such as Cheetachat and Curfloo, which is for Linux. I am not sure, but I think IRCLL for the Apple Mac works as well, please correct me if I am wrong!!! Once you have signed up with yahoo, you can use any of these methods, just enter your name and password at chat.yahoo.com or into any of the chat clients you decide to use and if your web browser accepts cookies, then you can also check the box that says Remember my username and password. You can choose some favourite rooms with subjects that you enjoy and then dive straight in and chat!
Another thing that you can do is use is called ICQ (I seek you) which, with this you can make friends in far away places, one thing I like to do is meet them on Yahoo chat, make friends, share interests and swap ICQ numbers. You download the software from www.icq.net and you then sign up for a personal Identification Number which is about 8 digits long, you tell your number to ICQ and it connects you to the network using a piece of software which you download from their site and you can start making friends straight away!
Now for something a bit simpler, there are two or even three ways that you can do this, firstly, you can download them from the official site, then you could download them from other people's web sites, and then you can swap them among friends using ICQ in the tutorial above. When you get the skin, it will either have a .zip extension or a .wsz extension, a wsz file is just a renamed zip file containing all of the elements of winamp; sliders, buttons, labels and title bars etc. In fact once you have downloaded a skin you could rename it to zip, extract it, change the files to what you want, recompress it with a different filename and redistribute it, now to install them, if you have a newer version of winamp, rename a zip file with a wsz extension, right-click it and click on install. You can also apply the skins to xmms under linux by renaming the file to zip and copying it to the skins directory in /usr/lib/xmms.
For starters, here is a skin called Winamp Gold and it is by my good friend "Meeser"