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Laptops All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies- P51: Okay, I’ll admit it: I’ve got a strange biography. I’ve been a writer all my life. My first semi-pro job was sports editor of my high school newspaper. (Go Commodores!) After college I was a political reporter for daily newspapers in Ohio and New York (I covered four national nominating conventions and two Presidential campaigns) and a correspondent for The Associated Press. And then, in 1983, I gave in to my inner geek and became the first Executive Editor of PC Magazine, back in the days when most people asked, “What is a PC?”. | Contents at a Glance Chapter 1 Networking with Other Machines .475 Dissecting Network Hello Operator Modem Chapter 2 Managing a Windows Network .491 Speaking of Networking Soft ware ly .492 Identifying Computers to Each Visiting Windows Vista Network Joining a Your Laptop s Name and Address Playing Nice Sharing a Accessing Another Computer on a Local Mapping a Sharing Devices and Internet Automated Network Chapter 3 Going Doing What with a Wireless Network .522 Seeing Hot Working a WiFi Network .527 Does Your Laptop Do WiFi .531 Disabling the Original WiFi Building a Wireless Setting up a Wireless Network in Cutting the Wires Other Chapter 4 Spinning the Cruising the Discerning the Good the Bad and the Ugly Getting on the Finding Your Way on the Taking Internet Explorer 7 Chapter 5 Exchanging E-mail IMs and Fielding Microsoft s Triple Using Windows Mail or Outlook Feeling Safe with Windows Mail and Windows Live Windows Mail and Windows Live Minding Your E-mail Snagging Web-based E-mail Letting Your Fingers Do Chapter 6 Communicating with VoIP .625 Rocking the Laptop Cutting the Getting to VoIP at Home or Getting Quality Equipping a Laptop for Chapter 1 Networking with Other Machines In This Chapter Catching up the laptop with the network Going into the Ethernet Linking your modem to you yl ainframe and then desktop computers were at first isolated boxes of processors and data. Then they became linked to each other through a local area network LAN and to the rest of the world through the Internet. When the first laptop computers became .