'Mactropolis 'Call waiting'
Tested with FirstClass version 5.5 on 68k Mac
If you have call Waiting. When you fill in the phone number in your setup. Don't forget to type in *52 before the number. So it should read *523777460
see also 'Call Waiting'

'Mactropolis 'Chat'
Tested with FirstClass version 5.623 on a G3
To chat to someone else who is on line, go to the File menu and then Open and then private chat. A chat form will appear. Click on Invite and another form will appear showing who is on line, now click on the person you wish to chat with and then click on Select. The person you have invited with get a notice saying they have had an invite to chat. They can either accept or decline the offer. You can test this out by inviting yourself to a chat and then you can chat away to yourself till the cows come home. If you want to save what has been said, highlight the chat and then just drag to your desktop.
Good luck chatting

'Mactropolis 'Click Once'
Tested with FirstClass version 5.5 on 68k Mac
When working with FirstClass to open a folder or file you have to click twice. You can however set your preferences so you only have to click once.
When on the desktop go to the View menu and click on Change View Properties. Then click on Icons and then Open Icons with single click. Now you only have to click once to open a folder or if you click on the envelope of a file just one click. If you are running system 8.0 or higher by holding down the Control key when clicking will give you the option of selecting Change View Properties.

 'Mactropolis 'Find'
Tested with FirstClass version 5.5 on 68k Mac
1/ Click on your FirstClass desktop.
2/ Open the search engine. (That is the magnifying Glass.)
3/ Type in say Guru
4/ A list will come up listing all the places that this appears.
5/ Click on one of the places that is listed.
6/ The word Guru will be highlighted.
7/ Now click on the search engine again and ask it to find again.
8/ If these words appear somewhere else in the same document the search engine will take you there.
This can take a long time as you are searching all the folders on your desktop. If you know the folder you want to search, open up that folder first before you search and click on the search engine within that folder. This will restrict the search to that folder only.

'Mactropolis 'Flags'
Tested with FirstClass version 5.5 on 68k Mac
If you wish to remove the Flag on a message without reading it, or replace the Flag on a read message, then option click on the spot that the Flag appears. If you want to delete off all those flags, it's easy without having to open each one. Go to select all and then under the Message menu select Unread. Or easier still is to option click the flag on the folder itself. You also can under the view menu select to show only unread items.

'Mactropolis Highlight'
If you want to highlight various files in your mailbox so you can delete them from your folder. Hold the Command key down as you select. You can then just hit your delete key on your keyboard to delete all selected files.

'Mactropolis 'Italics'
Tested with FirstClass version 5.5 on 68k Mac
If you see someone is on line, but their name is in italics. This is because they are not accepting a chat. Go to your preferences and under Mailbox click on Do not accept Invitations.
Your name will then appear in italics in the "Who's Online" list.

'Mactropolis 'Modems'
Tested with FirstClass version 5.5 on 68k Mac
If you have downloaded the lite version of FirstClass. You will not have any modems available to you when trying to set up. You can get these from the 3.5 version you were given at club night. Just make a copy of the modem folder and place in the folder you downloaded. You may have some .fcp files missing such as modem.fcp and serial.fcp. These also you will find in your 3.5 folder.

'Mactropolis 'Notify'
Tested with FirstClass version 5.5 on 68k Mac
When you first Install FirstClass you may have on your desktop a thing called FirstClass Notify. This is of no use to you unless you are on a LAN or network. To disable this go to your Apple menu and then your Control Panel and then to your Extension Manager. Remove the tick against FirstClass Notify. This will put it in your Extension Disabled folder. Once you have done this Restart your computer. Or go to your System folder and then your Extension folder and move the FirstClass Notify to your Extensions Disabled folder.

'Mactropolis 'Plus the Web'
Tested with FirstClass version 5.5 on 68k Mac
If you are working on the net you can open up FirstClass any time you wish if you have it set up properly. There is no need to close down your browser and go off line and then go back on with FirstClass.

'Mactropolis 'Quoted Text'
Tested with FirstClass version 5.5 on 68k Mac
So you can see quoted text go to your preferences and then document viewing. In here click on to show as grey background. Once done click on Apply and then OK.

'Mactropolis 'Read Later'
Tested with FirstClass version 5.5 on 68k Mac
If you want to read an article later without connecting to FirstClass, You can. Open up the letter and Highlight what you want to save and then drag to your computer desktop. I say computer desktop so you don't get confused with your FirstClass desk top. I find this very handy when having a chat with someone and after you finish you close down and then can't remember what was said. You can drag your chat to the desktop.

'Mactropolis 'Spell Checker'
Tested with FirstClass version 5.5 on 68k Mac
If you downloaded from the web the lite version of FirstClass you will not have a spell checker. If you open the 3.5 version that you were given at club night you will find in here a folder called tools. Make a copy of this folder and place in your downloaded FirstClass. You will now have a spell checker.

'Mactropolis 'Spell Check Automatically'
Tested with FirstClass version 5.5 on 68k Mac
Did you know that you can have FirstClass automatically check any mail you send out for spelling mistakes. Even if you forget to ask it to. Go to your preferences and then Document Editing and click on Automatically Check on Send.

'Mactropolis 'Uploading'
Tested with FirstClass version 5.623 on a G3
To put a notice into Mactropolis, open the folder you want it put in and click on the top left hand icon. Type in a subject and then your message. Who you are sending to will automatically be there. Now just click on the top left hand icon to send. A copy of what you have sent will also be in your mailbox
If you want to write to another mailbox then go to your own mailbox and click on the top left icon and then type in a subject and then return, then the persons name you wish to send to and hit return. If you have not typed in the correct name or there is more than one person with that name, a list of possibles are shown to you. Just double click on the one you want. Hit return and now write your letter and when finished click on the top left hand icon to send. You can write to any folder also from here if you wish, but I find it easier to go to the folder first.

'Memory'
See Fragmentation of Ram and Error Codes
and Help Memory and Application Memory

'Menu'
Holding down the Control key while clicking on an icon or folder will bring up a menu of actions.

'Monitor Resolution'
See Resolution.

'Mouse'
Did you know that when trying to change a url address, especially those long ones that you want to delete off to change the end. There is an easy way. Click and hold down your mouse where you want to change from and then pushing your mouse up will highlight to the left of your mouse to delete. Pull your mouse down to highlight to the right to delete off.

'Moving'
To move to lower or higher level when searching your folders. Hold down Command+Up or Down arrow keys with the folder highlighted.

'Music at Start up'
Place a sound file in your Start-up Items folder and it will play when your Mac starts up. You will find the Start-up folder in your Systems folder.

'Netscape' Tested on Browser version 4.08
If you are starting up with both the home page and the email loading and when you go to receive or to write and send an email you find everything working at half pace. Remove the home page from loading. To do this open the preferences and click on Navigator now click on Blank page. Now when you load up Netscape you will get a blank navigator page and your email loading only. To get back to your home page just click on the home page button in the menu bar.

'Netscape Bookmarks' Tested on Browser version 4.08
Instead of having a great big list of bookmarks in no particular order. Create folders and put the same type of bookmark in the same folder. You can also rename the bookmarks so you can easily identify what they are. To rename a bookmark open up your bookmarks and click on the one you wish to rename. Now go to the edit menu and click on Get Info. In here you can change it's name. To create a new folder open up your bookmarks and then from the File menu click on New Folder. Name it and say OK. You will now find it listed in your bookmarks. By clicking on it and holding down your mouse, you can position it where ever you like, even in another folder. Once you have created all your folders you can now drag and drop all your bookmarks where you want them stored.

'Netscape Email' Tested on Browser version 4.08
When you first install Netscape you have a few folders. Inbox, Sent, Trash, Drafts, unsent messages. You can add more by going to the Message Centre. Click on Local Mail and then click on the button for New Folder. It will ask you to name it and will be filed in alphabetical order. If you click on an existing folder and then ask for a new folder it will put the new folder into the folder you had highlighted. You can also move folders by clicking on the one you want to move and dragging it to the new position. Having a number of folders is useful to keep all the emails of one group or person together. To file an email into a folder click on the email and then click the button file and scroll down to the folder you want to file it in.

'Netscape Email Download'
Version 4.78
If you want to have your email downloaded automatically then go to your Netscape preferences and click on Mail Servers. Then click on your incoming pop mail servers name and then click on Edit. In here you can click on to download your email automatically, together with how often you want your email checked at your server and whether you want your password remembered for future use.
Version 6.2.3
Go to your Edit menu and then Mail and newsgroups account settings and then Server setting and put a tick against Automatically Download any new messages.

'Netscape HTML Email' Tested on Browser version 4.08
To send and receive HTML do this. Go to your preferences and click on Messages and check the box By default send HTML messages. People receiving your email must also be able to receive HTML. Therefore go to your address book and click on all your addresses and check the box that says prefers to receive HTML messages on those that can. Now go to your preferences and go to Messages. Click on More Options and check the box Ask Me when sending HTML. Warning. If you send a HTML email to those that can not receive HTML they will not see your email. Don't send HTML email to LISTBOT.
see also 'Netscape pictures'

'Netscape List Email' Tested on Browser version 4.08
If you frequently email the same message to a number of people you can have all their email addresses entered with just one click. Go to your address book and select New List. Give it a name and a nick name. Now drag from your original address book all those you want included. These will only be an alias of the original. Now to send the same message to all these people enter the nickname of the folder in the TO box and then hit TAB. The name of the folder only will show as the address but all included in the folder will receive the email. Each one to receive the email will see the address of all you have sent the message to.
If you don't want everyone to see who else has receieved the email, address the email to yourself and then the list as BBC.

'Netscape Mail Notification' Tested on Browser version 4.08
So you know when mail is waiting for you while browsing the Internet. Go to where you keep your Internet folder and open up the Internet Config folder. In here click on Internet Config. Now click on Email. At the bottom of this box click on Flash icon and Play sound. Now open up Netscape and go to the preferences. open Mail server and mark to Check for mail every 1 minute and choose mail notification sound. If you have a navigation box that is on your screen close it by clicking on the top left hand button. This will put it at the bottom of your page and out of the way. You can still use it from here. Now when mail arrives an arrow will show in this navigation box a sound will play and your Apple menu icon will flash.

'Netscape Nick Names' Tested on Browser version 4.08
In your email addresses click on a name and their box will come up. In here type in a nick name for the person. Now whenever you send an email to this person you only have to type in the nickname and hit Tab and their address will appear.

'Netscape Offline' Tested on Browser version 4.08
If you want to be asked whether you want Netscape to be online or offline when starting up. Go to the preferences and choose Offline. In here click Ask Me. Now each time you start Netscape you will get a notice asking whether you want to work on or offline.

'Netscape Online'Tested on Browser version 4.7
You maybe writing an email off line and then you want to go on line to send. Or you maybe browsing on line and then want to go off line. What a pain to have to go to the File menu to change your settings. But there is no need to. At the bottom far left of your Netscape window you will see a padlock and next to this a thing that looks like a train buffer. Click on this to either open or close. This will put you either on or off line. Don't forget you still have to close down your internet connection. If you have your other preferences set correctly you wont have to connect up with your internet connections, your browser will do it for you if you have set to check for mail every minute.
see also Netscape Mail Notification

'Netscape Pictures' Tested on Browser version 4.08
If you want to send pictures within your email do this. Go to the preferences and click on Messages and click on. By default send HTML messages. Now when you go to send an email you will have an extra menu bar under the Subject line. If you click on the far right button a box will come up. In here click on the square box with some coloured dots in. This will bring up another box click on Choose File and scroll through until you find the picture you want to include in your email. Do nothing else and click on OK. The picture will now be included in your email. If the picture is too large or small click on the picture and go back to where you scrolled through for the picture. At the bottom left click on the Custom size and also the Constrain button. Now change the size in the box provided.
NOTE. The person you are sending this to must be able to receive HTML.
see also 'Netscape HTML email'

'Netscape Signature' Tested on Browser version 4.08
Do you want to put a note at the bottom of each email you send. Then do this. Create a folder and save it somewhere and name it perhaps Signatures. Now open up Simple text and type what you want to appear at the foot of each email. Now save it in the folder Signatures that you have created. You can put various ones in here for various occasions. Now to put it on your emails open up Netscape and go to Preferences open Identity and click on Signatures. Scroll through to where you have it stored and click on the one you want. Each time you write an email now, the Signature will appear at the foot.
To have a different signature each time you send an email: First in your preferences, go to Identity and check the bottom box: Use Internet config. Now go to your System folder +preferences and you will find a folder called Random Signatures. Place all your signatures in here. Now each time you send an email one of those signatures will be used at random.
Outlook Express 5 Signature
Go to the Tool bar menu and click on Signatures. Now at the top left of the form that opens, click on New and type a Heading and what you want to appear at the foot of your email. When finished close down box.
Now when typing an email go to the Signature icon in the menu bar of the email and scroll to the Signature heading you want to insert.

'Norton Utilities'
Every one that has a computer should also own this CD. Depending on how much you use your computer would depend on how often you use this CD. I would recommend that each month you should run Norton Disk Doctor, optimise your hard drive and rebuild your desk top. It is important that this CD is run from it's own system and not from your own computer's system. Your system can not be checked and corrected if it is being used. This CD has a number of useful features including a utility for retrieving things you have trashed.
see also 'Rebuilding the Desktop' and 'Booting up from CD' and 'Disk First Aid'

'Open File or Folder'
To open a file or folder hold down Command+O.

'Outlook Express 5 Add to Address Book'
To quickly add an email address to your address book, highlight a message received from the needed address and hit Command + =.

'Outlook Express Attachments'
To know you have an attachment. When your email arrives you will see a paper clip beside who the email was from. If it is an attachment, then an envelope will show beside the paper clip. To download it: Click on the email and In the panel below you will see a triangle with the name of the attachment. Click on the triangle and another box will open showing the attachment. Click on the attachment and then click on save. Another box will open where you can direct the attachment to, once again click on Save. You will find the attachment in the folder highlighted in the lower frame. If the attachment is an inline attachment you will see the paper clip, but no envelope will show. To save this, click on the email and then from the Message menu click on "Save all attachments."

'Outlook Express Email Filtering'
Open the Inbox in Outlook Express, hold down Control and click on any message that came from someone. A new menu will appear. 'Choose Create Mailing List Rule' (near the bottom) and a dialog box will open. The top Text Fields will be filled in already. Click on 'File Messages in Folder' and then on 'Choose Folder' in the pop-up. In the new dialog box click on 'New Folder' (bottom left) and name your new folder e.g as AUGC. If you want it to be in the Inbox tick 'Create as Sub-folder of "Inbox"' then press Enter or click on Create. Next click on Choose and tick 'Also file messages that I send to the list in this folder' if that's what you want. Finally press Enter or click on OK and you are finished. It's much easier than a written description would imply.

'Outlook Express Saving emails'
see also Emails saving

'Outlook Express 5.02 Schedules'
1. On the Tools menu, click Schedules.

2. Click New.

3. In the Name box, type a name for the schedule.

4. Under When, click an item on the pop-up menu. If you click Timed Schedule or Repeating Schedule, select the time interval options you want.

5. To add additional times to the schedule, click Add Occurrence, and then repeat step 4.

6. If you want the schedule to run only when you are connected to the Internet, select the Only if connected check box.

7. Under Action, click an item from each pop-up menu moving from left to right.

8. To perform additional tasks, click Add Action, and then repeat step 7.

9. In the Dial-Up options area, click Stay Connected or Close to indicate whether you want Outlook Express to remain connected after running the schedule.

If you click Return to Previous State, Outlook Express, if it connected to the server to run the schedule, disconnects after running the schedule; if Outlook Express was already connected, it remains connected.

To be able to work off line and then go online to send an email and then be put straight off line again, you need to create a schedule. To do this go to your Tools menu and click on Schedules. At the top left click on New and give it a name. Tick Manually-Send All-Return to Previous State and then click on OK. You have now created a Schudule. There are other Schedules already listed which if you prefer you can modify if you wish. To write an email off line, make sure you have off line checked in your File menu. Write your email and then click on to send later. Now go to your Tools menu and open Run Schedule and click on the Schedule you have just created. You will be connected to the internet, your email Sent and then your internet will close down again.