- Philadelphia, Pa
When sending an e-mail that is important,
include your own e-mail address along with the
intended recipient to insure reception, and
save a copy for yourself.
- Indianapolis, In
Get a plug-in PC keyboard! It's the only way to surf!
- California
Learned everything I know from Andresens homepage.
- California
Don't email WebTV WeCare, they rarely ever respond to
any thing negative about their services. But then
again when reached by phone they rarely return your
call with an answer.
- USA
When you run out of "favorites" mail the page to your
self and use the mail storage as an additional
favorites site.
- lodiworld, Wisconsin
Try cleaning your keyboard with compressed air rather
than some of the other suggestions that have been
made like WD-40, smoking too many of those funny
cigs.
- Michigan
To see what the ALT key does, write a letter and try
all the keys while holding down the ALT key. See? you
can write Finnish !
- Millis, Ma
The April issue of Internet World magazine has 2
articles about WebTV.
- Venice, Fl and Flushing, Michigan
If you own a Sony camcorder, the RFU adaptor might
work on the WebTV unit, I have a TR400 camcorder and
the adaptor works fine.
- SLC
False disconnects? FIRST, the house wiring must
be clean, tight, and dry in the outside box.
Same inside house. No false disconnects here
anymore. Inspect & repair seems to be the
answer.
- shawnd@webtv.net
Ctrl-r reloads the current page :-)
- Houston,Texasx
You can always get on the net after 10pm. but
then I'm a night owl.
- New Palestine, In (popman@webtv.net)
I keep a soft brissel brush handy to clean off
my Key Board before each use.
- Sacramento, CA
To rearrange saved pages: Shift opened pages
from Favorites to Recent when using Cleanup ,
delete and save from Recent to Favorites in the
order desired.
- Brooklyn, N.Y. (Mrwrestling3@webtv.net)
Hit 3 twice on the keyboard when unit is off. The unit will do a
quick e-mail check and light the red light if you have any mail.
- Sacramento, CA
To rearrange saved pages: Shift opened pages
from Favorites to Recent when using Cleanup ,
delete and save from Recent to Favorites in the
order desired.
- Milwaukee, Wi (saintpatrick@webtv.net)
Red dot on bottom of screen indicates the caps
lock is on.
- Davenport, Iowa
I currently have a standard keyboard plugged
into my webtv unit. I have found the wireless
keyboard impractical in longer email messages
so I use the wired keyboard at my desk near my
television but the wireless keyboard surfing
from the sofa. By going to the Magnavox
homesite all the function keys on the standard
keyboard are decoded as the proper function
keys on the wireless keyboard.
- Pismo Beach, CA
When you are at another site on the web and get
an e-mail notification, you can go to e-mail
accoiunt and get your message, and then when
you want to return to the previous site just
hit the "BACK" key twice, and you will go
back to where you left off.
- Vancouver, WA.
when the unit is off hold down options and hit
217 to go to dialing options!
- New York-Joancyka@webtv.net
When you go into the "Chathouse" click on the
blue highlighted names- They have quite a
variety of links from all over the world with
information that bogles the mind.
- Long Island, New York.
A standard $20.00 keyboard with an extension
cable has better quality and is more cost
efficient than the Webtv remote keyboard. I've
had Webtv since Nov. 96 and am on my 2nd sony
keyboard(thank god for warranties). In addition
to my remote I have purchased a standard
keyboard and I find it to be more comfortable
to use. Live and learn
Long Island, New York.
- Raleigh , NC
Type in http:///romcache/index.html to see a
list of pictures stored in your WebTV box.
Some are gif's and some are jpg's. I don't
know if all of them work or not. The most
popular is the WebTVLogoJewel.gif
- Lodi, Wisconsin. The "garden spot of the west"
Webbers getting hugh toll bills because they do
not have local access number should look into
obtaining land line from local phone company
from a city that has webtv access number. I
have seen figures of from 400-700 in some of
the chat rooms a private line would be from
50-100 depending on the distance.
- Inkster, MI ajl1@webtv.net
For some strange reason, my Sony keyboard works
better than the PM. I know they look exactly
the same, but the keys respond better.
- Jackson, MI kdinmi2@webtv.net
If services allow for only one e-mail address
to create page, get another free
@www.bigfooot.com
- Nascafan24@webtv.net
1. I would like to propose a national webtv
users convention in chicago. Let's start one
ASAP. Tell me where to announce and maybe they
will come?
2. Put a portable cd player audio outputs to
the inputs of the vcr for good listening.( your
VCR is assumed to be connected to the TV and is
Sterio Hi-FI).
3. Buy a Keyboard from Best Buy for $9.99.
it's cheaper, but has a wire. So buy an
extension to the keyboard cable. the F keys do
the same thing as the wireless Webtv keyboard.
4. Don't power it off when you know you will
be back later in the day. Instead go to
options, and disconnect. It remembers where
you were while freeing up the pone line.
5. Start e-mailing to people, before you know
it you have lots of mail and new friends and
are learning a lot. Pick people with things of
common interest.
6. Remember to bring webtv to friends and
families home to show them. It's portable and
remembers your saved /favorites/ mail/ name/etc
7. Go to bed earlier!
- Philips/Magnavox User
You can get a keyboard protector for your Webtv
wireless keyboard from:
COMPUCOVER INC.
2104 Lewis Turner Blvd.
Fort Walton Beach, Florida 32547
(904) 862-8186
Ask for KEYSKIN Keyboard protector #SWK-8630
- Southeast, MI
OK - to explore some interesting places, when
you get to a webpage you like, hit GOTO then
'show current' then backspace (delete key on
Webtv keyboard) the last part of the address
off and see where you are. Sometimes you get
directories that have listings of all HTML
pages and GIFS, etc. Like this:
http://www.xxx.com/one/two then change to
http://www.xxx.com/one - Gets interesting some
times.
- Sacramento, CA
I got stuck on the 'unable to reach WebTV....
routine maintance" trouble msg. recently.
GOWEBTV asked me to simulate a power outage by
unpluging for one minute and logging on again
as a "new number". This gets you to the POP via
the webtv 1-800 number. No toll charge and
since old number = new number the original
local routing is restored at the next log-on.
New number/same number query will not
appear on subsequent log-ons unless there is a
real power outage.
- Southeast, MI wrote:
Try the Webtv Forum and Webtv Talk sites too.
But come back here and do Pete's survey every
week. It keeps him happy. He pouts otherwise.
- Venice, Fl LMJ@webtv.net
My next TV for the WebTv will be with Picture
-in-Picture and will have the S video jack for
a better image of the web sites and graphics.
- North Carolina
Using the "Hang-up" option allows you to
re-connect back to the Web faster!
- New York
When you fill all the spots in your favorites
you can send yourself a letter writting down
all your web site addresses starting with
http://www. entering after each site then send
it to yourself when you recive it save it then
when you want a site you can click on the
address from you letter
- Tulsa, OK
Fix on-screen distortion by adjusting your
television's contrast/picture control.
- Bellevue, Ne
WebTV screen saver keeps a young baby amused
for quite awhile.
- Richmond, Virginia momanon@webtv.net
Internet shopping - eBay's AuctionWeb is
one of my favorite sites to "shop" online.
- Cols,Ohio jfred@webtv.net
Clean your mail frequently.when mine reaches
capacity,does not work correctly ( Sometimes )
- Mahwah, NJ kaybosworth@webtv.net
My PM unit kept going off on its own. The phone
cord seemed loose in the socket, so I pushed it
in as far as it would go and secured it in
place with duct tape. It is working much
better.
- Pennsylvania,USA jdchome@webtv.net
Hook WebTV up to your stereo for some kick-ass
sounds! Lataz Y'allz! TequilaWC
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