Keyboarding 101
Digital Books
PC and Peripherals
Enter the Matrix
Termin(al)ology
100
The keyboard shortcuts for cut, copy, and paste.
What is Control+X, Control+C, Control+P?
100
The Open Publication Structure eBook format.
What is an ePub?
100
To fully reset an electronic device that contains capacitors it is necessary to remove the power source for long enough for the capacitors to be fully drained of all power, in other words unplug for about 15 to 30 seconds.
What is Power Cycle?
100
Low voltage twisted pair cabling that is based off of technology invented by Alexander Graham Bell. It may be referenced by its technical standard name such as Cat5 or Cat6, other times it may be called a patch cable.
What are ethernet cables?
100
Until mobile computing was introduced this was the starting place most users were familiar with. It consists of wallpaper, icons, and a task bar.
What is the desktop?
200
Though there are often other ways to start this command, F5 is usually the easiest trigger.
What is Refresh?
200
Though this eBook catalog is smaller than 3M its benefits are that all materials are available at all times, if you have virtual currency to pay for it.
What is Freading?
200
This causes prints from a laser printer to appear dirty with smudges or reoccurring artifacts. Change it before calling Brad at Lazer Logic
What is a bad toner cartridge?
200
This unique identifier allows devices on a LAN or WAN to communicate with each other. Similar to how having a house address allows you to receive mail. These address can stay the same or static or may change as needed, i.e. dynamic.
What is an IP address?
200
A collection of software that manages hardware resources and provides common services for computer programs. Some of the most popular of these are iOS, OSX, Android, Windows, and Ubuntu
What is an Operating System?
300
Th F3 key or the combination of Control+F often allows you to do this inside text based software. This makes searching for particular information much faster.
What is Find?
300
This e-service allows you to check out up to 10 books for up to 21 days. If no one else is waiting you can renew. Some devices will only support unprotected digital rights managed content.
What is OneClickdigital?
300
This critical system error can be caused by faulty memory aka memory dump, overheating/over-stressing, and incompatible drivers. It is famous for giving users the blues, but their best bet is to notate the error and reboot.
What is BSoD or Blue Screen of Death
300
Often called an access point or hotspot. If your mobile device can see a wireless network but refuses to connect, it is time to power cycle this piece of network equipment.
What is a wireless router?
300
Here you can change windows settings, remove programs, add users/passwords, view scheduled tasks, and even access advanced Microsoft Management Console (MMC) "Snap-ins".
What is the control panel?
400
This browser shortcut allows you to keep your current browser tab available but also brings up a new tab that you can use.
What is Ctrl+T?
400
The customer support available at audiobooks@library.ks.gov
or 800-432-3919. If you can't recall these support contacts, then just google "KS digital books" the contacts will be listed at the bottom of the page. Don't overlook this resource when patrons are needing specific help.
What is Kansas EZ library support?
400
Once this loses charge the system will no longer be able to keep accurate time. A bad system time will prevent secure web pages from being loaded.
What is a system/motherboard battery (CMOS Battery)?
400
This piece of network equipment connects network segments. It is responsible for relaying data packets from one source to only the designated recipient.
What is a switch?
400
No matter if you access this via right clicking the Task Bar or Control-Alt-Delete this is the place to go to stop unresponsive programs and processes. When Firefox is not responding you could try killing the process here before resorting to a reboot.
What is the Task Manager?
500
You can get to it by hitting the Windows Key + R. In this dialog box you can quickly open programs by entering its name: "control" for control panel, "mspaint" for paint, "notepad" for notepad, "cmd" for command line.
What is the run box?
500
This proprietary eBook format will only work on a few devices from one company. The dedicated eReaders will only support this format so there is no content available from 3M or Freading.
What is AZW?
500
This is the enemy of electronics, causing them to stop working over time, because it prevents adequate cooling and allows the build up of heat putting stress on components.
What is dirt (also accept dust, grime, hair, filth, etc)?
500
This command sends a frame of data to a specific IP address. If the other end of the communication is unreachable then your request will time out. If the other end is available the response time will be recorded.
What is ping?
500
Here you can see software that is running in the background. If you are looking for your computer's LogMeIn name, want to see what Antivirus is running, or want to know the system time, here is the place to check.
What is the Notification Area?