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Family Features - Have you ever thought about trying something new but it seemed too complex or intimidating?
The "For Dummies" series of books takes these topics and explains them in clear, simple language that makes learning fun and easy.
These excerpts from four popular "For Dummies" books show you the kinds of tips offered in the series.
They'll help you navigate the world of wine, keep your computer files safe, build a stylish wardrobe and learn some Facebook lingo.
Common Facebook Terminology From "Facebook
For Dummies, 2nd Edition" by Leah Pearlman and Carolyn Abram
Facebook
connects you with the people you know and care about. It enables you to
communicate, stay up-to-date, and keep in touch with friends and family
anywhere.
You can share photos, videos, notes, gifts, even chat live
with others online at the same time as you.
If you're new to Facebook, you'll run into some unfamiliar
terminology. Here are some common terms and their definitions:
Profile: This is your page. It contains
your
photos and videos, a list of your friends, your recent activities, and
anything else you choose to include on it.
Gift:
This is a whimsical or cute icon. You can give these gifts to your
friends for prices ranging from free to $1. Gifts appear in your
friend's Gift box on their Profile.
Wall: This
is where you and your friends can write on your Profile. Your friends
may write on your Wall to communicate with you, congratulate you,
embarrass you, and more. You post on your own Wall to let your friends
know what you're up to.
News Feed: This is a continuous stream of
updates about your friends' activities on and off Facebook. It appears
on your Home page.
Food and wine interact, based on the components of the wine.
These tips will help you pair the right wines with your food to make a memorable meal.
Tannic Wines. Have you ever taken a sip of a red wine and experienced a drying-out feeling
in your mouth, as if something had blotted up all your saliva? That's tannin.
Tannic wines include most wines based on the Cabernet Sauvignon grape, northern Rhone reds, and any wine that has become tannic from aging in new oak barrels.
These wines can:
Diminish the perception of sweetness in a food.
Taste softer and less tannic when served with protein-rich,
fatty foods such as steak and cheese.
Taste less bitter when paired with salty foods.
Taste astringent (mouth-drying), when drunk with spicy-hot
foods.
Sweet Wines. Wines that often have some
sweetness
include most inexpensive California white wines, White Zindfandel, many
Rieslings, and medium-dry Vouvray. (Dry is the opposite of sweet.)
These wines can:
Taste less sweet, but fruitier, when matched with salty
foods.
Make salty foods more appealing.
Go well with sweet foods, such as desserts.
Acidic Wines. All wines contain acid, but
some are
more acidic than others. Acidity gives the wine firmness in your mouth.
White wines with high acidity feel crisp, while those without enough
feel flabby. Acidic wines include most Italian whites, Sancerre and
Chablis, and most dry Rieslings. These wines can:
Taste less acidic when served with salty foods.
Taste less acidic when served with slightly sweet foods.
Viruses can travel not only in emails, programs and files, but
also
in screen savers, themes, toolbars and other Windows add-ons.
Protect yourself by practicing safe computing - after all, the
best
defense is often a good offense. Consider these safe-computing tips:
Make sure your antivirus program scans everything
you download, as well as anything that arrives through email
or a messaging program.
Only open attachments that you're expecting.
If you receive something unexpected from a friend, don't open it.
Instead, email or phone that person to see whether he or she really
sent it.
Don't install two virus checkers, because they
often quarrel.
Windows comes with a built-in antispyware program, Windows Defender,
but no antivirus program. You need to buy your own program and pay its
subscription fees so that it will keep recognizing the latest viruses.
Windows 7's Parental Controls offer several ways to police how
people can access the computer as well as the Internet. These controls
offer three categories of safeguards:
Time Limits - you can define certain hours
when children (or other account holders) may log onto the computer.
Games
- Some computer games come with rating levels. This area lets you
choose which rating level your children may play, helping keep them
from mature or violent content.
Allow or block programs - This lets you
set certain programs off-limits while allowing access to others.
