Toshiba 3490CT Toshiba Online User's Guide for Portege 3490CT (10620) - Page 143

143 Enhancing Productivity Staying up-to-date with your favorite Web sites Staying up-to-date with your favorite Web sites If you frequently visit certain Web sites looking for new content, Windows can automatically deliver the new content to your computer. This feature is called a "subscription." Web site subscriptions work much like magazine subscriptions- you are notified periodically of new content according to a schedule that you set up. For example, you can schedule the latest financial news to be automatically downloaded every night while you sleep, and it will be ready for you in the morning. You can subscribe to any Web page that you visit. When you subscribe to a Web page, you should decide whether the new Web pages automatically download to your computer. You can save connection time and expense by having your subscriptions downloaded so that you can read them offline later at your leisure. DEFINITION: "Download" means to transmit a file over a network to another computer. In a communications session, "download" means receive; "upload" means transmit. "Offline" means not connected to the computer or not installed in the computer. If you do not want the information downloaded to your computer, you can be notified in the following ways when new content is available: ❖ Smart Favorites Your subscription is automatically checked for updates-the icon changes if the page is updated. You can view the icons for your subscriptions in the Subscriptions folder. ❖ Email notification A copy of the updated Web pages with live links to the World Wide Web can be automatically sent to you as email.