User manual RCA RM4100

[. . . ] User Guide After you're set up, use this guide to explore MSN TV. What's in this guide 2 Welcome to MSN TV! Your MSN TV home page The Using MSN TV center Getting help on MSN TV 23 Favorites 7 Mail Saving favorite Web sites Organizing your favorites Creating shortcuts to your favorites 41 Settings and Account MSN TV centers Reading e-mail Writing e-mail Saving and organizing your e-mail Opening and viewing e-mail attachments Using the Address book Dealing with junk mail 29 Messenger Chat Adding users to your MSN TV account Setting user restrictions for a child Making Web pages easier to read Viewing your MSN TV billing information Customizing News, Money, and Weather 63 67 Printing Connecting your printer How to print Exchanging instant messages Starting instant message conversations Blocking people in Messenger Choosing a chat room Creating a chat nickname Inside a chat room 47 51 57 Improving your safety and security online Using the keyboard and remote control Index 17 Browsing the Web and using Search Going to a Web site you know Finding information with Search Narrowing down a search Searching for a phrase or name 35 Music and video Photos Finding audio and video content online Using the Media Player controls Receiving and viewing photos in e-mail Viewing and sending your own photos Printing photos How MSN TV helps keep you safe Safeguarding your information on Web sites Helping avoid junk mail Protecting yourself in Messenger Helping keep kids safe online 75 80 Welcome to MSN TV! By now, you've connected your Internet player and created your MSN TV account; you're probably eager to start exploring. If you haven't set up your Internet player, use the instructions in the Setup Guide to get everything connected. In this guide, you'll explore the basics of using the MSN TV service. 2 3 Your MSN TV home page No matter where you go on MSN TV or on the Internet, if you want to get back to the home page, just press Home on your keyboard or remote control. Toward the bottom of the home page, you'll see links to Mail, Favorites, Messenger, Photos, Chat, and more. Use the left and right arrows on your keyboard or remote to see more links. The Using MSN TV center This is a great place to start your MSN TV adventure. Using MSN TV includes the MSN TV newsletter, Tips, Things to Try, and links to more information that will help you make the most of your MSN TV experience. [. . . ] If the list is long, press Page Down on your keyboard to scroll down the list. Choose a chat room. To search for a chat room Choose Chat on the home page. Choose Search. Type a topic in the text box at the bottom of the page. 36 37 Creating a chat nickname Before you can begin chatting, you need to create a chat nickname, which other people see when you send messages to a chat room. To create your nickname Inside a chat room On the page that prompts you to create a nickname, choose Create Nickname. Type the nickname you want to create, and then choose Create. 1 2 Being in a chat room is a lot like being at a party. To whisper to someone When you first enter a chat room, you'll be prompted to create a nickname. If the name has already been chosen by someone else, you see a page that asks you to type in a different name or to choose a nickname from a list. Otherwise, you see a confirmation that your nickname has been created. There are lots of people talking. Usually, conversations move as fast as people can type. 1 2 3 While you're in a chat room, choose Whisper. Choose a person to whisper to. 3 1 2 Just like at a real party, you may want to whisper something to somebody without everybody hearing you. MSN TV allows you to send a personal message that won't appear to anyone else in the chat room. Unfortunately, sometimes there are people you just don't want to chat with. If you choose Ignore, you won't see the messages they send to the chat room. Type your message in the text box and choose Whisper Message. Note Although your whispered message appears in the main conversation page, only you and the person you're whispering to can see it. To ignore someone To change your nickname 1 2 While you're in a chat room, choose Ignore. Choose the box next to the nickname of the person you want to ignore, and then choose Ignore. You won't see the messages this person sends to the chat room. 38 39 Settings and Account 40 41 Settings and Account Settings and Account let you turn things on or off, make changes, or get information about your MSN TV service. You can also do things such as add a user, set user restrictions, and view your billing information. This section provides an overview of a few of the things you can do in Settings and Account. To learn more, choose Help from any page in Settings or Account. Adding users to your MSN TV account When you first signed up for MSN TV, you created an account. You can add up to 10 additional users to that same account at no charge. Each user gets their own e-mail address, password, contacts list for Messenger, Favorites list, and other personal settings. To add a user 1 2 3 4 Sign in to MSN TV as the primary user (the user you created when you registered). Choose Add a User and follow the instructions you see. 42 43 Setting user restrictions for a child Are you concerned about a child's use of the Internet?You can limit their access by setting user restrictions on their MSN TV account. When you create an account for a child under 13, the account automatically has these settings: · · · Web access is limited to help prevent the child from accessing Web pages with mature content Mail is turned on Messenger and Chat are turned off To set or change user restrictions Making Web pages easier to read You can easily change the size of the text you see on Web pages. You might want to make the text size larger for easier reading or smaller so that you can see more text on your screen at one time. You can also make Web pages easier to read by using the Resize Page key on your keyboard. To change the text size on Web pages 1 2 3 4 Sign in to MSN TV as the primary user. On the Account settings index page, choose Manage extra users. 1 2 In Settings, choose Web settings. [. . . ] Before you give information to or fill out a form on a Web site, you should always check to see if the site is secure. A secure site electronically encrypts the information that you send, so that no one can "eavesdrop" on it. Here's how to determine if a site is secure · · Check to see that the Web address for the page begins with https (the s after the p stands for secure). Look for a padlock at the bottom of the screen when you're on the Web site. Helping avoid junk mail Junk e-mail, or spam, can be a big frustration, so you probably want to limit it as much as possible. There are several things you can do to help avoid spam. Be careful who you give your e-mail address to. [. . . ]