Techy Questions for the Computer Savy...

[shadowkat]

which I'm woefully not. So if you know the answers please comment. Thanks!

1. What is the best wireless or wifi service for laptops? (My friend Wales asked me this yesterday, apparently she'd been stealing wifi off of someone in her building (the guy who broke her vaccume cleaner so it's justified) until he figured it out and got a firewall (note if you are using wifi - you might want to ensure you have a firewall to keep people like Wales from stealing service from you for free) - anyhow, it was a great service - got her video and music downloads and was faster than my cable modem, which is saying something. She calls Verizon who informs her she can't do video or music downloads because it clogs up their service. So what plan doesn't? Is Firefox the one everyone is using or is that just a browser like "explorer"? Can anyone advise? Thanks! Also while you are at it, can you explain to me how you do wireless on the lap? Do you contact a service? Do you just do it? Is it more expensive than Time Warner? Or less?)

2. How do you download MP3 sample songs from the "save file" system? I keep trying to do it from friend's journals and can't figure it out. I have the ability to download songs, I'm pretty certain. Just not sure how to go about it

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[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

I just started downloading some of the Marshall Crenshaw music from Liz's Lj. All I did was click on the link in her LJ to the particular song, then when the file host came up click on the bar that says download file. If you have popup blocker, you may have to click on the bar that says download now, or disable the popup blocker temporarily for that site. Then when your windows file comes up saying "do you want to open or save this file" click on the one you want. If you click open file, it loads it onto your media player and plays it. When I do that, I then add it to my playlist by clicking on the add (+) currently playing song. If you choose to save the file, it saves it onto your computer wherever you choose to put it - "my music" for example. Once it's on the music file, you can right click on the file and choose open file, and it will play.