1. Phone immigration
at 900-1234567 (your telephone most be authorize to call 900 numbers) the cost
for the phone call is around ¢155 (colones) per minute and it will be charge to your
telephone bill.
2. Immigration will
give you an appointment, some time for the next month, after you made the appointment. Write down the date and the code number they
provide and save it (it is important that you present the code when you go to the
appointment)
Time-Saving
Computer tips:
You may already know
some of these, but others will come as a welcome surprise:
1. You can double-click
a word to highlight it in any document, e-mail or Web
page.
2. When you get an
e-mail message from eBay or your bank, claiming that
you have an account problem or a question from a buyer, it's
probably a "phishing scam" intended to trick you into typing your
password. Don't click the link in the message. If in doubt, go into
your browser and type "www.ebay.com" (or whatever) manually.
3. Nobody, but nobody,
is going to give you half of $80 million to help them
liberate the funds of a deceased millionaire ... from
Nigeria or anywhere else.
4. You can hide all
windows, revealing only what's on the computer desktop,
with one keystroke: hit the Windows key and "D"
simultaneously in Windows, or press F11 on Macs (on recent Mac
laptops, Command+F3; Command is the key with the cloverleaf logo).
5. You can enlarge
the text on any Web page. In Windows, press Ctrl and
the plus or minus keys (for bigger or smaller fonts); on the Mac,
it's the Command key and plus or minus.
6. You can also
enlarge the entire Web page or document by pressing
the Control key as you turn the wheel on top of your mouse. On the
Mac, this enlarges the entire screen image.
7. The number of
megapixels does not determine a camera's picture
quality; that's a marketing myth. The sensor size is far more
important.
8. On most cell
phones, press the Send key to open up a list of recent
calls. Instead of manually dialing, you can return a call by
highlighting one of these calls and pressing Send again.
9. When someone sends
you some shocking e-mail and suggests that you pass it
on, don't -- at least not until you've first confirmed its
truth at snopes.com, the Internet's authority on e-mailed myths. This
includes get-rich schemes, Microsoft/AOL cash giveaways, and nutty
scare-tactic messages about Presidential candidates.
10. You can tap the
Space bar to scroll down on a Web page one screen. Add
the Shift key to scroll back up.
11. When you're
filling in the boxes on a Web page (like City, State,
Zip), you can press the Tab key to jump from box to box, rather than
clicking. Add the Shift key to jump through the boxes backwards.
12. You can adjust
the size and position of any window on your computer.
Drag the top strip to move it; drag the lower-right corner
(Mac) or any edge (Windows) to resize it.
13. Forcing the
camera's flash to go off prevents silhouetted, too-dark
faces when you're outdoors.
14. When you're
searching for something on the Web using, say, Google,
put quotes around phrases that must be searched together. For example,
if you put quotes around "electric curtains," Google won't waste your
time finding one set of Web pages containing the word "electric" and
another set containing the word "curtains."
15. You can use
Google to do math for you. Just type the equation,
like 23*7+15/3=, and hit Enter.
16. Oh, yeah: on the
computer, * means "times" and / means "divided by."
17. If you can't find
some obvious command, try clicking using the right-side
mouse button. (On the Mac, you can Control-click instead.)
18. Google is also a
units-of-measurement and currency converter. Type "teaspoons
in 1.3 gallons," for example, or "euros in 17 dollars."
Click Search to see the answer.
19. You can open the
Start menu by tapping the key with the Windows logo on it.
20. You can switch
from one open program to the next by pressing Alt+Tab
(Windows) or Command-Tab (Mac).
21. You generally
can't send someone more than a couple of full-size
digital photos as an e-mail attachment; those files are too big, and
they'll bounce back to you. (Instead, use programs that can
automatically scale down photos in the process of e-mailing them.)
22. Whatever
technology you buy today will be obsolete soon, but you
can avoid heartache by learning the cycles. New iPods come out every
September. New digital cameras come out in February and October.
23. Just putting
something into the Trash or the Recycle Bin doesn't
actually delete it. You then have to empty the Trash or Recycle Bin.
24. You don't have to
type "http://www" into your Web browser. Just type the
remainder: "nytimes.com" or "dilbert.com," for example. (In
the Safari browser, you can even leave off the ".com" part.)
25. On the iPhone,
hit the Space bar twice at the end of a sentence. You
get a period, a space, and a capitalized letter at the beginning
of the next word.
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