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Email and photgraphy
Public hotspots are fantastic for surfing the web, but you can do so much more with them than just browse the internet. After you've successfully logged on to a hotspot, the next thing you'll want to do is check your e-mail.
How to do this depends on the way you normally access your e-mail account. If you use a webmail service such as Tiscali simply point your browser to the webpage and log on as usual. If you normally use e-mail software such as Outlook Express to collect your mail, you may have to make some changes. In Outlook or Outlook Express, go to the Tools menu then down to Accounts. Highlight your e-mail account and click on Properties or Change, then Connection or More Settings. Click the button next to "Connect using my local area network (LAN)", then hit OK.
If your e-mail program still doesn't work, it's probably because some Wi-Fi hotspots have strange settings. The best solution is to visit your e-mail provider's home page and use the webmail function that most of them offer. Don't worry if you can't remember your e-mail username to log on - it's recorded in your e-mail program, in the same Accounts window mentioned above.
Pixel perfect
Laptops and public hotspots can also help you manage your digital photographs. When your camera's memory card is full, download the images onto your laptop.
You can now attach your favourite images to e-mail messages and send them back home as instant postcards - or even try something more ambitious. Most modern image editing programs, like Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0, can improve and resize many photos at once, boosting colours, fixing exposure problems and creating smaller files that are perfect for e-mailing to people without broadband internet connections.
Even more exciting is creating a web photo gallery on the spot. Photoshop Elements can turn your photos into an attractive, easy to use website without you worrying about any technical code. Follow the on-screen wizards to choose and design your website, then save it to your notebook's hard drive.
Now you will need some webspace and the settings to go with it (usually provided free by your internet service provider). Then just open Internet Explorer, type in the address they gave you (it will start ftp://...), enter your password and drag the website files from your hard drive into Internet Explorer. When it says its finished, your photo website is instantly ready to view, just like a professional website!
