If you want to access your textbook online, you'll have to keep a bookmark somewhere you can always access it. You'll also need to keep the passcode somewhere so that you can access the book.
If you're just going to be using the online textbook at school, you can make a bookmark and save it either in your network storage file or as a shortcut in FirstClass. Once you navigate your way to the textbook site, you can save the bookmark to the desktop and copy it over. The Files folder in FirstClass is persistent and you can keep a file there for pretty much ever. However, the bookmark will not store any cookie information the site uses to allow you access to the online textbook. I recommend changing the name of the bookmark to something like "Chem Book KFJHLKEWGWG" where the crazy characters at the end are the textbook access code. Then you can type it in anytime you need to.
Another good and more robust solution is to use an online bookmark manager. There are lots of sites that will keep a list of bookmarks for you in an account, so that you can access them at will. I've used a few. The best one I have found does a little more than that. It's called Xmarks.
Xmarks is a bookmark synchronizer with online access. You can use Xmarks with Internet <strike>Exploder</strike> Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. You set up a free account the first time you load the extension/add-on, with your e-mail address. You can pick a username if you'd like. Xmarks will copy all of your bookmarks to your account on their site. From there, you have lots of options.
If you have more than one computer like I do, you can install Xmarks on every one, for whatever browser(s) you use (and I use all three, depending on what I'm doing). Xmarks will keep your bookmarks synchronized across all of your computers, for all of your browsers, automatically. You do have to open the browsers to engage the synch, but that's easy. (Be advised that when Xmarks is running, unless you have a speed beast of a computer, your browser may lag or freeze up while Xmarks is doing its thing. It's more of a problem when you have lots of bookmarks like I do.) This won't work with your school account, since any bookmark information is stored on the machine you're using and not in your account info on the server (as far as I know).
You can also sign in to the Xmarks site and access your bookmark list from anywhere. Again if you rename the bookmark for the textbook site with the access code in the title, you're all set.
So those are my ideas for you. I'll give you the textbook access code Tuesday or Wednesday. (Tomorrow is a very busy day classwise.) If you have another idea, post it in the comments here. I'll go turn them on in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
If you're just going to be using the online textbook at school, you can make a bookmark and save it either in your network storage file or as a shortcut in FirstClass. Once you navigate your way to the textbook site, you can save the bookmark to the desktop and copy it over. The Files folder in FirstClass is persistent and you can keep a file there for pretty much ever. However, the bookmark will not store any cookie information the site uses to allow you access to the online textbook. I recommend changing the name of the bookmark to something like "Chem Book KFJHLKEWGWG" where the crazy characters at the end are the textbook access code. Then you can type it in anytime you need to.
Another good and more robust solution is to use an online bookmark manager. There are lots of sites that will keep a list of bookmarks for you in an account, so that you can access them at will. I've used a few. The best one I have found does a little more than that. It's called Xmarks.
Xmarks is a bookmark synchronizer with online access. You can use Xmarks with Internet <strike>Exploder</strike> Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. You set up a free account the first time you load the extension/add-on, with your e-mail address. You can pick a username if you'd like. Xmarks will copy all of your bookmarks to your account on their site. From there, you have lots of options.
If you have more than one computer like I do, you can install Xmarks on every one, for whatever browser(s) you use (and I use all three, depending on what I'm doing). Xmarks will keep your bookmarks synchronized across all of your computers, for all of your browsers, automatically. You do have to open the browsers to engage the synch, but that's easy. (Be advised that when Xmarks is running, unless you have a speed beast of a computer, your browser may lag or freeze up while Xmarks is doing its thing. It's more of a problem when you have lots of bookmarks like I do.) This won't work with your school account, since any bookmark information is stored on the machine you're using and not in your account info on the server (as far as I know).
You can also sign in to the Xmarks site and access your bookmark list from anywhere. Again if you rename the bookmark for the textbook site with the access code in the title, you're all set.
So those are my ideas for you. I'll give you the textbook access code Tuesday or Wednesday. (Tomorrow is a very busy day classwise.) If you have another idea, post it in the comments here. I'll go turn them on in a minute.
See you tomorrow.
