Using the Internet in a different language
Hi:
In our travels to Panama we used computers set-up in hotels and in internet shops to check and write our emails. We used our own computer to check Visa and bank balances as I did not want that information on a general computer, but we felt fine about checking our email. Costs were great: $1.00 US an hour in the shop and free in all the hotels.
We encountered a few obstacles; the main problem was that the keyboards are in Spanish. The @ sign is alt64 and the // ', ;, and other signs were elsewhere. The shift for capitals yielded a > sign.
That took a bit of time to get used to and slowed us down, but the biggest challenge I found was that at one hotel my login and passwords were saved, so that the next day when I entered again, I could just click myself in. So could anyone else!
No problem, I thought, I'll just go in and clear it out. Well, I do not read Spanish that well, so although I tried, I could not figure it out. I've decided that when I travel again I will record how delete cookies or links in English and memorize the locations of the tabs so I can do it in other languages.
Mahara
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