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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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