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| E-Omninet provides outstanding online services of all kinds with a single account. It includes the file manager, address book, bookmarks, solar and lunar calendars plus event reminder, free POP3 email and web hosting. The advantage is that you can record and access your personal and business information wherever you are, and if you want, share your collection with others. At the era of information, this is one of the many things you must have. | ||||||||||||||||||
| FAQ & News | ||||||||||||||||||
| This is a collection of frequently asked questions and answers regarding using E-OmniNet, including how to configure OutLook Express for pop3 mail, how to build personal homepage, how to deal with problems on sending email -- there should be no problem if the configuration is correct and your local ISP allows you to use external SMTP server --, and how to check mail through both web browser and local pop3 client, etc.. If you do have a question, check it out. It is on E-OmniNet BBS. | ||||||||||||||||||
| File Manager | File manager is to save and organize your personal files. It is your personal notebook but a far modernized one. It is easily modifiable, searchable, organizable, and globally accesible. The files are grouped by folders. You may have multiple folders which can be nested. Inside each folder you can place as many files as you want. The filename is flexible and you can make it very descriptive. You can upload or hand input the file. | |||||||||||||||||
| Create a folder | To create a new folder, click on "New folder" at the left panel below "File manager" area. Any languages supported. When a form prompted, follow the instruction, enter a folder name at the blank area, and then click on the button "Create It". The newly created folder will be under the current folder. To create a folder under a certain folder, please enter the specific folder first. | |||||||||||||||||
| Enter a folder | All the existing folders will be displayed as a folder tree once you log in . Click on any one will bring to the selected folder. The subfolders and plain files will be displayed. The parent folders will be displayed at the top horizontal bar, while the child folders will again be displayed as a folder tree. You can freely move up or down the folder tree. | |||||||||||||||||
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Create a file (New file): | To create a file, click on "New File" at the left panel under "File Manager" area. You will be asked to enter the subject and content. The subject is equivalent to a filename but its length is not limited, so you can make it more descriptive by giving a meaningful sentence. The subject will be displayed at the folder tree as a link to the content of the file. The content is what you want to place under this subject. A new file created this way will be listed at the top of all existing files under the same folder. To place a new file at a designated position, please refer to the edit mode section on this manual. There are also other functions for handling the plain files described at Edit section. | |||||||||||||||||
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Upload a file (New file): |
This is to upload your local disk files to E-OMNINET file manager.
The file type should be determined when uploading a file. The file type can be text or image. All binary files are treated as image. "Local file" is the name
of the local disk file to be uploaded. A description should also be given. It is just like a filename or subject of the content and will appear as a link to the actual content when you list the folders. Once finish the above mentioned three items, click on "Upload Now" and the file will be uploaded. The upload function is implemented on all input areas: new file, insert, prepend or append. The alternative handinput is also supported on the same window. To open the textpad, click "Open textpad to input". | |||||||||||||||||
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Delete a folder (Del Folder) | To delete a folder, click on "Del Folder" at the left panel under "File Manager" area. You are allowed to delete a subfolder under the current folder only. All subfolders and files inside that folder will also be deleted when you choose to delete it. To protect from unexpected deletion, your password, which is the same as the login password, is required for a deletion. Please follow the instruction. To delete a file, please go to Edit section. | |||||||||||||||||
| Search | Your files will naturally grow with your age, businesss or career experiences and all of them must be truly invaluable. However, you won't have any pain to find out just a small piece of your note from thousands of files. Imagine what you would do if you didn't have such an online file manager? You would have to scroll page after page and scrutinize line by line of your paper-based notebook. It may have been lost. Or pratically speaking, when the files grow to be huge, it would be just impossible to find it without pain. But indeed you won't if you are using this file manager. Click on "Search" at the left panel below "File Manager" area, follow the instruction to enter the words related to your specific notes, and they will be retrieved for you within seconds. | |||||||||||||||||
| Obtain extra windows (Clone) | Our system only allows single login for each user. A new login would automatically expire any previous login. But sometimes you may need an extra window to compare or edit the files, or just one window for each component of E-OmniNet. In such case, you may just clone the current window by clicking at "Clone" at the left panel under "File Manager" area. Then the two windows will work equally. The new window will share the same process information with the original one. If click on logout on one of the windows, all windows will be deactiavted. | |||||||||||||||||
| View a file | To view the content of a file, just directly click on the file subject displayed under the current folder. | |||||||||||||||||
| List Files | "List Files" lists all sub-folders and files under the current folder. For listed files, you will see a bunch of commands that can be use to manipute each individual file. | |||||||||||||||||
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| Address Book | ||||||||||||||||||
| Address book is to save contact information for any person or institution. Any information can be saved, name, mailing address, email address, phone number etc. You can even give a brief comment for each individual person or instituion for reference. The address book can be categorized freely and it is searchable by name. To categorize, you must create classes first. The class can be friends, business people, staffs of your instituion, or even movie or pop stars if you do have dozens to follow. Once you have classes, you can properly select one to which the new information entry belongs. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Add a new class | Click on "Add Data" at the left panel under "Address Book" area, then at the input panel area of the prompted form, enter your new class and click on "Add a Class" to submit. When entering the information for a person, you always need to decide to which class it belongs. It helps to organize your data, particularly when it grows. | |||||||||||||||||
| Add a new address | Please be noted it can be more than just mailing address. Click on "Add Data", and at the input panel area, select a class which you want the new address to belong to, fill in whatever information about the person or company available, then click on "Add a Person" to submit. The comments is for brief description of the person or company if provided. | |||||||||||||||||
| Display all addresses | Click on "List All" to display all recorded entries by categories. Only the name, phone numbers and email address are displayed at this page. To view detail, click at the specific name. | |||||||||||||||||
| Search for a person | Click on "Search", then enter the name of the person to search. To make it more precise, you can select full name or last name or first name depending on the field you enter. All fully or partially matched entries will be displayed with the best matches at the top. | |||||||||||||||||
| Modify the data | To modify the data, you can use either "List All" or "Search" to display the relevant entries, click on the name, then on "Edit the data". | |||||||||||||||||
| Clone the window | If you need an extra window for address book in the meantime you need to go to other components of the E-OmniNet, you can use "Clone" command. | |||||||||||||||||
| Bookmarks | ||||||||||||||||||
| The online bookmarks allow you to organize the bookmarks by classes. You can create classes, add bookmarks, edit or delete them . It is far better than standalone bookmarks because you can access it anywhere and it is easily editable. Moreover, if you configure your bookmarks to be public, you and your friends will be able to view your popular links with a single URL. All the public bookmarks will be placed together ranked by the total number of hits. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Configure: | The first time you enter the bookmarks component of E-OmniNet, you will be asked to configure your bookmarks. You should decide if your bookmarks allow public access or not. You should give a title for your bookmarks. The title is also used as a link to your bookmarks if you configure it to be published. The URL is also given for public access. You can go back to reset the configurations at any time and check the public URL for your bookmarks if allowing public access. Just click on "Configure" command after the first time. Visit here to see how the public bookmarks look like and if your bookmarks appear at the top. | |||||||||||||||||
| Add a new class | Shortly you will have a lot URLs to be bookmarked. To help organize the links, you need classes for each group of bookmarks. To create a new class, click on command "Add" to prompt the form for input. Then on the input panel, enter the name of the new class and click on "Add a class" to submit it. When you add the first bookmark, you will be asked to create new class first. | |||||||||||||||||
| Add a bookmark | Also use command "Add" to prompt the form. On input panel, select the class, enter the URL and a description, which will appear as the link to the URL, then submit it by clicking on "Add a link" | |||||||||||||||||
| Display the bookmarks | Command "Display" at the left panel is to display the bookmarks grouped by class and listed alphabetically. | |||||||||||||||||
| Edit the classes or links | Click on "Edit", then all bookmarks will be displayed to allow you to choose one, a class or a link to edit. For a link, you can modify both of the URL or the description. | |||||||||||||||||
| Delete a class or a link | Click on "Delete", then choose which one to delete. Please be noted if you delete a class, all links belonging to the class will also be deleted. | |||||||||||||||||
| Clone | To obtain an extra window of E-OmniNet for access to different pages of one component or different components. The initial document will be the component you are currently in. | |||||||||||||||||
| Public bookmarks | To view the bookmarks by other users who have published theirs. To add your bookmarks to the public area, just click on "Configure" command and select public. It is recommended to choose a unique title for your page. | |||||||||||||||||
| Calendar and Event Reminder | ||||||||||||||||||
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It presents you the calendar of the current month with Chinese
lunar calendar included. You can freely check the calendar for
any month and any year by selecting the desired month and year.
The calendar also serves as an event reminder. The function of event reminder is that you add an event to the calendar and the event reminder will send an email to you at a time designated by yourself. You can even send the reminder to a group of people with email addresses separated by spaces or commas. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Add an event |
Click on "Add an event" or scroll the
page to the bottom to find the form for adding an event. The Date
is the actual date for the event. It can be any date, but very
likely a future date may interest you the most. The format is MM/DD/YYYY. For example, the date of December 31, 1999 is 12/31/1999. For some special days like birthdays or anniversaries, you may want them to appear on the calendar of every year. In that case, check it for every year. You can add multiple events for any single day. For each event, you can specify a heading and a description. The heading will appear on the calendar of the month of the event while the detail description will be saved on the database. It is favorable to have a short heading. To view the detail of the event, click on the specific date for the event. | |||||||||||||||||
| Event reminder |
If you want an email message to be sent to you to remind the
event in advance, simply check the box which saying "check to
have reminder email", then enter the date you want the email to be
sent, and the destination email address.
If you want the reminder to be sent to a group of people, enter the email addresses separated by spaces or commas.
The default date for sending the reminder is one day prior to the event.
The format is MM/DD/YYYY. For example, for December 31, 1999, it should be
12/31/1999. | |||||||||||||||||