Helpful Hints

Document number: HH.02
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To refresh charts (or other hotCam content):

hotComm Standard/Pro - right-click the camera icon in the upper left corner of the hotCam window and select Refresh.
hotComm Lite - right-click the camera icon in your hotComm Lite window and select Refresh.

To activate the DayTrainer, left-click on the D in the bottom status bar to the left of the smily face and give it a test drive. The right-hand spinner on the S&P or NAS value will spin into the whole number. Select # or Contracts, the Price, then hit Long or Short. Spin the Price, then hit Out to leave. You can even pull off less than the starting number of contracts gradually as the price moves. Clicking the button under the OUT "Hide Day Tally" will save valuable real estate on your desktop during the day. If you are only "Paper Trading e.g. not REAL money" please be sure to click the "paper" button so people don't try to follow you through the gates of hell.

Helpful hotComm Hint- Click your mouse cursor in the Transcript Panel. Then hold the Control key down and rotate your mouse wheel... This will increase or decrease the font size in the panel.

The Defaults for hotComm Lite are:

UnderLine - Any Moderator Messages
Bold - Any line containing an !
Red- Any line containg a ?

Hint 1- You can grab the top bar of the Invited List and drag it outside hotComm and park it somewhere on your screen. Next stretch it vertically. Now you can shrink the hotComm panel. If you drag it over the right border of hotComm it will latch on the right like some other conferencing products. Note that clicking on the Nickname button at the top left of the list will sort it by name and make finding someone easier.

Hint 2- You can send a Private Message to another user by right-clicking on their name in the Invited list and select Private Message. Even the BOT user cannot see these.

You can also open a 2nd Private Session with another user with file-sharing, voice etc. regardless of the Moderator imposed Main session restrictions.

Hint 3- To Change or Kill the Sounds in hotComm, Go to the Windows Control Panel, Sounds, select the Sounds Tab and scroll thru list to find hotComm Sounds and then set them to what you like from the drop-down list below or browse for your own .wav files. The Audio-On button on the bottom bar will mute the recorded sounds like the gun by pressing it once, the next press mutes the voice in the session and a 3rd press goes back to normal.

Hint 4- To change your identity in hotComm Lite, simply left-click on your name in the bottom right of hotComm. This is much easier than changing you Social Security Number. In hotComm Standard, hit the M option at the top left and change your name under Normal Peer.

Hint 5 - If you loose the Invited Peer List, Right-click in the grey area on the right of the Close Session button and select Show - Invited Peers...

Note also that un-checking the Simple Control option in this menu will expose many other Lite options i.e. Print, Save, Web co-browsing and much more...

Hint 6- If you are a poor typist, hotComm-Lite allows you to select Line mode vs. Word-by-word mode by clicking on Word or Line in the bottom status line. In groups over 20 people, Public peers will auto-default to Line mode,

Hint 7- When you left-click your mouse in the Transcript Panel, hotComm stops it's auto-scroll to enable you to browse without "jumping". To resume auto-scroll, simply left-click in the Message Panel (typing panel).

Hint 8- Current hotComm Lite Abbreviation Expansions are: brb, ga, gj, gm, i, lao, lmao, lol, mirc, np, paltalk, rofl, roflmao, rotflmao, sh, sld, teh, thx, tks, tnx, tu, ur, wtg, yw + certain rude 4-letter words are deleted.

Hint 9- The symbols beside Nicknames in the Invited panel have the following meanings:

Red headphones= The Room Server roBot or Remote Sysop
Blue headphones= Room Moderator with hotComm Pro.
Green headphones= hotComm Standard user with In status.
Pink headphones= hotComm standard user OUT/DND status..
Yellow L= hotComm Lite user with "In" status.
Pink L= hotComm Lite with "Out" status.
Cyan J= Java (Browser) User
Cyan J w/ red hook= Firewalled Java User.
A Green dot is you, others see you as above.

Note: When any symbol is replaced by a Microphone icon, Mic is active and the user moves to the top of list..

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