NOISES
FROM THE BASEMENT
Another weekly epistle for these strange times
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1) Peeking thru WINDOWS – “Compact that Recycle Bin”
2) FANTASTIC FILE FIND! – “Beats per Minute”
3) SEEN THESE SITES? – “Traffic Reports / Little Green Men?”
FLASH! Hamster DANCE!
4) EMAIL FUNNIES – “ORRRANGE! - Sheep need friends, too”
5) The MOUS Hole – “I didn’t do it, it was default of Word”
6) THEY SAID IT – quotes to give one pause.
7) HODGEPODGE - miscellaneous virtual leftovers
Welcome to new subscribers, and a BIG THANKS to all who
have passed on their issues to friends!
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1) Peeking thru WINDOWS “Compact that
Recycle Bin”
The Recycle Bin can be a wonderful friend if you accidentally
delete a file or folder – just open it up and remove the
misplaced item. However, have you ever
considered
just how big that friendly little trashcan is?
Windows is configured “out of the box” to set aside 10% of
your hard drive as reserved for the Recycle Bin. Yep, if you
have a newer computer with, say, 4.3 gigs of space, 430 MEGS
of hard drive space is available for storage of – TRASH!
For those with smaller hard drives, the fact that Windows can
stake out 10% of your available space should be even more
worrisome!
You can reclaim your valuable real estate like this:
I) Right-click on your Recycle bin
icon, and select Properties.
II) Configure your Recycle Bin
globally, or for each drive
III) Use the slide control to decrease
the size requirement to
a more conservative amount – if
you regularly check and
empty your Bin, 3% - 5% should
be more than sufficient!
2) FANTASTIC FREE FEATURED FILE! “ARBPM”
[124 Kb/ZIP]
This program calculates the Beats per Minute rate of anything
you want - music beats to heartbeats.
Start counting
and set the beats by hitting any key on the keyboard.
http://www.becomethebest.com/nftb/free4u/arbpm.zip
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Ever created a PowerPoint presentation too big to fit on a
diskette? Do you have photo files you’d
like to share with
friends and relatives-online? Want to
always access the
current version of documents you’ve created at work, home,
school – safely and securely? Get 50 megs of online hard drive
space, accessible ANYWHERE in the world, only by those YOU
want! http://www.forohiosbest.com/fd.htm
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3) SEEN THESE SITES? “Traffic Reports / Little
Green Men?”
There you are, zooming down the Info highway, when things
screech to a stop. Is the problem with
your ISP, or is the
entire Internet bogging down? Check out
this site:
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/ to find out what’s going
on in the wired world!
Meanwhile, while we’re all busying moving down the highway,
are little green men from outer space creating works of art in
wheat and barley fields all over the world?
We’ve all seen
photos of crop circles (and there’s some gorgeous ones shown
here) - now meet the folks that make them!
Note: site based in
FLASH! (ok, so maybe it’s not the Drudge Report)
Hampsterdance2 has arrived! (yep, “hamPster”) The familiar
“dic a dee da di da
do do” has returned, now with a new
techno-backbeat, new lyrics, AND interactive hamsters!!
http://www.hamsterdance2.com
You’ll thank me as you hum the silly song all day long!!!
4) EMAIL FUNNIES “ORRRANGE!” [65 Kb/ZIP]
Thought those SHEEP were cute? (annoying?) Were you wishing
you could have dancing, crying, floating, smoking oranges
to keep your sheep company? Sure you
were:
http://www.BecomeTheBest.com/nftb/free4u/orange.zip
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Everyone needs a Hero, folks. Randy Cassingham
has put together a wonderfully uplifting weekly,
each a true story of one person that was a hero – sometimes
in a big way, sometimes in small. Will
make you think,
will make you cry, will make you appreciate your heroes -
http://www.forohiosbest.com/offs/off10.htm
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5) The MOUS Hole – “I didn’t do it, it was default of Word”
Do you find yourself changing the font or font size every
time you start a new document? Make
every document start
just the way you want by changing your defaults –
I) Begin in a new, blank document,
II) Select Format, then Font from the
Menu bar,
III) From the Font tab, select the font and font size,
IV) Click the “Default” button.
V) And confirm your changes.
Note: All NEW documents will have the new settings,
previously saved documents will not be changed.
6) THEY SAID IT
”A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides,
the market research
reports say
cookies like you make.” -- response to Debbi Fields’ idea of
starting Mrs. Fields’ Cookies.
7) HODGEPODGE – “Protect Yourself!”
Just last week I received another virus-laden email. As
luck would have it, I recognized the little critter
[Happy99.exe – NEVER open this file if you receive it!]
but I didn’t need luck – my virus-scan software caught
it.
Would YOU be so lucky? Are you running
virus-scanning
software, and is it up to date? (you should update
your virus
data files AT LEAST once a month!!) One
local office supply
store had McAfee VirusScan on sale for less than $20
this week,
there’s really no reason to leave your valuable computer
investment unprotected!!
WORTHLESS TIDBIT – As of this past Sunday, Bill Gates had
a net worth of over $90 billion. $90
billion worth of dollar
bills, laid end-to-end, would reach to the moon and back,
OVER 35 times!!
OOPS – The above was written on Monday morning.
By Monday
night, Bill had lost $12 billion. Now
it’s only 30 times!
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