NOISES
FROM THE BASEMENT
Another weekly epistle for these strange times
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1) Peeking thru WINDOWS – “Look Ma! No Arrows!”
2) FANTASTIC FILE FIND! – “Rock, Paper, Scissors”
3) SEEN THESE SITES? – “Fed Gateway / Christo”
4) EMAIL FUNNIES – “Lava Lamp”
5) The MOUS Hole – “Filling Columns Fast!”
6) THEY SAID IT – quotes to give one pause.
7) HODGEPODGE - miscellaneous virtual leftovers
A big HELLO to our new readers! Welcome back, old
friends!
Thank-you to all who have passed on
their issues to friends
– especially NFTB fan Debra M., for all those new folks you
sent our way!
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1) Peeking thru WINDOWS
“Look Ma! No Arrows!”
Whenever you (or your computer) create a shortcut, Windows
places a small, curved arrow on the icon.
Want to get rid of
those arrows?
I) Right click on your Desktop, select
Properties,
II) Select Appearance in the Display
Properties window,
III) Use the drop down menu under Item
and select Icon,
IV) Change the number in the size box to
30,
V) Click on Apply and all Shortcut
Arrows disappear!
2) FANTASTIC FREE FEATURED FILE! “RPS”
[120 Kb/EXE]
A game that rates right up there with Solitaire, FreeCell and
Minesweeper – Rock, Paper, and Scissors! Everyone knows how
to play this one - Rock beats Scissors beats Paper beats Rock…
but what beats the silly computer???
Guaranteed to aggravate
the heck out of you!
http://www.BecomeTheBest.com/nftb/free4u/rps.exe
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Are you an Internet addict? Spend lots of hours in front of
the monitor? Why not get PAID to surf the net, read your
email, earn money ANYTIME you are online??!!
http://www.forohiosbest.com/offs/off1.htm
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3) SEEN THESE SITES? “Fed Gateway / Christo”
Where can you find links to
“George Washington’s Rules of
Civility and Decent Behavior in Company
and Conversation”,
“Top 50 Diseases Funded By The National Institutes of Health”,
and this week’s Hot Site – “National Organic Program”?? Find
these and lots more at your gateway to all things Uncle Sam -
related: http://www.fedgate.org/ -- hey, you’re paying for
this stuff, might as well use it!
Now, to cleanse your palette – have you ever seen the artwork
of Christo and Jeanne-Claude? These artists have surrounded
entire islands in
trees, many HUGE works of art incorporating the environment.
See great jaw-dropping photos of their art here – don’t miss
the Wall of 13,000 Oil Drums!
http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/
4) EMAIL FUNNIES “Lava Lamp” [249 Kb/EXE]
Glad to see these wonderful little devices back
on the decorating front. I still have my
original lava
lamp from high school days and display it proudly on
my desk - now, where’d I store my tie-dyed sheets?
Get your desktop lava lamp here:
http://www.BecomeTheBest.com/nftb/free4u/
Update: Some readers may have had trouble opening past
files that were created using WinZip compression software,
if you didn’t have WinZip installed. In
order to eliminate this
problem, all files are now offered as executables – they will
be self-extracting, simply by double-clicking on them
after you download them!
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Looking for gifts that are both fun and educational?
Arts and crafts supplies, teacher and parent resources,
educational software, toys and games!
Shop online at:
http://www.vstore.com/vstoreschools/becomethebest
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5) The MOUS Hole – EXCEL “Filling
Columns Fast!”
When you create a worksheet, it is often necessary to type a
formula in the top row, and then fill the column with that same
formula. If you’re going to do this for
several cells, with
a little preparation you can zip through copying those formulas!
I) Go to the BOTTOM row of where you’ll
be copying your
formulas,
II) Place a character (“x”) in the first
cell of the bottom
row, then copy across the row.
III) Return to the top and enter your formula in the cell,
keep that cell selected.
IV) Press Ctrl+Shift+Down Arrow. This selects all the
cells
from the formula down to the
"bottom marker" in the column.
V) Press Ctrl+D.
The selected cells are filled!
READER QUESTION – “My spellchecker on my computer works,
but I know you can program it to show the reading level and
the number of fragments when you write.
How do you get that
programmed into the computer? Please
help”. Wendy H.
ANSWER - Glad to! In Word, choose TOOLS,
OPTIONS,
SPELLING & GRAMMAR tab. At the
bottom of that window
is the option to Show Readability Statistics – turn that on and
you're in business! Word will display
Document statistics such
as count and average of words, characters, and sentences.
It will also show info such as readability (grade level) and
percent passive sentences.
6) THEY SAID IT
”Children today are tyrants. They
contradict their parents,
gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers”. - Socrates
7) HODGEPODGE – “Coming Attractions”
Some of you may have received 2 mailings of NFTB last week,
I experienced a bit of difficult with the initial mailing due to
server overload. I re-sent the issue to
everyone – didn’t want to
deprive anyone. Chalk it up to growing
pains, and thanks for
your understanding!
Rumor has it that your Noises will soon be relocating to a
brand new Basement of Their Own! Stay
tuned for an exciting
announcement as NFTB continues to expand for with
exciting new features for YOU!
Care to comment? Send your questions,
comments, and requests
to: noises@BecomeTheBest.com
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