06-28-00 Noises From The Basement Archive

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            NOISES FROM THE BASEMENT
       This Week's Contents - June 28, 2000

1) Peeking thru WINDOWS - "Close Multiple Windows"
2) Fantastic File Find! - "Win98 Tweak"
3) Seen These Sites? - "Wal*Mart Memoirs/Dialectizer"
4) Email Funnies - "Maggie"
5) The MOUS Hole - "Beef Up Your Toolbars"
6) They Said It - quotes to give one pause
7) Hodgepodge - "Knockout!"

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1) Peeking thru WINDOWS "Close Multiple Windows"

If you’re working in “Classic” Windows mode, each
time you double-click a folder a new window will
open. This can quickly clutter your desktop with
“parent” windows you had to open to get to your
destination file or folder.

Rather than close each window individually, you
can quickly close all but the last, desired window
by using your Shift key. Hold the Shift key as you
click on the Close (X) button for the _second-to-last_
window – that window and all “parent” windows
will close!

2) FANTASTIC FILE FIND! "Win98 Tweak" [64 Kb/EXE]

This week and next brings utilities to modify the
appearance and workings of Windows 98. This week,
Win98 Tweak gives you the capabilities to modify
Menubars, Combo and List boxes, and Windows
animations. I’ve found the Start Menu modifications
particularly helpful – say goodbye to those Favorites,
Documents, and LogOff menus!

http://BasementNoises.com/free4u/w98tweak.exe

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3) SEEN THESE SITES? "Wal*Mart Memoirs/Dialectizer"

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Wal*Mart shopping
this week. Visit our first site to see how these
words:

"returning with an automatic weapon to rain
fiery vengeance upon us"

earned their author a visit by the FBI!

What started as a not-so-funny (freely admitted by
the author) rendition of one Wal*Mart worker’s
frustrations has become a disturbing commentary on
political correctness and an attack on free Internet
speech.

As a side note, there are more Wal*Mart links,
both pro and con, than I’d ever imagined possible!

Read “Wal*Mart Memoirs” at:
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/4933/walmart.html

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Dis is the Ewmew Fudd vewsion of a pawagwaph wun
thwough "De Diawectizew” which takes text ow othew
web pages and instantwy cweates pawodies of them!

     -- or --

This is the Elmer Fudd version of a paragraph
run through “The Dialectizer” which takes text
or other web pages and instantly creates
parodies of them!

Give this a look and see how your favorite site
(hint: www.basementnoises.com works fine!)
looks in Redneck, Jive, Swedish Chef and more!

http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/

4) EMAIL FUNNIES "Maggie" [76 Kb/EXE]

Displaying a behavior most parents of crawling
infants will instantly recognize, Maggie Simpson
will follow your cursor as it moves around the
screen. As she catches up to a paused cursor,
Maggie will plop down and contentedly suck away
at her pacifier. A cute little ScreenMate to add
to your collections, with no diapers to change!

http://BasementNoises.com/free4u/maggie.exe

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5) The MOUS Hole - "Beef Up Your Toolbars"

Next time you open one of your MS Office applications,
take a look at the buttons on your toolbars. How
many do you use on a regular basis, and how many have
you never used?

That real estate is too valuable to have laggards
hanging around! You can quickly modify those
toolbars to be more helpful. To remove a button:

I) Right-click on any toolbar and choose Customize
II) Point your cursor at the button you wish to
     remove, then click and drag down into your
     document; release.

Don’t worry about “losing” any buttons you might need
in the future – if need be, you can always return to
the program defaults by:

I) Right-click on any toolbar and choose Customize
II) Choose the Toolbar tab
III) Select the toolbar you wish to restore
IV) Click the Reset button
     (and for Word only)
V) Confirm the template (typically Normal) you’re
     saving to.

Next week, we’ll take a look at a few of the more
useful buttons you can add back to toolbars.

6) THEY SAID IT

"I used to think the brain was the most important
part of the human anatomy, then I remembered what
was telling me that” -- Maurice Ryding

7) HODGEPODGE - "Knockout!"

++ Hope you got in on the free printer/free stamps
deal that was in last week’s issue. My DeskJet 930C
arrived Monday, and the photo quality is amazing!

++ I’ve added an online game to the site --
Knockout! is offered in conjunction with Boxerjam
and includes a different twist on the typical
trivia games.

With content that changes daily, get your dose
of trivia in a format that’s just a bit different,
plus you can register to win cash prizes!

Be sure to visit the Basement at
http://www.BasementNoises.com and click on
the NEW Knockout! link.

++ While you’re there, check out this week's Photo
Funny, which gives you get a glimpse of things behind
the scenes at NFTB, and read the bizarre story of the
Chicago man fined for flying the US flag!

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