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Vol. 1, Issue 43
1) Windows Tips - "Non-Recyclables"
2) File Find! - "1Time"
3) Sites-Seeing - "Common Sense\Net Traveler Guide"
4) Email Funny - "StealthCat"
5) MOUS Tips - "File Protection III"
6) They Said It - quotes to give one pause
7) Hodgepodge – that what fits no where else
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A heartfelt welcome back to familiar readers,
a warm hello to new subscribers, +and+
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1) Windows
Tip -
"Non-Recyclables"
Most of us pay no more attention to our Recycle Bin
than we would to a real-life plastic bin - until we need it.
When you accidentally delete a file you wanted to keep,
the Recycle Bin can be a real time (and sometimes life) saver.
When does the Recycle Bin not "recycle"? When you delete a
file from a "removable" media, such as a floppy disk, tape, or
Zip drive. Windows WILL NOT place these
files in the Recycle
Bin. Once deleted, for all practical
purposes, they're gone!
Use an extra measure of caution when deleting files from
your diskettes – for those files, there's no return!
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2) File
Find! -
"1Time” [443
Kb/EXE]
Speaking of recycling, a few of my cooking attempts have
ended up in the compost heap because they've spent a little
too much time in the oven. It's really
easy for me to toss
something in to heat, get started on some project on the
computer, and too late! realize that fifteen minutes
have
become sixty.
I've been eating much better, and feeding the worms less,
since I found this nice little program that turns your 'puter
into a very expensive egg-timer! Use it
to countdown a
specific amount of time, or set it for an exact time and use
it as an alarm clock:
http://basementnoises.com/free4u/dl45.htm
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3) Sites-Seeing -
"Common Sense\Net Traveler Guide"
Common
Sense was designed to create some awareness
concerning truck drivers and the stress they undergo.
There are many misconceptions surrounding the occupation
and this site's stated purpose is to portray the realities of
trucking.
What was achieved was so much more.
You'll find a banquet
of thoughtful trucking essays, a self-help workbook, some
poetry, games for children, computer paintings, and
short
stories all presented on a tasteful and artfully produced site.
What I enjoyed most was their posting of Paul Healey's writings
on Common Sense. EVERYONE can benefit
from the plainspoken
and honest compositions presented here.
Take some time to
examine this wonderful site – you'll be rewarded a hundredfold!
http://akyr.net/commonsense/index1.html
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Another place to find lots of common sense advice is the
US Federal Trade Commission's "Site Seeing On the Internet"
web page. An
invaluable guide for newbies and seasoned
surfers alike. You'll find:
timely advice about privacy
matters, info on matters related to children and the Internet,
"Rules of the Virtual Road", and a dictionary of Cyberspeak:
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/online/sitesee/index.html
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4) Email Funny -
"StealthCat" [443 Kb/MPEG]
Poor kid! Download this week's video
Email Funny and
find out why one toddler will fear garden paths the rest
of her life!
http://basementnoises.com/free4u/dl46.htm
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5) MOUS Tips -
"File Protection III"
We've looked at protecting Word and Excel files from being
opened, and last week protected Excel worksheet from cell
and range modifications. This week – protecting an Excel
workbook from worksheet and window modifications.
The procedure below will prevent: inserting, deleting, moving,
copying, and renaming worksheets; and/or changes to windows
(including frozen panes) you have set up in worksheets.
To protect a workbook:
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I)
Tools | Protection
| Protect Workbook
II)
By default, the Structure (sheet) option is selected for
protection; if you have windows
to protect select this
option, also
III) Enter a password, if desired. As discussed in previous
issues if you don't enter a password,
the workbook
will still be protected,
however protection can be
turned off by
anyone.
Remember,
Excel passwords are case-sensitive;
always store
your passwords in a safe location!
IV) If you entered a password, you'll need to enter it
again to confirm it.
Your workbook is now protected. Any cells in the worksheets
can still be modified, but the sheets themselves are locked
down!
To turn off workbook protection
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Tools | Protection | Unprotect
workbook | Enter password
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6) They Said It
"How
far you go in life depends on your being tender
with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic
with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the
strong. Because
someday in your life, you will have lived
all of them." - George Washington Carver
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7) Hodgepodge
Observant longtime readers of NFTB may have noticed cosmetic
changes to the masthead and contents area.
I've made these
changes to better utilize the amount of information that makes
it into the
search engines from issues of NFTB.
Search
engines typically will list the first 6 lines or so of each issue.
Valuable text space was being occupied by the artsy-fartsy
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individual topic titles.
Thus the changes.
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I have an actual photo of an extraterrestrial (at least it
looks like one) this week for the Photo Funny, and then
read about the city of 2 million that has 300,000 stray dogs –
and the dog catcher is persona non grata!
http://www.BasementNoises.com
G'nite, and thanks for
reading!
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