A virtual smorgasbord for your computer, it's –
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Vol. 1, Issue 44
1) Windows Tips - "A Capital Idea"
2) File Find! - "3d PhotoCube"
3) Sites-Seeing - "Top Secret Recipes\ Child Stars"
4) Email Funny - "Pendulum"
5) MOUS Tips - "Leaping Pages"
6) They Said It - quotes to give one pause
7) Hodgepodge – that what fits no where else
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1) Windows Tip -
"A Capital Idea"
One of the first things one learns when sending email or
chatting on the Internet is that typing in ALL CAPS IS NOT
ACCEPTABLE. This is the equivalent of
SHOUTING in the
virtual world!
On the other hand, Desktop files and folders named with all
uppercase letters can be useful. I use
all uppercase for
folders that I access on a daily basis – they're easier to
pick out amongst the multitude of icons when in ALL CAPS.
The default setting for Windows is to NOT permit all uppercase
names, however. If you, too, would like
the convenience of
designating folders/files with all capital letters, follow
this simple procedure:
I)
Open any folder.
II)
View | Folder Options | View
tab
III) Under Advanced Settings, Files and
Folders you'll
find the option to "Allow
all uppercase names."
Turn on this option, then confirm
with the OK button
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2) File Find! -
"3d PhotoCube” [1919 Kb/EXE]
3-D Photocube is both a screensaver and a desktop application
that displays your pictures - bitmap or JPEG files - in a 3-D
animation of spinning and orbiting photo cubes.
Display up
to 6 different photos, graphics, text and paint pictures.
Size, speed, and background are configurable.
This program
is "careware"; the author requests a $12 donation to a charity
of your choice or an hour spent helping someone in need,
if you decide to keep it:
http://basementnoises.com/free4u/dl56.htm
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3) Sites-Seeing -
"Top Secret Recipes\ Child Stars"
I just love KFC's Honey BBQ wings. Same
for T.G.I. Friday's
Jack Daniel's Grill Glaze on salmon. And
a handful of Screaming
Yellow Zonkers for dessert is the perfect snack anytime.
(Hungry yet?)
These goodies aren't always available.
What to do, when
the craving for Papa John's Dipping Sauce strikes at
Don't suffer! Click on over to this
week's first site,
Top Secret Recipes. Here you'll find
cloned recipes for
hundreds of
active discussion boards for trading and searching for recipes,
both cloned and "regular"; a food-related Urban Legends
section, and a "Dead Food" discussion board where you can
mourn those favorites that are no longer available:
http://www.topsecretrecipes.com
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Now, wipe that Honey BBQ sauce off your fingers, then check
out our second site – Former Child Star Central. Find out
what the actors who portrayed your favorite young characters
in bygone TV shows are doing, now that they've "grown up".
From Willie Aames (Tommy Bradford, Eight Is Enough) to Tina
Youthers (Jennifer Keaton, Family Ties), this site contains
fascinating details about all those beloved adolescent stars.
What ever DID happen to that kid who played Eddie Munster??
http://members.tripod.com/~former_child_star/index-news.html
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4) Email Funny -
"Pendulum" [102 Kb/EXE]
Klik, klik, klik, klik... you've probably seen the pendulum toy
for real desktops – five balls suspended individually that
you can lift one by one or in groups, let go, then watch
action-reaction in practice as they swing back and forth.
This week's email funny is another virtual desktop toy from
the folks at Office.com. Klik, klik,
klik...
http://basementnoises.com/free4u/dl57.htm
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5) MOUS Tips -
"Leaping Pages"
Cure the "leaping page" problem when working in Word –
if you find that as you're typing and approach the right
side of the screen that the text "leaps" and all of a sudden
you're missing the left portion of the page, then as the text
wraps to the next line it "leaps" back to the right side…
you have the "leaping page"!
Eliminate this irritating problem by clicking the dropdown
box on the Zoom Control (the box with the percentage on
the Standard toolbar) and choosing Page Width.
This will
adjust your document to a size appropriate to eliminate the
"leaping page"!
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6) They Said It
"When
there are too many policemen, there can be no liberty;
When there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace;
When there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice."
- Lin Yutang
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7) Hodgepodge
Ever had a kite get twisted up in telephone wires? The
subject of this week's Photo Funny has a problem that's
a bit bigger… The US National Security Agency has all sorts
of strange and wonderful toys. Read
about what was left
behind when the NSA abandoned a worksite in this week's
Bizarro article at:
http://www.BasementNoises.com
G'nite, and thanks for
reading!
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