When the moon hit your eye like a big pizza pie, thatsa more –
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Vol. 1, Issue 47
1) Windows Tips - "All Thumbs"
2) File Find! - "TweakAll 1.2.3"
3) Sites-Seeing - "Ads Worth Watching\CloudGazing"
4) Email Funny - "3-Tile Gecko"
5) MOUS Tips - "Functionally Literate"
6) They Said It - quotes to give one pause
7) Hodgepodge – that what fits no where else
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New readers,
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have been around for a while, thanks for staying! *and*
AOL readers, you’ll find your links at the bottom.
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1) Windows Tip -
"All Thumbs"
A picture is worth a thousand words, or so says an old
cliché. As with most clichés, there's
more than a smidgeon
of truth, especially when you're talking about all the
graphics, photos, bullets, and ClipArt that you accumulate
on your hard drive. Many times these
image files are named
with cryptic text and numbers, making it a difficult and
time-consuming task to find the graphic you are looking for.
Wouldn't it be convenient if you could open a folder and
actually see the real image without the hassle of opening it?
You can, here's how:
I)
Use Windows Explorer or the My Computer icon to find
the folder that contains the
images you're interested in,
II)
Right-click the folder and choose Properties;
III) At the bottom of the Properties dialog
box will be the
option to "Enable thumbnail
view". Turn this option
on, then OK.
IV)
Now open the folder. There will
now be a Thumbnails
option available on the View
menu. Select it.
There you go! You should now see small
thumbnails of all
the image files in this folder. Explore
your drives and I'm
sure you'll find pictures you didn't even know you had!
Note: Steps I - III will have to be performed for each folder
you have that contains images you want to see.
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2) File Find! -
"TweakAll 1.2.3” [2166
Kb/EXE]
No mystery where this utility gets its name!
Here's just
some of the things you can tweak:
* Boot options, Explorer Options
* Boot, Shutdown and Exit screens
* Free Memory (RAM)
* Add\Remove items from Send To menu
* Change programs that run on Startup
* Backup and Restore Windows Registry
and MSDOS files
* Remove Installed Programs
Make sure to write down any settings before changing them,
in order to return back in case you don't like your changes!
This version of TweakAll has a tried-and-true great bag of
tricks for your machine and is highly recommended…
The "Remove Installed Programs" doesn't offer much
more functionality then what's found in your Control Panel
(though the interface is nicer.) NEXT
WEEK: How to REALLY
get rid of those installed programs that don't show up here!
Until then, enjoy the greater control that TweakAll 1.2.3
give to you:
http://basementnoises.com/free4u/dl65.htm
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3) Sites-Seeing -
"Ads Worth Watching\CloudGazing"
All Ads.
All the Time. Feast your eyes on the
funniest and
best commercials on TV today. Vote for your favorite from
SuperBowl XXXV contenders (I'm kind of partial to the monkey
riding amongst the dotcom ruins.)
You'll also find movie trailers for current and upcoming
attractions, and an archive containing over 1700 ad clips
considered the best of the craft. Be
sure to check out
"
All clips require Quicktime 4.0, and some can be bandwidth
intensive.
Superbowl Ads: http://63.210.62.157/qt/index.html
Home Page: http://www.adcritic.com
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After
you've had your fill of the commercial, cleanse your
palate with a light, fluffy dessert of clouds!
You'll discover
gorgeous photos of cumulus and cirrus puffs that become
animals, extraterrestrial crafts, and mythical beings with
but a bit of imagination. You'll also
find some excellent
links to other cloud-related and cloud photograph sites:
http://www.cloudgazing.com/index.htm
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4) Email Funny -
"3-Tile Gecko" [79 Kb/EXE]
"Okay, I got these three tiles, see - here, here and here.
One has the gecko, see? Now, I'll just
turn 'em over and
move them around like this, okay? Now,
which one has
the gecko? Think ya know? Okay, whatcha wanna bet???
http://basementnoises.com/free4u/dl64.htm
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5) MOUS Tips -
"Functionally Literate"
Used to be, you'd get a cardboard or plastic template that
fit over your function keys. The various
operations assigned
to the functions keys would be listed, along with the
additional functions assigned when the Ctrl-, Alt- and Shift
keys were pushed. Stupid things never
seemed to fit the
keyboard I was using, however; they would always get
progressively farther from the proper alignment as you read
from left to right.
Sure would be nice if there was a built-in feature that
accomplished the same purpose as those old templates,
wouldn't it?
Of all the Office products, Word alone gives you that tool!
Where? Well, it's one of the oft overlooked, "hidden" toolbars!
"hidden" because it neither shows up on the View | Toolbars
menu, nor is it seen on the menu when you right-click on
a toolbar.
To add a Function buttons template to Word, do this:
I)
Right-click on any toolbar, choose Customize
II) On the Toolbars tab, you'll see the
Function Key display
toolbar listed. Select it, then Close the dialogue box.
You now have a toolbar that shows each function button
and its corresponding job. Hold down
your Ctrl-, Alt, and
Shift buttons and the display will change to that assigned
function!
Spend a bit of time using the Function Key toolbar, and
you'll wonder how you ever worked without it!
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6) They Said It
"The
next thing to saying a good thing yourself,
is to quote one." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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7) Hodgepodge
The Noises From The Basement home page has a decidedly
Far Eastern look with a Photo Funny of a gentleman from
Xichang, China; and a lawyer from Singapore as our Bozo
of the week:
http://www.BasementNoises.com
G'nite, and thanks for
reading!
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