Not animal, nor
vegetable, nor mineral. What exactly are these -
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Vol. 1, Issue 50
1) Windows Tips - "Title Bar Tip"
2) File Find! - "PropertiesPlus"
3) Sites-Seeing - "Laugh 'till it Hertes\Northern Lights\Night
Lights"
4) Email Funny - "RoadRage"
5) MOUS Tips - "NewLine"
6) They Said It - quotes to give one pause
7) Hodgepodge - that what fits no where else
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1) Windows Tip -
"Title Bar Tip"
Come, let us sing the praises of the versatile Title Bar!
Always on top of things, with a glance it tells you the name of
the file and program you're working with.
It's color helps to
differentiate between active and inactive windows. Click
on it and drag to reposition open windows on your Desktop.
Did you know that it will also shoulder the job of the
Maximize\Restore button? Use your Title
Bar as a convenient
alternative - double-click it and it will act as a toggle switch to
maximize or restore any open window!
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2) File Find! -
"PropertiesPlus" [245
Kb/EXE]
PropertiesPlus is an add-on for Windows Explorer. It adds
additional functionality to your right-click menu under the
menu option PropertiesPlus. You'll be able to modify file
attributes, file extensions, and the time stamps of single
files, multiple files, or files contained within the folders.
Also displays the allocated bytes and the disk information.
http://basementnoises.com/free4u/dl66.htm
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3) Sites-Seeing -
"Laugh 'till it Hertes\Northern Lights\Night Lights"
If laughter is the best medicine, then you're going to find
the Will Hertes Letters more healing than two bowls of
Mom's chicken soup! The objects of
Will's prank letters
range from multinational conglomerates to presidents to even
Andy Rooney. While you'll enjoy his well
written epistles,
the real gems here are the responses he receives - some
obviously "get the joke", while others are clueless. Shut
the office door, you'll be laughing out loud at these!
http://www.cranial.com/hertes.html
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My son has a glass desk ornament that contains what appears
to be mini "lightning bolts" - electric current that crackles
up and down it's twisted shape - beautiful and mesmerizing!
That manmade device is but a feeble semblance of Mother
Nature's greatest nighttime light show - the
Lights. Along with some gorgeous photos
of the phenomenon,
you'll also find a comprehensive collection of links to
forecasts, articles and a must-see movies selection. If you're
in an adventurous mood, there's even links to Aurora tours
and lodging:
http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/Curtis/curtis.html
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An absolutely awe inspiring photograph of the Earth at night:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0011/earthlights_dmsp_big.jpg
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4) Email Funny -
"RoadRage" [1854 Kb/MPG]
Justice is swift and wet for one cyclist that violates
the rules of the road in this issue's video funny:
http://basementnoises.com/free4u/dl67.htm
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5) MOUS Tips -
"NewLine"
There are only two times when it's appropriate to use the Enter
key when keying a document in Word - at the end of a
paragraph, and when you want a blank line.
A common clue
that this rule has been broken is a line in the middle of a
paragraph that "automatically" change to beginning with an
uppercase letter - a consequence of Word's AutoCorrect feature
changing the first word of a sentence to an uppercase letter.
If you tap the Enter key at the end of a line, instead of permitting
the text to wrap, by definition the very next character you type
IS the start of a new paragraph.
There might be occasions when you
want to have text wrap to the next
line, before it reaches the right-hand
margin - as this paragraph is formatted.
All lines of this paragraph ARE one
paragraph - I didn't hit Enter at the end
of each line to get a new line.
Rather, I used Shift+Enter, which places a "newline" or
"manual line break" at your insertion point. Use the newline
key combination when you want to start a new line, yet remain
in the same paragraph. Especially
helpful when working in
auto-numbering or bulleted lists; to enter text on a different
line without a starting a new number or bullet:
1) Type your first item here, then tap Shift+Enter
and continue working on the next
line like this,
finally, tap Enter when finished and
you’ll get
the correct number\bullet -
2) As displayed in this example!
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6) They Said It
"The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are
a million to one, and against two bombs a million times
a million to one. Next time you fly,
improve the odds and
take a bomb." - Benny Hill
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7) Hodgepodge
Want a sneak peak at the Office of the future - what does
Microsoft have up it's sleeve for us next?
Paul Thurrott of
WinSuperSite.com takes a look at the next release of Office:
http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/office10_whatsnew.asp
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A recent announcement concerning a popular children's show
prompts this week's Photo Funny, while our Bozo this week
is an overly officious officer who became overtly ostentatious
about postponed potty privileges:
http://www.BasementNoises.com
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comment on this issue
of Noises? Send your criticisms and/or
compliments to:
noises@BasementNoises.com
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