Beware the Ides of March,
and the First of April! -
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Vol. 2, Issue 2 March 28,
2001 ISSN 1531-5258
1) Windows Tips - "How Much Room?\Keyboard Autofit Columns"
2) File Find! - "Full Opt-Out Locator Switch"
3) Sites-Seeing - "Hard Drive Balancer\Arborsmith"
4) Email Funny - "Life Is..."
5) MOUS Tips - "Extra Filling, Part 1"
6) They Said It - quotes to give one pause
7) Hodgepodge - that what fits no where else
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A playful howdy this week to both recent subscribers, and
long-time readers - Welcome to The Basement!
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1) Windows Tips -
"How Much Room?\Keyboard Autofit Columns"
Just how much room do you have remaining on your hard drive,
floppy, or CD-RW? Open your My Computer
window, then
right-click on a drive icon and choose Properties. Windows
will display space used and space remaining in both numerical
and graphic formats.
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Here's a tip to quickly Autofit all the columns when working
in the "Detail" view of most Explorer-based windows:
use Ctrl+ + That is, hold down your
Ctrl key and tap the +
key on your numeric keypad - Voila!.
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2) File Find! -
"Full Opt-Out Locator Switch"
[104 Kb/EXE]
The beginning of next month is a very special time for
those of us who follow a certain philosophical and spiritual
persuasion.
In honor and recognition of this special time, I'd like to
present this week's File Find as a special gift to you!
I don't know how I've computed all these years without
it, and now you can download this handy little utility to take
advantage of untapped resources within your computer, too:
http://www.basementnoises.com/free4u/dl82.htm
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3) Sites-Seeing -
"Hard Drive Balancer\Arborsmith"
I was recently alerted to another computer maintenance item
that you won't find in any of the manuals.
The authors of this
site have done a tremendous service to computer users world-
wide by providing their new product, The Hard Drive Balancer.
Quoting directly from their site:
"One of the most often forgotten disk maintenance tasks is
Hard Drive Balancing. Many people forget
that just as a
car's tire, through normal wear and tear, can get out of
balance because the rubber material is unevenly distributed,
the same can happen to your hard drive.
The individual bits
(smalls ones and zeros) have different weights and as their
weight gets unevenly distributed on the disk, this can cause
the disk to be unbalanced. This
unbalance may even eventually
causes hard drive wobble."
Read more about this insidious problem, and find out how to
go about fixing it, here:
http://www.gbrockman.com/drivebalance/default.htm
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Most of us have furniture in our homes that was manufactured
from wood. Few, however, have furniture
that has actually been
grown!
Arborsmith Studios is the home of Arborsculptor Richard
Charles Reames, "the place where houses are planted,
chairs are watered, tables are pruned and fences grow
taller and stronger as the years go by."
Richard has some fascinating pictures online of not only
of his work, but also arborsculpture from all around the
world. And, though not exactly
furniture, the "tree that ate
a bike" certainly is an interesting sight !
Vegetation, as nature never intended it to be, at:
http://www.arborsmith.com
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4) Email Funny -
"Life Is..." [142 Kb/EXE]
This is another of those files that your practical joker
friend is going to email you on April 1st.
Beat him\her to
the punch - download this and send it to them first!
http://www.BasementNoises.com/free4u/dl83.htm
Note: See the included README file if you have problems
starting this one because of a missing VBRUN300 file.
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5) MOUS Tips -
"Extra Filling, Part 1"
You may know that when working in Excel it's possible to
use the Autofill handle (the little black box in the lower
right corner of a selected range) to quickly copy formulas
across a range - select the formula, then click-and-drag
the handle across the range you want to copy to.
You may also know that you can have Excel fill consecutive
cells with the days of the week or months of the year, simply
by entering the beginning day/month in a cell, then using the
same Autofill handle/click-and-drag technique.
But did you know that you can "teach" Excel to enter a series
of numbers (i.e.: 2,4,6,8... or 5,10,15...) across a range of cells?
How? Enter the first two numbers in your
series in consecutive
cells. Select BOTH cells, then use the
Autofill handle/click-and-
drag technique across/down a range - as you drag, Excel will
display the series count in a "tip box" next to the cursor, and
you can see exactly how far you are in your series.
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6) They Said It
"The past is a foreign country;
they do things differently there." - L.P. Hartley
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7) Hodgepodge
Remember! You can now send the Photo
Funny to your friends,
neighbors, relatives, coworkers, casual acquaintances; ANYONE
you know who might need a grin today!
The parent company that currently owns the rights to
Bert and Ernie, Grover and Elmo has fallen on hard times,
and is looking to sell the lovable furry critters. This week's
Photo Funny reveals just what happens when these fuzzy
stars no longer have access to the lifestyle to which they have
become accustomed. Then, read about some
people that are
even lower than the healthy-bodied folk who park in handicapped
spots, in this week's Bozo:
http://www.BasementNoises.com
G'nite, and thanks for
reading!
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information given. Tips are tested on a
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As I am firmly convinced that all systems are unique little
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might just not be available to you. Why?
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