August
29, 2001
Vol. 2, Issue 24 |
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Where
did the summer go?!?! This lament only one of the many -
Noises
From The Basement! |
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| Contents
1) Windows Tips -
"Taming the Wild Favorites Folder"
2) File Find! - "Hot Key Detective"
3) Sites-Seeing - "Retro Toys\Changed Names"
4) Email Funny - "Man vs. Brick"
5) MOUS Tips - "Spotlight on the Highlight"
6) They Said It - quotes to give one pause
7) Hodgepodge - that what fits no where else
Hey there, hi
there, ho' there - you're as welcome as can be!
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1) Windows Tips -
"Taming the Wild Favorites Folder"
Use this quick
shortcut to the Organize Favorites dialog whenever you're
working with with any Internet Explorer, My Computer, or Windows
Explorer window - Ctrl
B. You
can then move, rename, and delete your folders; or you can also
create new folders.
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| 2)
File Find! - "Hot Key Detective"
In the August
8th issue I told you how you could use Hot Keys for
one-touch access to your favorite applications. I closed with a
recommendation to start a text file to keep track of your Hot
Keys.
I then received
the following email from NFTB reader, Tom R. - "I agree,
hot keys are the best way to get to a frequently used program.
However, I think creating a text file to keep track of your hot
keys is a waste of time. I have been using a free program from
ZDNet called HotKey Detective since about 1995. It was created
for Windows 95. I am using it on Windows 98."
I took Tom's
advice and downloaded HotKey Detective. Sure enough, it beats
that silly text file. HotKeyDetective will search for and
display all Hot Keys on your computer, quickly find them with
Explorer, even print them out on demand!
MUCH better than
my do-it-yourself suggestion. Thanks, Tom! [99 Kb\ZIP]
CLICK
HERE to download HotKey Detectivel
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| 3)
Sites-Seeing - "Retro Toys\Changed Names"
Those of you that
might have access to the cable channel station "TV
Land" often are treated to commercial blasts from the past.
I recently caught an old "Slinky" commercial and
almost felt teleported back to the days of my youth - a real
testimony to the enduring power of advertising!
At our first
site, there's no Slinky; but there is a shopping cart full of
Retro Toys that might take YOU back in time, when young girls
from a gentler age wished for a Chatty Cathy or Mrs.
Beasley, while their brothers might have thought an Evel Knievel
Stunt Cycle the perfect toy. Kids would regularly gather to play
Aggravation, Hands Down, or Battling Tops.
This site has
pictures of these and many, many more toys from past decades.
There's also submitted memories of past visitors who have
strong feelings about their own favorite Retro Toy -
CLICK
HERE to Visit Retro Toys
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How well do you
know some of the most famous names of stage, politics, sports,
and music?
Older readers of
NFTB might remember going to the theaters to watch
"Westerns" starring Marion Morrison; younger readers
might be more apt to recognize the work of Caryn Johnson, who
numbers Sister Act I & II among her hits. Minnesota readers
will surely recognize their pugilistic state leader, James
George Janos; and every American certainly knows our 42nd
president - William Jefferson Blythe.
No, I have
slipped into some bizarro-alternate universe--the names used
above are the given names of individuals who later became famous
with much more well-known appellations. Lots of great trivia
material here!
CLICK
HERE for Famous Name Changes
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| 4)
Email Funny - "Man vs. Brick"
"What's that
you say, Bunky? You say you feel like you're beating your head
against a stone wall, and you're not getting anywhere? Pound,
pound, pound--and nothing but a headache?"
This gentleman in
this week's Email Funny knows exactly how you feel! [832
Kb\AVI]
CLICK
HERE to download "Man vs. Brick"!
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| 5)
MOUS Tips - "Spotlight on the Highlight"
It seems that the
first day of EVERY Word class, someone describes the act of
selecting text as "highlighting". Former students of
mine reading this now are probably chuckling, as this has always
been a hot topic for me.
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Why?
Because both Word and FrontPage have a
"highlighting" tool, located on the default
Formatting toolbar, and it's not used to select
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The Highlighting
Tool in Word and FrontPage is used exactly as a highlighting pen
is used in the non-virtual world - it changes the background
color behind selected text in order to emphasize that text. The
tool will highlight using the color that is below the
"pen" (red in example); if you'd like a different
color, chose from those available in the dropdown box to the
right of the icon.
You can use the
Highlighting tool two different ways:
For a single,
one-time use, simple click the icon once. Your cursor's
appearance will incorporate the icon as an indicator that you're
in "highlight" mode; you should then select the text
you'd like to highlight.
To highlight
multiple, non-consecutive blocks of text, double-click the icon.
Select to highlight each item in turn; your cursor will remain
in "highlight" mode until you click a final time on
the icon to turn it off.
To remove the
highlight, select "None" from the dropdown box in
Word, or "Automatic" in FrontPage, then select the
text you want to return to normal.
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| 6)
They Said It
"Speech was
given to man to disguise his thoughts." - Charles
Maurice De Talleyrand |
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Hodgepodge
Striving always
to be topical (and tropical) this week's Photo Funny features
one of the most feared and loathed species on this planet...and
it's NOT pictured above! And a couple of stories made it into
ODDS and ENDS - a VERY unlucky (or maybe they're lucky??) set of
airplane passengers, and a pooch with college potential. Check
it all out, this week in The Basement -
G'nite, and
thanks for reading! |
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