[donspatch] 2004-08-15
- From: "Don Crowder" <guitarman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Don's Patch" <donspatch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 11:11:46 -0500
Don's Patch Issue #2004-08-15 from http://www.don-guitar.com
Howdy ya'll, give me a minute to get my soap box adjusted because
I'm "fixin' to" step up on it and cut loose.
Most of us have at least one friend who's a forwarding junkie. For
the most part I don't raise too much fuss unless they start sending
me 300K emails or, and this is the topic I'm fired up about, until they
send me some sort of dire warning that turns out to be totally bogus.
A friend-who-shall-remain-nameless sent me a dire warning
about the "WTC Survivor" virus. I'd checked up on this one
before so I knew it was a hoax but rather than ask my friend to
simply take my word for it I did a quick google search on
"WTC Survivor" (in quotes) and nearly every link on the first
page of results was to a page on a trustworthy site (Symantec,
McAfee, Snopes, and more) which confirms that this warning is,
indeed, a hoax. I wrote him back and reminded him of an old
saying I've always liked: "If you're not part of the solution, you're
part of the problem".
Never forward any warning message you get in your email without
checking on it first. If the warning message doesn't have some
sort of clearly searchable key phrase, like this one did, then
type the first ten words of the warning message, in quotes, into
any good search engine. As often as not you'll find an answer
in the first page of results. Be a responsible forwarder.
http://www.don-guitar.com/forwarders.html
Remember, your input is always welcome. I value your suggestions
and comments, and I'm always willing to help you find answers to
your computer and Internet questions.
My feedback form: http://www.don-guitar.com/contactme.html
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Positive Parenting. http://www.positiveparenting.com/
Guide to mail information, features rates, post codes, and postal
authorities around the world. Also find philately resources and
links to general reference materials. http://www.postalrates.info/
Recipes and other goodies. http://www.kraftfoods.com/
The "PostData Viewer" is a small utility program that allows easy
viewing of HTML encoded strings containing pairs of fields and
values. http://www.greatowl.com/PostData/PostData.htm
These aren't very large but one of them might look good hanging
in your workspace. http://print-a-poster.p-rposters.com/index.htm
Animation via sticky notes. http://www.bigempire.com/postittheater/
A couple of freebies. http://www.posum.com/freestuf.html
This is a serious tool for graphics artists. http://www.povray.org/
I don't know how to describe this one, but the site has some
interesting stuff to look at. http://www.powersof10.com/
Who needs better money skills? How about some games or
calculators? http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com/index.php
I think this is a software version of Connect Four.
http://www.pracx.com/all4won.asp
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Pop-ups and banner ads are things we can all do without.
I keep a running list of applications/solutions on the topic.
Here's the latest update.
Pop Up Stopper and Ad Killer for file sharing apps..
http://www.projectbarracuda.com/pusak/index.phtml
AdKiller Daemon.
http://mycgiserver.com/~adkiller/Eng/index2.htm
AKiller. http://sourceforge.net/projects/akiller/
EMS Free Surfer mk II.
http://www.kolumbus.fi/eero.muhonen/FS/fs.htm
Popup Manager. http://www.endpopups.com/
Guidescope. http://www.guidescope.com/
IE Kill. http://www.codefoot.com/software/iekill/
Kana PopCloser (listed on this page, along with
many other interesting apps).
http://www.kana.homeip.net/index.php
KillAd. http://www.iomagic.org/fsc/killad.htm
John's Kill Pops.
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?10000000036144
MagicKillah. http://www.magickillah.nl/
NoAds. http://www.southbaypc.com/NoAds/
Pop This. http://www.mathies.com/popthis/
PopDown. http://kcotter.netfirms.com/popdown.htm
Similar name but not the same app. Pop-Down.
http://home.rochester.rr.com/artcfox/Pop-Down/
PopOops. http://www.gasanov.net/PopOops.htm
Popup preventer. http://www.myminer.com/popuppreventer.htm
PopUpBuster. http://www.popupbuster.com/PopUpBuster/
Panicware's costless version.
http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html
12Ghosts. http://www.12ghosts.com/ghosts/popup.htm
Hitware Popup Killer Lite.
http://www.rightutilities.com/products/hitware_lite.htm
PopupPopper. http://www.bayden.com/popper/
POW.
http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/pow.htm
Randy's PopKi. http://ranfo.com/popki.html
Popup Eraser. http://www.webknacks.com/popuperaser.htm
Window Shades.
http://www.g-m-m.com/Software/WindowShades/
These apps are probably a little more complicated to use.
http://www.privoxy.org/
http://muffin.doit.org/
http://www.webwasher.com/client/download/
http://www.ranish.com/zeroserv/
The first three browsers listed on my recently updated freeware
favorites page all have the ability to block pop-ups.
http://www.don-guitar.com/donspick.html#browsers
If you use Internet Explorer, and you're a google fan as well
then it's hard to beat the google tool bar for controlling pop-ups.
http://toolbar.google.com/ (I used it myself until I switched to
Slimbrowser)
Given a solution to pop-ups, you might want to take a shot
at those flashing banner ads which we all love to hate.
http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/
http://www.curdrice.com/ranga//software/adblock.html
http://www.nacs.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/gems/ad-blocking.html
http://www.everythingisnt.com/hosts.html (easiest)
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Preschool Coloring Book.
http://www.preschoolcoloringbook.com/
This publication isn't about commercial products, however, if
there's any sort of computer hardware you're looking for,
this is a pretty good place to start.
http://www.pricewatch.com/
Printable hobby, craft items.
http://www.herevents.com/hobby/printables/print.shtml
A portal for printer goodies that's reasonably current.
http://www.afterzed.com/freeware/printingtoolsfreeware1.html
Audio/sound recording tools for Windows or Mac.
http://www.digidesign.com/ptfree/
PrcView is a process viewer utility that displays detailed
information about processes running under Windows.
http://www.xmlsp.com/pview/prcview.htm
Type in a word in the text box to the upper left of this window,
click "look it up," and you'll be rewarded with an interactive
map showing the meaning of your word.
http://thesaurus.plumbdesign.com/online.jsp
Red Dwarf fans might enjoy exploring this one.
http://www.planetsmeg.com/
This one offers a lot to explore but may be rewarding.
http://www.pricelessware.org/thelist/index.htm
Take a proactive approach to telemarketers.
http://www.antitelemarketer.com/nuke/html/index.php
A Canadian site pertaining to indigenous peoples.
http://www.galileo.org/schools/gibson/land/index.shtml
When a website pushes the envelope of my family-friendly
standards there's a little test question I ask myself:
"is there any chance that one of my readers might need
this site?". If the answer is "yes", or even "maybe" then
it gets listed. This is that sort of site.
http://personal.advicemeant.com/index.shtml
Some web-tech related costless apps.
http://www.verysimple.com/products.php
Sometime I'm not up for reading and I just want to look
at the pictures. http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp
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Special feature: Web Logs aka "Blogs"
What is a "blog"?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblog
http://snipurl.com/6z6y
http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/whatMakesAWeblogAWeblog
http://snipurl.com/8cf0
http://newhome.weblogs.com/historyOfWeblogs
Blogging applications:
http://www.blosxom.com/
http://cafelog.com/
http://www.noahgrey.com/greysoft/
http://www.bblog.com/
http://www.farook.org/
http://www.s9y.org/
http://www.camdenfamily.com/morpheus/blog/blog35.zip
http://www.plogworld.org/
http://www.movabletype.org/
http://wordpress.org/
http://wiki.blojsom.com/wiki/display/blojsom/About+blojsom
http://web.vee.net/projects/azure/
http://blogs.linux.ie/
http://www.slashcode.com/
Costless blog hosts:
http://www.20six.co.uk/
http://www.blogger.com/start
http://www.joeuser.com/index.htm
http://22blog.com/
http://www.blogdrive.com/
http://www.ebloggy.com/
http://www.tblog.com/
http://www.pitas.com/
http://www.blog-city.com/bc/
http://www.blogeasy.com/
http://weblogs.us/
http://www.etwine.com/
http://www.livelogcity.com/
http://onablog.com/
http://www.blogstudio.com/
http://www.instudent.com/
http://www.bloglines.com/
http://www.livejournal.com/
http://www.crimsonblog.com/
http://mobynuke.net/index.php
http://www.scienceblog.com/blogs/
Blog related:
http://www.botablog.com/
http://blackbox.cs.fit.edu/blog/kaner/archives/000124.html
http://www.lights.com/weblogs/tools.html
http://www.scriptsearch.com/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=10729
http://www.citrusmoon.net/bgenter.html
http://www.mandarindesign.com/index.html
http://chatter.flooble.com/
Blog templates:
http://www.erisfree.com/d2/apart.php
http://blogtemplates.noipo.org/
http://www.blogdesigns.com/
http://alicorna.com/blogtemplates.html
http://www.maystardesigns.com/hiddentemplates/home.html
I'm still trying to decide how I feel about web logs. I've seen a
few which are superlative information resources and others
which are vainglorious drivel. In the traditional publishing
world there are editors who decide whether or not an authors
work is worthy of being published. Hopeful writers must
meet the standards of those editors. That doesn't guarantee
the reading public an endless stream of quality works to read,
editors are like anyone else in that some of them have no
taste, but at least some rudimentary screening is done and
the reading public is insulated from the worst of amateur
works. On the web just about anyone can afford to publish
with no editorial restraints and their work is instantly
accessible to an incredibly large and diverse audience.
Since published works are already in place without
benefit of editorial supervision in the form of blogs and
there's so much information there that average readers
simply don't have time to screen and review the work,
I assume we'll eventually see sites that make it their
business to locate and review web logs. I found a few
sites of this type.
http://www.theweblogreview.com/
http://www.blogarama.com/
http://www.blogselect.com/
http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/
I also found two sites that simply index weblogs.
http://www.blogwise.com/
http://www.blogsearchengine.com/
I encountered one programmer who detests blogs so much
that he created a text message and button image that
other blog-haters can display on their site. The text message
is too far over the family-friendly line for me to publish but
here's the button image:
http://www.verysimple.com/jason/images/blogfree.gif
I also found a site that's been created to assist individuals
in China who's government has blocked their access to some
free blog hosting sites.
http://www.sinosplice.com/adoptablog/
If you have any comments on this special feature or on the
topic of blogs, I'd love to hear from you.
http://www.don-guitar.com/contactme.html
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A closer look at eagles and other raptors.
http://www.rain.org/eagle/
Coyote's campfire story telling place.
http://www.rain.org/eagle/story.htm
More to see as well at Camp Internet.
http://www.rain.org/campinternet/
Isn't it funny how characters from television commercials can
take on a life of their own? http://www.chevroncars.com/wocc/
The Chinook Indians. http://www.chinookindian.com/
(Be sure to click "No" on the pop-up)
Copyright information. http://www.copyright.gov/register/
Copyright Alternatives.
http://www.lib.unc.edu/instruct/infoethics/alternatives/
http://www.lib.unc.edu/copyright/copyrightalternatives.htm
Corner Poetry. http://www.cornerpoetry.com/default.html
A digital photography resource. http://www.ephotozine.com/
Do it yourself. http://www.diynet.com/
Interesting, eclectic reading. http://www.earthbow.com/
EFF is a nonprofit group of passionate people, lawyers,
volunteers, and visionaries, working to protect your digital
rights. http://www.eff.org/
Minnesota State University, Mankato, eMuseum.
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/index.shtml
English, medical, legal, and computer Dictionaries,
Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, a Literature reference library,
and a Search Engine all in one.
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/
Guitarists resources.
http://www.e-tabs.org/
http://www.olga.net/
http://www.fretplay.com/
The contribution of fire in dramatizing the Australian landscape.
http://sres.anu.edu.au/associated/fire/ecol/firecol.htm
A private server devoted to, among other things,
game resources, including MUDs. The main focus is
on role playing games. http://www.flick.com/
Fly Animator is a small application you can use to add
custom animations to your Website.
http://www.emu8086.com/flyani_Help/overview.html
Unfreez is a similar app which I've used and like.
http://www.whitsoftdev.com/unfreez/
Other "goodies" from the emu8086 site.
http://www.emu8086.com/download/
http://www.emu8086.com/vb/index_vb.html
Folklore Heritage In the Pacific Northwest (parental
supervision required).
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/folklore/index.htm
Conversant is designed to help groups of all sizes work
together by making it easy for them to share ideas,
questions, files, and knowledge.
http://www.free-conversant.com/index
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A tech news site from Ireland. http://www.hackwatch.com/
Jim's home repair stuff.
http://www.factsfacts.com/MyHomeRepair/index.html
Here's a quote from the site "This site is about annotating space
with metadata; about building semantic models of places; about
exchanging geospatial data in RDF" . I've no idea what that means.
http://space.frot.org/
This site is a mecca for information junkies (you'll love it *grin*).
http://www.ibiblio.org/index.html
An interesting entrepreneurial tale. http://snipurl.com/8cs4
Native American Legends.
http://w1.155.telia.com/~u15508742/legends.htm
Native American Olympians.
http://www.nativevoices.org/index.htm
National Coalition for the Protection of Children and Families.
http://www.nationalcoalition.org/index.html
The open access movement puts peer-reviewed scientific and
scholarly literature on the internet.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html
Poetry Friends. http://www.poetryfriends.com/
Through Apache Eyes. http://impurplehawk.com/index.html
A worldwide consumer reporting website & publication
(with pop-ups). http://www.badbusinessbureau.com/default.asp
The Internet Sacred Text Archive. http://www.sacred-texts.com/
The best in Science Fiction and Fantasy. http://www.sfsite.com/
News blog with a southern spin. http://www.southerner.net/blog/
Links to the American South. http://www.southerner.net/
Quotations, poetry and history for gardeners and lovers of the
"green way". http://www.gardendigest.com/
Spirit of Trees is a resource for therapists, educators,
environmentalists, storytellers and tree lovers.
http://www.spiritoftrees.org/spirit_of_trees.html
The Real Stonehenge and Avebury.
http://www.egyouth.fsnet.co.uk/
A weekly speculative fiction magazine.
http://www.strangehorizons.com/
A web site about Beavering, the junior section of Scouts Canada.
http://w3.hwdsb.on.ca/tailslap/index.htm
Daily dose of Star Wars. http://www.theforce.net/
Goodies from Björn Ischo.
http://www.b-zone.de/software.htm
(exploring the rest of this site is not recommended
without adult supervision)
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Jo-Ann Burton is a wonderful friend. We didn't
grow up together, and we've never met in person
but she's my sister. I harvest links that she posts
to her Yahoo group (to which I belong).
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sharinglinks2/
This site is part book promo but don't let that make you keep
from clicking because the folks that wrote the book and
created this site have some pretty funny viewpoints about
being 30 and other ages. http://www.bookofages.com/
Information on the 2004 Olympic Games.
Athens 2004: http://www.athens2004.com/
Information Week: http://snipurl.com/8dq5
BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympics_2004/
CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/
NBC: http://www.nbcolympics.com/index.html
Sports Illustrated:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2004/
With the legendary status of the Doom game franchise, the
release this week of Doom 3 was accompanied by a frenzy
of gamer activity.
Doom 3 at Amazon.com: http://snipurl.com/8dqb
GameSpot
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/doom3/review.html
IGN: http://pc.ign.com/articles/536/536387p1.html
GameSpy:
http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/doom-3/535138p1.html?fromint=1
The Fourth Annual Everyman Photo Contest.
http://www.theeveryman.com/41.php
Mozilla announces $500 Bug Bounty Program.
http://www.mozilla.org/press/mozilla-2004-08-02.html
A quest to visit every Starbucks.
http://www.starbuckseverywhere.net/
James Slevin is walking the globe for charity.
http://www.walkingaroundtheworld.com/
NPR's Top 100 Most Important Works of American Music.
http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/vote/list100.html
Cancerfacts.com was a People's Voice winner of a 2004
Webby Award. http://www.cancerfacts.com/
KidsHealth is another 2004 Webby Award Winner.
http://www.kidshealth.org/
The American's Creed. http://snipurl.com/8dqm
Home Of Heroes. http://www.homeofheroes.com/
National Anthems of 192 Countries (with flags).
http://www.thenationalanthems.com/
Cockney rhyming slang.
http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/
http://www.aldertons.com/
The Hampton Court maze.
Facts about it.
http://www.hrp.org.uk/webcode/content.asp?ID=495
History and image. http://snipurl.com/8dqr
Who are those people and images on the cover of Sgt. Pepper?
http://www.iamthebeatles.com/article1318.html
College football fight songs.
http://www.fightmusic.com/ivy.html
Deities and Demigods of ancient real world religions and
cultures. This page appears to be promoting the book
but scroll down, you'll find loads of information.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deities_&_Demigods
Heraldic color symbolism.
http://www.digiserve.com/heraldry/symbols.htm
The cartoon voices of Mel Blanc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Blanc
George Washington's rules of civility & decent behaviour.
http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/manners/rules2.cfm
The wildest, craziest, most massive quiz ever.
There are other quizzes, and more offered.
http://www.zenhex.com/quiz.php?id=212
The Big Bang: A fun place for kids and their parents
to visit. http://www.granadakids.com/bigbang/ser56/
Alex and the Ketchup Bottle (cute poem).
http://www.countryfriends.org/KWKetchup.html
California Dreaming is perhaps a site worth exploring.
http://www.califmall.com/index.htm
Thanks Sis.
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Contributions from
reader and friend Lisa Miller
http://www.don-guitar.com/lisamain.html
Mrs. Wizard's graphic tips & tricks.
http://mrswizard.com/gtips/index.html
Demotivators, sometimes sarcasm is good, clean fun.
http://snipurl.com/8drj
Interesting site from artist Tom Ziolkowski.
http://www.foxchange.com/~skunktoons/portfolio/comic.html
A couple of costless apps for Mac that I found while
exploring Tom's site host. http://snipurl.com/8drw
http://snipurl.com/8dry
A computer help resource with thousands of free tips and links.
http://www.techmommy.com/
As you will see in the following site, recent tests of rodent
performance, via "Squirrel Fishing", prove that Texas
squirrels outperform Massachusetts squirrels.
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~yaz/en/squirrel_fishing.html
Thanks Lisa.
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Websites Everyone Should Know About
These aren't sponsors, they're the best of
Internet publications and I highly recommend
them all.
http://askTCL.com
http://www.langa.com
http://www.tourbus.com
http://www.lockergnome.com
http://www.neatnettricks.com
http://www.scotsnewsletter.com
http://www.tricksandtrinkets.com
http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html
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Here's a few links I snagged from
the Highland Lakes Computer Club
http://pages.tstar.net/~hlcc/
For XP users who've forgotten their admin password.
http://snipurl.com/8dsl
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/win_xp_passwords.htm
IE may be hazardous to your computer's health.
http://strom.com/awards/377.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/713878
How to disable the ADODB.Stream object from Internet
Explorer. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=870669
On removing IE from your computer.
http://www.litepc.com/ieradicator.html
Computer and related product recycling.
http://snipurl.com/8dsu
http://snipurl.com/8dsv
There are times when you can't boot your system from the hard
drive, thanks to either a system problem, a lost password, or the
simple fact that the OS hasn't been installed. Windows XP offers
a number of options for booting from floppy disks, but you must
prepare them before they're needed.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1206398,00.asp
There's a wealth of XP information in the past issues of
WinXP news.
http://www.winxpnews.com/issues.cfm
Thanks HLCC.
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How to Wash a Cat:
1. Thoroughly clean the toilet.
2. Add the required amount of shampoo to the toilet water,
and have both lids lifted.
3. Obtain the cat and soothe him while you carry him
towards the bathroom.
4. In one smooth movement, put the cat in the toilet and
close both lids (you may need to stand on the lid so that
he cannot escape). Caution: Do not get any part of your
body too close to the edge, as his paws will be reaching
out for any purchase they can find.
5. Flush the toilet three or four times. This provides a
"powerwash and rinse" which I have found to be quite effective.
6. Have someone open the door to the outside and ensure that
there are no people between the toilet and the outside door.
7. Stand behind the toilet as far as you can, and quickly
lift both lids.
8. The now-clean cat will rocket out of the toilet, and run
outside where he will dry himself.
Sincerely,
The dog
============== Tips ===============
To copy/paste an entire email, on a Windows computer,
click once inside the text box (where the email is
visible) hold the "Ctrl" key down and tap the "A" key
once (which will highlight the entire email). Next,
hold the "Ctrl" key down and tap the "C" key. This
"copies" the highlighted text to Windows Clipboard
(a non-visible, temporary storage area). Open a
new email (or text editor), click once inside the text
box (where you'd normally type), hold down the "Ctrl"
key and tap the "V" key once. This "pastes the
stored text into your email (or editor) and you may
then edit the text if and as you wish.
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Here's a couple of interesting sites from reader Leo.
http://www.freewareweb.com/ (site has both a pop-up
and a "floater")
All-in-One Secretmaker is designed for users who wish
to keep their email box free of (censored word), avoid
irritating pop-up and banner interruptions, protect their
privacy, avoids profiling, and use the Internet efficiently
for private or business use. http://www.secretmaker.com/
Thanks Leo.
A reader named John, who prefers that I not mention his surname,
sent this email.
"I don't know if you're old enough to remember the Apollo space
missions to the moon, but I am if just barely 8-)
[Editor's note: Yes John, I remember then well.]
http://www.apolloarchive.com offers some totally cool photos and
audio files of all the Apollo missions. I especially recommend
those for the Apollo 11 mission, the first to land on the moon.
There are also some good videos for those with a broadband
connection. This page took me back in time, and it's just as
thrilling if not more so the second time around.
I should add that I got the heads up for this site from another
newsletter I subscribe to. It can be found at
http://www.kimkommando.com and is very family friendly.
Enjoy."
Thanks John
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Ok, that wraps up another issue. This is the fourth issue of
this publication and judging from reader feedback, most of
you feel it's at least as good as the ezine I wrote for
maxpatch.com. That being the case I'm ready to start
trying to do a little promoting but in all honesty I'm not
very good at that so it may take a while for some sort
of inspiration to strike me.
See you next time.
Don Crowder - Saturday, August 14, 2004
11:05 AM CST - Tow, TX, USA
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