[MikesWhatsNews] MWN #492

MikesWhatsNews, 14, 05, 2002
in today's issue #492
RoboStrike
The SPAM Filter =A9
Idiot Training 101
Put Your Windows Taskbar on Steroids
EmC 
Tina's FrontPage Tips
CCC    Dear Aunt Nettie
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RoboStrike: a FREE real-time, multi-player game.
http://www.robostrike.com/
Flash multiplayer game
RoboStrike offers strategy and action and lets you compete against 
other online players.
Here, you take control of a robot, slugging it out for survival with 
other players and trying to catch all the computer chips scattered 
over the game board. And if you want, you can even custom-build 
your own game board playing environment.
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The SPAM Filter =A9
http://www.scot.demon.co.uk/spam-filter.html
This is an attempt to limit and control the ever-growing problem of 
SPAM by e-mail. This service is free to join. 
Thank you to all the TV channels who have recently reported this 
service on their news. 

What we are proposing is the setting up of a mailing list of people 
who do not want to get SPAM mail. 
This list will under no circumstances whatsoever be passed to any 
other organisation, in whole nor in part. Neither will the SPAM Filter 
list be used to send out messages to people on the list for any 
purpose whatsoever. This has been tried before and people have 
found that they just got junk mail by sending in their address. 
You can confidently send your email address to us, in the knowledge

that this will not happen. You can verify this by inventing an e-mail 
address which you submit to the SPAM Filter service and to no other 
organisation and wait to see if you get any mails sent to that account.
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Thanks to christy for finding this companions site to the
 'Dummies Guides'<g>

Idiot Training 101
http://www.americaworks.net/idiots/idiot-training-101.html
The first in a series of instructions on how to be an idiot.

We get a lot of mail from folks saying things like this: "I really WANT to=
 
enter your contest, but I can't figure out how to be a good enough idiot. 
Please help me."

With the proper training and a little practice, anyone can be an idiot. 
We're going to try to save you weeks and months of frustration and 
perhaps even the expense involved in hiring a professional idiot to tutor 
you. 
Of course, if money is no object, you could visit our sponsor and buy 
yourself all kinds of neat stuff with the money you will save.
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Put Your Windows Taskbar on Steroids
By Ramey Bell

If you use your computer as much as I do, then you're probably always 
looking for ways to save a few clicks here and there, or improve your 
productivity in Windows. The Windows taskbar is no exception. Have 
you "tweaked" it like the rest of your system?

Before I share my experience with customizing the taskbar I must warn 
you. You may have to change your semi-religious thinking that the 
taskbar must live at the bottom of the screen, and that it should 
never be resized :O)

Here's the steps in no particular order:

1.Click on an empty portion of the taskbar, hold down your left mouse 
button and drag it to the top of the screen. Think about it: You 
spend 90% of your time on the top of the screen clicking on menus, 
buttons, and minimizing windows. Why cruise all the way down to the 
bottom?

2. Now hover your cursor on the bottom line of the taskbar until it 
turns into double arrows, and drag the taskbar down until it is twice 
the size.

3. Move the toolbar containing your minimized windows buttons to the 
top row if it's not there already. Note that the toolbars all contain 
a vertical line on the left end, which you can click and drag to move 
in any direction.

4. Right click on an empty area, select toolbars and check address. 
Place it on the second row all the way to the left.

5. Download a freeware program called Command Prompt Bar at 
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/ruindivision/. After installation, right 
click again to reach the toolbars menu and select it's entry. Place 
this toolbar in the middle of the second row.

6. Select toolbars again and this time select new toolbar. Click on 
My Documents in the window provided. It should show up on the second 
row on the right. Slide this toolbar all the way to the right. See 
what happens when you click on the two small arrows?

That's all there is to it! Now type in website addresses without 
having to launch your browser first, launch DOS commands without 
looking for the DOS shortcut, and access your documents with one 
click. You now have more room for icons on the quick launch bar and 
system tray as well. 

It may take some getting used to, but it's well worth the effort. It 
never hurts to save a few thousand clicks a year! :O)

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Ramey Bell is the editor of "inboxMagazine", a free internet e-zine 
to interesting sites, software, tips, and technology. Visit the site 
to preview the current issue and subscribe at 
http://www.inboxmagazine.com
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EmC 
http://www.abreuretto.com/anti-spam/indexi.htm
- anti-Spam and anti-virus of email for (Win/95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP)
New FREEware version with special functions . 
Description
EmC (Email Control) is an anti-spam tool that allows you to reduce 
the number of junk mails arriving in your inbox. The program works 
with a combination of filters, that can be customized by the user 
and checks the mail while it is still on your ISPs server. Based on 
your filter criteria, it will process the mail and optionally delete all 
Spam or mark it for deletion. EmC also works as an email checker, 
allowing you to view messages on the server, before doing any 
delete actions. In addition, you can check your mail for any script 
based viruses or other hazards before downloading it to your 
computer. New filters can be easily added and the programs comes 
equipped with a large list of presets include "Find sender onwer 
domain" in the registration domain database..

Features
Read and filter all the email header messages found in the POP3 boxes. 
Delete the selected messages right from the server.
Answer the senders of unsolicited email with a standard message 
(designed by the user).
Verify the possible presence of attachment viruses using our filters.
Maintain the Anti-Spam Black List of the non-desired senders.
Organize the statistics of your email acceptance and deletion.
Find sender onwer domain in the registration domain database.
Discover the spammers messages.
Show the message body in the exclusive "Browser Stylus"
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Tina's FrontPage Tips, by Tina Clarke

Hang ups with FP2k

If FrontPage hangs it could be because the file has gone
beyond 32,768 lines of code. There is a limit to the size of
files that can open for editing, and if you go over this
magic number FrontPage will 'hang' so try to keep your file
size down. You can always open the file in notepad to delete
some of the code if this happens.

AccessFP - FrontPage Resource Centre
Site -  http://www.accessfp.net/
Ezine & Forums - http://anyfrontpage.com/  FREE FP E-Books
Journal - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AccessFPJournal
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Christies Computer Corner thanks to Christy;
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Dear Aunt Nettie

http://www.dearauntnettie.com/

"Dear Aunt Nettie" tells it like it is (and was)! Aunt Nettie is
one of the Internet pioneers of the 19th century. She still gives
good bandwidth from a franchised housing development for the
elderly in Redbone, Arkansas, which she calls Living Dead "R" Us.
As the World's Leading Authority, she freely dispenses advice on
technology, the
 fascinating history of the early Internet and pretty much
whatever she feels like. 

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Here is an tip, that I often forget about.

Moving through a web page.

You can move up and down a web page,
by using the Page Up and Page Down keys.

If it is a long web page, Home will take you
back to the top.

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Antivirus software is a good choice to scan your system for possible 
viruses, however no virus scanner is 100% effective as manufactures
cannot keep up with the rapid change of viruses that happens daily.
Be sure to update yours regularly.
http://www.hackfix.org/software/antivirus.html
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