[MikesWhatsNews] MWN #629

MikesWhatsNews, 13, 01, 2003
in today's issue #629
Icon Restore
GiPo@Utilities
Stakomania
Anti-lost CD Lite
Colour Blindness Check
What's Wrong With the Word "Free"?
CCC  IconShop 
        Printing, Just A Little
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Icon Restore
http://home.epix.net/~ttaylor/icon_restore.html
Windows 95/98/ME/XP/2000/NT4.0
Icon Restore installs LAYOUT.DLL (along with the required registry entries)
from Microsoft.Two new options are added to the pop up menu that opens when
any Windows
system icon (ex. My Computer) is right clicked. These options are "Save
Desktop Icon Layout" and "Restore Desktop Icon Layout".
After installing Icon Restore, simply place your icons wherever you want
them on your desktop, right click My Computer and left click on "Save
Desktop Icon Layout" from the pop up menu.

If your icons ever get moved because your computer entered safe mode or you
changed the screen resolution, right click My Computer and left click on
"Restore Desktop Icon Layout" from the pop up menu.

Icon Restore is the perfect solution for people that have to change the
screen resolution often.
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GiPo@Utilities
http://www.gibinsoft.net/gipoutils/
Copies, moves or deletes files on next system boot for Windows
95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP.
The utility is very useful when user needs to replace or delete files which
are locked by other applications, loaded into memory or cannot be changed
until next system boot.
The program can be integrated into shell (setup creates the
"Copy/Move/Delete on boot" context menu item).
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Stakomania 2.5.5  
http://www.geocities.com/stackomania/
Win9x/NT4/Mill/Win2k/XP 
Stakomania is a fun card game. It's easy to play. It's free. 
You start with a random stack of numbered cards. 
You win if you put your cards in order first. 
Use the Discard Pile and the Draw Pile to replace cards you don't want. 
Play against the compter or a human opponent over the internet. 
With lots of play options, Stackomania is really several games in one.
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Anti-lost CD Lite ~ Freeware
http://www.nesoft.org
Supported Platforms : Windows 9X/XP/NT/2000
This program lets you set the CD drive to auto-eject any CD when you
shutdown Windows so you won't leave your CD inside the tray. You might wanna
install this to your work PC also if you are allowed to do so or on other
computers that is not yours, provided the owners know about it.
Thanks to; My Computer Headaches 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mycomputerheadaches/
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Colour Blindness Check ~ joke
This is pretty good

http://www.liquidgeneration.com/sabotage/vision_sabotage.asp


Thanks to; Steve
A Helping Hand - One of The Collective
http://learn.at/ahh 
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What's Wrong With the Word "Free"?
http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc3/v20/linda20.htm

Used to be that "free" was a good word.  Free the people.  
Free from slavery.  Wild and free. Free software.  All good things.  

Now the word "free" inside an email gets your mail tossed into the spam
bucket.  

Yes, my friends, a lot of ISPs have now decided to *help* their customers by
removing SPAM from their servers before you even see it.  So, they've added
filters that look for certain words inside your mail and when they find
them, they dump the mail into a spam holding area.  Unfortunately, some of
them don't even tell you that they are doing this.  They just do it, without
asking.  And the result is that you may not receive some important mail.

Here's some mail, you won't get:

Grandma sends you an email telling you that Grandpa has been set FREE from
prison.

Aunt Matilda sends you a mail telling you that she is finally FREE from her
migraines.

Your boss sends you an email telling you that they are having a clearance
sale of old inventory and all employees are entitled to one FREE item.

Of course, FREE isn't the only word that ISPs have decided you don't want to
see in your emails.  If your ISP is filtering your mail for spam, you
probably won't see these emails either:

From Cousin Mary:

The baby arrived yesterday.  Weight: 8lbs., Length: 19 inches, SEX: Female.

From your co-worker:

You better come to work tomorrow.  The boss says you will be fired if you're
not here for the meeting with the new VIAGRA client.

From your fiancé:

How bout we get together and watch some XXX rated movies?

Are you getting my point?  Yes, we are all sick of the constant spam and
pornography we receive, and we appreciate our ISPs trying to help us, but
shouldn't they at least tell us they are doing this and tell us how we can
make our OWN choices about what we do and don't want to receive?

I'm betting lots of people don't even receive the text version of ABC becuz
I've been known to offer lots of FREE goodies, and it's not uncommon for me
to make statements like "I applied that speed fix and my browser acted like
it had a shot of VIAGRA".  And, of course, I will always challenge anyone
who discriminates on the basis of race, creed, or SEX.

So, if you want to be sure you are getting the mail you want to receive, you
should contact your ISP and see if they are using these filters, and if they
are, how YOU can manage what they put in their spam buckets.

Happy Computing!

From; Linda's ABC ~ All 'Bout Computers, Vol. 20
http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc
Publisher ~ ABC ~ All 'Bout Computers
Owner ~ Linda's Computer Stop http://personal-computer-tutor.com
FREE MS Office eBook Tutorial 
http://personal-computer-tutor.com/library.htm
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Christies Computer Corner thanks to Christy;
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IconShop
Freeware
http://users.pandora.be/liontech/Download.htm

IconShop is an icon librarian that offers the tools to manage ICL
icon libraries. 

Read and write ICL icon libraries. 
Drag and drop files and folders from the Windows Explorer onto
the IconShop window to process them. 
Drag and drop icons or icon images between IconShop windows. 
Extract icons from Windows icons, cursors, animated cursors, BMP
bitmaps, GIF bitmaps, TIFF bitmaps, XPM bitmaps, resources,
executables and libraries. 
Extract icons from Macintosh icons, resources, executables,
IconDropper icon packs and Kaleidoscope schemes, including MacOS
8.5 24-bit and MacOS X 32-bit icons. 
Export icons to icon, cursor BMP or TIFF bitmap format. 
Tiny executable size. 
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Printing, Just a Little 

Ever need to print just part of a web page or e-mail? You too
huh? read on.

First, you need to know that this does not work with every system
out there. This tip only works if both
your printer driver and the software application you're using
supports this little trick. So, take this for
what it's worth.

Here's how it usually works:

1. First, select the area you would like to print.

2. Next, from the file menu, select Print...

3. When the printer dialog box comes up, look for an option for
"Selection", in a "Print Range" frame.
Again, not all printers / software support this. 

4. Click Print.

BTW - Please note that I was NOT able to get this little trick to
work with Netscape (4.x or 6). This may
be due to my printer driver, but I'm guessing that it's more
likely that Netscape doesn't support selective
printing.

Oh, one more thing. If you can't print a selection, you can
always copy and paste the stuff you want into
a word processor and print it from there. Sure, it's not nearly
as much fun, but it's better than printing
out eight pages of junk just to get a small section of text.

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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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