Don's Patch Issue #2005-03-01 from http://www.don-guitar.com I finally bought NoteTab Pro, which I've been saying I'd do for the last three years (shame on me) only to find that, while it's really an awesome HTML editor and I'll love using it on my webpages, it's got some minor differences from the costless NoteTab Light which I've used for years. The main difference is that NoteTab Pro strictly uses "fixed width fonts" and my ezine font-of-choice, Arial, isn't fixed width. Jody Adair, the developer of NoteTab, put it this way: "NoteTab Standard (and Light) can show fixed and variable width fonts but cannot display fonts with OEM character sets (like Terminal or MS Line Draw). On the other hand, NoteTab Pro can display fonts with OEM character sets but does not support variable width fonts." For me, this means I should have purchased NoteTab Standard instead of Pro but now that I've used it I want both so I'll just go back and buy the Standard version (eventually *grin*) and I've installed NoteTab Light on my new computer as well as NoteTab Pro. I'll use the Light version to write the ezine (which I'm doing at this moment in fact) and the Pro version to work on my web pages. The job is going nicely. My training is complete, I'm beginning to get the hang of things and I've discovered an unexpected bonus which comes with working nights. I get off work at seven in the morning and very few businesses are open yet. I sleep from around nine in the morning until seven in the evening (sometimes later) so very few businesses are still open. This means that, while I'm making more money than I did in the supermarket, I have far fewer opportunities to spend it so my bank balance is actually growing every week. It's been somewhere between twenty and thirty years since that was true and I'm rather enjoying it. I don't expect it to be a permanent condition since circumstances always seem to adjust themselves in whatever manner is required to use up all of one's available monetary resources but I'll continue to enjoy it while it lasts. *grin* 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 ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª The award-winning NoteTab text editors and HTML editors. http://www.notetab.com/ SmartView is an interesting Windows graphics viewer. http://www.smartcode.com/products/view/view.htm A Windows XP support site. http://www.tweakxp.com/default.aspx This game looks a little like "connect four" to me. http://www.twilightgames.com/4free/4free.htm A digital journal of speculative fiction. http://www.twilighttimes.com/ Recipes for dog treats. http://www.twodogpress.com/dogfood.html U.S. Department of the Interior. http://www.doi.gov/ The Indiana University Digital Library Program collections provide online access to digitized materials from physical collections that IU holds or owns, with a few exceptions that come from several sources. http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/ Official UK statistics. http://www.statistics.gov.uk/ Actors and actresses who appear in or do voice-overs for British commercials. http://www.uktvadverts.com/Home/ A UK travel information resource. http://www.pti.org.uk/ Goodies at Ulead. http://www.ulead.com/download/freedownload.htm A completely costless application for use in commercial and non-commercial music projects and studios. http://www.urr.ca/ The United Nations Atlas of the Oceans. http://www.oceansatlas.org/ This one's interesting to explore but I wouldn't invest any funds. http://www.unclaimedbaggage.com/ Steve Gibson's goodies. http://www.grc.com/freepopular.htm A commercial site with some resources for parents and kids. http://www.uptoten.com/ The USDA Forrest Service. http://www.fs.fed.us/ A useful legal resource. http://www.uslaw.com/ Utility programs developed by Gammon Software Solutions. http://www.gammon.com.au/utilities/utilities.htm Some online tools for technically inclined folks who want to fight junk email. http://combat.uxn.com/ http://www.geektools.com/whois.php Guideon, Dunce, and Color Picker are costless utilities from Vector Development. http://www.vecdev.com/ Learning about the Vendian animals. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vendian/critters.html A Java, ASP and DHTML resource. http://www.viewsource.dk/default.asp A global community that integrates information, resources, and communication opportunities on the Internet for persons with cognitive and other disabilities, for their families, and for those that provide them services and support. http://www.familyvillage.wisc.edu/index.htmlx Learn to drum. http://www.vicfirth.com/education/educationmain.html Singapore Science Centre. http://www.science.edu.sg/ssc/index.jsp Virtual Institute. http://www.allcanwin.com/vinstitute/ Virtual Stapler. http://www.virtualstapler.com/ Who wants to dissect a frog? http://snipurl.com/cyaw (click on "Demo") http://froggy.lbl.gov/cgi-bin/dissect Less "icky" stuff about frogs. http://www.exploratorium.edu/frogs/ ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª This publication is only mailed to verified double opt-in subscribers, and is brought to you by me, Don Crowder, and //www.freelists.org ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª I don't "do" cursors. Animated or otherwise, the default cursor on my system is fine with me but if you feel differently, here's an interesting site. http://joescursors.tripod.com/HVCurPg.htm Here's one for serious geeks. Visual Recurrence Analysis (VRA) is a costless application for topological analysis, qualitative and quantitative assessment, and nonparametric prediction of nonlinear and chaotic time series. http://home.netcom.com/~eugenek/download.html This ezine is written (and mailed) as a plain text document. To create the online version (which is an HTML document) I use Virdi's Text2Web Pro. http://virdi-software.com/txt2web/desc.shtml UK technology, news, reviews and more. http://www.vnunet.com/ VoyForums allows you to discuss topics with people of like-interests. You can create your own Message Board or community for your friends, work, website, school, or any other topic you want to discuss with others. http://www.voy.com/ The Redwall Encyclopedia is a compendium of information on the books by Brian Jacques. http://www.sullivanet.com/redwall/ An RPG (role playing game) site. http://www.role-playing.com I've no idea of exactly what they mean by a "clustered" search but I did perform a familiar search and get some previously unseen results. http://clusty.com/ HTML validation. http://validator.w3.org/ This is a humorous spoof that's made the rounds a few times. http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm Have some fun with vocabulary. http://www.vocabulary.com/ The official Cass Elliot site. http://www.casselliot.com/ There's some interesting stuff here. I made 16760 on Curveball. http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~awol/phtml/play/ Desktop wallpaper images. http://www.1000pictures.com/ The official 381st Bomb Group (Heavy) Memorial Association and Triangle-L Society web site, commemorating the service of all USAAF units assigned to Station 167 - Ridgewell, England, during World War II. http://381st.org/ Anime and other wallpapers. http://es.dears.net/wallp/anime.htm Years ago I learned enough basic to write some simple programs for myself and my kids. Recently I've started wondering if I could learn a more modern programming language and I've been looking into the possibilities. Here are some of the more interesting things I've found on the topic. http://www.aplusdev.org/ http://www.codeproject.com/ http://www.codeguru.com/ http://www.erights.org/ http://www.erlang.org/ http://www.gwydiondylan.org/ http://www.netbeans.org/index.html http://opensourcegis.org/ http://java-source.net/ http://osq.cs.berkeley.edu/ http://opl-dev.sourceforge.net/ http://www.perl.com/ http://www.phpkitchen.com/ http://python.org/ http://www.rexxla.org/ http://www.suneido.com/ http://www.sunsource.net/ http://www.tcl.tk/ http://tcl.sourceforge.net/ http://wxbasic.sourceforge.net/ http://mamboserver.com/ http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/ http://www.programmersheaven.com/ http://www.programmingtutorials.com/ "Am I Right" is a collection of misheard lyrics and song parodies which claims to be " making fun of music one song at a time". http://www.amiright.com/ Checkout some amazing kids. http://www.amazing-kids.org/ AE is a web-based community for world history, centered around forums, which is a great place for you to learn or discuss history and meet people. http://www.allempires.com/ The Federation of American Scientists focuses the resources of the scientific and technical community on critical challenges. http://www.fas.org/main/home.jsp A place for answers. http://www.answers.com/ Bluetack claims to offer "news, security articles, software reviews, guides, IP research, and the tools needed to help us keep our connections to the net and each other secure, safe, and free from unwanted guests. http://www.bluetack.co.uk/index.php A site dedicated to the B24 Liberator Bomber. http://www.b24bestweb.com/ This U.S. National Park Service website is about the American Memorial Park in Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands and features a World War II virtual museum of B-29 bombers which operated from Saipan And Tinian. http://snipurl.com/d2kn Bagism is the place for fans of John Lennon and The Beatles to come together and learn, educate, and have fun. http://www.bagism.com/index.html World Edition of the BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/ (If you get the UK edition, click on "change edition". There's also a "Low Graphics" version available). Among the many things to be found on the website of Edwards Air Force Base http://www.edwards.af.mil/index.html is an extensive video and image gallery. http://www.edwards.af.mil/gallery/index.html A news site for boxing fans. http://www.doghouseboxing.com/ Brian Wratten's poetry. http://www.home.aone.net.au/brianrw/poetry.htm The CDI is interesting but it's tough to describe what they do. Here it is in their words: http://www.cdi.org/about/index.cfm Here's the main page. http://www.cdi.org/index.cfm Dale Falk was one of the lucky people who was allowed to fly the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-24 Liberator WWII bombers operated by the Collings Foundation. There's a collection of information and photos on his website. http://home.gci.net/~sncdfalk/bombers.html The British Library on the web. http://www.bl.uk/ Classical music rendered in midi files. http://www.kunstderfuge.com/ http://www.gressus.se/chopin/midi/chopin.html http://www.rpajares.net/ For years I subscribed to one or another newspaper but it eventually became too expensive. What I miss the most from the newspaper is the comics. I did some research on reading comics online. Some of the results I got were for comic books but, as a kid, I enjoyed those too so here's a diverse collection of comic-related sites. http://www.comicbookresources.com/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/comics/ http://www.userfriendly.org/static/ http://www.comicsworthreading.com/ http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/ http://www.comictreadmill.com/ http://home.earthlink.net/~joesarno/tvcomics/index.htm http://www.members.shaw.ca/creatingcomics/writers.html http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/ http://www.keenspot.com/ http://www.kevinandkell.com/ http://www.offthemark.com/main.htm http://www.onlinecomics.net/pages/index.php http://superman.ws/superman-comics/ http://www.cvil.wustl.edu/~gary/ElfSquad/squad_main.html http://www.zortic.com/d/20000327.html http://www.zoomgraphics.com/Comics/index.html http://www.zortic.com/ Medical information which is primarily intended for young people. http://www.coolnurse.com/index.htm An unofficial history of the Australian & New Zealand Armed Services. http://www.diggerhistory.info/ News/Information sites, various spins. http://www.commondreams.org/ http://www.conservativeforum.org/default.asp http://www.dumbentia.com/ http://www.factsquad.org/ http://funferal.org/ http://www.gush-shalom.org/english/index.html http://www.iran-daily.com http://www.mediamouse.org/static/ http://www.nature.com/news/index.html http://www3.niu.edu/newsplace/ http://www.public-action.com/ http://www.slate.com/Default.aspx http://www.thebluebrick.net/ http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/ http://www.cyber-nation.com/index.html http://www.weeklystandard.com/default.asp http://www1.umn.edu/umnnews/index.php Emergency information (many topics, including computers). http://www.emergency.com/ Dave's Collected Quotations. http://www.theprawn.com/quotes/ fascinating facts and objects at National Museums Liverpool (UK). http://www.diduknow.info/ A constantly growing collection of light-hearted looks at current events, pop culture, movies, history, science, evil penguins, and whatever else happens to catch their fancy. http://www.davidszondy.com/index.htm Funny poetry. http://www.ddaze.com/index.html Downhill Battle is a non-profit organization working to support participatory culture and build a fairer music industry. http://www.downhillbattle.org/ EFF is a nonprofit group of passionate lawyers, technologists, volunteers, and visionaries who're working to protect your digital rights. http://www.eff.org/ The Dr. Seuss web page from the Center For Seussian Studies. http://www.seuss.org/seuss/seuss.home.html A digital film geek who's having some success. http://dreamland-digital.com/ An official UK emergency preparedness site. http://www.preparingforemergencies.gov.uk/ An unofficial parody of the same site. http://www.preparingforemergencies.co.uk/ An interesting online face maker. http://avsquad.fateback.com/facemaker/index.html A comic strip that was "born" within a comic strip. http://www.lil-abner.com/fosdick.html A magazine for aviation enthusiasts. http://www.flightjournal.com/fj/index.asp An ad supported online games site (with at least one pop-up). http://www.freeonlinegames.com/ Freshmeat maintains the Web's largest index of Unix and cross-platform software (Windows, for example), themes and related "eye-candy", and Palm OS software. Thousands of applications, which are preferably released under an open source license, are meticulously cataloged in the freshmeat database, and links to new applications are added daily. Each entry provides a description of the software, links to download it and to obtain more information, and a history of the project's releases, so readers can keep up-to-date on the latest developments. http://freshmeat.net/ ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª At the time this issue was posted, the current subscriber count for this publication was 277. ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª A collection of video game music in midi format. http://www.apexcorp.com/~rvhorn/assimilate/ Gun control is a very sensitive issue. Despite that truth, the owners of this site have very strong opinions which they've chosen to demonstrate with parody. Some of it is very funny. http://www.guncontrolnetwork.org/gcn1.htm H. Churchyard's miscellaneous web projects. http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/ Everything you need to know about how to be happy (yeah, right). http://www.drkenner.com/index.html A cute spoof. http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Alley/7028/hasta.htm The Internet African American History Challenge. http://www.brightmoments.com/blackhistory/ History through the eyes of those who lived it. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/index.html A musician's portal site. http://www.hitsquad.com/ This old house online. http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/home A collection of consumer resource pages from Hormel. http://www.hormel.com/templates/knowledge/seasonedInsight.asp http://www.hormel.com/kitchen/glossary.asp http://snipurl.com/d3df http://www.hormel.com/kitchen/recipe.asp http://www.hormel.com/kitchen/favorites.asp?favoriteid=1 A resource for small, independent, religious groups http://www.hccentral.com/index.html a site for the non-religious persons http://www.infidels.org/index.shtml and another strongly religious site. http://www.tektonics.org/ For anyone who dislikes clowns. http://www.ihateclowns.com/ Imagine the Universe, for students age 14 and up, and for anyone interested in learning about our universe. http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/ An art resource from Princeton online. http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/ Whoa! Checkout some awesome images. http://www.irtc.org/ A collection of "old fashioned" (non-computer) games. http://www.invisible-city.com/play/ Jen Wolfe is a bassist in a Twee (a type of rock-and-roll) band and a cataloging librarian. I've no precise idea of exactly what constitutes a "cataloging librarian" but her site was interesting to explore. http://www.jenw.org/index.htm Judi's Photo Journey. http://www.mindspring.com/~jxnfan1/index.html A charity portal. http://www.justgiving.com/default.asp Kathy Mattea's official website. http://www.mattea.com/ Kevin's Woodturnings. http://www.turnedwood.com/index.shtml Remember Shazam!, Isis, Land of the Lost, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl or Ark II? This site's ambition is to cover all of the 70s live action kids shows. http://www.70slivekidvid.com Building plans for some awesome kites. http://www.freespiritkites.com/pages/plan.htm Who'd have thought there were so many collectibles which relate to Jim Henson's Muppets? http://www.kermitage.com/html/collectibles/index.html The Kutriguri is a group devoted to the study of Hunno-Bulgar culture and involvement in Hunno-Bulgar sport. Emphasis is on the identity of nomadic horsemen living in the Balkan Peninsula during the reign of Kana Subigi Omurtag (around 819-820 AD.). http://www.kutriguri.com/index.html A site for hardware and Linux. http://www.linuxelectrons.com/ A nice collection of midi files. http://home.pacbell.net/lcng/ This site is about the costumes worn in the Lord of the Rings movie. http://www.alleycatscratch.com/lotr/ Women and International Migration. http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/womens-studies/ws399/ws399_03/ Cross Cultural and International Feminisms. http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/womens-studies/ws399/ws399_04/ Integer Jim's Math Squad. http://www.mathsquad.com/ Culture and Society of México. http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rjsalvad/scmfaq/homepage.html A few more sites which offer midi files. http://www.primeshop.com/midilist.htm http://www.thomas-distributing.com/midi.htm http://www.botproductions.com/music/music.html http://www.ettnet.se/~tradare/mid/mid.html http://www.hyperborea.org/midi/ http://parlorsongs.com/ Airshows and Military aircraft. http://www.sky-flash.com/index.htm Worldwide data on minerals, mineral localities and other mineralogical information. http://www.mindat.org/ The town of Moosburg a.d. Isar in Bavaria, Germany. http://www.moosburg.org/indeng.html A sports news site. http://www.mopsquad.com/ Have you ever heard of Moron Salt? http://www.moronsalt.com/ Mousebreaker; ad supported online games. http://www.mousebreaker.com/ I've been hearing more and more about Firefox. Maybe it's time to give it a try. http://www.mozilla.org/ Combating serious and organized crime in England and Wales. http://www.nationalcrimesquad.police.uk/ U.S. military NCOs online. http://www.ncoteam.org/ New York City photo galleries. http://www.readio.com/newyorkphotos/xwindows2.html ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª If you'd like to help promote this non-commercial publication, please forward this ezine to anyone you know who might appreciate it. To spare them the forwarding carets (>>>>these things) I suggest you copy/paste the ezine to a new email window, or save the ezine as a text file to be inserted, or copy/pasted to a new email. 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It is available in official versions for Windows, Mac OS/Mac OS X and i86 Linux. http://www.povray.org/ Crime culture. http://www.crimeculture.com/index.html quality information for publishers, authors, editors, web masters, and freelance writers. http://www.publaw.com/index.html A collection of more than 100 quilt blocks, directions for drafting templates, simple patterns and ideas and lots more. http://www.quilters-haven.com/index.html The Internet FAQ Archives. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/ A language arts site for readers and teachers. http://www.readwritethink.org/index.asp A site for reality TV fans. http://www.realitytvworld.com/ A couple of interesting recipe collections. http://www.davidscooking.com/recipes/recipeindex.html http://santafeschoolofcooking.com/Recipes/ The Official Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Website. http://www.royrogers.com/ The Royal Timeline of Oz. http://www.timelineuniverse.net/Oz/Introduction.htm There's a huge amount of interesting information to explore on this website dedicated to the U.S. Strategic Air Command. http://www.strategic-air-command.com/ The SARS art project. http://www.sarsart.org/ Sawdust Making 101: A guide for the beginning woodworker. http://sawdustmaking.com/ As nearly as I can tell, this site seems to revolve around comic books. http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/default.asp Despite lawsuits and frequent protests from media concerns of every description, file sharing, via the internet, is here to stay. http://www.shareaza.com/ The Simpsons Addiction. http://www.tsa.blockoland.com/index.php A couple of apps from Evan Reynolds. http://www.evan.org/Software.html Information on ancient Sparta, and to a lesser extent, the ancient Greek military as a whole. http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~sparta/index.html This looks like a good resource for your children/grandchildren. http://www.startsquad.com/ Academics studying the athletic and campus apparel industry. http://cbae.nmsu.edu/~dboje/nike/nikemain1.html Online Study Guide Repository. http://www.studyworld.com/index.htm Advertising in magazines is based on the fact that under any circumstances, you store more information in a fraction of a second (and are influenced by it) than you are ever consciously aware of. http://www.poleshift.org:16080/sublim/ ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª My feedback form: http://www.don-guitar.com/contactme.html I welcome all comments, suggestions, or criticism. 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A site dedicated to sharing the history of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II, and shining a light on the inspirational stories of their lives before, during and after WWII. http://www.wasp-wwii.org/wasp/home.htm A wealth of information on the Turkic world. http://www.sophistikatedkids.com/turkic/turkicsite.htm The unofficial Weird Al show home page. http://www.ritachu.com/altv.php Women in Country music. http://www.womenofcountry.com/ How Ordinary Scots in bygone days found out what was happening. http://www.nls.uk/broadsides/index.html Aircraft of WWI. http://www.wwiaviation.com/toc.shtml ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª Archives for this ezine are available online here: //www.freelists.org/archives/donspatch/ ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª The CIA World Factbook. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html Endangered Species. http://www.endangeredspecie.com/ Cuban genealogy. http://www.cubagenweb.org/index.htm An information site about India. http://64.239.149.251/ A fact a day. http://www.factme.com/ Population Growth and Balance. http://www.arcytech.org/java/population/index.html Interesting facts on volcanoes. http://snipurl.com/d3ku James Yolkowski's interesting facts. http://www.sentex.net/~ajy/facts/ Interesting facts about Louisana. http://www.sos.louisiana.gov/around/facts/facts-index.htm This is a collection of numbers relevant to computers, along with references which serves as a "Computer Almanac". http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~bam/numbers/ A wealth of data on Monarch butterflies. http://home.wi.rr.com/monarchraising/ Useless Fact of the Day. Flash version. http://www.ufotd.com/new/ HTML version. http://www.ufotd.com/index_html.php The University of North Dakota's Volcano World. http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vw.html ªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªªª 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 ============== Humor ============= From a reader named Andy: A new young monk arrives at the monastery and, as with all new monks, he is assigned to help the other monks in copying the old canons and laws of the church by hand. He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying from copies, not from the original manuscript. The new monk goes to the head abbot to question this, pointing out that if someone made even a small error in the first copy, it would never be picked up. In fact, that error would be continued in all of the subsequent copies. The head monk says, "We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point my son." so he goes down into the dark caves underneath the monastery where the original manuscript is held as archives in a locked vault that hasn't been opened for hundreds of years. Hours go by and nobody sees the old abbot. The young monk gets worried and goes downstairs to look for him. He finds the abbot banging his head against the wall, wailing, "We forgot the "R"! We forgot the "R"! His forehead is all bloody and bruised and he is crying uncontrollably. The young monk asks the old abbot, "What's wrong, father?" With a choking voice, the old abbot replies, "The word is celebrate!" ============== Andy also sent this link to a cursor-following clock that appears in one place or another, every so often, on the web. http://www.suite101.com/files/mysites/AskAlice/Clock.htm Thanks Andy. ============== Tips =============== In a recent thread of the Highland Lakes Computer Club's excellent Yahoo group I learned that it's not enough to delete files from your old computer before disposing of it (or giving it away). Read this article: http://www.nbc5i.com/specialreports/4186699/detail.html You should also spend some time reading and researching on this site. http://www.killdisk.com/ A Google search located a Sourceforge product http://sourceforge.net/projects/eraser/ and another product for persons who aren't using Windows. http://sourceforge.net/projects/jeraser/ There's a lot of Windows information, tips, and tricks on Bob Cerelli's site. http://www.onecomputerguy.com/ Help2go, computer problem solvers. http://www.help2go.com/index.php ================================= It's been a real treat putting this issue together on my new computer. I've had a dozen or more websites open along with NoteTab, one or more folders, and Outlook Express without having to deal with the computer freezing up. I could get used to this. *grin* See you next time. 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