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2004 September

Classic Novels In 5 Minutes A Day

Reading is a great pastime, but it can be hard to find time to curl up with a good book when all of these great reality television shows are on. What’s a guy/girl to do? The first step is to turn the television off, and the next step involves finding a good book to spend [...]

Out Of Ink? Keep From Going In The Red.

Q: It seems like my inkjet printer is constantly running out of ink. Whenever I go to the store to purchase a replacement, I’m instantly stricken with sticker shock. The prices are so high! Are there any sites online that offer cartridges and refill kits at a lower price?

Know How to Change a Password

Some of you may not know this but resetting a password is not the same thing as changing a password. Resetting a password can have some adverse effects. For example, if you reset a password instead of changing it, you will lose all passwords saved in Internet Explorer and you will also lose all your [...]

Windows XP Service Pack 2: Windows Firewall

Windows XP Service Pack 2 adds new functionality and brings about several changes. One of these many changes is to the firewall component. This component was once disabled by default. However, in an attempt to be more proactive in terms of security, the firewall component is now enabled by default in SP2.
Other changes that relate [...]

Creating Fast E-mail Replies Pt. III

Part I covers using mail merge, Part II addresses using the e-mail client’s template feature, and this one is about third party software. It isn’t just for creating fast e-mail replies, but also for speeding up repetitive typing of anything. Here’s the text file of the first two parts for printing or using offline.

Updating Your Windows XP CD With SP2

So we’ve all decided we need SP2 for XP because, despite its flaws, it
really improves security in IE and the new firewall is actually
working. But SP2 is a long install and, should you need to crash your
system, you really don’t want to have to go through installing XP then
doing a massive upgrade to XP2 [...]

Digging Up Dirt Online

Have you ever wanted to run a background check on someone? Perhaps an odd neighbor, new suitor, or potential babysitter? Running a background check isn’t tough these days. Thanks to the magic of the Internet, you can dig up that dirt with a handful of clicks. If something just doesn’t seem right, you don’t have [...]

Campaign Trail 2004

Okay, the conventions are over, and the campaigning starts to get hot and heavy. For the next two months, the airwaves will be hot and heavy with all sorts of political ads from both candidates, and many (too many, in my opinion) from “527″ groups. Every time you turn around, you will be bombarded with [...]

Slingo Deluxe

If you like slots and you like bingo, you’ll love Slingo Deluxe. Accumulate the highest number of points by trying to cover all the numbers on your game card in twenty spins or less. Use the jokers to master the board and watch out for the devil because he’ll steal your pants… er, points! The [...]

EDIT for PowerPoint

PowerPoint is another one of those “how did the world function without it?” applications. Personally I still remember what it was like to prepare overhead charts by hand. Slow, basic, amateur looking, and nasty. PowerPoint changed everything.

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