2004 October

Monitor And Remove Windows Applications Completely!
Ashampoo UnInstaller Platinum Suite works by creating two “snapshots” of
your system, one
before you install an application and another one directly afterwards. These
snapshots record
the entire status of your computer system, including all registry entries,
the locations, dates,
sizes and versions of all files and the contents of all configuration files.
After creating the second
snapshot [...]

It’s a fact that many of the Gnomies around the world are currently running their own businesses. If your enterprise (if you want to call it that) only consists of you, then you’re obligated to wear many different hats. You have to be your own marketer, manager, accountant, and so forth. One of the most [...]

Where do you want to eat? That’s the inevitable question that comes up all of the time. Instead of just going to one of your normal establishments, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to check into what other culinary treats are scattered around your area. The best restaurants are usually relatively unknown. You don’t just [...]

Q: I still haven’t upgraded to Service Pack 2, and I know that I should probably do it for some of the enhanced security features. I’m on an extremely slow Internet connection, which makes downloading these updates a real hassle. Is there any chance that I can order a CD that contains SP2?

For those of you who share a computer with other users such as family members, you will probably find this a useful little Outlook Express tip. You set up Outlook Express for multiple users without having to create multiple users accounts in Windows. This is done through Outlook Express identities. An identity in Outlook Express [...]

This is one tip that I’ve really found useful. Being a writer and all, I am forever responding to comments in my documents from editors or adding comments of my own. I’ve often wondered about increasing the size of the fonts in my comments but never bothered to take a few minutes to figure out [...]

Can’t find that file? Digital Asset Management (or DAM for short) allows your organization to smartly store and access digital audio, video, images, and other graphics. Generally speaking, digital asset management systems are specialized central databases that allow quick access to non-text data. While the practice of digital asset management first took off with advertising [...]

Gnomie Filksinger writes:
Leo, I read your short article on the difference between worms, trojans, and
viruses, and found myself wanting to set the record straight. Recently, I have
seen a number of articles that attempt to define the difference between a worm
and a virus, but they seem to have lost the technical definition. The proper
definition of worm [...]

Sanford Wallace, the original “Spam King” (sorry, Mr. Richter), is back in the news.
Wallace is perhaps best known for the run-ins which he and his company, Cyberpromotions, had with AOL and Compuserve back in the 1990s. At that time both companies sued Wallace for spamming them, and AOL’s victory on appeal set some of [...]

Today, Family First visits one of the most famous homes in not only our country, but in the whole world. If you have ever visited there, consider yourself one of the lucky ones. It is recognizable by using just its name: Graceland.
Graceland was home to Elvis Presley, one of the great rock and roll [...]