Announcements

Hey! You Wanna "Suite" Deal??

We have another awesome Microsoft deal for you! - Better hurry for this one though!

We have the MS Word 2000 Suite for only $49.97 (retail $109.95)!! Of course, shipping is free if you live in the US. Look what you get:

MS Word 2000 - This by itself is worth the price of the software since MS Word goes for around $100.00! I'd tell you all about it, but everyone knows that MS Word is the #1 selling word processing package and is the standard by which all the others are judged. If you've always wanted MS Word, but found the price was just too high - now's your chance to finally get a deal on it!

MS Works - Includes programs for calendars, spreadsheets, databases, address book, and more! Excellent package and by itself is worth the $49.97 we're asking for the whole deal!

MS Money - From daily transactions to monthly reports and planning for the future, Money 2000 Standard has what you need to get organized and stay on track. Reconcile your checkbook, track expenditures, and TONS more! Really popular!

MS Encarta - This is one of the best selling encyclopedias on the market. It's easy to use, and packed with 36,000 fantastic articles Plus it has thousands of interactive movie, sound, and graphic files that help make complex subjects interesting and easy to understand.

MS Picture It Express - Provides you the fundamental tools for fixing common photo problems like red-eye, for organizing your photos, and for sharing them with friends and family.

Microsoft Home Publishing - Make cards, invitations, calendars, flyers, and newsletters stand out with Home Publishing 2000. Creating personal publishing projects for print, e-mail, or the Web has never been easier with new publishing tools like multiple document support and text frame linking.

MS Streets & Trips - Navigate more than 6 million miles of local, city, and state roads and locate addresses and points of interest—with as little information as a name—anywhere in the United States. Excellent title!!

If purchased separately, this would cost you over $350.00!! Your price? Only $49.97 with FREE US Shipping! Any one of these programs is worth the price of this package - You get 'em all! It's a heck of a deal!

The bad news? We have a very limited quantity and won't be getting more any time soon (in fact, this is probably a one time shot). So, if you want in on this, better get to the site ASAP!

http://www.worldstart.com/store/mswordsuite.htm

PS - Don't miss out! I'm not sure how long these are going to last!

Computers 101

Q:
What are "window panes"?

A:
"Panes" are generally referenced when you have a split window, like what you would have in Windows Explorer. The "panes" are the individual sides of the window. In explorer the right side is usually called the "right pane", the left side is the "left pane".

Why not simply call them the right and left sides? Well, that would make SENSE now, wouldn't it??

Tip of the Day

Smarter Downloads

Web link - http://www.worldstart.com/tips/downloadloc.htm

Let's say you want to download a program and you're offered several different locations to download from (Microsoft likes to do this). Which do you pick? How do you possibly choose? Most people would choose the one that's closest to their geographic location. WRONG!

Here's the way I usually decide. I first look at the time zones the sites are in and hit the one that would be in the least busy time zone. In other words, if it's 8:00AM in my time zone, but 5:00AM in another, more westerly time zone, I'll pick that one.

If it looks like I'm in prime time no matter what time zone I'm in (say it's 3:00PM my time) then I'll probably pick the last or second to last choice. People seem to pick the first or second link, so usually the further down the "link list" you go, the less traffic you encounter.

For more downloading info, head to:
http://www.worldstart.com/guides/download.htm

Amanda's Cool Site of the Day

Pollution Score Card

Have you ever wondered how the pollution in your environment compares to other cities around the US? All 50 states are categorized from best to worst in several different categories. Just type in your zip code and find out what pollutants are in your community. I typed in our zip code here in Toledo, and got the following results:

444,536 people in Lucas County face a cancer risk more than 100 times the goal set by the Clean Air Act. 86% of the risks are from mobile sources, 9.9 % of the air cancer risks are from area resources, and 4.4 % of the air cancer risks are from point sources.

That definitely doesn’t sound good. Take a look and see what risks there are in your hometowns. Check it out.

http://www.scorecard.org/

Do you have a cool site that you want to share? Send it to Amanda! Here's her address:

amanda@worldstart.com

Oh, and we're looking for non-commercial sites. We generally don't run sites that are strictly for shopping.