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Another Awesome Deal!

We've been selling these like crazy lately! (We can hardly keep 'em in stock). Must be for all those birthdays, graduations, and other summer events that are right around the corner.

What is it? It's the Hallmark Card Studio!

Your price? Only $26.97 (retail $49.95). Of course, if you live in the US shipping is FREE!

I wasn't sure about this one at first, but after I installed it all I could say was "Wow!"

Basically, you make Hallmark cards right from your computer (it even says "Hallmark" on the back). They already have the pictures, graphics, and expressions. All you do is customize it (if you like). They even have the ones where you insert your own picture (of course, you do this through your computer so it looks fantastic).

What about ease of use? This has got to be one of the easiest programs I've ever worked with. Just point and click to create your cards. I really don't know what they could do to make this any easier to use. It's really well done.

This 4 CD ROM set includes 15,000 different images and there are 700,000 + ways to create your personalized cards. I never knew there were so many reasons for cards!

My favorite part? I really like that the cards are "pre-written". It makes it so much easier. Of course, you can replace what they say with what you want to say (or add to it, modify, etc).

Oh, and it's not just limited to printing out paper cards (they're so 20th century) - you can also send e-mail greetings! Bad news? We don't have a lot of these. So, if you're interested, you need to get to the website fast. Here's a link with all the info:

http://www.worldstart.com/store/hallmarkcardstudio2.htm

Don't miss out - This is the BEST I've seen in card creation.

Computers 101

Q:
I'm going on vacation and I don't want to have a ton of e-mail piled up when I get back. What can I do?

A:
My advice is to let it pile up. If it's too much, just use your delete key when you get back from vacation. Besides, if you see something good, you'll be glad you didn't miss it.

Your other options are to contact each list and see if they have a "vacation" mode they can put you into. Otherwise, you can unsubscribe then re-join when you get back.

A final suggestion is to have your e-mail account disabled. That will cause any e-mail that you get to bounce back to the sender. The only bad thing is that you may be removed from any e-mail lists you're on (most good e-mail software removes addresses that bounce too many times).

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Tip of the Day

Personalized Windows Color Scheme

Windows 9.x (XP instructions are below)

Windows has a look and feel that's all its own thanks to the default color scheme's use of gray. But if gray isn't your color, don't stick with it. Change your color scheme to something that fits your personality.

To customize your display scheme, follow these directions:

1. Single-click the Start button, mouse-over Settings, and then single-click Control Panel.

2. When the Control Panel opens, double-click the Display icon, and then select the Appearance tab.

Then:

Highlight the current color scheme by single-clicking the text under "Scheme."

3.With the text highlighted, scroll all the available choices by using the up and down arrows on your keyboard.

4. Next, scroll down the Item menu and begin setting things like Scrollbar size, Menu font and size, and Window color. Don't stop customizing until you get the look and feel you're after.

5. When you've finished customizing items, you're going to need to save your creation. To save, hit the "Save As" button.

Don't save it as Windows Standard. Think of a name for your new scheme, such as "My custom color". This is important because if you want to go back to Windows Standard later on, you'll still be able to.

After you've typed the name in, hit the OK button. The last thing you need to do is hit the Apply button on the main screen to watch you new color scheme unfold.

~ Leo Dalphond

For XP Users (from Steve):

Naturally, XP has an improved way of doing this. Funny how the improvements make it twice as hard as it was before, but who am I to judge to wisdom of Microsoft?

Anyhow, here's how to change your appearance settings in XP:

1. Hit the Start button, Control Panel. When that opens, double-click your Display settings. Pretty much the same as above so far.

2. OK, XP likes to make everything into a "theme". When you make changes, you modify the theme or you can save the all your custom settings as a custom theme. See how much simpler that is than the old way?

Anyhow, you should be looking at the Display Properties screen now. Click the Appearance tab. From here, you can set the "look" as either classic or XP. You also have a couple color scheme choices, and you can make the font size larger or smaller.

For even more options, hit the Advanced button. This screen allows you to further customize windows. You can adjust your Desktop background colors, title bars, icon size, etc.

Once you have Windows set up the way you want it, click the Themes tab on the Display Settings screen. Once there, click the Save As button to save all your settings as a customized theme.

That's it. It's similar to the methods used with previous versions of Windows, just more screens and tabs to fight with in the name of progress :-)

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Amanda's Cool Site of the Day

Chiasmus

I bet you’re wondering a what a chiasmus is. I had to look it up in the dictionary before I found it explained on this site. So for those of you who don’t know what is, here is the definition.

Chiasmus: A reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases.

An example of a chiasmus is “Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You” Dr. Mardy Grothe.

A very interesting site devoted to language. My best suggestion is just to surf around this page. It’s really neat.

http://www.chiasmus.com/index.shtml

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

amanda@worldstart.com

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