Announcements

No Mice?

First off, I want to thank everyone took advantage of our optical mouse offer yesterday (and over the last several weeks). You've made it one of the fastest selling items we've ever been able to offer!

That said, we did end up selling out of the optical mice; however, we do have some with a ball. I know that there are still a lot of you who wanted to get in on this deal, and I want to apologize. This was a closeout type situation and once we took the last of the mice, there just were no more to be had.

If you don't mind a regular ball mouse, we do have some of those in stock. It does have the scroll wheel with the red, white, and blue colors, only it's not optical. This mouse is a good deal at $9.97, but no, it's not as good as the optical mouse deal. If you're interested, it's still a quality mouse and you can get more info at the link below:

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

Again, I really wish I could find more of the optical mice, but they just aren't out there. Thanks again to all who ordered and I apologize if you missed out.

Computers 101

Q:
Help! Sometimes I get links in my e-mail that are split into two lines. Usually, the first line is clickable, but it takes me nowhere. I’ve tried to copy and paste the entire thing, but only the top part of the link gets pasted. What can I do?

A:
Don’t you just hate those split links? Here’s how to handle ‘em:

1. Copy and Paste the first part of the link into your web browser’s address bar.

2. Now, go back to your e-mail and Copy the second part of the address.

3. Paste the second part right next to the first part and be sure to delete any extra spaces should they get between part one and two of the link.

4. Hit Enter and you’re whisked off to the page.

Nope, it isn’t the prettiest thing you’ve ever done, but it will get you to the web page you need :-)

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Tip of the Day

XP Disaster Recovery

Microsoft says “XP” stands for eXPerience. I recently discovered it stands for eXPlode.

Here’s what happened: I installed some new software on my XP machine. It told me to re-boot the computer, so, like I good little geek I yelled “Affirmative!” and promptly re-booted.

At which point, XP would try to boot, get to some kind of blue screen chock full of error messages, and re-boot again. About the 22nd time this happened, it occurred to me that I might want to try booting into Safe mode.

So, I hit my F8 key just as Windows started to boot, selected Safe Mode from the little menu and watched my computer go into another continuous re-boot cycle.

This was getting serious, so I donned my propeller cap and started to think (OK, I really don’t have a propeller hat).

It was then I remembered there were a few more options when I hit my F8 key during boot-up. So, I decided to give that another go and noticed an option for re-booting using the last known good configuration.

And it actually worked!

Needless to say, as soon as Windows was back up and running I removed the offending program.

The moral of the story? I need to get me a propeller hat. Oh, and if you ever run into a similar situation, hit the F8 key just as Windows starts to boot and exercise the “last known good configuration” option. It may just save your computer!

-- Steve

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Amanda's Cool Site of the Day

Adventure TV

Need to spice up your day? Want an adventure? Can’t just get up and leave? Well then Adventure TV is a great and fun site for you to try out. What’s it about? Well, gear up and I’ll tell you all about it.

Okay, it’s adventure time, why don’t we go on a Safari in Kenya? Select the safari on this site, let the movie load, and be prepared to be taken away. You'll see the dry grasslands, come face-to-face with wild animals, feel the blistering heat...

You can choose from Mountains, Deserts, Snow-covered lands, Rain forests, Oceans and more, so click the link below and start you adventure now!

http://www.adventuretv.com/

Do you have a cool, non-commercial site that you want to share?
Send it to Amanda at amanda@worldstart.com