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What A Disaster

Give this some thought:

What would happen if - right now - your hard drive crashed? What important documents would you lose? What about projects? E-mails? Web addresses? Pictures? Software? I get panicked e-mails every day where that very scenario played out, but without a backup, there's not much that can be done.

Unfortunately, backing up is a pain - or is it? Well, we just came across a fantastic program called Backup Now Deluxe that takes backing up to the next level! I have seen a lot of easy to use backup programs, but this has got to be the best of the bunch! It backs up in just 3 easy steps (click here for screen shots)!

Step 1 - Pick your files. Either backup specific files / folders or backup your entire hard drive. Whatever you like, it's all done with simple little checkboxes!

Step 2 - Pick the destination you want to backup to (i.e. your CD-R / RW drive) and give the backup job a name.

Step 3 - Decide if you want to back up every file or just the files that have changed since your last backup.

That's it! Complete those steps, and the program will backup your files to your CD-R / RW drive! If you need more than one CD, it will prompt you to put additional disks in as needed. Told you it was easy!

Now, if you want to get more involved for some reason, it allows that too. You can tell it to compress or not to compress, to compare backed up files to originals, to overwrite CD-RW media or not, allow you to exclude certain file types, password protect your backup, do scheduled backups, and tons more.

This is simply the best way I've ever found to do backups. It's easy, it's quick, and it's convenient. It's also a PC magazine editor's choice, so you know it's not just me saying it's great.

The price? Well, this retails for $79.95, but your price is only $29.97! And US shipping is FREE! Limited quantities, so head to the site below ASAP!

http://www.worldstart.com/store/nti-backup-now.htm

PS - This is fantastic software, and everyone I've shown it to is asking me to hold them a copy! Be sure to get to the site today to get yours! Think about what would happen if you lost all your data - right now. Would you be able to recover? With this software, it's no problem.

Remember, it's not a question of "if" you're going to need backup, it's a question of "when". Isn't your data worth $29.97??

Oh, and we still have our Buy 3 and get 15% off deal through this Sunday (Nov. 3rd 2002). So, stock up while you can!

Computers 101

Q:
What does ASCII mean?

A:
ASCII is short for "American Standard Code for Information Interchange."

ASCII is basically a non-formatted text document that can be read by any application that can read text, unlike say, a Word document. If you have a Word document, you have to open it in MS Word or another program capable of reading Word documents.

Most text files are ASCII text files. They can be opened in any program that's capable of reading a text file. You can open it in Word, Notepad, even in DOS. It really doesn't matter. So, if you're not sure that someone has the ability to open a document that you've been working on, just save it as an ASCII text file.

~ Steve

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Tip of the Day

Favorite Fun - Part 2

Yesterday we looked at some ways to manipulate your Internet Explorer favorites. Keep in mind that these work / apply to the current version of Internet Explorer. If you missed yesterday's tip, here's the link: http://www.worldstart.com/tips/internet-tips/favoritefun1.htm

So now on to more exciting things you can do with your Favorites...

1. To find out how often you access a particular site, right-click the favorite in question and select Properties.

The Web Document tab should be selected. You'll see a little "Visits" item that shows the number of times you've stopped by the site in question.

2. Have you ever clicked a favorite site only to find that you get re-directed to a new page? Well, copy the new URL, right-click the favorite in question, and select Properties. Delete the old URL and paste in the new one. Hit OK and you're finished.

3. Notice on that same screen you can assign a shortcut key. Just click your mouse in the "Shortcut key" box (click the word "none") and hit the key you would like to use. Then click OK.

To use your new shortcut key, just hold down CTRL & ALT then press the key you assigned to the favorite. You don't even need to have Internet Explorer open for this to work.

4. Finally, if you want to see when the last time you accessed a page was, right-click the favorite in question and select Properties from the resulting menu. Click on the General tab to see information on last access, date created, and more. Oh, and you can also re-name your favorite from this screen, too.

Whew, that's about it. You should be an expert on favorites now!

~ Steve

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Amanda's Cool Site of the Day

Pogo

What week would be fun without some games? Another entertaining and free game site for your enjoyment.

You have to register and give them a password, but as soon as that’s finished you can log in and get to those games. There are some with a special Halloween theme. I enjoy the Spooky Slots.

The nice thing about this games site is that the How to Play is a nice text section you can read before you even begin the game. So relax, sign up and start playing games today. I’m off to play some Poppit!

http://www.pogo.com/

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