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Worst Case Scenario

We had a great response to our Worst Case Scenario game yesterday! Thanks to the hundreds who ordered! If you missed out, there are still a few left. Be sure to order soon though, they're almost gone.

Again, after playing this game, you'll be able to answer questions like:

Can an electric eel kill you?
How do you survive a trip over a waterfall?
How do you escape a hole in the ice?
How fatal is tarantula venom?
What do you do if a bull charges you?
How do you survive a fall onto subway tracks?
How do you escape a car that's hanging over a cliff?
How do you survive quicksand?
What do you never put on a sunburn?
How can you tell an earthquake is about to happen?
How do you escape from killer bees (or regular ones)?

Give this a try, it's really fun and I highly recommend it. The price is only $12.97, and US Shipping is FREE! Retail is $29.95, so that's way over half off! Here's the link for more info:

http://www.worldstart.com/store/worst-case-scenario.htm

PS - Don't miss out! This game could literally save your life. That, and it's a lot of fun to play. Again, we're almost out of this title, so get to the site right now if you want yours!

Computers 101

Q:
Every now and then I land on a webpage that has information I need, but the animations and stupid music are too much for me. I shut my speakers off and try to ignore the animations, but I was wondering if there was a better way to cope with pages like this. Any thoughts?

A:
I think I was on that page yesterday :-)

Fortunately, there's an easy solution in most cases. Wait till the page loads, then hit the Stop button on your browser.

All the insanity on the page should cease, making reading it much more manageable.

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Tip of the Day

Program Ghosts 

Have you ever uninstalled a program only to later discover it's still on your Add/ Remove programs list? The program is gone, but its entry is still there.

When that happens, most people click the program, hit the Add / Remove button and end up with an error. And the program is still stuck on the list. It may have been removed from your computer, but its ghost seems determined to stay on.

So, is the program listing there forever? Can you ever get rid of it?

YES - but you have to play around in your system registry.

Before we go any farther, I want to say that messing with your registry is not for everyone and should only be attempted by advanced users. If any of the information below doesn't make sense to you, it's probably NOT a good idea for you to be trying this tip. So, do this only at your own risk. If something gets messed up, I don't wanna hear about it :-)

Here's the procedure:

1. Run your registry editor by hitting the Start button, Run, Then type:

regedit

Hit Enter.

2. Your registry editor should now be up and running. Now would be a good time to back up your registry by hitting the File menu, Export Registry. Just in case.

3. OK, now navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

4. Under this Uninstall folder, you'll see all the stuff that's listed on the Add / Remove programs list. Find the folder for the program that's stuck in your Add / Remove programs box, right-click, and select Delete from the resulting menu.

Now, go back to your Control Panel, Add / Remove programs area and you should find that extra program is now gone.

BONUS TIP -

You may have already figured this out, but there's another use for this tip. If you have a program listed in the Add / Remove programs section that you DON'T ever want uninstalled, you can delete its folder from the Uninstall folder list mentioned above. That way, you (or someone else) won't accidentally remove it.

Oh, and don't worry. Deleting the folder won't remove the program, just its entry in the Add/ Remove section of the Control Panel.

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Amanda's Cool Site of the Day

What Is?

Have you ever been curious what those tech people are talking about? Well here is a site that has thousands of definitions for the latest IT-related words. Just pop it in their search engine and get your definition, or better yet browse by letter, or topic.

Believe me if you can think of the word they probably have the definition you are looking for.

Here’s an example:

“Lazy Loading: is also known as dynamic function loading, is a mode that allows a developer to specify what components of a program should not be loaded into storage by default when a program is started. Ordinarily, the system loader automatically loads the initial program and all of its dependent components at the same time. In lazy loading, dependents are only loaded as they are specifically requested. Lazy loading can be used to improve the performance of a program if most of the dependent components are never actually used.”

Isn’t that more helpful than being told that it’s dynamic function loading?

http://whatis.techtarget.com/

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