Announcements

Digital Video Camera Owners...

Grab This!

Although we sold through most of our stock yesterday, we still have a few of the Video CD Maker programs left. So, if you missed out, here's another chance to grab one.

To recap, this program lets you take your digital video recordings and transfer them to your computer. From there, you can put them onto a video CD that can be played in most DVD players and computers.

It also includes powerful editing software that really lets you customize your movie. You can edit out the bad stuff, put different clips together, add special effects, add transitions, add titles, and even overlay a clip with your own music!

Once you've perfected your production, you simply save it and burn to a standard CD-R disk. That's it! You have a video you can pop into a DVD player or computer.

It also includes a Digital Video Recorder, an MPEG encoder, a Photo Editor, Digital Album, and even a Video Security program that uses your video camera to keep an eye on your place when you're away.

Again, retail on this is $59.95, Amazon gets $37.65, but your price on our remaining stock is $14.97ea and US shipping is free. We even give you a 30 day satisfaction guarantee - if you're not happy with the software, just return in within 30 days for a refund. Nothing to lose! Check it out:

http://www.worldstart.com/store/video-cd-maker.htm

PS - Again, this shipment was an overstock deal. Once these are gone, the price will go up to $34.97. Get to the site soon to get in on this one!

Computers 101

Q:
I hate it when my browser auto-completes search engine entries and addresses when I start typing. How do I avoid this?

A:
Well, if you're using Internet Explorer (5.0 or higher), just go to Tools, Internet Options, then choose the Content tab and select the "AutoComplete" button. This will bring up a control panel where you can turn AutoComplete on or off for web addresses, forms, or passwords (see today's tip below for more about this).

Just uncheck "Web addresses" and "forms" to keep previous search engine entries and visited website addresses from coming up as you type.

Netscape Navigator users can go to Edit, Preferences, Navigator, then click "Smart Browsing"

Uncheck "Location Bar Autocomplete" and you will no longer have previous addresses popping up as you type one in. As for search engine autocompletes, NS doesn't seem to have this feature—at least it never happens to me.

~ David

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Tip of the Day

Autocomplete Everything

Of course, some of you like having your browser remember passwords and usernames for you. All that's required when you go back to the site is a quick double-click of the username box. Instantly, a little drop down box appears with your username in it. Just click that username and it automatically fills in both the name and the password for you. Cool huh?

In addition to passwords, it also helps you complete web site addresses and assists in filling out web forms. Newer versions of IE and NS have this enabled by default, older versions need you to turn it on manually.

Anyhow, you can tell Internet Explorer (5.0 or higher) which of these features you want to use (and which you don't) by doing the following:

1. Open Explorer and click your Tools menu, Internet Options.

2. Next, select the Content Tab. You'll see a Personal Information section. Click the Autocomplete button.

3. Check / uncheck the boxes you want to change, hit OK and you're all set. Here's a quick breakdown of what each one does:

Web addresses - This autocompletes web site addresses as you're typing them in the address bar. It's really handy if you have recently been at a site and don't remember the exact name, just the beginning of the address.

Here's a tip-in-a-tip - If you're looking for a page on a certain web site, but aren't sure what its address is, just type in the name of the site (i.e. www.worldstart.com) and hit your down arrow. All the pages you've recently visited at that site will be listed.

Forms - This one helps you fill out forms. Just start typing or double-click the form field and you'll get a list of what you've entered in the past for the same field. Doesn't always work, but it usually it does (especially if you've filled out lots of forms :-).

User names and passwords on forms - This one will help you fill in your user names and passwords. Usually just double-click the User name field on a sign in form, select your username, and the password gets popped in automatically (after you've done it manually the first time).

That's it. Note that you can enable / disable the password and regular autocomplete features from this screen. Also note that this screen allows you to clear out all of your passwords and form info should you need to.

Speaking of clearing out all your info, what do you do if you have an entry or two that is incorrect? You know, maybe you accidentally typed your address wrong once, and now every time you type your address in, you get the little drop down with the incorrect address sitting there, mocking you. What can you do? Is there any hope?

Yup—just arrow down to the offending entry and tap your Delete key. Poof! it's gone.

Now, for the Netscape Navigator way to do it: set up autocomplete by going to Edit, Preferences, Privacy & Security, then click "Forms". By checking off the "Form Manager" you can save information you use often, getting as detailed (or vague) as you want by using the "Manage stored form data" option.

Finally, it should go without saying that using this autocomplete feature is not a very secure way to use your computer. If anyone else has access to it, they can easily get into any of your password protected sites plus gain access to your personal information.

~ Steve

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Amanda's Cool Site of the Day

International Press and Media of the World

You can read newspapers from around the world, check out art and other forms of media. This site is well put together, and has a topic reminder with nifty image on every page so that you can get a quick glance at what’s happening on that page.

This is from an online magazine titled "Escape from America" that offers information for people traveling or relocating out of the country (I know, "Who'd wanna do that?" No jingoistic email please).

Even if you don't travel, you can find tons of information on Europe, Asia, and other cultures from all over the world. A great way to broaden your perspective in travel and culture.

Czech it out!

http://www.escapeartist.com/media/media.htm

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