Are you a little tired of the boring, hum drum run of the mill emails you’ve been dealing with since you’ve been online? Did you ever use the stationery included with your email client and determined that it’s as exciting as talcum powder? Did you ever wish that there was a website with tons of different downloadable stationery and things to dress up your email? Wouldn’t it be nice… Continue reading
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I would like to rearrange the order of my programs under the Start menu in Windows XP. How can do this?
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I get email all the time from readers who want to change the order of the programs in their Programs menu (Start button, Programs). You’ll be glad to know it’s easy as drag and drop!
Here’s how:… Continue reading
Download of the Week: PrintFolder 2.1
Did you ever want a list of the folders on your PC? We get email all the time asking how to print a list of files in a folder. Maybe you need help deciding what should stay and what should go, or how about printing an index of a folder to use to keep your backups in order. Well want… Continue reading
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What is LCD?
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No, it’s not a mind altering substance from the sixties. LCD stands for “Liquid-Crystal display”. This technology is used in laptop screen, desktop monitors and HDTVs. They are lighter and consume less power than other displays.
Liquid crystals are rod-shaped molecules in the display that spiral when exposed to an electrical… Continue reading
Have you ever been looking for a specific e-mail message but had HUNDREDS of messages to sort through? It’s enough to drive you crazy. Instead of hunting through each message one by one, you can do a search (assuming you’re using Outlook Express, Netscape Messenger, or some other program that lets you do searches).
The trick is to look for specific keywords. Let’s say you were looking for a message… Continue reading
Download of the Week: The Cleaner
This free utility for cleaning up your e-mail is extremely popular.
You know the drill. You get an e-mail from someone and it’s full of carets (>>>), badly formatted, and basically a mess.
Well, copy and paste that badly formatted text into this utility, click the smily face, and it will remove all
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What is script debugging? I have been told to select “no” when a screen pops up at work. Is there a risk to it, or is it just a waste of time?
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Before I learned how to shut off this “feature”, I too would be surfing along when suddenly an error message would pop up on a website asking me if… Continue reading
Digging for Worms
Like me, you probably get more infected emails than good ones. It seems like I’m getting more worms and viruses sent to me than s spam m (never thought I’d see that happen). In my case I get 400-800 infected emails everyday here at Worldstart H.Q. Fortunately I have anti-virus software that deletes the virus/worms but the emails remain with a little note telling me a virus… Continue reading
I love it when I find a cool picture or graphic to use as a wallpaper image. The only problem I run into is that I usually find too many pictures to use as wallpaper and can never make up my mind. So what I end up doing is changing my wallpaper constantly— I’d say I change my wallpaper on the average of once every day or two. There’s still… Continue reading
“This site is all about snow crystals and snowflakes—what they are, where they come from, and just how these remarkably complex and beautiful structures are created, quite literally, out of thin air.”
Here you can learn all about natural snowflakes like the kind that end up in your backyard, but you can also learn all about designer snowflakes which are man made.
In the… Continue reading
