Information Avenue - Issue #247 - October 21, 2006 --
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This Week's Rant
We Ask Ask Why
What happens when brand name companies cheat and deceive consumers in their quest to be number one? Well, one thing, you and I, the consumer lose. This week our resident ranter rants about a major, front-line company who insists on targeting children and deceiving consumers in their quest to catch Google. Who loses? You? Don't really care? You should because if this sort of thing isn't stopped, others big companies will forego ethics and morality in their quest for corporate riches. Read "We Ask Ask Why" by visiting this page.
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This Week's Questions and Answers
Kelly's Getting A New
Computer
I have heard a lot of bad comments about Dell and Gateway in your
newsletters. I am needing to buy a new computer. (As I have Windows 98 and
want something that will work with an Ipod.) What kind on computer do you
suggest for your subscribers.
Our Answer
So many choices and prices are at all time lows - plus a new Windows operating system is coming soon. What a great time to buy a new computer for yourself or for a Christmas gift. But, how do you know you're going to get what you pay for? What's the best computer for the money? Are the brand names really the best? What about Dell? What about HP/Compaq? Ever heard of "Alienware"? We go all out to answer Kelly's question about buying a new computer. We think you'll find our answer informative, honest, and in-depth. So please please visit this page to read our answer to Kelly.
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Dave Rebuilds
After Crash
Thanks for your hard work! You once had a link to a program that would
allow you to print a list of the files in your directories or the directory tree
itself. My HD crashed and I lost the program. It was a nice freebie I think.
Thanks! Dave
Answer
Fortunately, what Windows lacks (so far) in directory printability,
software designers have tried to fill in the gap. Unfortunately, most of the
gap-filling software that prints directories with several print options are not
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Reader's Tip Of The Week Submitted By Karla
Karla's Tip:
Whenever you are filling out a Web form that has a drop down list of states,
just click on it, to highlight it, then hold down the shift key, then keep
tapping the beginning letter of the state you want, it will go alphabetically
through those states. When you have the state you want, just stop tapping the
letter key. This works great for me, since I'm always wanting one of the "M"
states. It works well for those that are down at the bottom of the list
alphabetically too! This trick also works for countries, and most any kind of
drop down worded lists. Thanks, Karla
InfoAve Site Of The Week
This week instead of choosing a "Freeware Pick Of The Week" for our free InfoAve Subscribers, we're featuring a favorite site. Our Freeware Pick Of The Week feature will return next week.
So, one good deed deserves another and we've been meaning to do this good deed for a long time. But, you know how it goes: You get busy with things and you forget to do what you should have done. Before, we get off on a convoluted tangent here, let's just say Steve's site is full of great information and he's very much respected by us and the Internet community.
Steve offers a Windows newsletter and tips and tricks. His site has a lot of really great resources. But, instead of filling this space with more praise and hyperbole, the best way for you to see what WorldStart is all about is to go there, right now, and take a look and see for yourself. While you're there you might want to sign up for Steve's free newsletters - because there's lots of great tips/tricks and computer information in them as well as on the pages of WorldStart Web site. Don't worry - you can't learn too much! Just like you can't live too long. Anyone who uses a computer should never stop learning. Especially those who think they know it all? Did you hear that EB?
Steve's WorldStart site is long overdue being named our Site Of The Week, so let us rectify that oversight right now - Tada! This week's site of the week is "WorldStart Dot Com"!
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This Week's Tips and Tricks
There's' A Storm
Comin' - Close All The Windows Fast!
Windows XP (All versions)
Have you ever found
yourself with a dozen or applications open (or a dozen or so windows
open) and be working back and forth between them - then you need to
troubleshoot something or you want/need to install something and
wanted to shutdown all running applications? Hmmm, you haven't? We
have, and we're betting a few of you out there have too. If not,
then we're completely out-of-touch with reality and you can skip to
the next tip :-) -
Visit this page to learn an exceptionally good but little-known
Windows Trick! Doing Things Differently - The Spice of
Computers OK. This tip is going to seem a little weird to
some of you. But as the old saying goes: "There's more than one way to skin
a cat". Now, when you think about it, that's an awfully crude saying. But
it's one of those phrases that no one actually means what they're saying
when they say it. Whew! Well anyway, in Windows there are
normally two or three (or more) ways to do the same thing. Knowing different
ways to get the same thing done is good (we think) because...well just
because it increases your computer knowledge and if you're going to do
something you might as well commit yourself to learning how to do it right. If you want to learn another way of accessing
your control panel and the things in it without ever opening the control
panel -
you'll want to visit this page and learn this tip! We
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