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mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to
its original size. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes | Kerrville 830-895-5016Texas |
Lots of cool and informative stuff every week! Click any of these links to go directly to your favorite section...  Hear Ye! Hear Ye!Sometimes
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other technical
bulletins. Call 830-895-5016 if you're
interested in any sale items we might list here. But please click here to read our disclaimer before
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Latest Virus Threats W32.Sober.X@mm W32.Sober.X@mm is a mass-mailing worm that uses its own SMTP engine to spread. It sends itself as an email attachment to addresses gathered from the compromised computer. The email may be in either English or German. http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sober.x@mm.html A Creepy Tale of Workplace Theft Keep that notebook secure... http://atlanta.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2005/11/14/story6.html?hbx=e_sol Don't Have Time Read Those End User License Agreements (EULAs)? Then download Javacool Software's free EULAyzer that can analyze those long license agreements and help you decide if that EULA meets your requirements. If you're not familiar with EULAs, those are the (often) long legalese statements included during software installation routines. Some of them even blatantly state that they will install third-party monitoring software on your computer. Get this free software and start checking those EULAs... http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/eulalyzer.html For Sale Items Have Moved To... http://www.bictx.com/forsale.html
Each
week we stumble across interesting, educational and fun sites on the
internet.
We hope you enjoy this section of our
newsletter as much as we do! But please click here to read our disclaimer before
visiting any third-party websites. Awesome Website For Young Coin Collectors! Heck! I even like this site from a webmaster's point of view. http://www.usmint.gov/kids/flashIndex.cfm Speed Up Your IPod http://www.lifehacker.com/ Explosive Reloading Results Although I had heard of rounds exploding in the chamber, I had never actually seen such an event occur or pictures of the explosive results. So if you reload, be careful... http://iris.nyit.edu/~bithead/anaconda/ Do You Work In A High Stress Office Environment? Then you need Mandatory Office Equipment (MOE)... http://www.bassfiles.net/MandatoryOfficeEquipment.htm Global Climate Changes Discover how researchers study climate changes... http://www.exploratorium.edu/climate/index.html
 Your Daily Click Helps Animals Survive!Millions of animals are rescued by shelters every year. If you're strapped for donation money, then your daily click provides food for an animal in a shelter or sanctuary... http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites.woa  Web
Hosting
TipsDo
you
have a domain website hosting account with
us? If so, you'll want to check this section for handy tips
to
help make your website standout from the crowd. Sometimes
we'll
give tips about working with your Plesk Control Panel. But please click here to read our disclaimer before
visiting any third-party websites. Do You Need a Good FTP Software Program? Then download and install FTP Commander so you can transfer multiple files between your computer and your domain hosting account. http://www.internet-soft.com/ftpcomm.htm  Linspire
Linux Tips
Linspire
Linux is a great operating system that is
designed to be the easiest of all desktop linux distributions.
If
you haven't tried it for yourself yet, ask for a free demo CD the next
time we service your computer. But please click here to read our disclaimer before
visiting any third-party websites.
Slick Recipe Manager Software Now Available Gourmet Recipe Manager is a recipe-organizer for Linspire that generates shopping lists and allows rapid searching of recipes. It imports mealmaster & mastercook files and exports webpages & other formats. Gourmet Recipe Manager aims to make it easy to enter and organize your recipes with an intuitive interface, as well as importing from popular formats (Mealmaster text files, Mastercook XML) and export to a number of formats, including web pages. http://www.linspire.com/lindows_products_details.php?product_id=14334 Linspire Linux Tip of The Week Don't forget to check the archive link at that page for previous tips... http://www.linspire.com/tooltips.php Latest Linspire Letter.... http://www.linspire.com/linspire_letter.php Michael's Latest Minute... http://www.michaelrobertson.com/  Microsoft
Windows
TipsMicrosoft Windows is
still the operating system that most people are familiar with.
Many businesses have based their requirements around
this
commercial operating system and so it remains the cornerstone of our
onsite support service. But please click here to read our disclaimer before
visiting any third-party websites.
Do You Know How To Create and Record A Macro In Microsoft Excel? If
you don't know how to create and record a macro, let alone what a macro
is, then this handy on-line tutorial is just the ticket you need to
board the knowledge train. You will need to enable pop-ups to work with
this site so temporarily turn off your pop-up blocker if it's turned
on. You can always turn it off again when you're done with this
lesson... http://www.officeclues.com/lessonLauncher.php?lesson=xls_03_08_01 Hey! Where Are My Icons? A
fresh installation of Windows XP will lack certain desktop icons you
were accustomed to seeing in Windows 98. These include My Documents, My
Computer, My Network Places, and even Internet Explorer. You can easily
add or temporarily remove them from your Windows XP desktop... 1. Right-click an empty area of your desktop and select "Properties". 2. Select the "Desktop" tab. 3. Click the "Customize Desktop..." button. 4. Add or remove checkmarks in the "Desktop Icons" section. Software Download of The Week Budget Tracker Software... http://www.ducksoftware.com/budgettracker.html
 LogoutI hope you've enjoyed this edition of our weekly newsletter. I try to make each week's edition different and special by including meaningful computer tips and links to fun, educational, and scientific websites. If you have any items of interest you might like to see addressed in the future, or you have any Fun Stuff links of your own that you might like to share, drop me an email and we'll see if we can include them for you. If anyone wants to receive their own copy of this newsletter, just send an email to tomas@bictx.com with "subscribe" in the subject line. If you no longer want to receive this newsletter, just send an email with "unsubscribe" in the subject line and I'll be happy to oblige. Meanwhile, don't forget to keep your computer's anti-virus current and your critical and security patches up-to-date for the most reliable computing experiences on the internet. Happy Computing! Tomas Bright Ideas Computing Kerrville, Texas http://www.bictx.com 830-895-5016 | |||||||||||||||
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