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 What's In Here?Lots of cool and
informative stuff every week! I'm dubbing this
week's colorful issue the Time
Travel Edition. Our Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
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You Need Help Setting Up A New PC For Christmas?
Avoid
the rush! Call us now (895-5016) to secure your on-site PC Setup
appointment. Christmas falls on Sunday this year and everyone will want
their new PCs set up and connected to the internet on Monday morning or
Monday afternoon.
New How-To Service!
We
are launching a new how-to service for anyone who needs a
step-by-step article written in plain, easy-to-understand English
and complete with screenshots. This is a great way to have
documentation readily available when you need to train new employees in
your specific computer-related processes or just need some refresher
material for yourself. Here are just a few titles of many articles we can write for you...
How To Set Up Outlook Express Rules and Filters
How To Edit Your Web-Based Documents and Photos
How To Backup Your Windows Registry
How To Setup and Manage Your Backup System
How To Turn Off the Recent Documents Menu in the Start Menu
How To Permanently Disable the Recent Documents Folder
...and many more - just ask and we'll let you know if we'll support it
We can save these How-To articles in a variety of formats such as
Microsoft Word, Openoffice, and HTML for easy on-line viewing. If
you already have a website account with us, we'll even create a
password protected directory on your account where you can store your
How-To documents. Pricing for each article will start at just
$10, or more depending on the complexity and number of steps involved.
Call me at 895-5016 if you have any questions or special requests.
Don't Neglect Your Old PC Just Cause Santa Brings A New One
You
may still be able to get mileage out of your old PC. We can give it a
PC Checkup and and clean it up so you can either donate it to a worthy
cause or give it to a youngster in time for Christmas. Check the
following link for more information about our PC Checkup Service...
http://www.bictx.com/checkups.shtml
Latest Virus
Threats
W32.Mytob.MK@mm
W32.Mytob.MK@mm
is a worm with back door capabilities that uses its own
SMTP engine to send an email to addresses that it gathers from the
compromised computer.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.mytob.mk@mm.html
Sober Worm Alert!
Make
sure your anti-virus software is completely up-to-date before January
5, 2006. Check out the full alert article here and mark your calendars
to check your Windows computer's anti-virus status. You'll need to
ensure that your virus definition files are up-to-date, not just your
subscription status, otherwise your PC could fall victim to the Sober
Worm.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2005-12-07-sober-worm_x.htm
Don't Forget to Get Your Patches!
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1898270,00.asp?kc=ewnws120905dtx1k0000599
 Fun
Stuff
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.
Two Thirds of The Earth Lies
Mostly Unexplored...
http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/nsf/diving/index.html
Awesome Computer Generated
Graphics!
http://www.flowlines.info/gallery.html
Funny Commercial For Microsoft's
XBox...
http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=WnpGtHq7Z0U
Cool Curveball Game to While Away
Time
http://allthingsflash.com/files/games/curveball.swf
Have You Ever Read H.G. Wells'
Time Machine?
http://www.ebooks3.com/ebooks/the_time_machine.html
Have You Ever Seen a Gingerbread Computer?
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/images/gingerbread_casemod_b.jpg
Look Closely And You'll See People Being Blown Into The Water...
http://www.aviationexplorer.com/747_takeoff_st_maarten_sxm.htm
And Here's That Same Jet Coming In While I'm Sunbathing Underneath...
Okay, maybe it's not really me in St. Maartens but with the recent cold wave I sure do wish...
http://media.santoalt.com/101/111804/st_maarten_airport.wmv
Edward Rondthaler Tells How To Live To One Hundred!
http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/11/15/living.well/
 Web
Hosting
Tips
Do
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.
How To Hide Your Email Address From Spammers
There
are a couple of ways to hide your email addresses listed on your
website from spammers' automatic email harvesting software. The first
way is to use this simple javascript in your website's HTML code at the insertion point where
you want to place an email click-link...
<script language="Javascript">
<!--
var name = "account"
var domain = "yourdomain.com"
var realname = "The Click-Link Text"
document.write("<a href='mailto:" + name + "@" + domain + "'>")
document.write(realname)
document.write("</a>")
//-->
</script>
Simply replace the "account" variable with the part of your email address that shows up in front of the "@" symbol, replace the "yourdomain.com" variable with the part of your email address that shows up after the "@" symbol and finally, replace the "The Click-Link Text" variable with the text you want your readers to click to generate an email.
The
only drawback to this javascript method is when an internet reader has
completely turned off their browser's response to javascript.
Therefore, you might want consider including a notation that they'll
need to enable javascript before they can click your link to send you
an email. Or you can try one of my favorite second methods...
 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.
Free Greeting Card Software Now Included In Click n' Run Warehouse
KreetingKard is the application make Greeting
Cards via your Linspire machine. Design it via templates you can
modify, and print it with your address book...
http://www.linspire.com/lindows_products_details.php?product_id=22249
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
Tips
Microsoft 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. Creative
Elements PowertoolsHere is a website I
stumbled
across that contains an awesome utilities suite of powertools for
Windows. Some of the functions of these utilities can be emulated by
performing a few registry hacks but why risk it when someone else has
already written a powertool utility for you. This one is definitely on
my recommended list for power users... http://www.creativelement.com/powertools/Another Speed Tip For Windows XPThere are tweaks you can do to
speed up the performance of your Windows XP. Here's one of them... http://www.bictx.com/tip6-11-03.shtmlFree Notable Software Download...http://www.irfanview.com/
(click
the images)
| This Day in History
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| Ctrl-Alt-Backspace Sage
Upon The WindWe've
been here many times before,and
here we stand again.Gazing
at the distant shores,our
journey never ends.We're
flying through the universe,inside
creative dreams.Our
moment through eternity,nothing's
ever as it seems.~
Voice of Golden Eagle
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Happy
Computing!
Tomas
Bright Ideas Computing
Kerrville,
Texas
http://www.bictx.com
830-895-5016
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