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The
mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to
its original size.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Kerrville
Texas
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Welcome to
another issue of our weekly newsletter!
Something
for everyone.
No
one can dispute that the human brain is the greatest computer of all
time! But sometimes it requires a little nudge to grow new
cells. I also happen to
believe that hardware computers are very useful tools
which can
help to provide that nudge. That's why this
newsletter is not just full of computer-related information, but also
includes entertainment and educational items to tickle the brain cells.
There's something of interest for everyone in here so feel free to
share this issue and pass it along to your
friends and family...
What's In Here?
Lots of cool,
fun, and
informative stuff every week!
I'm dubbing this
week's issue
the Mother's Day Edition. Today, May 14, is
Mother's Day. Our Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
section includes special click-links to transport you
to educational and informational websites
about Mother's Day.
Click any of
these links to go
directly to your favorite section...
Missed an
issue?
Check
out
past issues here...
 Hear
Ye! Hear Ye!
Sometimes
we have
special sales, important notices about virus outbreaks or
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
visiting any third-party websites.
New Help File
I've added a new Help File called "How to Access Your WebMail"
to our online help files. This is a quick and easy method of getting
into your WebMail without having to first login to your Plesk Control
Panel. Use your Bright Ideas Computing hosting account to access your
WebMail from any PC in the world that has an internet connection. Click
to read entire article...
http://www.bictx.com/webmail.shtml
Another Reason Wireless Security Is So Important
You'll find a link in my Fun
& Educational Stuff
section that describes how a simple bucket can be used to boost the
reception of a wireless hot-spot from as far away as 100 meters. Have
you secured your wireless networking? If not, PLEASE don't keep any of
my data on your PCs.
Do You Have a Question?
Then try our Level-1 Technical Support
service. You don't have to spend hours
buried
in a technical manual or waste time on the telephone speaking to
foreign technical support. Submit an issue and let us research it while
you
spend quality time with your friends, family, or other critical
business issues. Click for more information...
http://www.bictx.com/level1/index.shtml
 Freeman-Fritts Pet Fest May 20, 2006,
11:00 am to 3:00 pm
"It's the 20th
anniversary of our Freeman-Fritts Vet Clinic and Animal
Shelter. To commemorate this terrific milestone, we are planning a huge
Pet Fest Celebration on May 20 at our facility." Click to
read entire article...
http://www.freemanfritts.com/announcements.shtml
Hunter,
Festus and Roscoe Are Still Looking for Good Homes
http://freemanfritts.com/gallery/Adoptable
Microsoft Ends Support For Windows 98/SE and
Windows ME!
"July 11, 2006 will
bring a close to Extended Support for Windows 98,
Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows Me as part of the Microsoft
Lifecycle Policy. Microsoft will retire public and technical support,
including security updates, by this date." Click for more
information...
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/support/endofsupport.mspx
http://redmondmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=7345
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Kingston USB Flash Drives
& Automatic Backups
DataTraveler
USB Flash drives are ideal for home office, small business, schools and
promotions. They're affordable and put mobile storage in nearly
anyone's hands. Call us at 895-5016 and let us show you how to get the
most out of these units as a convenient backup media.
Click here to learn more...
http://www.kingston.com/flash/wmv_files/using_dt.wmv
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Latest Virus
Threats
Trojan.Muvipaz
Trojan.Muvipaz is a Trojan horse that displays advertisements and may download files from a remote location.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.muvipaz.html
W32.Hoots
W32.Hoots is a worm that spreads through network shares and prints a picture on networked printers.
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.hoots.html
Check For New Sale Items
In Our Online Store...
 Fun
& Educational 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.
Here's Another Creep Who Got His Just Desserts!
"A 20-year-old who prosecutors say
hijacked computers to damage computer networks and send waves of spam
across the Internet was sentenced yesterday to nearly five years in
prison." Click to read entire article...
http://tinyurl.com/p6ndn
New Titan Movies!
"New views of the most distant
touchdown ever made by a spacecraft are being released today by NASA,
the European Space Agency and the University of Arizona. The movies
show the dramatic descent of the Huygens probe to the surface of
Saturn's moon Titan on Jan. 14, 2005." Click to read entire article...
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press-release-details.cfm?newsID=655
Biocosm, The New Scientific Theory of Evolution
"Why is the universe life-friendly?
Columbia physicist Brian Greene says it's the deepest question in all
of science. Cosmologist Paul Davies agrees, calling it the biggest of
the Big Questions." Click to read entire article...
http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0642.html?printable=1
Google Trends
Ever wonder what the world is searching for on Google? Well, just type
in any subject word and Google Trends will tell you how much that word
has been searched...
http://www.google.com/trends
Quantum Physics Double Slit Experiment
"In physics, wave-particle duality
holds that light and matter can exhibit properties of both waves and of
particles. It is a central concept of quantum physics." Watch this interesting Google video that explains how small objects have both the behavior of wave and particle nature...
http://tinyurl.com/kzkez
BMW Has a "Clever" Concept
"For the last few years, BMW and
University of Bath have been hard at work on the CLEVER — a
compact fuel-efficient vehicle for city driving." Click to read entire article...
http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/04/23/bmws-clever-concept-completed/
So You Think Your High-Tech Car is Safe From Theft?
"Let's say you just bought a Mercedes
S550, a state-of-the-art, high-tech vehicle with an antitheft keyless
ignition system. After pulling into a Starbucks to celebrate with a
grande latte and a scone while checking your messages on a BlackBerry,
a man in a T-shirt and jeans with a laptop sits next to you and starts
up a friendly conversation: "Is that the S550? How do you like it so
far?" Eager to share, you converse for a few minutes, then the man
thanks you and is gone. A moment later you look up to discover your new
Mercedes is gone as well." Click to read entire article...
http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-3513_7-6516433.html?tag=txt
Neptune's Moon Mystery Solved
"Neptune's giant moon Triton has long been considered one of the solar system's most peculiar objects." Click to read entire article...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/moon-neptune.html
Artificial Life Form? You Be The Judge!
"Can a long-extinct
species be resurrected? Ugobe designers and engineers studied the long
extinct Camarasaurus, a dinosaur from the Jurassic period. Pleo, a
Ugobe Life Form is the authentic recreation born from that study.
UGOBE's designers and engineers recreated Pleo's physiology from the
fossils of the original. His height and weight are consistent with that
of a one-week old infant camarasuarus." Click to read entire article...
http://www.ugobe.com/pleo/index.html
The Science of Music
"What is music? Is birdsong music?
How about the tap-tap-tap of a hammer, or the wail of a creaking door?
Is playing a garbage can different than playing a drum?" Click to read entire article...
The Simple Bucket Wi-Fi Amplifier!
"Whilst looking to
get better access to a hotspot at my girlfriend's apartment, I tried
several possibilities to improve the weak signal I was catching. This
ranged from hanging out the window with antennas and wifi adapters to
commercial antenna amplifiers. But nothing really boosted the signal to
an acceptable rate. And building a tin can antenna like described on
many internet sites still seemed too complicated, since it forced you
to go and buy special plugs and cabling (although cheap). No, the
solution was much simpler." Click to read entire article and then secure your own wireless network...
http://trinityhome.org/trk/weavernews/viewnews.php?news_id=60
Google Shows Off "Co-Op"
"Google Inc. on Wednesday fired
another salvo aimed at maintaining the lead in Internet search while
making its software more accessible outside Web browsers in its ongoing
duel with rivals Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc." Click to read entire article...
http://redmondmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=7427
This Mother's Day, Give Mom The Roach Brooch She'll Remember Forever!
"These insects come in varied
patterns and are decorated with the finest Austrian Swarovski crystal.
Each roach takes about an hour of painstaking work to achieve his final
magical glory." Click to read entire article...
http://tinyurl.com/fft3m
Recipe Of The Month - Coconut Rum Flan
http://www.elboricua.com/recipeofthemonth.html
Fits Like a Glove!
Here's a new shoe that fits like a glove and you don't even need shoelaces...
http://www.2dolphins.com/2006/05/fivefingers-for-your-ten-toes.html
 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.
New Help File
I've added a new Help File called "How to Access Your WebMail"
to our online help files. This is a quick and easy method of getting
into your WebMail without having to first login to your Plesk Control
Panel. Use your Bright Ideas Computing hosting account to access your
WebMail from any PC in the world that has an internet connection. Click
to read entire article...
http://www.bictx.com/webmail.shtml
 Linspire
Linux Tips
Linspire
Linux is a great operating system 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.
BasKet (submitted by a newsletter sponsor)
"This application provides as many
baskets as you wish, into which you can drag and drop, add or paste
various objects (text, URLs, images, etc...). Objects can also be
edited, copied, dragged, and so on. You can arrange them as you want!
BasKet allow you to keep all objects in one place, keep data on hand,
and take notes. The application was initially designed to be a Drop
Drawers clone for KDE, but it's now a powerful tool in its own. It also
can be used as an EverNote or OneNote equivalent." Click for more information...
http://www.linspire.com/lindows_products_details.php?product_id=13315
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.
Smoother Mouse Cursor
If you have a PS/2 mouse and
you know for a fact that the trackball is clean, you can make your
mouse cursor operate more smoothly. Here's how...
1. Click " Start -> Control Panel -> System -> Hardware -> Device Manager".
2. Click on "+" symbol next to "Mice" and then right-click your mouse device and select "Properties".
3. Click on the "Advanced Settings" tab and then change the "Sample Rate" to "200".
There! Now you'll enjoy smoother mouse response. Remember, this only
works with PS/2 style mice and it won't correct an erratic cursor
caused by a dirty trackball.
Free Notable
Software Download...
Stellarium
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for
your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see
with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
http://stellarium.sourceforge.net/
(click
the image)
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A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
~Irish Proverb
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. ~Jewish Proverb
Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the wide world over.
~George Cooper
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I
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.
Visit
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to subscribe or (gasp!) unsubscribe...
http://lists.bictx.com/mailman/listinfo/brightideas
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 Trails~
Tomas
Bright Ideas ComputingTM
Kerrville,
Texas
http://www.bictx.com
830-895-5016
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