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Here's
A Windows Tip
Is Your
Desktop Cluttered?
I can't help you with your physical desktop, but if you have
a cluttered Computer Desktop, then here's a couple of tips.
First go through and delete the icons that you don't use. Many
programs put advertisements for their website on your desktop,
or a link to get free AOL. Just click once on it and hit delete
or drag and drop them to the Recycle Bin.
Once you have gotten rid of the junk, try to group the similar
icons. For example, I made a folder on my desktop named "REPORTS:
and moved all the shortcuts for the reports I run to this folder.
Now when I want to run a report, I just open that folder and
choose the program I want to use.
You can do the same thing with website shortcuts you might have
on your desktop, or games.
To create a folder on your desktop, just right click on the
desktop, point to "New" and then click on "Folder".
Type a name
for your new folder and you are all set to use it.
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High-Speed Users Move Into Majority
Web users with fast broadband connections have finally muscled aside
dial-up users to
form a majority of the American Internet population, according to
Nielsen/Net Ratings.
For the first time last month, the New York-based market research firm
found that more
people used high-speed Internet connections from home (mostly cable-modem
or digital
subscriber lines) than dial-up lines. Some 63 million folks logged on from
broadband
connections at home in July, representing 51 percent of all U.S. Internet
users -- up
from the 38 percent share that broadband had one year earlier. Only 61.3
million people
were using dial-up lines last month, Nielsen found.
"We are reaching a tipping point now with broadband," said Marc Ryan,
senior director and
analyst for Nielsen/NetRatings. "That means people building content for
the Internet will
increasingly be creating systems and applications to take advantage of
it."
Ryan said broadband usage grew steadily all year, fueled by discounting
from Internet
service providers. Cable companies still lead the phone companies in the
race to sign up
broadband subscribers, but phone companies have been adding to their DSL
services'
subscriber totals at higher rates and are now starting to catch up.
Debate continues over the relatively slow broadband adoption rates in the
United States,
which have lagged behind those in South Korea and Japan. While many
Americans have high-speed links at work, the wiring of U.S. residential areas for broadband
has been carried
out at a plodding pace.
Nielsen's finding that home broadband users now form a majority drew
skepticism from
analysts who questioned whether the firm had undercounted dial-up users.
But Ryan said
that was not likely. He said Nielsen/NetRatings derives its data from a
panel of tens of
thousands of Internet users who mirror the overall U.S. Internet
population; all were
recruited by the same random telephone dialing methods employed for
Nielsen's TV ratings.
It's worth noting, however, that a majority of Americans still aren't
logging on at all.
The total of 124.3 million Americans the firm identified as going online
at home in July
is less than 45 percent of the country's total population of 293 million
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Did you know you
can reduce the amount of spam you get by not replying to a suspicious
e-mail message?
Replying tells a spammer that your e-mail address is valid and
probably won't remove you from their mailing list.
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something "computer related" to sell? Looking for that rare peripheral? If
it's computer related you can submit a short classified ad for exposure in
Dave "Bytes". Be sure to include your name and e-mail address in the ad.
You can also include a picture of the item. Now some would suggest that
there be a charge for this feature but alas, since my bookkeeping skills
leave much to be desired I've determined that this will be a free service
to all SPCUG members in good standing. "Bytes" is currently sent to
almost 1500 homes in the area. Ad requests will be included as
soon as possible. I assume absolutely no responsibility as to the accuracy
or completeness of supplied info. All transactions are between consulting
adults which leaves me entirely off the hook. Please let me know by
clicking
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listing. I will try to run each ad for a month.
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Florida Association of Computer User Groups, Inc.
Fall 2004 Conference
Dear Fellow SPCUG Members,
The Florida Association of Computer User Groups was founded in 1993 to
assist user groups in the performance of their managerial and educational
activities, to promote communications among local user groups, and to
facilitate relations between user groups and the computer industry. FACUG
is the successor organization to the Florida Suncoast Conference of PC
User Groups. Suncoast was one of the early regional groups having been
started in 1989 in Sarasota by our own Gary Schweinshaupt. Currently there
are 60 member User Groups that belong to FACUG. This years Fall Conference
is a 1 day event being hosted by the Tampa Bay Computer Society in
Clearwater. Over the years many SPCUG volunteers have devoted countless
hours of their time in an effort to help make SPCUG a stronger
organization and to their credit, have succeeded. Years ago Gary
encouraged me to attend a conference and to get involved which I gladly
did. Since then I have been a Director and now serve as President because
I have seen, first hand, how FACUG helps to not only strengthen SPCUG, but
the User Group Community as a whole. That being said, I would like to
encourage all Officers, Chairs and Volunteers to register for the Fall
Conference. FACUG member attendees: $16 on site, $13 by
mail before September 25th
This fee covers breakfast, lunch and
participation in the various roundtable panel discussions and door prizes.
If you have any questions, please contact me @
Hotel arrangements are in place for those who want an early start
Hotel Information
Quality Inn
20162 US19
N Clearwater, FL 33764
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All things considered, I'm sure that you
will bring back to SPCUG information and ideas that will serve the
Sarasota PC User Group well while having a good time in the process.
I hope to see you
there,
Dave
Gerber
FACUG - President
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While Wandering The Web
Multimap.com is Europe's most popular
mapping web site, offering a range of free, useful
services to assist with everyday life. Key features include
street-level maps of the
United Kingdom, Europe, and the US; road maps of the world;
door-to-door travel
directions; aerial photographs; and local information. Multimap also
provides a range of
complementary services through its partners. These include
entertainment, hotel, holiday-
cottage, restaurant and train-ticket booking services, SMS weather
alerts and the ability
to buy both historic and aerial photograph prints.
Since its launch in 1996, Multimap.com has become the number one
online directory in the
UK*, and one of the 10 most-visited sites in the UK overall*. In the
public web site
regularly delivers more than page views per month and receives more
than unique users per
quarter. Traffic continues to grow on average by 10% per month.
Here's An Outlook 2003 Tip
Set a reminder to reply to a message
To get reminded to reply to a message, right-click the message you want to set the reminder for, point to Follow Up, and then click Add Reminder. In the Due By list, click the date when you have to complete the reply. In the second list, click a time. In the Flag color list, click the flag color you want, and then click OK.
Here's The Latest Virus Information From
Trend Micro & Symantec
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New Forum Announced for the September SPCUG General Meeting Web Page Forum - Enter Room 314 to Teacher's Lounge This forum will address issues regarding the design of web pages for those people who already familiar with web page design. Discussion will center around Microsoft Front Page as the editor. Leader: Gene Mathes Registration is NOT required |
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"Protect your right hand. It's after all your mouse hand!!" |
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Adobe Photoshop SpeedUp
significantly decreases the time it takes to load Adobe Photoshop by
disabling the plug-ins that you may not need.
There are several options such as whether to load the Adobe fonts, load
the presets, and set the memory usage. You may restore to the original
settings at any time. Adobe Photoshop SpeedUp is freeware, works with
Adobe Photoshop versions 3 through 8.
Features:
· Free Photoshop Tweak Utility for Adobe Photoshop version 4 through 8
· Enable or disable the plug-ins as needed
· Do not load Adobe fonts CMap and Base
· Do not load Photoshop Presets
· Optimize and reset Maximum Memory Usage
· Restore to original settings with a click of the Restore button at any
time
This is Freeware !!!
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