Assorted Goodies
~~from Linda, with a little help from her friends

And, the next goodies I want to share come from my pal Mac Bagwell who owns a great website called Martha's Web.   One Saturday nite, a few members of the Computer Help and Discussion group were kinda bored and sharing different sites we frequent and Mac sent us a few free online games that are lots of fun, so I thought I'd share them with you.

• Letter Lasso
  • http://www.miniclip.com/wcrunch-102mc-005.swf?mode=yea
• Online Yahtzee
  • http://www.eyegrid.com/yahtzee/yahtzee.htm
• Butch Mushroom
  • http://www.orangegray.com/butch01.html
• The Office Space
  • http://www.disarea.com/work/office_space/
• And Mac's "personal favorite".... Marbles
  • http://www.netives.com/Games/Marbles/Play.shtml

Thanks to Mac for sharing these.  I recommend you all go to Mac's website for lots of other great stuff.

This next one is VERY funny, I think.  Subscriber Jeremy F. sent me this one:

Hi Linda.  My friend just taught me a new trick and I don't know if you know about this one or not. If you add the text ".mirror.sytes.org" (without the quotes) to the end of any URL, you sill see a mirror image of the website.  You know, backwards.  Try it with your own site:  http://personal-computer-tutor.com.mirror.sytes.org

Is that cool or what?  And, I see that if you click on any of the links on my home page, those pages come up backwards too. LOL  I also learned that you have to put the ".mirror.sytes.org" immediately after the site's extension (.com, .org, .edu, etc.) and NOT after something like .htm. 

For example...

http://personal-computer-tutor.com/library.htm.mirror.sytes.org brings you to a "page not found"

but http://personal-computer-tutor.com.mirror.sytes.org/library.htm shows my Library page completely backwards.  Notice even the pictures are backwards...and the text in the title bar too.

Lotsa fun, Jeremy.  Thanks for sharing it with us!

This next one was something we discussed in Hal Cardona's WinXPHelp group .  Someone was having problems with blurry fonts and I sent them to this page.  I was surprised to hear many people don't know about this page.  It's Microsoft's Clear Type Fonts Optimizer  It's made for LCD monitors and it only works if you are using Windows XP, but I've found it works with my regular CRT screen also. So, if you are having problems seeing your fonts clearly onscreen, give this a shot. What you got to lose?

This is one that ABC Fleet member, Mike Baynes included in his great newsletter, MikesWhatsNews, http://www.mwn.ca/

Stardock CursorXP free
http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/
A program that lets you use and create incredibly cool looking Windows mouse cursors.   It does this by taking advantage of the new visual effects features of Windows 2000 and Windows XP. 

This one is great, Mike.  I downloaded the free version and I'm having so much fun with it, I bought the pro version.  Right now my mouse pointer is a Heineken bottle LOL

I downloaded the Heineken bottle here:
http://snurl.com/2vcz

And the last little goodie is a belated Halloween gift from me.  If you read my review of FrontLook's FrontPage addins, you may have already seen this, but if not, here's a little Halloween ditty I made:

http://www.personal-computer-tutor.com/boo.htm

Thanks to all that send me stuff.  If you have anything fun to share with ABC's readers, just drop me an email and I will check it out.

Linda
linda@personal-computer-tutor.com

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Linda Johnson is a college instructor of all of the Microsoft Office Programs, as well as Adobe PhotoShop and Windows. She also teaches online distance learning classes in Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Word at Eclectic Academy. She has worked helpdesk and teaches and lectures at many local businesses and tech schools in her area. Support this newsletter by checking out Linda's eBooks, MS Word MAGIC!, Book I: Fonts, Fun & Formats and Book II: Table Wizardry, How To Get Started As a Software Trainer, and her newest series of MSOffice eBook Tutorials and CD