Tips and Fun Stuff
~~ from Linda, with a little help from her friends...
First off, PLEASE don't miss
this exclusive offer from Oren Kramer at Ideazon. Last month he made
this offer and so many of our subscribers took him up on it, that he's
offering it again...and this time he's added another special 10% bonus on
ALL of their products!Christmas Discount for Excel Keyboard from Ideazon
... ONLY for ABC readers!!
Here's the deal ... go to
my page which reviews the keyboard.
Read the review again, if you haven't already. Then, click on the banner at
the top of the review There is no way to get to this
discount on Ideazon's website unless you click on
this
banner. This is a special link, just for ABC readers. You get
the base keyboard AND the Excel keyset for only $19.99!! Plus Oren is
offering us another 10% discount on anything else we buy in conjunction with
this. Here's the details he sent me, so you understand how this works:
Linda,
To sum it up – this is what a user needs to do to enjoy this ABC
special –
Go from
your web site to the Excel promotion (Not available directly
from our site) and press the ‘Buy Now’ button. If a user wishes to
add additional keysets or bases they should click ‘continue
shopping’ and choose whatever products they want by pressing ‘buy
now’ in the relevant products pages (Excluding promotion products
and ‘great gifts idea’ bundles). Their shopping basket will now show
all products they chose (Let’s say the Excel promotion + Crossfire
keyset). They now need to write the word ‘Excel’ in the coupon file
and press ‘Apply coupon’. This will apply 10% discount on all other
products excluding promotions (Coupon can’t be used with any other
coupon in conjunction).
- Dates – Friday – Monday Dec 12-22
- On these dates
the ABC banners/text link will change to reflect the promotion
- Additional ‘Excel’ limited-coupon (10%) for
users adding additional products on top
- We opened our Canadian web store – promotion
running there as well (see the link for the Canadian webstore)
Please gang...don't miss this one. I highly recommend these
keyboards .. they are great!! I've got two of my own now and I'm
planning on using this discount link to get a couple more for my friends
and family :-)
Vic Ferri made this concentration game for us a
couple years ago. It's got a Christmas theme and it's lotsa fun.
You can also write to Vic and have him make you a custom one with your
own pictures in it. He made one for me last year and I used
pictures of my family and put one in each of their stockings. It
was a great hit!!
Download the Christmas version here:
http://personal-computer-tutor.com/dl/ConcentrationXmas.exe
Read the instructions for resizing your own pictures if you want Vic
to make you a custom one, here:
http://www.personal-computer-tutor.com/resizegraphics.htm
Here's a cool tip for you Windows XP users:
Are you using Windows XP and having problems with that image
preview feature? Because of that, I found no matter what
program I associated my pictures with, when I double clicked to open
them, they always came up in the image preview viewer and NOT the
program I had them associated with. Well, FINALLY, I learned how
to turn that off. Thank goodness!!
- Go into your Registry Editor, by clicking on your Start button,
choosing Run, and typing in regedit
- Navigate to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\image\ShellEx\
ContextMenuHandlers\ShellImagePreview
- Double click on (Default) in the right pane.
- The value of the (Default) string there is set to:
{e84fda7c-1d6a-45f6-b725-cb260c236066}
- Delete the contents of that value so (Default) is empty
Now your file associations for all the image file types will work
properly, including hyperlinks.
Thanks to Alan in the MSOffice2@yahoogroups.com email group for
sharing this one.
This tip came to me from reader, Rick Altman:
Hello, Linda --
I don't think we know each other; Kathy Jacobs was one of our
speakers at the debut of PowerPoint Live last month and she
suggested that I subscribe to your newsletter. And I'm glad she did.
One of your personal remarks caught my attention...
"Because I own a website and my email address is readily
available to every spammer on the net, I get over 300 garbage spam
mails a day!"
Me too and me too...until I invested in six lines of JavaScript
code. Now none of the email harvesting robots can find my
email address, even though it is posted on every page of my
website.
Go to
http://www.altman.com/contact.htm and view the source code. A
very simple JS trick makes our email link completely invisible to
the spam bots. I don't know beans about JS, but I was able to
configure this one, and I have every confidence that you could grab
mine and take it from there.
Thanks Rick!
This is a really cool clock that Ann Roberts from
Eclectic Academy shared with me. It's a Flash page so you need the
Flash viewer to see it, but I think this is amazing and wanted to share
it with you all:
http://www.lares.dti.ne.jp/~yugo/storage/monocrafts_ver3/
03/index.html
And, of course, if you haven't seen the other cool clocks done with java
script, you can see them on this page of mine:
http://personal-computer-tutor.com/clock.htm
And... in case you don't know this yet .... The Newbie Club has done it again. They've updated their
Email for Newbies ebook series to include lots more stuff.
I recommend you check it out by
clicking
here.
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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
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