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Stuff From LindaABC is having another contest! And this one doesn't require any skill. This one is fun!!I'm a collector of funny computer stuff ... web pages,
cartoons, jokes, etc. And some ABC members have contributed some of
their favorite computer humor to us over the years. You can see some
of it here: My friend Oren Kramer at Ideazon Keyboards graciously offered us a free Internet keyboard as a prize, so I figured I'd kill two birds with one stone ... give my readers a chance to get a free keyboard, and increase the contents of our humor collection J CONTEST CLOSED. CLICK HERE TO SEE THE WINNERS. Info for Norton AV users:All of a sudden yesterday, my computer started slowing down drastically. My right-click menus took FOREVER to appear, Word and Excel were launching VERY slowly, web surfing was at a crawl, I couldn't publish from FrontPage AT ALL cuz it kept timing out on me, and my computer was just generally running very sluggishly. I did all the regular troubleshooting on this - ran Ad-aware and Spybot to remove spyware, did a defrag of all my drives, scanned for viruses and trojans, deleted temp files, and rebooted about six times - but nothing helped. And this was happening on ALL of my computers! I was at a loss. Then I started seeing posts from people in a few tech groups that were having similar problems. I also saw posts from people who said if they opened Word while they were connected to the Internet, Word kept trying to run virus scans ... and that's when I realized the common thread here in all the posts I saw was that we were all using Norton AV, so I went off to the Symantec website searching for a clue and, sure enough, I found it. It seems there's a problem with the AV definition files we all downloaded on Jan. 7th. Norton is aware of the problem and the solution is to update the Verisign certificate in your computer or go into Internet Explorer and click on the Tools menu and click on Internet Options. From there, go to the Advanced tab and scroll down to the Security section and remove the check from the box that says "Check for publisher's certification revocation". I figured what the heck, I'd try it and BINGO...my computer was running perfectly again. So, I posted the link to the others who were having similar problems and every one of them replied that this fixed their problems too; even one poster who was having a different problem (Word templates wouldn't open) said this fixed her problem too. So, I would recommend, if you have seen any weird changes in your system or Office performance in the last couple days, that you try this too. Here's the full instructions from Norton: OK.. this time the friends that helped me aren't
human. I decided to crawl the net and find pictures of pets to use for
my latest review. What I'm reviewing this month is a great little
program from SWISH called SWISHpix. If you are like me and have lots
of photos on your computer that you want to share with friends via the net,
this is a handy program that makes photo albums that you can save as a
webpage flash/html file, or as an exe file and a CD rom, or even as a screen
saver. It's really easy to use and lets you add little callout bubbles
to the pictures, select a background theme (or make your own), and add
music. I had a lot of fun creating this one with various pet pictures.
It supports most image file types and sound types. If you want to see
what I did with it, with a little help from "my friends", you can go
here: It may load a little slowly for some, cuz I just HAD to include music from my favorite singer, Joe Cocker. But, let it load, then click on the "View Album" button, and sit back and enjoy Joe and the "kids". There are buttons to move from slide to slide, but it's not necessary ... you can just watch it and let it advance automatically. I also used SWISHpix to make a screensaver from this file that you can
download for free here. Just download the zip file and extract the
ABCpets scr file to the location in your operating system where screensavers
are stored (search your hard drive for *.scr and you will see where that
is). Then go into your display properties>Screensaver tab and choose
ABC Pets from the dropdown choices. Enjoy! SWISH has this software on sale for the month of January, so you can get
it for just $19.95, so I'd recommend you go check it out now. I think
you will have as much fun with it as I am. There's a free 15-day trial
download too: ********** FrontLook Addins: FrontLook Screen Capture: Exclusive Offer for ABC Visitors Have you been thinking about buying a FrontLook product to enhance your
FrontPage web site? During the month of January, you can click on the link below to save $10 off any FrontLook Product over $25! This is an exclusive offer for ABC site patrons, so you won't find this offer on the FrontLook.com web site. Click below to buy your favorite FrontLook product for $10 Off: *Sale good until Jan 31st 2004 - Discounts applied on checkout page. Here's a tip I got from FrontLook's newsletter... In the final release of FrontPage 2003, Microsoft moved the "Themes",
"Pages" and "Webs" folders to the "Themes11", "Pages11" and "Webs11"
folders, respectively. If you installed any third party themes, page
templates or web templates while using the beta or an earlier version of
FrontPage, you may not see them. However, you still have them and can
make them available by doing this: 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 |
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