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Totally Absurd
If you have some time to kill and a good sense of the ridiculous,
visit Totally Absurd. These are actual patents that have been awarded.
You'll wonder why! But it's a fun time waster.
http://www.totallyabsurd.com/
Best Inventions of 2002
For a contrast, visit this site. It's the best inventions of 2002
and although some of them are pretty far out they serve a more useful
purpose than those above.
http://www.time.com/time/2002/inventions/
Phishing
If you spend any time at all on the Internet, please read this article!
"Phishing" is a new way to steal your identity and you
need to be aware of the problem.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/07/21/phishing.scam/
Newbie Club
Just found the following in a newsletter I receive. You can sign
up for the same letter and learn other useful computer tricks.
Just found the following in a newsletter I receive. You can sign
up for the same letter and learn other useful computer tricks.
"Tutorial ... "How To Turn a Folder into a Toolbar"
Here's a very neat trick you can try out. If you experiment with
it, you'll find it comes in very handy.
To save cluttering up your Desktop with too many icons, you can
save a lot of hunting around for saved stuff by creating a folder
and downloading related stuff to it - like all your motoring ebooks,
or free marketing ebooks...
RIGHT click on an empty area of your Desktop
Select 'New' then 'Folder'
A new folder appears on your Desktop. While the name 'New Folder'
is still active, type in the name you want - like 'Motoring'. If
your PC won't allow you to do this, then RIGHT click on the folder
and select 'Rename' and type in 'Motoring' or whatever.
You can fill this folder with anything already sitting on your Desktop
by left clicking on an existing object or folder and while keeping
your finger depressed, drag it across into the new folder. Then
release the button.
Easy Peasy, but here's the cool part ...
Click your mouse pointer over the new folder and hold the left mouse
button down. Now drag the folder to the edge of the screen. Magically
it turns into a taskbar with all the individual folders, ebooks
or whatever on display!
Every time you place something into that folder it will appear in
your new taskbar.
When you get fed up with it, just RIGHT click anywhere on the toolbar
and click the Close toolbar command, or untick the toolbar name."
Visit the site to subscribe to the newsletter. They try to sell
you more stuff than most newsletter sites, but you can still get
good - and free - information from them.
http://www.newbieclub.com
Color Matters
If you're interested in color check out this site. You can take
a color survey or read all sorts of interesting facts about colors.
http://www.colormatters.com/entercolormatters.html
Hooked on Facts
Did you know that dirty snow melts faster than clean; or that cell
phone antennae are not connected to any circuitry in your phone;
or that Bill Gates house was designed on a Macintosh? If you like
knowing this sort of thing, visit this site. You'll get lots of
random facts every time you click the button.
http://www.hookedonfacts.com/
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