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10 Skills EVERY computer user should have (or learn) I originally posted this list in January 2007. However, through my keen observation skills, I discovered that all computer users have not yet read and digested this information. For this reason, I’m posting it again because I won’t stop working to educate computer users until every computer user knows these 10 skills. Computers have become almost a main stream household appliance. Whether you have been using a computer for fifteen years or...

Setting up a new computer Prevention is the best medicine when it comes to avoiding illness in ourselves. Prevention in the computer world is no different. And like a newborn baby, a newly purchased computer is subject to many terrible diseases and problems if not properly cared from the moment it is taken from its cardboard box. I follow these steps when setting up a new computer system for my clients, and recommend this methodology for all new computer setups: Before setting up...

Web surfing 101…again Catching up on my reading, I ran across yet another article outlining how easily unsuspecting web users can be duped into infecting their machines and voluntarily giving up their own hard earned money. You MUST read this article, IF you want to keep yourself, your wallet, and your computer safe. Wired published the article I was reading today in their Ocotober issue. You can read it by clicking here. Executive summary: Bad guys are everywhere. They can...

An Easier Way to Resize Your Digital Photos

Microsoft, now offers a tool that makes resizing photos almost trivial…for Windows XP users only. Thanks to one of our long time computer user group friends (Bob C.) for finding this great program. Simply called Image Resizer, this program installs itself as an option when you RIGHT click on a picture. It only takes three minutes to download on even the slowest phone Internet connection. Here’s how it...

Spam Revisited…and Outlook Express Filters

If you use Outlook Express, a listener, Jerry, pointed out an important and extremely helpful tip for seeing less junk in your Inbox. Thanks Jerry! 1. Click Tools from the menus 2. Click Message Rules –> Mail 3. (Click the New button IF the ‘new mail rule’ box doesn’t appear) 4. Check the box “Where The To Line Contains People” 5. Check “Delete It” or another...

Signature Files

A signature file will automatically put any text you desire at the end of your outgoing email. Here?s how: Outlook Express 1. In Outlook Express, Click on Tools à Options 2. Click the Signatures Tab 3. Click the New button 4. Type how you want your signature to look 5. Make sure the ?Add signatures to all outgoing messages? box is checked at the top of the screen 6. Click OK…now all of your...

Saving Pictures from Email II

With scanners built into sub $100 printers and the onslaught of digital cameras, more pictures are being sent via email than ever before. Search through our archives on the most efficient ways to send your digital photos and ways to resize photos that were sent to you too large. Today’s tip, however, focuses on the recommended method of saving those precious photos from getting lost. One thing I do not recommend doing...

Resize an emailed photo for printing

Have you ever been frustrated when trying to view or print a picture that you received via email? Today’s tip will solve this annoying problem for you quickly and almost effortlessly. 1. When you receive one of these large pictures, save it to your hard drive (and remember where it is). 2. Start Microsoft Word (Word Perfect and newer versions of Works will work as well). 3. Click on Insert –> Picture...

Unblocking Attachments in Outlook Express

Many computer users over the past few months lost the ability to receive attachments normally in Outlook Express for seemingly no reason. As with all problems, there is a cause. In this case, the loss of attachments starts after a Windows Update session or an upgrade to the latest version of Internet Explorer/Outlook Express. Microsoft decided that since attachments can bring along a virus, by default they would prevent...

Print Address Book – Outlook Express Revisit...

Prompted by a listener, here is the procedure for printing a copy of your address book from Outlook Express with more control than the tip we discussed a few weeks ago. 1. Open your Address Book from within Outlook Express 2. Click on File 3. Click on Export 4. Click on Other Address Book 5. Click on Text File (Comma Separated Values) 6. Click on Export 7. Type in Address in the white box 8. Click on...

Printing your email address book – Outlook E...

As promised, here is the technique for Outlook Express and AOL users: Outlook Express Users 1. Start Outlook Express 2. Click on Tools from the menus 3. Click on Address Book 4. In the address book window, click on File from the menus, then Print 5. The print window gives you “style” options. Choose Business card for simplicity and to save paper AOL Users Use the “Print” option in...

Printing your email address book – Netscape/...

Many people would like to print their address books as a backup. However, a better backup is to save your address book periodically on floppy disk. Netscape Users 1. Click on Communicator from the menus, click on Address Book. 2. Click on the File menu 3. Click on Export 4. Click in the “save in” box and choose Desktop 5. Name the file address 6. Click in the “save as type” box and...

One Additional Defense Against Email Viruses

This simple tip should not be a substitute for anti-virus programs and keeping them updated, but can be an affective adjunct to anti-virus programs. As always, remember that viruses can come from friends and family. Although not on purpose, if a friend or family email buddy received a virus unknowingly, they will propagate the virus unknowingly as well. Because we have a tendency to look at email attachments, institute this...

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An Easier Way to Resize Your Digital Photos

Spam Revisited…and Outlook Express Filters

Signature Files

Saving Pictures from Email II

Resize an emailed photo for printing

Unblocking Attachments in Outlook Express

Print Address Book – Outlook Express Revisit...

Printing your email address book – Outlook E...

Printing your email address book – Netscape/...

One Additional Defense Against Email Viruses

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