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...

The efficient way to email your digital photos

I often get emails from family or friends who have recently been on vacation or been involved in some other event and they want to share a handful of photos with everyone in their address book. Some of the email works out great, but other email doesn’t quite make it through the way sender intended. Emailing photos can be one of the most troublesome things you can do with your email for several reasons. 1. ...

The efficient way to email your digital photos

by Adam Cochran I often get emails from family or friends who have recently been on vacation or been involved in some other event and they want to share a handful of photos with everyone in their address book. Some of the email works out great, but other email doesn’t quite make it through the way sender intended. Emailing photos can be one of the most troublesome things you can do with your email for several...

Flash Memory Drives

A flash memory drive (a.k.a. thumb drive or USB drive) consists of a chip of memory (flash) mounted in a plastic case with a USB interface on one end (see the illustration for some examples). With Windows Me, 2000, XP and Macintosh computers, flash memory drives automatically get recognized as another storage drive on your computer. No installation CD’s, no formatting, just fast, safe removable storage. In addition to...

Mailing Labels

Since you are likely to be sending out some sort of Christmas/holiday cards soon, I thought you might appreciate some advice on creating mailing labels. First, if you have a copy of Microsoft Works or almost any card publishing program, you have the ability to create an ‘electronic address book’ and produce labels. Check out the help sections of these programs to learn how. I like the Microsoft Works approach...