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Hot Tip

You’ve heard the phrase, “you learn something everyday”. This is a fact that I have found to be very true. If you are an ol’ timer like me and wear bifocals to see anything, this tip will help you out. This works with Windows XP but not sure with 98. Let me know if it works with Windows 98 and this is what I will learn today.

Did you ever surf onto a page where the font was just too small for your old eyes? If so hold the control key down, rotate the mouse wheal and the font will change larger or smaller.

A lot of mice with wheals have a 4th feature; push the wheal down to activate it. The default for this button is “auto scroll” Some have it, some don’t. Go to the control panel and click on mouse. You can change the default settings there to suit your needs.

I am thinking about having a basic computer class. It will be held in Versailles one night per week. There will be a fee to attend, as I must pay for the classroom. If you would like to attend email me so I can see if it will be worth while. Send to: PCclass@wb9otx.com

It’s a HOAX

As you know from past posts to this blog I get a lot of spam each day. I deal with it in many ways the best I can. I also get a lot of questions and this is the part of email I like. Keep 'em comeing.

The one type of email I don’t like is called a Hoax. I get these way to often and it seems they come from people that should know better. The main tip off to a Hoax is with every one of them, just look for the sentence that states, ” Forward to all the people in your address book”, “Please forward to all your friends”, or “Please get the word out to all”. The creator must love it when the hoax makes the circle around the world and lands back in his own inbox a few weeks later, Its an ego thing.

I did a post on hoaxes a few months ago, so I will not write another one. I will just copy it into this post. It has some humor in it and is well worth reading again. If you did not see it the last time, Please, Please read it.


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This is a rerun, but it is worth playing again.

Here is an exert from a mail list that is put out from WHAS radio Louisville Ky. http://84online.com The reason I'm sending this out is because I received an email this morning telling me to forward an email to ten other people. For doing this great deed I would receive a rose. Come on people, just stop and think about it for a minute. How is the person that sends out the roses going to know if I did it or not? How are they going to get my address to deliver the goods? Why would anyone want to send this old grump a rose?

Ajacks
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`Tis The Season

I guess it is time, once again, to discuss Internet chain letters and email hoaxes. We talk about this on the radio show regularly, but folks still want to clutter our inboxes with this junk.

Here are some pointers:

* MTV will not give you backstage passes if you forward something to the most people.

* Bill Gates is not going to give you $10,000.

* IBM is not going to send you a free computer.

* Disney is not giving you a free vacation.

* The Gap is not giving away free clothes.

* Miller is not about to send you a free six-pack of their Miller brand beverages.

* Coca-Cola won't send a free six-pack of Diet Coke to everybody you send an e-mail to.

* Neither Nokia nor Ericsson is ready to send you a free cellular phone.

* There is no baby food company issuing class-action checks.

* The American Cancer Society won't donate 3 cents to cancer
research every time you forward an ASCII-formed picture of Tickle-Me
Elmo.

Another thing: just because someone said in a message four generations back that "I checked it out and it's legit" does not actually make it true.

* There is no kidney theft ring in New Orleans. No one is waking up in a bathtub full of ice, even if a friend of a friend swears it happened to her cousin.

* Proctor and Gamble is not part of a satanic cult or scheme, nor is its logo Satanic.

* Neiman Marcus doesn't really sell a $200 cookie recipe. And even if they do, we probably all have it already.

* There is no gang initiation plot to murder any motorist who flashes headlights at another car driving at night without lights.

* There is no bill pending before Congress that will allow long distance companies to charge you for using the Internet.

* Microsoft has no technology to capture an image of you as you stare at your computer monitor.

* Neil Armstrong never said, "Good luck, Mr. Gorsky."

*No one has ever crashed a jet-powered car--or an old car with a stolen jet engine strapped to it--into the side of a cliff (except maybe Wyle E. Coyote).

I hope I haven't burst too many bubbles with those revelations.

Besides the annoyance of having these emails clogging mail servers, most people forward this junk without using the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) feature. This poses those hundreds of email addresses to the spammers and their mail-bots. Ever wonder how that SPAM made it to your mailbox? Your best friend signed you up when she sent you that informative email about Bill Gates sending you a gazillion dollars.

Here are some things to keep in mind:

If an email urges you to send it 10 friends, don't!

If an email insists it is legit because a lawyer said so, it isn't.

Microsoft, Intel and IBM cannot track an email and don't.

You don't have to take my word for this. Here are some sites that expose the hoaxes:

http://www.snopes.com

http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blhoax.htm?once=true&

http://www.vmyths.com/

Wise up!

Art Maley

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