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133 April 11 2003
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1. ----------- Ramblings. A couple of weeks ago I asked for help for a Newbie Club member who was looking for good computer training sites for his children. And you responded magnificently. Many emails recommended the same resources, so for the benefit of all, I've listed the best ones here... http://www.lissaexplains.com/ There are some brilliant tutorials there for kids, covering a wide spectrum of topics. Many thanks for taking the time to share them. I had some amazingly complimentary feedback last week about the layout of this Web based newsletter. Some even said that normally they don't click through to read online, but found the layout and color scheme so good they'll be pleased to click through. I also had the usual sad email, bitterly complaining about the adverts which spoiled the tutorials ... Tough! I have to make a living and no-one forces anyone to read everything. You know something? I still find it difficult to understand why so many people think everything on the Net should be free. The same people of course contribute nothing to the Internet community themselves. In the off-line world we actually pay good money for newspapers and magazines and they still contain advertising! Yet we accept it as the norm. My article "I Should Have Known Better" (section 5) underlines this freebie mentality we all suffer from when it comes to the Internet. Sometimes I'll receive an email with no introduction, no preamble, sometimes no subject, and no signature, stating something like ... "I don't want your Newsletter any more. Remove me". Or even just 'Delete' in the subject line. Now if there is one thing that makes my blood absolutely boil it's rank bad manners. Good manners was something my father drummed into me. My dear maternal grandmother never once allowed me to get away without saying 'thank you' in return for a gift or a favor. If I asked for something she would always reply "If You?" And if I didn't say please I didn't get it. I'm just old fashioned I suppose - just like my grandmother. These people asked to be subscribed, and received lots of good quality FREE information for as long as it suited them. But when they wish to be removed they display no feeling of gratitude at all. It's as if they believe that FREE information is a statutory right for everyone who signs up to the Internet with a free ISP. Have I upset you? Tough! It's a great dream. But who supplies it, and how can they supply it without making a living in some way by doing so? Unless of course we all rely on millions of hobbyists sharing their experiences with us through their occasional newsletters. For free of course! Just accept that we need to strike a balance. Some things in Internet life are free. And some require a small investment. It all depends on how much we want to learn, and why we want to learn it. Last week I spent hundreds of dollars on Internet information that will help me become better at my business. Again, my article will explain how wrong my thinking was, when I first went into business, and then later onto the Internet. There's a saying that the best things in life are free. But there are occasions when even a tiny cash investment can make our lives even better! By the way. I'm off to that beautiful small country in West Africa called The Gambia in a couple of weeks. It's not called "The Smiling Coast" for nothing, because the people and the country are absolutely fabulous. I used to live there and still have business interests which I'm going to be catching up on. If you happen to live there, please email me and we'll get together for a chin wag. Using a laptop under a palm tree outside my beach bar, sure beats working out of this home office of mine:-) Keep smilin'.
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Do you find yourself sending emails with the same information in them? It's gets a bit time consuming typing out the same, or similar, stuff each time doesn't it? Or perhaps you'd like to insert a short piece of information at the end of your emails. This is called a signature file. Techies call them templates. Here's how to do it if you use Outlook. Outlook Express is similar, but you may have to experiment a little. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the
Mail Format tab. Click Finish then OK NOTE: In Outlook, the template (signature) you have created is automatically loaded as the default signature. If you want a different default signature , click Signature Picker and select the one you need from the drop down box. Assuming of course you have created a selection to choose from:-). Now, whenever you wish to insert that
template into an outgoing email, place your cursor into the relevant
spot in your email, click Insert in your top taskbar. A drop down
box appears. Click on Signature and select the signature you want
to insert into your email.
=========================================== ===================================== .... when an email message you have sent is returned to you without reaching the recipient. Often it will be returned with the message "user unknown" or "host unknown." A hard bounce occurs most often because of an error in a subscriber's email address (misspelled, wrong host), like john@johnsweb.co instead of john@johnsweb.com --------------------------------------------------------- ===================================== PDF is a format you will come across all the time. It's a form of creating documents that can be read on any computer as long as you install Adobe Acrobat Reader. This is a free facility usually installed on new computers already. Most ebooks are created in executable (.exe) format which are not suitable for use on MAC computers. Whenever you see an ebook with .exe after the file name e.g. joesbook.exe you'll know that it can't be read on MAC computers. But PDF documents can be read on Macs and Windows PCs. Why aren't all ebooks created in PDF format? Up until recently the PDF creation software was a lot more expensive than the executable ebook creators. I personally think that .exe creators give a lot more scope for graphics and page formatting than PDF, and are a lot easier to navigate. But that's not something to discuss at length here. And I know that PDF lovers will argue differently. Which format is best? At the Newbie Club, our visitor stats show that 99.4% of visitors use a Windows PC, and only 0.6% use a MAC. So our ebooks are in .exe format to suit the biggest majority of our visitors and users. We spent the time and money some time ago, creating one of our ebooks in PDF format. But the sales were so tiny, it didn't make commercial sense to create any more. However, websites with a higher proportion of MAC users find it commercially viable to create stuff in PDF because that's what most of their visitors need. To download a PDF ebook or file from the Internet is different to downloading other stuff, and it often confuses Newbies. When you click on a PDF download link the Document opens up in your browser, so you can read it on screen without downloading. However, you have to wait a while until the document loads before you can read it. To download the document or ebook onto your hard drive you have to RIGHT CLICK on the download link.
RIGHT
Click on link and
Click on Save Target As (Explorer) or Save Link As (Netscape) and then select where you want to save it to in the drop down box that appears - usually your desktop. I'm constantly amazed at the number of PDF download links that appear on Websites, without mentioning this basic instruction. There again of course, you've seen many sites that assume everyone is an experienced computer user:-) =====================================
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which ask the same underlying question. So this is a re-run of an article
I wrote a while ago because some things never change ...
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