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Microsoft IE8
Most of you know Microsoft recently sent down their Internet
Explorer 8 as a routine maintenance. I updated my files with this
new version but ran across a problem which you may or may not have
experienced. It seem that a few suppliers of third party software
have not yet updated their program to run under IE8. The result
is that the program you have bought and paid for will not run. I
had my problem with American Greeting Cards which I use to
produce greeting cards. If you think this may be the cause of an
issues you are having, contact your software supplier and ask if their
program has been updated to support IE8. If the answer is NO
then that may be your problem. If the program is important
to you, you may want to delete IE8. I did and IE7 was
automatically reloaded.
Be careful the next time you run updates because they will attempt
to reinstall IE8 once again. You can decline it by leaving
it unchecked.
Vince Alline just told me of another solution to this
problem. In the new IE8 program, under the "Tools" option is an
option to check "compatibility view". Selecting this option will
make IE8 run as if it were IE7.
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If you are as amazed at where technology
is taking us, look at this article about a monitor that is the
thickness of a page in a magazine and will actually be
included in a magazine article as a reference. Go to: Magazine. What will our grandchildren be working with in just a few years?
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Have you noticed that it fawn time again! It
keep telling you to keep you eyes open and your camera ready. Jim
Noonan did and got this great picture.
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Bob Kutschera forwarded this email to me and
the message cannot be repeated too often. PLEASE read it and
learn HOW TO FORWARD EMAILS. It is long but worth you time!
HOW TO FORWARD EMAIL APPROPRIATELY
A friend who is a computer expert received the
following directly from a system administrator for a corporate system.
It is an excellent message that ABSOLUTELY applies to ALL of us who
send e-mails. Please read the short letter below, even if you're
sure you already follow proper procedures. Do you really know how to forward e-mails? 50% of us do; 50% DO NOT. Do you wonder why you get viruses or junk mail? Do you hate it? Every
time you forward an e-mail there is information left over from the
people who got the message before you, namely their e-mail addresses
&names. As the messages get forwarded along, the list of
addresses builds, and builds, and builds, and all it takes is for some
poor sap to get a virus, and his or her computer can send that virus to
every e-mail address that has come across his computer. Or,
someone can take all of those addresses and sell them or send junk mail
to them in the hopes that you will go to the site and he will make five
cents for each hit. That's right, all of that inconvenience over
a nickel! How do you stop it? Well, there are several easy steps: (1)
When you forward an e-mail, DELETE all of the other addresses that
appear in the body of the message (at the top). That's right, DELETE
them. Highlight them and delete them, backspace them, cut them,
whatever it is you know how to do. It only takes a second.
You MUST click the "Forward" button first and then you will have full
editing capabilities against the body and headers of the message.
If you don't click on "Forward" first, you won't be able to edit the
message at all. (2) Whenever you send an e-mail to more
than one person, do NOT use the To: or Cc: fields for adding e-mail
addresses. Always use the BCC: (blind carbon copy) field for
listing the e-mail addresses. This is the way the people you send
to will only see their own e-mail address. If you don't see your BCC:
option click on where it says To: and your address list will
appear. Highlight the address and choose BCC: and that's it, it's
that easy. When you send to BCC: your message will
automatically say "Undisclosed Recipients" in the "TO:" field of the
people who receive it. (3) Remove any "FW :" in the subject line. You can re-name the subject if you wish or even fix spelling. (4)
ALWAYS hit your Forward button from the actual e-mail you are
reading. Ever get those e-mails that you have to open 10 pages to
read the one page with the information on it? By Forwarding from
the actual page you wish someone to view, you stop them from having to
open many e-mails just to see what you sent. (5)
Have you ever gotten an email that is a petition? It states a
position and asks you to add your name and address and to forward it to
10 or 15 people or your entire address book. The email can be
forwarded on and on and can collect thousands of names and email
addresses. A FACT: The completed petition is actually worth
a couple of bucks to a professional spammer because of the wealth of
valid names and email addresses contained therein. If you want to
support the petition, send it as your own personal letter to the
intended recipient. Your position may carry more weight as a
personal letter than a laundry list of names and email address on a
petition. (Actually, if you think about it, who's supposed
to send the petition in to whatever cause it supports? And don 't
believe the ones that say that the email is being traced, it just aint
so!) (6) One of the main ones I hate is the
ones that say that something like, "Send this email to 10 people and
you'll see something great run across your screen." Or, sometimes
they'll just tease you by saying something really cute will happen. IT
AINT GONNA HAPPEN!!!!! (Trust me, I'm still seeing some of the same
ones that I waited on 10 years ago!) I don't let the bad luck
ones scare me either; they get trashed. (Could be why I haven't
won the lottery??) (7) Before you forward an Amber Alert, or a
Virus Alert, or some of the other ones floating around nowadays, check
them out before you forward them. Most of them are junk mail
that's been circling the net for YEARS! Just about everything you
receive in an email that is in question can be checked out at
Snopes. Just go to http://www.snopes.com/. Its really easy to find out if it's real or not. If it's not, please don't pass it on.
So please, in the future, let's stop the junk mail and the viruses.
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Here is another great picture from Bob Mugge
taken on his recent trip which included Hawaii. He calls it
"Tunnel Tree".
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