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Email Envelope LogoEmail Basics - Outlook Express, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, Juno

Email Envelope LogoMoving Outlook Express DBX Files to a New PC

Email Envelope LogoMoving Email Address Book Names from one PC to Another

Email Envelope Logo Using BCCs (Blind Carbon Copies) to Protect Privacy


MSWord Logo Help with Microsoft Word
& Related Programs
  1. Using AutoCorrect for Bullets & Numbering
  2. Placing Both Text & a Picture in a Text Box
  3. Replacing NORMAL.DOC when Word Becomes Unstable
  4. Creating Labels & Envelopes with Word, Excel, & SWorks
  5. Using Columns in Your Word Processor
  6. Managing Pictures in MSWord
  7. MSWord, Wordpad, Notepad, Google's Writely
  8. Password Protecting Word & Excel Documents
  9. Add Page Numbering to a Word Processing Document
  10. Lining Up Numbers in a Column
  11. Converting Data between MSWord & PDF Files


  1. Digital Photo Management Made Easy - Part 1
  2. Digital Photo Management Made Easy - Part 2
  3. Be Your Own Photo Processing Shop
  4. Digital Photography for Not So Digital Seniors
  5. How to Crop a Photo
  6. Printing Multiple Photos on a Single Page
  7. Some Digital Photo Basics
  8. Virtually Free Photography
  9. Displaying Your Photos as a Slideshow
  10. When Digital Camera Photos Can't Be Found
  11. Adding Text to a Photo
  12. Printing Photo Thumbnail Sheets
  13. Reducing a Digital Photo's File Size
  14. How to Straighten (Rotate, Align) a Photo
  15. Darkrooms Replaced by Computers
  16. Digital Cameras & Megapixelss
  17. Understanding CYMK & RGB Colors
  18. Red X Instead of a Picture
  19. Reducing the File Size of a Video
  20. Placing Text & a Picture Inside an MSWord Text Box
  21. When Multiple Photos Don't All Fit on a Print-Out
  22. Choosing File Associations for Picture Files
  23. The Difference Between "Drawing" & "Painting" Programs
  24. Problems with Enlarging Digital Pictures
  25. Digital Picture Formats
  26. Copying Images from a Web Site or an Email
Free Programs & Services
  1. Ad-Aware    Free Scan - Finds & Removes Adware & Spyware
    Be sure to type Ad-Aware into the Search box, rather than similarly named programs, such as AdAware, Adware, etc.
  2. AVG Anti-Virus - Free for Home Use
  3. Karen's Tools  Karen Kenworthy has written all kinds of useful free programs
  4. 1st Page 2006  My Favorite HTML-Editor for Creating Web Pages
  5. Translation Service Multi-Language - French, German, Spanish, & many others
  6. StripMail Clean up text with odd-length lines and all those >>> symbols
  7. StripMail Instructions Step-by-step details on using Stripmail.
  8. Yellow Sticky Notes (HTML or Plain Text)    HTML Version    Plain Text Version
  9. Filename Extensions & their meanings:  .doc, .jpg, .htm, .html, .bmp, .tiff, .xls, .wmv, etc.
  10. Google Maps & Driving Directions
  11. Google Toolbar - Blocks Popup Ads & has many other useful features
  12. Irfanview Image-editing program I use constantly
  13. Open Office - Free Office Suite, compatible with Microsoft Office
  14. Character Map  Better than the built-in Windows character map
  15. Patriotic Clip Art  including waving US flags
  16. 2-Letter Country Codes used in web page URLs (addresses)
  17. Belarc Advisor   Displays All Kinds of Useful Information about Your PC's Hardware and about All the Peripherals Attached to Your PC.

Some Web Sites with Helpful Information about Scams, Hoaxes, & Urban Legends
  1. www.scambusters.org
  2. www.snopes.com
  3. hoaxbusters.ciac.org
  4. www.cdc.gov
  5. www.philb.com/hoaxes.htm
  6. antivirus.about.com/od/emailhoaxes
  7. urbanlegends.about.com
  8. us.mcafee.com/virusInfo
  9. www.portablefreeware.com
  10. www.freedecentdownloads.com
  11. www.freeware-guide.com
  12. www.pcworld.com
  13. www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/hoaxes