I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day.
Is there a shortcut to bring up the calculator?
Click Start, Run, type in CALC. To create a desktop shortcut, click Start, All Programs, Accessories. Right-click on Calculator and choose and choose "Send To" "Desktop (create shortcut)". You now have shortcut to the Windows calculator on your desktop. If you want it on your main start menu (the part which always shows when you click "Start". Right-click on Calculator and choose "Pin to Start Menu". Calculator is also pre-loaded in your start menu under All Programs/Accessories. And one more thing you probably don't want to know but we'll tell you anyway. The file for Calculator is called Calc.exe and it's located in C: \Windows\System32.
When I receive an email with pictures and want to send the to someone else. If I copy and paste into new email I get a red x and no images. What am I not doing right please.
Our Answer
When an email comes to you that contains images that you want to send to someone else, do not "forward" the email. OK. You ask: "Why Not?". Because, if someone sends you an email that contains images which are called from a Web server, they will not forward correctly unless you check "Format" and uncheck "Send pictures with message". The reason for this is the way Outlook Express handles remote images. You're better off not un-checking "Send pictures with message" unless you're absolutely sure the images you are sending are coming from a remote web server. If you uncheck it and the images are embedded in the email, you'll be faced with the "Red X" problem.
So, the safest and surest way to make sure images are included inline (in) your email, is to do this:
When you're viewing the email with the picture(s) you want to send to someone else, simply right-click the images (one at a time of course) and choose "Save as". You'll have to rename them because when saved from an email, Windows will give them names of incomprehensible gibberish - full of numbers, symbols and other arcane stuff only a geekhead could enjoy. If you forget to rename them you won't be able to tell a Santa Claus from an Easter Bunny by it's name, so rename them to something you'll recognize.
Once you have saved all the images from the email, you can now create a new email and insert the images you saved in the step above. To insert an image into an email, simply click (on the compose toolbar) "Insert" "Picture" and press the browse button and browse to the image you want to insert. If you saved them in step one with names you can recognize, this won't take you but a few seconds.
Now when you send an email using images from another email, you'll be sure that your recipient will see them as you intended and not as a red "x". It's never wise to forward email containing images because some may contain both embedded images and images which are coming from a Web server. And you'll get those dreaded red "x's" in your email. Who wants red x's ? Not me. Not you. And not your recipient either!
If I find a particular paragraph that I want to copy and paste, a quick "triple-clicking" inside of it will highlight the whole paragraph.
Are you using Gmail? If you are, here's a real nifty trick you can use to keep tabs on where the spa*mmer's are getting your Gmail address - and just as importantly, who sold or gave it to them. This tip is a good one to remember whenever you go to a web site you're not very familiar with and fill in an online registration form to sign-up as a member, join a mail list, or submit a question/comment via Web form.
This is a simple way to see what sites are responsible for any given email you receive. (A reminder: This tip requires you have an active Gmail account.)
If your Gmail login name is username@gmail.com and you go to samplesite.com to fill out a registration form - here's what to do:
Instead of just entering username@gmail.com as your email address, enter it as username+samplesitecom@gmail.com instead. When Gmail reads a "+" in an email address, it uses all the characters to the left of the plus sign to know who to send it to. In this example it would still send any email to you at username@gmail.com.
Now what's cool is if you search your Gmail account for username+samplesitecom, you will see all massages that were sent to that email address. You can learn who is responsible for sending you a particular message by clicking the "Show Details" link. You will see the full headers and see the complete address.
This might not stop the spa*mmers, but you'll know the site that gave, sold, or traded your email (Gmail) address - and then you can either avoid that site, tell your friends to avoid that site, write to the site and give them a piece of your mind, or all of the above!
There are many times when you might want to add a clickable link to your email. For instance to your brand new home page, or a favorite Web site, or just for fun. If you have a personal or business Web site, the best way to add a clickable link to it is by creating a signature file. That way you only have to make one file and you can add it to every email or just the ones you want to add it to. Since we've already covered this in our answer to Phil in today's issue, we'll cover some other ways to add clickable text and images to email.
First, let's cover, images and making them clickable. That way when your recipient clicks on the image they'll be transported from your email to a Web site of your choosing.
Here's an example.
OK. As you can see - the image really can lead anywhere you want it to lead to. Poor Eightball!
It's simple to do this. Just insert a graphic (any graphic you want) into your email - anywhere you like. Once the graphic appears in your email, left click it. From the Outlook Express Compose Toolbar - the toolbar right above the compose window - click the "hyperlink" button - the button inside the red circle - in the image below:
The following dialog window appears - you can call it the "hyperlink tool":
Just type in the URL that you want the picture to link to , can click OK. Pretty easy!
Now, you can do exactly the same with text. For example.
You could put:
Visit my home page at http://thundercloud.net/ or you could write:
Visit my home page! They both go to the same place. But it looks a lot neater to do it the second way, don't you think?
All you have to do is write the text you want to represent the hyperlink - such as: Visit my new home page! Highlight the entire sentence and while it is highlighted click Hyperlink button on your Outlook Express Compose Toolbar.
When the hyperlink tool appears, type in the URL you want the text to jump to when clicked, - tap OK, and you've created a text hyperlink.
For whatever reason, IE7 has not made your browsing history very easy to find in IE7. Browsing history stores all the Web sites you've visited for a specified number of days, depending on your settings.
Having your browsing history handy can be very useful. Let's say that three days ago you visited a site with something very interesting on it. But, you forgot to bookmark it. Now today, you realize the information you discovered three days ago is relevant today - you're having a computer problem, you need a certain bit of information, etc.. When History was handy in Internet Explorer you could just click ye olde history button and presto! you sifted through your last few days of Web browsing and find the site you're interested in, click it, and you're back where you once belonged.
Good news! Internet Explorer 7 does have a history button - and works like the History in IE6 and earlier version. You just have to make some setting changes to add the missing "History" button to your IE 7 toolbar.
Where is History in IE7?
To find History in IE7 and display it in the sidebar in your browser, click View, then Explorer Bar, then choose History, as follows:
The "Sidebar" will open and show your History:
Now you get back that which you once had. Maybe :)
This tip can also be read online by visiting this page.
Well I couldn't find a good replacement for Close IE, but in my searches across the Internet cosmos, I found a good IE add-on called Bayden IE Toys.
Instead of a long wordy description - here's what the "toys" are (and all of these are in one small program you can download and install in less than two minutes no matter how slow your connection is):
Cleanup- Webpage reading tool: You're trying to read a website, but you can barely concentrate because the page is full of unneeded images. Simply right-click the page and choose "Delete Images" to zap non-text page elements.
Define - Web-based dictionary tool: You're reading a website, and you come across a word whose definition you've forgotten long ago. What to do? Grab a paper dictionary? Maybe last century. Simply right-click a highlighted word and click Define. The definition will pop up in a window of its own.
Encyclopedia Lookup - Web-based encyclopedia tool: Like the Dictionary tool, this one looks up the selected term in WikiPedia.
IE7 Clear Tracks -Toolbar button deletes all browsing history, cookies, cache files, etc in just one click.
ImageList - Easy to use image collection tool - Need to copy an image, but right-click is broken? Right click in the page (not on the image).
Choose "Image List". Click on the image to Copy. The screen flashes green as the image is copied. Right-click in your document or desktop and click "Paste".
AccessKeys - HTML Accessibility helper - Some web pages define hotkeys to allow you to more easily navigate the page. Unfortunately, the hotkeys are rarely mentioned anywhere, and you probably don't know they exist. This simple little tool scans the current page and displays any available AccessKeys.
Bayden IE Toys include several other useful tools too.
I'm amazed at how many things this little program can do and still come in such a small (less that 170KB) package. If you like toys, you'll love our Freeware Pick Of The Week - Bayden IE Toys. Visit the IE Toy's home page to learn more and/or download IE Toys right now.
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