Is there any way I can make my Favorites even more accessible?
You can panel them, an easy fix to this problem is to display them right along with your browser. To do that, open Internet Explorer and go to the View menu, Explorer Bar. You'll see that you have the options of Search, Favorites, History, etc. to choose from. Go ahead and click on Favorites and a left side panel will appear right in your Web browser. You can then go and click on whichever Favorite you want to look at and you'll instantly be taken there!
If you ever want to get rid of the panel, you can close it with the X located in the upper right corner. Or, if you'd like to show your History or have a Search bar, you can go back to the View menu and select either of those as well. You can only show one topic in the panel at a time though, so keep that in mind. You can also add and organize your Favorites while they're in the panel.
Now, if you use Firefox, you have Bookmarks saved instead of Favorites, but you can get the panel there as well. To do so, open Firefox and go to the View menu, Side Bar and click on Bookmarks. Your bookmarked sites will all appear in the left panel. You can also show your Web site history in Firefox.
Have you ever been involved in a flaming match? Not sure how to answer that, because you don't know exactly what it means? Well, allow me to give you a brief description and let's just say, I hope none of you have! According to techterms.com, the term "flaming" is basically "the act of posting or sending offensive messages over the Internet." The actual messages are called "flames" and they can be posted on message boards, sent in e-mails or even sent through an instant messaging program
Space It Out
Ever find that you need a little extra space between two paragraphs in an MS Word document?
Thinking maybe a quick way to add a 12 point space before a paragraph would be a nice little trick to have up your sleeve?
Well, to insert that extra space before a paragraph, all you have to do is simply place the cursor anywhere in the paragraph and use the Ctrl + 0 (zero) key combination.
Need the space above several paragraphs?
No problem! Just highlight all the paragraphs to be affected and again, use Ctrl + 0.
Spaces too big? Need to remove them?
Again, a very simple solution. Ctrl + 0 works as a toggle switch: once to add a space, twice to remove the space.
So, just highlight the paragraph(s) affected and use the Ctrl + 0 combination to remove the extra space
A Quick Gmail Tip
This is tip for all of you who have Gmail accounts - and who access their Gmail account with their email program. (If you don't have a Gmail account, you can get one free at www.gmail.com . To set it up in your email program, read Google Gmail's excellent setup instructions.
Most all of you with Gmail accounts who check your Gmail account with your email program will eventually end up with hundreds of emails in your inbox in your Gmail Web account. At some point in time you're going to want to clean up your inbox on the Web - this normally means archiving whatever is there - since you've already downloaded to your email program. And, since Gmail gives you over six gigabytes of storage space, you don't have to delete anything. It's highly unlikely, unless you're sending a lot of huge attachments you're ever going to use 6GB of storage. You might as well archive everything in your inbox - right? And, then, if something terrible happens to all your important email on your computer- it's all backed up and archived on Gmail's servers.
If you get a lot of mail and you're downloading it from Gmail using Outlook Express, Windows Mail or another email program, and you find yourself archiving your Gmail on the Web quite often, you'll love this tip. If you've never archived your Gmail before, it's time to get started because it's a great way to save all your email in a safe place - just in case - you know what we mean?
Login to your Gmail account, click "Settings" then "POP & Forwarding" . Next to "POP Download" uses the down arrow to select "Archive Gmail's copy" next to #2 "When messages are accessed with POP". This will automatically archive Gmail's copy each time you download email from your Gmail account(s) with your email program.
This will save you the time of manually archiving Gmail's copy and provide you with a great backup archive of all the email you've received and sent using your Gmail account. Then if things go awry with your computer and you lose all your email, you can go into your Gmail account's archives, move the email back to your Gmail Inbox and download them into your email program again.
You really have to explore AlphaDictionary.com thoroughly. There are so many great things to see and do on this site. It isn't often, after all these years of being in the Web that a site makes it into my list of "Favorites" - and even more infrequently when a Web site impresses me with its content. If you visit our Site of the Week this week you'll probably come away learning something you didn't know before. We've always exposed the philosophy that the best way to teach is by making learning fun. AlphaDictionary is a resource that makes everything fun, including learning.
Make sure you have an hour or two to spend on this site and you'll find yourself immersed in its treasures. You'll find it delightful, entertaining, fun, and educational. There is content on this site for all ages from small children to the most senior senior.
And don't miss this fun page on AlphaDictionary which has some very cool links on it to other pages on the Web including a complaint generator, Shakespearean insult generator, a country song lyric generator, and our favorite, a tombstone generator that lets you generate your own tombstone or one for someone else.
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