GREATER BOSTON SENIOR COMPUTER GROUP NEWSLETTER
Issue No.49, June 11, 2003
CHAIRPERSON:: Arline Ekman, AVE@alumni.unh.edu
EDITOR: Harriet Mandell, harrietd@rcn.com
WEB PAGE: Garry Ziffer, http://users.rcn.com/gbscg
LIAISON: Eve Welts, ewelts@rcn.com
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EXERCISE VIA YOUR COMPUTER... A Guide from the National Institute on Aging electronic book with animated exercises. This is an online book about exercise by the National Institute on Aging http://weboflife.ksc.nasa.gov/exerciseandaging/toc.html The National Institute on Aging is part of the National Institutes of Health. Its research is aimed at improving the health of older people. Scientists have found that regular exercise and physical activity are very important to the health and abilities of older people (what do you suppose was the cost of this profound research?) In fact, studies suggest that not exercising is risky behavior. Fun way to exercise, take a look!
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MOVE THROUGH A BIG REGISTER IN QUICKEN … Use the PgUp and PgDn keys to scroll up and down through your Quicken checkbook register, a screenful of transactions at a time. Some people call this scrolling. You can press Ctrl+Home to move to the first transaction in a register and Ctrl+End to move to the last transaction.
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THANKS GO TO…Mary-Anne Greene for this very helpful alert. The Internet makes some theft too easy. If your credit card is stolen or lost, call and place a FRAUD ALERT on your name and Social Security number. Never heard of doing this? Watch out! If an application for credit is made over the Internet in your name, the ALERT tells any company that checks your credit that your information was stolen. They have to contact you by phone to authorize new credit. Thieves will be stopped in their tracks. Numbers are: Equifax: 1-800-525-6285 Experian (formerly TRW): 1-888-397-3742. Trans Union: 1-800-680-7289 Social Security Administration (fraud line): 1-800-269-0271
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PROGRAM INFORMATION: InsideCAT Lite Edition 1.30 http://www.tucows.com This program catalogs all your disks including CD-ROM, floppys, DVD-ROM and ZIP, and has support for compressed files. It stores all the data about files and folders, in order to make it possible to work with it without having the disk inserted. It organizes your catalogs in collections and sub-collections. Compressed file support is available for 13 different formats including ZIP, RAR, CAB, ACE, JAR, ARJ, LZH, LHA, ARC, ZOO, PAK, TAR, GZIP and EXE. It allows extractions on all formats and provides search functions, four text searchings, four configurable printing functions and two database exporting functions. The Lite version is freeware.
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PASTING IN WORD. If you would like a one-key approach to pasting clipboard contents in Microsoft Word, just go to Tools|Options and the Edit tab. There, place a check mark at "Use the INS key for paste" and OK. Thereafter, pressing the INS key will insert copied material at the cursor location. Just used this for inserting this paragraph…it's magic!
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ALARM CLOCK Turn your computer into an alarm clock to awaken you with MP3 with this download at http://www.geocities.com/vinodtandon/cac
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WHERE did the word to BOOT your computer originate? To Boot is to power on a computer causing it to load the Operating System. During this process the computer performs self diagnostics and loads important data or programs to help in the operation of the computer. A code in the BIOS gets the PC going just enough to load and run the next batch of code, which loads and runs the next batch and so on until at the end of the process, the hardware is running, and an operating system has loaded and started. The PC has pulled itself up by its own bootstraps. The process was originally called bootstrapping, and the startup code now found in the BIOS was called the bootstrap code. "Bootstrapping" was shortened to "booting" and now just plain "boot."
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READING MATERIAL…for the summer …go to Fred Langa's newsletters at the following URL http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2003/2003-04-21.htm also look at http://www.computerhope.com/nletters/nl105.htm
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WINDOWS XP MAKES E-MAILING A PHOTO SIMPLE: Click Start and then click My Pictures. Open the folder that contains the photo or photos you wish to e-mail. Select the photos to be sent by clicking them. Under File and Folder Tasks, select E-mail this file or E-mail the selected files. The Send Pictures via E-mail Wizard will appear. At this step, you have two options: If the pictures are to be viewed only on screen, select Make all my pictures smaller. This will convert copies of the selected photos to fit within a 640 pixel x 480 pixel area. Your original photos are not affected. If you must send the full resolution version of the selected photos, select Keep the original sizes. An outgoing e-mail message will open with the resized photos attached, ready to send.
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MICROSOFT SECURITY UPDATE ANNOUNCED JUNE 4, 2003. You do not have to be using Internet Explorer as your Web browser to be affected by this issue. This vulnerability affects computers that have Microsoft Internet Explorer installed. A number of security issues have been identified that could enable an attacker to compromise your Microsoft Windows®-based systems and then take a variety of actions. For example, an attacker could run programs on a computer used to view the attacker's Web site. This cumulative patch not only includes the functionality of previous patches for these Versions but eliminates two newly discovered vulnerabilities. Help protect your computer! Install this update from Microsoft! Products requiring updating: Internet Explorer 5.01 Internet Explorer 5.5 Internet Explorer 6.0 Get the update http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp To determine which version of Internet Explorer you are running: Start the program. On the Help menu, click About Internet Explorer. A dialog box displays the version number. learn more http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-020.asp
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