THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE: Monday 11/6/00 @ 6 :00 PM Monday evening Intermediates (first session of six sessions) Call KCnet to register. The cost is $12.00 for the six sessions. Some topics to be addressed include: Basics of maneuvering about the Windows Operating System, copy/paste,drag/drop, editing, saving to various drives, right mouse button options, creating folders and files, uninstalling, deleting, advanced email and browser techniques involving bookmarks, address books, forwarding messages, attachments, and HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language). Dave Winkelman provides the leadership for this class. Beginner computer knowledge and beginner computer skills are necessary. A ton of info is packed into the six sessions. This course is designed for those who "think they know" and especially for those who "want to know" more.
Tuesday 11/14/00 @9:00 AM Tuesday morning Newbies ( first of six sessions) This is a very basic course in computer techniques for the internet. There is a $12.00 per course charge for this class. Class size is limited so participants should pre register. Skills taught in the beginner classes include mouse techniques like drag and drop, plus very beginner basics for email and browsing the Web. Dave Winkelman provides the leadership for this class. It is not necessary for attendees to have their own computers but it is very difficult to retain information without practice. You really would not try to learn to play the piano with out actual keyboard time.
Tuesday 9/19/00 @5:00 PM Tuesday Evening Newbies (second session of six sessions) This class is full and is a very basic course in computer techniques for the internet. The next Tuesday afternoon class will start October 31, 2000 from 3:00-5:00 There is a $12.00 per course charge for this class. Class size is limited so participants should pre register. Skills taught in the beginner classes include mouse techniques like drag and drop, plus very beginner basics for email and browsing the Web. Dave Winkleman provides the leadership for this class. It is not necessary for attendees to have their own computers but it is very difficult to retain information without practice. You really would not try to learn to play the piano with out actual keyboard time.
Wednesday 9/20/00 @9:00 AM Wednesday morning group of Senior Net Learners: . This is an advanced group and we cover a lot of territory. We are kind of free flowing. You never know what will transpire. We will continue addressing Q&A from the group. DialPad! DialPad!! DialPad!! New participants are always welcome. It is not necessary for attendees to have their own computers but it sure helps with the learning curve. Usually, Mike Foust, and anyone else who wants to jump into the fray, provide the leadership for this session. Intermediate computer knowledge and Intermediate computer skills are necessary.
Thursday 10/19/00 @ 9:00 AM Thursday morning Intermediates (first session of six sessions) Call KCnet to register. The cost is $12.00 for the six sessions. Some topics to be addressed include: Basics of maneuvering about the Windows Operating System, copy/paste, drag/drop, editing, saving to various drives, right mouse button options, creating folders and files, uninstalling, deleting, advanced email and browser techniques involving bookmarks, address books, forwarding messages, attachments, and HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language). Mike Foust provides the leadership for this class. Beginner computer knowledge and beginner computer skills are necessary. A ton of info is packed into the six sessions. This course is designed for those who "think they know" and especially for those who "want to know" more.
Thursday 10/19/00 @1:00 PM Tuesday Afternoon Newbies (second session of six sessions) This class is a very basic course in computer techniques for the internet. There is a $12.00 per course charge for this class. Class size is limited so participants should pre register. Skills taught in the beginner classes include mouse techniques like drag and drop, plus very beginner basics for email and browsing the Web. Dave Winkleman provides the leadership for this class. It is not necessary for attendees to have their own computers but it is very difficult to retain information without practice. You really would not try to learn to play the piano with out actual keyboard time.
The Intermediate Group Course Content: We mess around with the desktop, rearrange icons, change backgrounds, create screen savers, learn to make shortcuts on the desktop, learn a bunch of ways to access the hard drive and discuss how our computers resemble a file cabinet in its organization. We learn a little bit about extensions like .gif, .wav, .mid, .txt, .doc, .jpeg, .exe, and dot de dot de dot... just to name a few. We discover what special programs are already installed on our computers to help us see these special extensions. We make folders and subfolders on the hard drive. We copy and paste files into these folders. We learn the difference between cut/paste and copy/paste. We learn how to copy/borrow graphic and midi files from the internet and save them to the new folders we make. Then we copy and paste files from floppies to the hard drive, we move files from the hard drive to a floppy disk. We take floppies home with graphics and midis on them to put on the hard drives to use with email. We investigate the difference between uninstall and delete for programs and files and when it is appropriate to do either. We learn how to do a "Thorough" Scandisk, Defrag. and Cleandisk. We become proficient with Bookmarks and Forwarding messages. The final week we will get into HTML in email. So look out because we will be terrorizing our friends with neat souped up emails. Yep!, we definitely learn enough to be verrrrry dangerous AND...WE HAVE FUN!!!.
OTHER SESSIONS MEETING AT KCNET: MAC Users: This is an ongoing (no start or finish date) group of Apple Mac owners/users. The group meets every 1st Thursday each month from 4:30-6:30. Each session is $5.00. The next session is August 10, 2000. Clair Falls is the group leader.
Genealogy: This is a four session program costing $20.00 for all the sessions. Sessions are second Thursdays from 6:00-8:00. A new 4 session series will start September 14, 2000. Dave Wallace is the instructor. Class size is limited so please preregister.
TECHNICALLY SPEAKING: The first seven tips were gleaned from Tipworld and Dummies Daily: HIGH PRIORITY Why do some emails show the label "High" in the Priority column. How does one go about assigning priorities? Message priority is a relatively antiquated e-mail tag held over from the days when message routers and mail servers moved much slower. Setting message priority means you want your message to get the highest level of priority available on the message transport your system uses. The effect of setting this flag varies from system to system. Many network mailers recognize it, as do some Internet mailers. Some e-mail clients display urgent messages at the top of the new mail folder in red text, and send a different new mail notification to the recipient to indicate that the message is urgent. In Netscape Messenger, you'll find the setting for this in the Message Composition window next to the Subject line. The available options are Lowest, Low, Normal, High, and Highest. On today's e-mail routing systems, this setting will have little if any effect. However, on those systems where it does make a difference, you should use the high-priority flag with care; recipients may find it annoying to receive too many urgent messages, and overuse of the feature diminishes its usefulness. Contact your ISP for more information on its e-mail server and whether it supports this feature.
IMPORTING INBOXES A reader asks: "Is there a means of importing Inbox files into another version of Netscape?" You would think that when you import an address book using Netscape's Import utility, it would also import all your mail folders. It does so when importing from a third-party e-mail client such as Eudora or Outlook. Unfortunately, that doesn't work when you're importing from one Netscape installation to another. (Go figure.) Your only recourse is to copy the .snm files manually from one user folder to the other. Locate your user folder (usually in c:\program files\netscape\users\your name), then copy the entire contents of the Mail subfolder into the corresponding folder within your second iteration of Netscape.
TRY A DESKTOP PATTERN Does your desktop wallpaper slow down your Windows startup? (If you aren't sure, try removing it and see what happens next time you start Windows.) If you want to get things moving, but don't want a plain-Jane desktop, try a pattern instead. Right-click the desktop, select Properties, and on the Background tab, select any pattern. Click OK, and a two-color pattern appears. To change the color of the pattern (not black--the other one), right-click the desktop, select Properties, and click the Appearance tab. With Desktop selected under Item, click the down arrow under Color (on the Item line), select a new color, and then click OK. In our next tip, we'll show you how to make your own pattern (or edit an existing one).
INSTALLING A PRINTER TWICE FOR SPECIAL PRINT SETTINGS If you routinely print two kinds of documents, each requiring its own printer settings, you've probably found it cumbersome to have to re-enter all the printer properties every time you change documents. You might find it easier to actually install the same printer twice, but with different names and settings. This way, you can simply select the "printer" (actually the group of print settings) that you like the next time you execute your print job. To install the printer with new print settings, go to Start, Settings, Printers and click the Add Printer icon. Install the printer as you would normally, inserting the driver disk if you have it. When you come to the screen where you name your printer, name it something that differentiates it from your default printer and lets you know what the printer settings are. When you finish, right-click on your new printer and select Properties. Enter the print settings for your new printer icon and click OK. Now, when you want to print using the new print settings, you can just select the name from your program's Print dialog box.
RESTORING DELETED FILE FROM RECYCLE BIN Just delete a file and now you need it back? As long as you haven't emptied the Recycle Bin since your deletion, you can restore that file to its original location. Switch to the desktop and double-click the Recycle Bin icon. Locate the item you'd like to undelete, right-click it, and select Restore. Note: This tip assumes you haven't opted to bypass the Recycle Bin. Right-click the Recycle Bin icon, select Properties, and make sure Do Not Move Files To The Recycle Bin.... is not selected. Also, if you permanently delete a file the first time around--by pressing Shift-Delete and then clicking Yes--the Recycle Bin can't help you.
USING THE UNDO COMMAND If you catch your mistake immediately, there's a slick way to undelete an item. Assuming you haven't performed any mouse operations since the deletion, right-click the location from which you deleted the item and select Undo Delete. In the same way, you can undo a Move, Copy, or Rename. Just right-click the desktop or window in which you performed the operation and select Undo for whatever command you just used. (Alternatively, press Ctrl-Z to undo the most recent operation.)
DELETING DOCUMENTS IN A SINGLE STEP As long as you are absolutely, positively sure that you want to get rid of a file, you can delete it from your computer in a single step, without first moving the file to the Recycle Bin. Just select the file and press Shift-Delete. True, you'll still have to confirm this step by pressing Enter in the resulting dialog box, but at least you can avoid having to open the Recycle Bin.
THINKING ABOUT THE RECENT UPGRADE, WINDOWS ME? Rob Harrington, one of KCnet's Techie extradinaires, forwarded this article for your peruse. You may find the information helpful. Windows Millenium Windows 95/98/Me Forum Newsletter Millennium: Windows of Opportunity? By Kate Chase Windows 95/98 Forum Manager September 2000--Windows Millennium (Me) hit consumer store shelves Sept.14. Microsoft's latest operating system has been heralded in the computing press as a significant release and the likely operating system of choice for home PC users. What it is--and is notWindows Millenium www.computingcentral.msn.com/topics/windows95/newsletter0900.asp
I just couldn't resist Lucy Lips. What a site!!er sight!!
INTERESTING SITES: HERE IS A GOOD PLACE FOR BEGINNERS Getting to Know the World Wide Web The World Wide Web can be a bit confusing the first few times you log on and look around. The following few pages will help introduce you to the Web and provide you with some tips to make your "surfing" easier. Go through these steps at your own pace, and try out the features of the Web while you are following along. www.athomewithyourpc.com/tutorial/tutorial.htm
WHY.COM Billing itself as "people-powered Web," why.com combines a database of member-rated sites with a meta search engine to take some of the guesswork and false starts out of finding the good stuff on the Web. The site claims your vote will change the Web, though that remains to be seen. Perhaps the most interesting refinement is the ability to sort sites by overall rating, ease of use, appearance, functionality, or content. Unfortunately, only the overall rating selection allows you to access the other search engines. So, if what you're looking for is not in why's database, you could find yourself asking "Why?" why.com/index.cfm
VISUAL THESAURUS This one will blow your socks off. Maybe synonyms aren't sexy like they used to be, but if Captain Kirk were stranded on a deserted planetoid and needed a good reference tool, he'd design a thesaurus just like this one. Enter a word and the visual thesaurus gives you a variety of synonyms. Words don't just appear on the screen--they dance, either rotating around the original word or vibrating next to it. Attached by virtual strings, the new words generate a veritable tree of meaning. For extra fun, click on one of the synonyms, and it sprouts new branches of its own. You can go on forever, layering words upon words upon words upon, hmmm...what's a synonym for "word"? www.plumbdesign.com/thesaurus/
Berst Alert How to Protect Yourself From Auction Fraud THE RISE OF ONLINE AUCTIONS Online auctions let people sell items directly to anyone else on the Net. Think of them as the world's biggest garage sale. (With just as much junk.) Online auction fraud is on the rise. I'll tell you how bad auction fraud is getting and what the most common scams are. And I'll offer some tips for anyone thinking about buying through an online auction. www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2621386,00.html
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HDTV HOOPLA EXPLAINED What's the deal with HDTV today? Do you need a new TV? Will existing video components still work? ZDNet Equip gives you the answers to these questions and more. cgi.zdnet.com/slink?53879:60075
ANSWERS-NOT LINKS Thanks to John Laubscher Finally, plain answers instead of links. Search engines can overwhelm you with irrelevant links. GuruNet gives you concise, relevant, useful answers about any topic with just one click. www.gurunet.com/
WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING AT THE OLYMPICS olympics.sportsline.com/ www.sydneysummergames.com/ www.foxsports.com/olympics/2000/index.sml swimming.about.com/recreation/swimming/msubmenu_2000_olympics.htm ows.bom.gov.au/olympic/
Why are there 60 minutes in an hour rather than 10 or 100? Sometimes you don't even get 60. When you're late, there's never more than about 45 minutes in an hour. Psychiatrists give you an "our" that runs about 45-50 minutes. And everyone knows that college exam proctors use watches that cheat you out of at least 15 minutes every hour. Still, why is 60 our reference point? How come our days never went decimal? Because the people of ancient Sumeria, the first to keep time, hated fractions. They used a numbering system based on 60 rather than 10 because 60 could be divided by 10 different whole numbers (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, and 30), whereas 10 can only be divided by 2 and 5 without using fractions. We've kept their 60-minute hour, maybe because there's just never been enough hours in the day to change the faces of every clock in the world. (Source: DO FISH DRINK WATER? by Bill McLain)
POP! If you look closely at the screw cap of a soft drink bottle, you'll notice something unusual: pin holes. You'll soon learn to really appreciate these holes. Their purpose is to vent the pressure from the bottle when it is opened. The pressure at the top of the bottle needs to be released as quickly as possible, and these holes enable that to happen. Without the holes, there would be a possibility the cap would fly off like a champagne cork.
BUFFALO WILLIAM During the building of the transcontinental railroad, how to feed the folks working on the tracks was a bit of an issue. One of the scouts working with the group was also a marksman. During his spare time, he killed about 4,000 buffalo (in eight months) to feed the Irish work crews laying track in Nebraska and Wyoming. His name? William F. Cody. The crews called him Buffalo Bill.
FAST FACTS: Before there ever were any dot.coms, there was dot-dash. The telegraph, the beginning of the electronic media, was invented by Samuel Morse, who also gave his name to the code used to send messages by wire. Would you believe that for most of his life the telegraph was not what made Morse famous? He was in middle age in the 1830s when he perfected his invention. Before that he was one of America's most successful portrait painters and founded the National Academy of Design. Who knew? Nothing in his earlier life telegraphed what was to come.
Ben, Ben, Ben!! Ben Franklin was the youngest son of a youngest son of a youngest son of a youngest son. Boy, talk about redundancy. Ben Franklin was also the originator of Daylight savings. Of course, he wanted more daylight hours to go fly his kite.
WHAT FAMOUS BROADWAY SHOW, LATER MADE INTO A MOVIE, WAS BASED IN PART ON A SHORT STORY ENTITLED THE IDYLL OF MISS SARAH BROWN? Guy and Dolls. The short story, of course, was written Damon Runyon.
WHAT IS THE ONLY POUCHED ANIMAL FOUND IN NORTH AMERICA - AND THE ONLY ONE NOT FOUND IN AUSTRALIA? The opossum.
WHAT CONTRIBUTION DID SARAH NELMES MAKE TO MEDICINE IN 1796? Edward Jenner used her cowpox lesions for the first smallpox vaccination.
HOW MANY LEAVES DOES THE AVERAGE MATURE OAK TREE SHED IN THE FALL? About 700,000. And they always come to rest in my yard, MLF. (Source: USELESSKNOWLEDGE)
QUOTES: "When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly." --Barbara J. Winter
"Crisis creates opportunity." --Walter Klores
"The value of life lies, not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them: a man may live long, yet live very little. Satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will." --Michel de Montaigne
"He is well paid that is well satisfied." --Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"Don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars." --Bette Davis, in the film, "Now, Voyager"
A few Cute Quotes: "Giving money and power to Government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." -- P.J. O'Rourke
"While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife." -- Clueless Iraqi radio announcer, Baghdad Betty, trying to demoralize our Gulf War troops.
"You always write it's bombing, bombing, bombing. It's not bombing, it's air support." -- Air Force Colonel David Opfer, complaining to reporters about their coverage of the Vietnam War.
"Capital punishment is our societies recognition of the sanctity of human life." -- Orrin Hatch, Senator from Utah.
"Don't be humble. You're not that great." -- Golda Meir
THIS WEEK'S CUTIES: USED THIS ONE MANY MONTHS AGO. It is so cute I had to do it again. Thanks Jim Rockwell. A couple had two little boys, ages 8 and 10, who were excessively mischievous. They were always getting into trouble and their parents knew that if any mischief occurred in their town, their sons were probably involved. The boys' mother heard that the parish priest had been successful in disciplining children, so she asked if he would speak with her boys. The priest agreed, but asked to see them individually. So the mother sent her 8-year-old first, in the morning, with the older boy to see the priest in the afternoon. The clergyman, a huge man with a booming voice, sat the younger boy down and asked him sternly, "Where is God?" The boy's mouth dropped open, but he made no response, sitting there with his mouth hanging open, wide-eyed. So the priest repeated the question in an even sterner tone, "Where is God!!?" Again the boy made no attempt to answer. So the priest raised his voice even more and shook his finger in the boy's face and bellowed, "WHERE IS GOD?" The boy screamed and bolted from the room, ran directly home and dove into his closet, slamming the door behind him. When his older brother found him in the closet, he asked, "What happened?" The younger brother, gasping for breath, replied, "We are in BIG trouble this time, dude. God is missing - and they think WE did it."
IT DEPENDS ON HOW YOU VIEW THE SITUATION. A man walked into a bar and ordered a glass of wine. He took a sip of the wine, then tossed the remainder into the bartender's face. Before the bartender could recover from the surprise, the man began weeping. "I'm really sorry. I keep doing that to bartenders. I can't tell you how embarrassing it is to have a compulsion like this." Far from being angry, the bartender was sympathetic. Before long, he was suggesting that the man see a psychoanalyst about his problem. "I happen to have the name of a psychoanalyst," the bartender said. "My brother and my wife have both been treated by him, and they say he's as good as they come." The man wrote down the name of the doctor, thanked the bartender, and left. The bartender smiled, knowing he'd done a good deed for a fellow human being. Six months later, the man was back. "Did you do what I suggested?" the bartender asked, serving the glass of white wine. "I certainly did," the man said. I've been seeing the psychoanalyst twice a week." He took a sip of the wine. He then threw the remainder into the bartender's face. The flustered bartender wiped his face with a towel. "The doctor doesn't seem to be doing you any good," he spluttered. "On the contrary," the man replied. "He's done me a world of good." "But you just threw the wine in my face again!" the bartender exclaimed. "Yes," the man said. "But it doesn't embarrass me anymore!"
RESPONSES TO PICK UPLINES Man: Haven't I seen you someplace before? Woman: Yeah, that's why I don't go there anymore.
Man: Is this seat empty? Woman: Yes, and this one will be too if you sit down.
Man: So, wanna go back to my place ? Woman: Well, I don't know. Will two people fit under a rock?
Man: Your place or mine? Woman: Both. You go to yours and I'll go to mine.
Man: I'd like to call you. What's your number? Woman: It's in the phone book. Man: But I don't know your name. Woman: That's in the phone book too.
Man: So what do you do for a living? Woman: I'm a female impersonator.
Man: What sign were you born under? Woman: No Parking.
Man: Hey, baby, what's your sign? Woman: Do not Enter
Man: I know how to please a woman. Woman: Then please leave me alone.
Man: I want to give myself to you. Woman: Sorry, I don't accept cheap gifts.
Man: Hey cutie, how 'bout you and I hitting the hot spots? Woman: Sorry, I don't date outside my species.
Man: Your body is like a temple. Woman: Sorry, there are no services today.
Man: I'd go through anything for you. Woman: Good! Let's start with your bank account.
Man: I would go to the end of the world for you. Woman: Yes, but would you stay there?
THE NEXT TWO ARE FROM BUD CASSELBERRY WIFE VS HUSBAND/HUSBAND VS WIFE COMMENTS The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it. -- Ann Bancroft
Any husband who says. "My wife and I are completely equal partners," is talking about either a law firm or a hand of bridge. -Bill Cosby
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards. - Benjamin Franklin
My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way. -Henny Youngman
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. -Rodney Dangerfield
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong. - Milton Berle
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. -George Burns
When women are depressed, they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking. -Elaine May
I bought my wife a new car. She called and said, "There was water in the carburetor." I said, "Where's the car?" She said, "In the lake." -HennyYoungman
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller
My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping. -Rita Rudner
The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret. - Henny Youngman
I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman. -Erma Bombeck
A husband said to his wife, "No, I don't hate your relatives. In fact, I like your mother-in-law better than I like mine."
A man said his credit card was stolen but he decided not to report it because the thief was spending less than his wife did.
Women will never be equal to men until they can walk down the street with a bald head and a beer gut, and still think they are beautiful.
A couple, getting on in years and losing their memory, decide to take a memory course. They take the course and the husband is thrilled; he feels it has changed his life. He and his wife meet their friend on the street and the husband says to him, "Bill, you just have to take this incredible memory course my wife and I just attended, it's fantastic! You won't believe the improvement." Bill says, "Wow, great, what's the name of the course?" The husband turns to his wife and asks, "What's the name of that flower? You know the one with the long stem and the thorns?" "You mean a rose?" his wife replies. "Yeah, that's it!" "Now Rose, what was the name of that memory course?"
OK! That's a Wrap. See ya next week! I hope you enjoyed this communication and can attend one or more of the sessions scheduled for this week.