What You Need to Know about All Things PC
Volume 3 Number 21Click here to return to the back issues page.Click here to return to the main newsletter page.
The Naked PC - http://www.TheNakedPC.com What You Need to Know about All Things PC Publisher: Lee Hudspeth and T.J. Lee Editor in Chief: Dan Butler Contributing Editor: Al Gordon This issue is for Thursday, October 12, 2000 - Vol. 3 No. 21 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Table of Contents ** 01. Letter from the Publisher ** 02. PayPal Offers New Services - by Dan Butler ** 03. Pulling Down Web Content for Offline Browsing (by Al Gordon) ** 04. eBay Aftermath (by T.J. Lee) ** 05. Featured FAQ - Windows Registry Guide ** 06. Featured Web Site - Yesterday Land: Saturday Morning ** 07. Featured Book - "Outlook Annoyances" by Woody Leonhard, Lee Hudspeth, & T. J. Lee (O'Reilly) ** 08. For Recent Subscribers ** 09. Halloween Special - Top Ten Houses to Avoid ** 10. Newsworthy - a potpourri of current events and interesting stuff ** 11. We Get Mail ** 01. Letter from the Publisher Ever had one of those days where as sudden as a slammed door you continually find yourself a Booth Tarkington character in a Mickey Spillane situation? It's been one of those weeks. Jim's suffering with his first, "Oh, the kids must be back in school" colds of the new school year. Why is it that a bug that slows down a seven year old for an afternoon wipes out the poor parent for a week or 10 days? Nevertheless, he checks in with more on eBay auction fraud reader comments. Meanwhile, Al Gordon is back this issue with his solution to pulling multiple Web pages down from a site. Dan Butler has some news on new services from PayPal. He also sees a trend where the maxim "everything on the Internet is free" is getting squeezed by the need of companies to show the occasional profit. TNPC is a fine example of this. While we send it out as free content, our advertisers actually pay the bills. On that note we'll remind you that the best way you can help keep TNPC free is to click on each of our advertisers' links. It only takes a few moments and you might find something useful. Speaking of which... TNPC readers are becoming a force in the marketplace to be reckoned with. Seems that the huge number of TNPCers going over to the UCmore site was noticeable and in addition to hearing from numerous TNPCers about this product (see "We Get Mail") we heard from none other than the UCmore folks themselves. UCmore banner ads have been running on the TNPC Web site for a while now but we'd like to welcome this handy Internet Explorer add-on utility to the newsletter as a sponsor. UCmore is FREE and was the featured product in our last issue. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/321/tr.cgi?ucm1 As always, reader support is what keeps TNPC free, so PLEASE help us and pass a copy of TNPC on to co-workers and friends (no spam please!) and remember to always say "I saw it in TNPC!" +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ Get UCmore Today - It's FREE Cut through Web clutter with UCmore, the FREE "anti-search" tool! Want to find more of what you're looking for and have it be hassle-free? Download UCmore and watch it make your life simpler by categorizing related site information into easy-to-understand, clickable links, right in your browser window! Slaughterhouse's Pick of the Day and what users have described as "the best download in a year." Download UCmore for Internet Explorer today! http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/321/tr.cgi?sponsor1 +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ ** 02. PayPal Offers New Services - by Dan Butler Once again PayPal, the online payment service, is in the news. It still looks as if PayPal is becoming the de facto standard in online payments so I want to discuss the different types of PayPal accounts, the new referral bonus changes, and the charges that PayPal is instituting. If you missed my original article on PayPal in TNPC check here: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/321/tr.cgi?paypal1 The biggest change to the service is the separation of Business and Personal accounts. In the past that distinction was blurred and PayPal would let you use your Personal account for business transactions. Alas, the honeymoon is over. If you use your PayPal account for business you must have a Business account. When you go to the PayPal site you will also see references to both Premier and Business accounts. While that sounds like two separate accounts the only difference is what name your business operates under. Premier accounts use your name as an individual and Business accounts use your business name be it a partnership or corporation. We covered the Business Account and the fees associated with it in TNPC #3.15: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/321/tr.cgi?paypal2 Personal accounts are now limited to $500 when receiving credit card payments within a six-month period. More than that and your account will be locked as far as accepting credit card payments. The initial spending limit has been dropped to $250 for new users who register after Monday, October 9, 2000. However, if you "verify" your PayPal account by confirming you have a valid bank account this limit is raised to $1,000. Note that this limit only applies to PayPal payments drawn against your credit card and not to payments made with a bank transfer (where you add cash to your PayPal account from your bank account) or from a positive cash balance in your PayPal account. Also, transfers to another PayPal Business or Premier account do not count against this spending limit. This change does not affect existing PayPal users, or users of Web Accept or Instant Purchase for Auctions. By far, the most often asked question I've had on PayPal is, "When will it be available for international use?" PayPal has just announced that by the end of this month--October 2000--they will extend PayPal to 26 countries. They say no additional charges will be involved for overseas PayPal members. We'll keep you posted as details become available. As far as accepting credit cards, PayPal still limits you to MasterCard and Visa, thereby cutting out many potential customers. This isn't clear in the PayPal promotional material. What they have added is the ability to make payments directly from your bank account without a credit card, provided you allow electronic transfers between your bank account and your PayPal account. If you've been picking up some spare change referring people to the PayPal service, take note. In the past PayPal would give you $5 for everyone you referred to the service. The referral bonus is now only available to Business/Premier accounts and the person has to verify their account and transfer $50 from a bank account to PayPal. Don't expect much in the way of referrals from here on out. Should you use PayPal? That depends on your needs. The personal accounts don't involve any fees and are a great way to allow you to make a payment to or accept money from someone without either party having to have a merchant bank account (required to accept credit cards) or to disclose credit card information to the other person. If you have a business need to process credit cards and don't want to go through all the work (and ongoing monthly costs) of setting up your own merchant account then the Premier/Business account is an appealing option. The fees (1.9% + 0.25 cents per transaction) are quite reasonable and you can be up and running very quickly. PayPal is becoming one of the most popular payment methods for online auctions like eBay. As always read and understand the Terms of Use agreement before committing yourself to anything. Understand what PayPal considers acceptable behavior in using its system and the insurance safeguards they've built in. With that in mind you should have few problems. One last point, and that deals with the complaints I've heard from some that PayPal is starting to charge for some of its services. This is true but these costs are limited to the business use of the PayPal system and seem very fair and reasonable to me. PayPal still provides their free personal accounts that have no costs associated with them. PayPal, like many other Internet companies, is trying to strike a balance between its free services and the company's need to make a profit. Watch for this to be a more pronounced trend over the coming months with other free service providers on he Internet. The recent shake up in the Dot-Com business sector and the stock market is the handwriting on the wall. It's nice to receive free services and the Internet has "free" built into its very roots, but the reality is that it costs money to supply services whether on the Internet or not. You can reach Dan Butler at: mailto:danbutler@TheNakedPC.com +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ Ever Wish You Had A Dollar Every Time Someone Ask You About Computers? Find out how you can start getting paid for giving technology advice in your community. Internet sales are exploding; from $35 billion this year to $170 billion in 2003! Handtech.com gives you the tools you need to profit from this explosion. Join my team of Independent Consultants getting paid for doing what we love. Visit http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/321/tr.cgi?sponsor2 or email mailto:chesb@allnyte.com or call (800)246-8761 +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ ** 03. Pulling Down Web Content for Offline Browsing (by Al Gordon) I was complaining the other day to my colleague Dan Butler about the problems associated with pulling multiple Web pages down from a site--a series of newspaper articles, for example. Saving each page one by one can be tedious. Said Dan, "Have you tried Teleport Pro?" Um, no. I hadn't. So I did. Teleport Pro ($39.95) turns out to be the product of Tennyson Maxwell Information Systems Inc. in Cambridge, MA, which is the city next to mine. It's the classic case of looking worldwide to find something that was available on the next block. The program technically is a "Web spider," but I like to think of it as a really nifty do-it-yourself search engine. The real-world uses are numerous. For example, you can easily download a complete site, including its navigation structure, so you can set up a mirror Web site, track changes in a Web site, or schedule scans of a site at a time of your choosing. (Be aware that there are copyright issues as well as server traffic considerations with mirroring a Web site. -- Ed.) You can download a collection of Web pages optimized for off-line browsing; Teleport will rearrange the links appropriately. The latter is the feature I use constantly. News Web sites tend to keep content up for a short period of time, so if you want to save an electronic "clip" you need to download it. Teleport opens up with a Windows Explorer-like interface, split into two frames. You can use a convenient wizard to start a job-- "called a project"--or set your parameters manually. I found that a combination of both was the way to go: use the wizard to get started and fine-tune with manual settings. It is that rare bit of software that almost works too well. Until I learned how to set up a project properly (with a little coaching from the Tenmax folks), I tended to overdo. I pointed the program at a press release on Compaq's Web site, and nearly downloaded all of the company's Web pages. The default setting is to go several links out from the starting page of your project, which is good for typical personal Web site or corporate intranet needs. However, beware of those pages that have those navigation bars (usually down the left side) chock full of links. Teleport, like any good spider, sees those links and chases after them. Unless you really do want to download an entire corporate Web site, the best way to go is to start your project with the shortest possible scope--zero links deep (that is the view of just the page you accessed and its supporting graphics, etc.) or one link (the page and those pages to which you can go directly from that page). Then, add depth one link at a time. Keep expanding your search until you get the level of information you need. Teleport allows you to search a Web site for keywords (although I would like to see this feature expanded to include more Boolean operators), so that you can find pages that have specific information you are seeking. You can exclude unwanted URLs and file types, again to narrow down your package. A scheduler lets you run your project whenever you want. Downloading Web content can be tedious; Teleport makes it easy. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/321/tr.cgi?al1 You can reach Al Gordon at: mailto:al@TheNakedPC.com ** 04. eBay Aftermath (by T.J. Lee) Back in TNPC #3.18 I asked for anyone with an online auction fraud or horror story to drop me a line and share his or her experience with me. I got quite a few comments and several folks noted that they'd had problems with uBid, or other business-to- public auction sites but not one complaint was about eBay. In fact I got a lot of email praising eBay. eBay is one of the most recognizable names on the Internet and as September was eBay's fifth birthday I wrote in the last issue of TNPC about that fact and wished eBay a happy birthday. While I didn't get a lot of reader feedback on that article, the feedback I did get was extremely vocal and in some cases sprinkled with words containing no more than four letters. It's not often I evoke such emotions in even a small portion of the TNPC readership. The calmer and cooler heads simply noted that you can run into shills who bid up a price on behalf of a seller; these readers prefer making their purchases at more traditional brick and mortar establishments. There also was a consensus that "shipping and handling" fees were excessive for some items and that some eBay sellers looked on S&H as the true profit center. Others had more specific complaints. For example, TNPCer Dr. Steve had a bad experience with an eBay auction and tried to avail himself of eBay's free insurance. He had to fill out insurance claim forms that he says were ultimately "lost in the system." He wound up out of luck and out the cash on the deal. Tim T. says eBay management is unresponsive to account problems. Another reader pointed out that he was prevented from becoming an eBay seller because he does not have a credit card and intimated that eBay is discriminating against the poor. One fellow was especially put out with my article. He had a bad auction experience on Amazon and his bad luck continued at eBay where he's been a buyer for the last 18 months. Apparently he purchased wall clocks that he never received and a used car that he could not get registered after he paid for it. His complaints to eBay, he said, fell on deaf ears. He wrote, "I KNOW that I have wasted my time writing to you. As far as I am concerned, you are a disgrace to humanity and that goes for eBay also! (including The Naked PC)!" At least he didn't blame me for the Chicago fire or Jar-Jar Binks. I also heard from more fans of online auctions in general and eBay in particular. TNPCer Reid W. said, "There is no other auction site on the web that comes close to matching eBay's quality, service and security." TNPCer Marnie H. said, "As a devoted eBay-er I am not surprised at the low incidence of fraud [on eBay]." Marnie also pointed out a most interesting Web site that lists links to the most weird and unusual things put up for auction on eBay: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/321/tr.cgi?ebay1 Charlie B., whose son is a frequent buyer on eBay, offered some good advice for auction buyers. "Generally, [my son's] purchases are of expected quality and condition as was advertised on the site. [But always] verify the sellers credentials, if a deal sounds 'Too good to be true' usually, it is!" So is there fraud on eBay? You bet. There's fraud in all walks of life and in every economic endeavor you can name. I never said eBay was entirely free of fraud or problems, only that when I asked TNPCers for horror stories I didn't get any. Considering the small handful of complaints I received after wishing eBay a happy birthday I'm still of the opinion that eBay must be doing a better than average job of running their shop. But you certainly should protect yourself to the extent possible. Verify sellers' credentials. Check the feedback on sellers (and yes, it's possible that they've shilled that as well). Do your homework on the items you're bidding on so you have an idea of its real worth. Does this mean you won't ever get stuck? No. As with so many things in life there are few guarantees. But there are things you can do to protect yourself, especially when dealing with expensive items, and you should take advantage of them. Most notably are escrow services like I-Escrow that hold the buyer's money until the buyer has approved the seller's merchandise. For lower-priced items eBay (automatically and for free) insures transactions up to $200, with a $25 deductible, with Lloyd's of London. (I think this process was Dr. Steve's complaint.) Online auctioning is not for everyone, just as online commerce is not for everyone, just as mail order can be a huge pain in the, oh you get the idea. If you buy used cars over the Internet you had better know what you're doing. Buying a used car is a terrifying experience under the best of circumstances. Given all that, if you do decide to buy or sell on eBay know that you have to register first. If you click the link here and register with eBay (even if you never bid on, or sell, a single Pez dispenser) know that eBay will give TNPC a small remuneration. Ka-ching! Just scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the Register text link. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/321/tr.cgi?ebay2 You can reach T.J. Lee at: mailto:tj_lee@TheNakedPC.com +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ PHOTON-MICRO LIGHTS! Photon Micro-Lights are the BRIGHTEST lights for their size in the WORLD! These little key chain lights offer reliable, incredibly bright light for any situation. Comes in your choice of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Turquoise, Blue, and White. The battery in the Red, Orange, & Yellow Photons are good for 120 hours of continuous use. The superbright Green, Turquoise, Blue, and White Photons will run for 12-14 hours on a single battery. They make GREAT GIFTs for family, friends, or co-workers! http://www.thenakedpc.com/t/321/tr.cgi?sponsor3 +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ ** 05. Featured FAQ - Windows Registry Guide If there's a way to make Windows sit up, beg, roll over, and jump through a hoop, it's in the Registry. This site has the coolest Registry hacks we've ever seen. Specify the exact position of wallpaper (instead of the default choices of centered or tiled), fine tune the IntelliMouse scroll functions, hide the MSIE icon on the Windows desktop, add your own Windows startup tips, and more! There are even tricks you do with MSDOS.SYS or BOOT.INI to make Windows 98 or NT do your bidding. Security enhancements, performance tweaks, troubleshooting, and tips and tricks... for Windows 9x, NT, 2000. As always, editing the Registry is not for the faint of heart and not to be done unless you have a current backup copy of your Registry files. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/321/tr.cgi?ffaq ** 06. Featured Web Site - Yesterday Land: Saturday Morning What was your favorite Saturday morning cartoon show when you were a kid? Did you watch Supercar with Mike Mercury, the first of the "Supermarionation" kids' shows? How about its successor Fireball XL-5? Maybe you were more into Diver Dan? Oops, maybe we need to fast forward to the 60s or 70s. When was the last time you hummed the Banana Splits theme song? Did you get up early to follow the antics of H.R. Pufnstuf and the annoying Jimmy and his flute Freddie? The Bugaloos? Check out all your favorite Saturday morning memories from Commando Cody in the 50s, Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp, in the 70s, to Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars in the 90s and everything in between. This is a great site and you'd best budget an hour or more of delicious time wasting for your nostalgia trip. You can post your remembrances about your favorite shows and read those of others. Tra-La-La, Tra-La-La-La! http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/321/tr.cgi?fsite ** 07. Featured Book - "Outlook Annoyances" by Woody Leonhard, Lee Hudspeth, & T.J. Lee (O'Reilly) This is a blast from the past but one that is still very relevant, even if Lee and Jim did write it along with their cohort Woody Leonhard. Jim got a call just today from an attorney client who was having fits with Outlook and was sure that he needed some extensive custom programming to make Outlook usable. But the solutions he needed were right in "Outlook Annoyances." From tips to making his phone book information more accessible to tips on creating custom views it was all "in the book." This book was written for Outlook versions 97 and 98 but it's amazing how few annoyances Microsoft fixed in Outlook 2000. If you're pulling your hair out over Outlook--any version--then grab a copy of this book and start being productive. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/321/tr.cgi?fbook +++-----------------------------------------------------------+++ WANT TO GET YOUR WORD OUT? Classified ads in The Naked PC can be yours for ridiculously low prices. Get your message out to over 59,000 TNPC subscribers. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/tnpcadvertising.html?v3i21 +++-----------------------------------------------------------+++ ** 08. For Recent TNPC Subscribers TNPC has been adding nearly 1,000 new subscribers to our readership list every issue, so a lot of our current readers may not be aware of some of the articles that have appeared in past issues of our newsletter. Here is a quick recap of some past articles that you may find interesting if you missed them the first time around. *-* Virtual Office with uReach.com (TNPC 3.05.04) uReach is basically a phone/fax/email company that lets you have an impressive array of virtual office features. First and foremost is your very own 800 number. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/321/tr.cgi?recent1 *-* Low Tech Solutions for High Tech Problems (TNPC 2.01.04) Tips from TNPC readers on what to do with unwanted 3.5" diskettes and CD-ROM discs. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/321/tr.cgi?recent2 ** 09. Halloween Special - Top Ten Houses to Avoid Okay, we don't usually do pass-arounds and top 10 lists but Jim is a Halloween junkie and threatened to hide the dark chocolate Milky Way bars unless we tossed this in. Top 10 Houses to Avoid while Trick-or-Treating 10. Any house that seems to be imploding into a space-time wormhole. 9. Any house made entirely of food. 8. Any house whose only entrance goes to the basement. 7. Any house where the high tension wires suddenly stop right above it. 6. Any house that has ornamental lawn hyenas. 5. Any house that keeps growling "Get out!" 4. Any house where the furniture can be seen walking across the living room floor. 3. Any house that looks like a giant pulsating orb floating three feet off the ground. 2. Any house with various and extremely realistic statues in the front yard of people in odd "running away" poses. And the number 1 house to avoid... 1. Any house that wasn't there only a minute ago... http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/321/tr.cgi?hallow1 ** 10. Newsworthy - a potpourri of current events and interesting stuff *-* Documents released under the US Freedom of Information Act have revealed that while the FBI has said that their Carnivore technology only targeted email that it may also be able to track Web sites visited and voice over Internet as well. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/321/tr.cgi?news1 *-* Get an early peek at the next version of Microsoft Office 10 in this beta review by Harry McCracken. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/321/tr.cgi?news2 *-* With the Holiday Season breathing down our necks, electronic component shortages are starting to turn ugly. Sony has said it will halve initial shipments of its new PlayStation 2 video game consoles, handhelds and PDAs may also be in short supply. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/321/tr.cgi?news3 *-* Microsoft has purchased 24.6% of Corel. If this Microsoft "partnership" is anything like others in the past, well, we're gonna miss Corel. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/321/tr.cgi?news4 *-* Napster is still in business. An appellate court maintains stay of lower court order keeping Napster operational until it delivers a ruling expected within the next few weeks. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/321/tr.cgi?news5 Get more Newsworthy bits on the TNPC Web site: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/321/tr.cgi?newsworthy Have you come across something newsworthy? Drop us a line: mailto:hottips@TheNakedPC.com ** 11. We Get Mail *-* TNPCer John A. had this to say about UCmore, the free IE add- on that was the Featured Product in the last issue of TNPC (#3.20). "I just installed UCMore. Absolutely fantastic, where has this helper been hidden for so long. This is the best thing I have received from TNPC, and every issue is a wealth of info and help. Thanks for a great newsletter." John is not the only happy UCmore camper. Over two thousand TNPCers clicked on the link in Dan's article to see the screen shots he took of UCmore in action. TNPCer Louise S. wants us to point out that if you "download" UCmore you do not actually download a program file that you then have to install. UCmore installs live over the Web (installation is extremely fast). To uninstall UCmore go to the Control Panel and run Add/Remove Programs. UCmore Toolbar shows up as an item in the list of things you can uninstall. If you missed Dan's discussion of this free IE add-on check out what TNPCers have been saying about UCmore and Dan's write up. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/321/tr.cgi?ucm2 Be sure to stop by the Letters to the Editor page for more: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/letters/index.html **PLEASE SUPPORT TNPC BY VISITING OUR ADVERTISERS** +++----------------------- classifieds -----------------------+++ **NEED INK? SAVE 40-70% OVER RETAIL!** High Quality Inkjet Printer Cartridges, JetPaks, Refill Kits. Super Prices! Your Satisfaction IS Guaranteed. * FREE Printer Utilities! * MaxPatch Ink Supplies http://www.thenakedpc.com/t/321/tr.cgi?class1 +++-----------------------------------------------------------+++ >> "Find out THE TRUTH about ANYONE" "THE RULES HAVE CHANGED!" Find UNLISTED NUMBERS, public records, marriage, birth, death records and more." Instant Download available today including a FREE BONUS at: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/321/tr.cgi?class2 +++-----------------------------------------------------------+++ pcReminder is FREE! NEVER FORGET AGAIN! Let FREE pcReminder send you a reminder via email. Birthdays, anniversaries, appointments, you name it! One-time events, recurring items, let you computer do the remind you automatically and for FREE. Send reminders to yourself or family, friends, business Associates - to any email address. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/321/tr.cgi?class3 +++-----------------------------------------------------------+++ Give the Gift of Equity! This Holiday Season forget about teddy bears and fruit cakes! Give the gift keeps visions of IPOs dancing in their heads, give them a share of stock! Equity, ownership, a piece of the pie! We obtain a single share, registered in your recipients' name, and we can frame it for display. At OneShare.com we list over 70 publicly traded companies. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/321/tr.cgi?class4 +++-----------------------------------------------------------+++ DISCLAIMER Personal computers are individual machines with performance that can vary with components, software, and operator ability. The Naked PC is not responsible for the manner in which the information presented is used or interpreted. Also, although we work hard to provide you with accurate Internet links in The Naked PC, we are not responsible for Internet links herein that represent sites owned and operated by third parties. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy, performance, or availability of any such third-party sites. A free bumper sticker to the first three who correctly identify what book the slightly paraphrased line in the first paragraph of the Pub Letter is from. Send an email to Jim if you think you know. REDISTRIBUTION POLICY We encourage you to forward this newsletter to your friends, associates, and colleagues for their review and enjoyment. However, please do so only by sending it in full, thereby keeping the copyright and subscription information intact. We do request that, once they've reviewed an issue or two, they subscribe independently rather than continue to receive issues from you. This helps TNPC grow and prosper, thereby funding its continued publication. Also, if you wish to post this newsletter to a newsgroup or electronic discussion group, you may do so if you preserve the copyright and subscription information. Thanks. SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES To subscribe or unsubscribe, surf on over to: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/subscribe.html To make comments or suggestions, surf on over to: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/tnpfeedback.html or send email directly to: mailto:tnpc@TheNakedPC.com Get back issues from our Mailbot by sending email to: mailto:mailbot@TheNakedPC.com WEB BULLETIN BOARD Check out our 24x7 Web bulletin board. If you've got a technical question about PC issues, or suggestions of your own, this is the place to hang out: http://www.PRIMEConsulting.com/annoyanceboard/ ADVERTISING To advertise in TNPC go to: http://www.TheNakedPC.com/tnpcadvertising.html Mail services provided by Blue Horizon Enterprises, one of the very few "Mom and Pop" operations left on the Web: http://www.bhorizon.com Copyright (c) 2000, PRIME Consulting Group, Inc. and Dan Butler. All Rights Reserved. The Naked PC is a trademark of PRIME Consulting Group, Inc. ISSN: 1522-4422 TNPC Hot Tips:
TNPC Hot Tips:
|
