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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, April 19, 2001 - Vol. 4 No. 8 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Table of Contents ** 01. Letter from the Publisher ** 02. Broadband Woes (by Dan Butler) ** 03. Springboarding into Visor Expansion (by Al Gordon) ** 04. TNPC Primer - Email Basics Part 2 (by T.J. Lee) ** 05. Norton Utilities 2001 (WipeInfo, Image): Part 3 (by Lee Hudspeth) ** 06. Featured Book - "Getting Things Done" by David Allen (reviewed by Dan Butler) ** 07. Featured Product - JerMar Software's Tweaki for Power Users (reviewed by Al Gordon) ** 08. Featured Web Site - Telephone Area Code Finder ** 09. Newsworthy - a potpourri of current events and interesting stuff ** 10. We Get Mail ** 01. Letter from the Publisher The full team is on the job for this issue of TNPC. Dan tells a tale of broadband woe and large leafy trees. Al reviews some of the nifty add-ons available for the handheld Visor and has for our Featured Product a tool to master everything inside the Windows Registry and then some. Jim was relieved of his shipping clerk duties just long enough to check in with Part 2 of his series on Email basics. Lee continues on with Part 3 of his Norton Utilities 2001 review. Lee also tips his hat to the hundreds of readers who took the time to fill out the cable/DSL survey in TNPC #4.07. He will publish the survey results in an upcoming issue. If you're new to The Naked PC or missed the survey link and still want to fill one out, the door's open: http://www.thenakedpc.com/lee/highisp_p1/index.html If you've ordered our ebook, "The Book That Should Have Come with Your Computer," the second pressing of 2,000 discs arrived and your order is probably already in the mail even as you read this. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/a/tr.cgi?tugpc2 Remember to make a note that credit card charges for merchandise from The Naked PC Store or PocketFlashLights.com will show the company name "PlanB Group." That is Dan's company name and he's handling the merchant banking for our e-store's credit card orders. 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The antenna runs to a small receiving unit about the size of a VCR. You can run multiple phone lines and even get high-speed Internet access. With the DSL companies going through such turmoil I want to keep my options open. Back to the phone man. The antenna needs to point towards the signal which is beamed out from an AT&T tower somewhere. Problem was he couldn't find the signal. So he called in some help. Three helpers, many phone calls, and several hours later still no signal. Seems that Digital Broadband won't work at my house. It's available but just doesn't work. They finally figured out what the problem was--trees. Actually it was the leaves on the trees in the neighborhood. Had this been earlier in the year it probably would have worked. At least until the trees grew leaves. AT&T tells me that new equipment is in the works that may get around the "tree" problem. The bottom line--I still don't know if Broadband is in my future. I don't want cable. DSL companies are in all sorts of turmoil with people losing service right and left. Currently I use ISDN for my Internet connection and it is rock solid. Can't remember ever having a down day that wasn't my fault. Add two phone lines that work whether I'm on the Internet or not and it's a good but relatively expensive solution. If you've had a good or bad experience with a Broadband solution I'd like to hear from you. In the meantime, to find out what types of high-speed services are available in your area you can use the GetSpeed.com service. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/408/tr.cgi?dan1 You can reach Dan Butler at: mailto:danbutler@TheNakedPC.com ** 03. Springboarding into Visor Expansion (by Al Gordon) One of the key strengths of Handspring's Visor handheld is its simple "Springboard" expansion module system (reviewed in TNPC #4.03). Now that Springboards are coming onto the market in force, the value of the design is becoming apparent. I previously reported on the SoundsGood media player (TNPC #4.05) and here are some more items on my list of Springboard "greatest hits:" The use of handhelds for communications is on the upswing, and doing that naturally requires a modem. The CardAccess Wristband Thinmodem Portable Modem Springboard Module is my favorite solution. As their slogan notes, size does matter--Thinmodem is exactly the same dimension as the Springboard slot--thus it adds no bulk to your Visor. It ships with communications software (Pumatech's Browse-It Web Browser and a trial version of Palm's MultiMail application). But the latest software upgrade for the model includes a utility that allows the user to add and subtract applications from the module, meaning that you can put the communication apps of your choice onto the card. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/408/tr.cgi?al1 A "Plus" model is due shortly that will combine the modem with an 8 MB memory expansion. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/408/tr.cgi?al2 The only downside is that Thinmodem operates off the Visor's own batteries and so they drain faster when the modem is in use. AAA batteries are cheap and plentiful, so this isn't really much of an issue. But if that concerns you, Handspring has its own Wireline 33.6 Modem Springboard Module, which has its own batteries. But, of course, the batteries make for bulge on the module and a slight increase in weight. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/408/tr.cgi?al3 To go wireless (as is all the rage it seems), the folks at OmniSky have a package for the Handspring Visor. As with all OmniSky packages, it provides CDPD service via AT&T's wireless net at a flat $39.95 monthly fee. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/408/tr.cgi?al4 Not a Springboard, but still one of my favorite accessories, is the fold-up Targus Stowaway Portable Keyboard for Handspring Visor. Stowaways unfold into a full-size keyboard and fold up into a unit about the same size as your handheld. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/408/tr.cgi?al5 But all work and no play makes for a dull handheld user so... Pacific Neo-Tek's OmniRemote Springboard Module turns your Visor into an infrared remote control. It may seem like an odd use of a Visor, but programmable touch-screen remotes cost $200 and up; the OmniRemote goes for $59.95. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/408/tr.cgi?al6 The Eyemodule Digital Camera for Handspring Visor provides low- resolution images for email and Web purposes. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/408/tr.cgi?al7 A higher resolution (at, of course, a higher price $199.99 vs. $129.94) is available in the Eyemodule 2, which works with the newer Visor models. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/408/tr.cgi?al8 Current Visors are: Handspring Visor Prism http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/408/tr.cgi?al9 Handspring Visor Platinum http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/408/tr.cgi?al10 Handspring Visor Edge http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/408/tr.cgi?al11 You can reach Al Gordon at: mailto:al@TheNakedPC.com ** 04. TNPC Primer - Email Basics Part 2 (by T.J. Lee) I thank the many readers who have written to me about Part 1 of this article series (TNPC #4.07). It would seem I've touched on a topic that is near and dear to the hearts of many of you. In Part 1 the use of To:, Cc:, and Bcc: fields was covered and a number of you agreed the world would be a better place if the Bcc: field was used more often when sending a message out to a group of people to keep everyone in the list's address private. I suggested that when sending a message of this type you put your own address in the To: field and several of you pointed out that most email clients let you send a message with a blank To: field as long as there's an email address in the Cc: or Bcc: field. That is correct but I have found that messages that have a blank To: field can throw new users and that the message might be mistaken for spam and summarily deleted. So I put my name in the To: field so the recipient will see what is, hopefully, a familiar address and not reach for the Delete key. As an aside, TNPCer Larry L. points out that the Bcc: field is not displayed by default in Outlook and Outlook Express. Go to the View menu to display the Bcc: field in these email clients. Another way email addresses are inadvertently shared among a group of people is through the "include original message text" option that most email clients not only support, but have switched on as the default. This feature is what dumps the text of the message you received into your reply. And therein lies the rub. Let's take an email message I received last week by virtue of my being included in a mailing list that my sisters-in-law use from time to time to keep the family in touch with one another. Sister One sends a message and includes a funny story she got from someone at her office. Sister Two comments and includes what she felt was a funnier story that she got from someone at her work. An argument ensues and this pulls Sister Three into the fray. Right away this breaches email etiquette wherein you should be mindful about who exactly you are sending your messages to. Hitting the "Reply to All" button is not necessarily your only choice. Especially when you go from a general conversation to a flame war. And, not that I'm picking on my sisters-in-law, but some of us prefer NOT to get a copy of every funny story/joke/list/top ten/etc. that's floating around the Internet. Anyway, every message in this email exchange included every previous message. It doesn't take long to get to the point where a message with a one-line response is literally 40 pages long when the entire message is printed out. So first, beware of the "Reply to All" button. Second, you don't always communicate better by including the entire historic thread in a reply. In fact, it's not always necessary to include the entire message you are replying to even if it's only a single message. Consider deleting all but the pertinent portion of the original message that would lend context to your reply. Then there's the issue of keeping email addresses private. This is especially acute when you forward a message (which again defaults to include original message text as you would expect). As you have probably guessed I get an inordinate amount of jokes and, er, other supposedly humorous posts forwarded to me from my wife's siblings. When you forward something to someone you are sending them a copy of the message that you received. Often these types of messages were forwarded by someone that was forwarded by someone that was forwarded by someone and on and on. Not only is the original message sent, but the header information for every stop the message has made along the way, from user to user, and all the email addresses are included. The last "funny joke" that "you've just got to read" that I received had 72 email addresses scattered down through the chain of forwarded headers. It's a good bet that most of these addresses will wind up on a spam list somewhere if they keep floating around the Internet. Therefore, be mindful of all that you forward when you send an email message onward into the ether and be doubly aware of "text build-up" when you reply to a message. Oh, and remember that the "Reply to All" button is not always the best choice. You can reach T.J. Lee at: mailto:tj_lee@TheNakedPC.com +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ PHOTON MICRO-LIGHTS the Super POCKETFLASHLIGHT! Micro-Lights are the BRIGHTEST flashlights for their size in the WORLD. Reliable, incredibly bright light for any situation. Comments from Micro-Light owners pour in: "I am using a RED light every night when I walk my dogs." 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I use WipeInfo to sanitize my drives, and recommend it. It clears any unused space on your hard drive by writing zeros (or any value between 0 and 255) to the unused space, thereby removing any trace of files or folders that you previously erased. You can choose to wipe files, folders, or free space. When wiping files, you browse for files and add them to a list (you can select only one file or multi-select several files); before proceeding you can edit the list. Next you choose between the "Fast Wipe" and "Government Wipe" modes. The latter conforms to a rigorous data sanitization procedure defined in a Department of Defense's document known affectionately as DoD 5220.22-M "National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual" (NISPOM). I'm not kidding. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/408/tr.cgi?lee1 WipeInfo allows you to make some changes to Government Wipe's settings. One parameter is how many times to repeat writing all ones then all zeros (default is 3). Another parameter is writing the "final" value (default is a random value, or a value you choose between 0 and 255). A third parameter is one that you can't change, that is to do a final verification of the last write. Then you choose how many times to run the delete operation you have selected (default is 1). The files, and any free space associated with them, will be wiped accordingly. During the wipe operation, a progress meter is displayed. When wiping folders you must do so one "parent" folder at a time. Once you've chosen a parent folder to wipe you can also choose to wipe--or not--all its subfolders. Note: when WipeInfo wipes a folder it wipes all the files in the folder and then deletes the folder. To wipe free space, first shut down any other applications. If you want to wipe any files that are still in your Recycle Bin, empty it. Then start WipeInfo, select "Free space" in the Wizard, click Next, select a drive, then make the Fast vs. Government Wipe choice and you're good to go. WipeInfo warns you, "We recommend shutting down all other applications. You will not be able to recover erased files except for those in the Recycle Bin. Are you sure you want to do this?" Click Yes to proceed. On a PIII/450 it took WipeInfo 16 minutes 9 seconds to wipe a 2.95 GB primary partition with 189 MB of free space; I set WipeInfo to use Government Wipe, all defaults, and to perform one pass. Your mileage may vary. Warning! As with any power tool, exercise extreme caution when using WipeInfo. This tool sanitizes without mercy: anything you wipe will be unrecoverable. Okay, if you've got an FBI-quality PC forensics lab at your disposal you *might* get some data back after a Fast Wipe operation, but even those technicians won't get it back from a Government Wipe operation. So be careful. (Windows Me users take note: WipeInfo can't touch the special copy of a file if Me's built-in System Restore feature considers it a "protected file type," for example Word and Excel files. Even if the original file is wiped, the System Restore copy survives. This assumes you have this Me feature activated.) The Image tool stuffs critical disk information into a single, small, read-only file (IMAGE.DAT) that various NU tools can then use for recovery operations. The information packed into IMAGE.DAT includes the boot record, file allocation tables (FAT), and root directory data. Norton's UnErase tool can use this information to help restore erased files and folders. System Doctor also uses Image and can be set to automatically and regularly run it. I don't use System Doctor (more about this tool in a future issue), so there's one reason for me not to use Image. Although it is conceivable that UnErase (more about this tool in a future issue) might offer me a few more files and folders to recover if some critical data was accidentally deleted, it's a long shot and not compelling. My ongoing work practices and backup procedures work reliably for me, and since I have multiple safety nets I don't need another one so I have little use for Image. You may have a different approach and opinion. Amazon.com offers Norton Utilities 2001 5.0 for $39.99. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/408/tr.cgi?lee2 You can reach Lee Hudspeth at: mailto:leehudspeth@TheNakedPC.com +++------------------------- sponsor -------------------------+++ STOP TELEMARKETERS COLD! As seen in the pages of The Naked PC newsletter, now you can get the Ultimate Anti-Telemarketer Device! Don't let your dinner get cold while you try to stop some telemarketer's sales pitch long enough to say NO! 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That's where the 2% I don't remember gets me into piles of trouble. Finally I picked up "Getting Things Done" based on a tip sent in by a TNPC reader. Finally I've found a system that's simple enough to implement and operate that I'll actually use it. After spending a few weeks with the system I can actually see the bottom of my in basket. My wife can actually find the contract for AT&T that I filed. People are stopping me in the hall and asking me if I've cleaned my desk. It's really nice. There is a logic to David Allen's system that really works for me. The book gives a broad overview of the process then goes into a step-by-step explanation on how to integrate the ideas in the book right into your daily life. It's the simplicity of all of this that makes it work for me. If you need a simple to use system or just want to get a little peace of mind I recommend this book. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/408/tr.cgi?fbook ** 07. Featured Product - JerMar Software's Tweaki for Power Users (reviewed by Al Gordon) When last we visited JerMar Software's Tweaki for Power Users (TNPC #3.13), it won high marks with us as a tool for taming Windows but we thought the interface made it difficult to access all the many settings the utility provides. JerMar promised it would address the problem with the next version, and they have made good on their word. Tweaki 3.0 adopts an up-to-date tabbed interface that organizes it features into logical patterns--"Interface," "System," "Performance," and so on. Version 3 also adds Windows 2000- specific features. A particularly nice touch is that you can set it to highlight settings changes from Windows default, so you can identify your tweaks at a glance. JerMar says the new version is now capable of making about 500 changes. I declined to try to verify this count. In any event, no one ever is going to use all 500--some, for example, are tools for system administrators to keep individual users from messing up system settings or to preserve network security, while others allow individual users to get rid of restrictions intended for networked PCs. Some are performance enhancements. Some are cosmetic. Pretty much everyone will get their money's worth--$24, no charge to upgrade from previous versions. As Microsoft makes ever more complicated versions of Windows, and continues to hide access to many settings from users--often behind hex-coded Registry entries, users will need Tweaki to make Windows work the way they want it to. http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/408/tr.cgi?fprod You can reach Al Gordon at: mailto:al@TheNakedPC.com ** 08. Featured Web Site - Telephone Area Code Finder It used to be simple. If you got a message from someone who left their phone number and the area code was 212 it meant New York, East Coast time, so if you're on the West Coast and it's 5:00 PM it's too late to call them back. But with the fax revolution followed by the cell phone frenzy the phone companies ran out of phone numbers so they started carving up big area codes into lots of little area codes. Then little area codes into teensy-weensy area codes. It's now to the point where you have almost no chance of knowing any area codes with certainty except the one you live in. Is 234 in Southern California or in Florida? (Neither actually, it's a new one in Ohio.) 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We Get Mail TNPCer Eddie S. wrote in asking what our research turned up on the legendary "foot mouse." The foot mouse is a device that replaces the standard computer mouse with one that you operate with your feet. This device could be a boon to those suffering with repetitive stress injuries. We're sorry to report that we found only one or two references to available products but TNPCers who have actually tried them report the experience is less than wonderful. Melissa M. reported finding a device for a disabled co-worker for $150 but the worker abandoned the pedal device after trying it for a week. Carly M. is physically disabled and has very little use of her hands, she just put a regular mouse on the floor and after a few weeks of practice can mouse with the best of them. A number of you recommended trackballs of one sort or another and TNPCer Dennis P. says just switching the mouse from his right hand to his left (he's right- handed) solved his RSI problem. 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