Here are questions from some of my clients and TBCS members, along with the best answers I could give them; most of my answers were arrived at by searching the Internet using Google. In those cases where I say things nice or otherwise about a particular program, please note that I'm expressing only my opinion, and not necessarily that of TBCS, its members, or its board of directors.
I believe your problem is with a setting in Internet Options. Start » Control Panel » double-click Internet Options » click on the Advanced tab. Under BROWSING, put a check mark next to Enable Personalized Favorites Menu. Click on OK, close Control Panel, open Internet Explorer, make your changes AGAIN (!), and see if they don't 'stick' this time.
Yes, it's pretty much "What You See Is What You Sent." The person receiving the file can manipulate it so it only takes one page to print it, but you still sent a file that was much larger than it needed to be. I agree with you: Why not fix it before you send it? When you scan a document, the scanner takes a picture of it, a graphic file, even if the document was just words or numbers. The scanned file is always much larger than the original; this has to do with the number of pixels per inch the scanner assigns and the number of pixels per inch the graphics rendering engine in your scanner software uses to save the final copy. Most of the time, a scanned image is saved as a TIFF file; a well-behaved scanner program will save it in a sub-folder of the My Pictures folder called My Images. After scanning a document, click on Save As » make sure you save it on your desktop. Close the scanner software, right-click the new TIFF file on your desktop, left-click Open With... » choose MSPAINT. Once the file is open in MSPAINT, click on File » Page Setup » Fit To » put a 1 in both boxes. You can select either Landscape or Portrait orientation to make the picture as large as it can be and still fit on one page. You can adjust the margins to make it slightly larger while still using just one page (don't adjust the margins too far, especially if you have an inkjet printer — some of the picture will get cut off). Click OK when you're happy with the picture. Now click File » Save As , and save it as a PNG file, for the best compromise between quality and file size. If quality isn't an issue, save it as a JPEG. (The JPEG engine in MSPAINT causes tiny little distortions in any large area of solid color; some people don't notice. Photoshop Elements doesn't have this problem, but it costs $50-$100 and takes forever to load. Paint.Net (www.dotpdn.com/files/Paint.NET.3.5.2.Install.zip) also does a better job on JPEGs, and it's free.) For the moment, save the new file to your desktop, also. Send the new PNG or JPEG file, and it will print in one page wherever you send it. Delete the orignal TIFF file. If you're saving the new PNG or JPEG, move it to My Pictures; otherwise, delete it, too. Got to keep the desktop free of clutter, or the computer will slow down. If the original document was text only, you might also have scanned it and run it thru your OCR software, so it would get saved as text instead of a picture. Usually, this requires some editing on your part, because the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software makes a few mistakes and saves a few gibberish words.
Yes, microwave ovens use the 2.4 GHz frequency range, just like your wireless router and all but the newest cordless 'phones. The oven has shielding sufficient to protect you from getting burned by stray radiation; but it takes a lot less power to interrupt your wireless service than it takes to burn the skin. Rules of thumb:
Most likely, because the people you're learning email marketing from send out a lot of unsolicited commercial email, and have ended up on Yahoo's and GMail's blacklist; unlike most folks, you actually want these messages. Sign in to each of your online email accounts, and add the addresses you want to un-block to your Contacts; that should automatically 'white-list' them, even if they are the worst spammers ever.
The musical note is a 'formatting code', normally invisible, unless you've accidentally chosen to display it. If you were to go ahead and type your letter, list, document, etc., you'd see a lot more of them! Try clicking the button shown in the attached picture; that's the Show/Hide Formatting Codes control.
Nope, Win Me Defrag is just that: the Defrag program that came with Windows Millenium Edition. You could add it to a Windows 98 computer — it seemed to be an improvement over the Defrag that came with Win 98, so I included it on the Free Utilities CD for a few years, back when a lot more people still had Win 98. But it won't work on XP, or Vista, or Windows 7. And I agree with you about Vista's Defrag utility; what were they thinking? I didn't pay for a VGA monitor to run a utility that doesn't show me numerous pretty colored blocks while it works! Get IOBits' Smart Defrag, instead; it works in XP, Vista, and "7". By the sheerest of coincidences, it's mentioned in this month's Hints & Tips column, and there's a link to it there. Thanks for Asking!
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