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Download a wide variety of books, interviews, and live music- for free!
The Internet Archive has made available an audio archive with, as of December, 2008, over 313,000 audio files. You may not find top twenty hits available, and the sound quality may not always be pristine, especially for live recordings. However, a lot of interesting songs and other items can be found for your digital audio player or iPod, such as:
* Audio Books - A Journey to the Center of the Earth, A Modest Proposal, and Dracula...
Read more at MalekTips.
Prevent Outlook Express from ever prompting you to return a read receipt.
Some people request return receipts for particular e-mail messages they send to others using Outlook, Windows Mail, or other e-mail programs that support such receipts. Likewise, if you use Windows XP's Outlook Express, it may prompt you when these receipts are requested, allowing you to send a read receipt or ignore the request.
For privacy reasons, you may wish to ignore all read receipt requests without even being prompted. To make this change:...
Read more at MalekTips.
What can you do with leftover Thanksgiving turkey and other food?
After enjoying a Thanksgiving meal, no matter how many people were at the table, there always seem to be plenty of leftovers, even turkey. Instead of making simple turkey sandwiches, turkey wraps, and salad with bits of turkey, how about something new?
These two sites offer a variety of suggestions for those wanting something different:...
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Search Yahoo, Ask, Technorati, or other search engines directly from Mozilla Firefox.
In Mozilla Firefox, if you type in a search query in the textbox next to the "G" (near the top of the browser window) and press ENTER, Firefox will query the Google search engine for your search terms. You can either click on this textbox or press Ctrl + K to switch the cursor to this box.
However, you can change this option to search other engines, including:...
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Allow devices that cannot communicate wirelessly to do so with a wireless Ethernet converter/bridge.
Imagine one of the following two scenarios: 1) You have a laptop or desktop that does not communicate via Wi-Fi and want to add this capability. You don't want to open up the machine to install an internal card. Plus, you have limited USB ports and don't want to use them for a Wi-Fi device, and a USB hub allowing more ports is not an option. 2) You have a device such as an old gaming system, printer, or network device that can communicate via Ethernet, cannot communicate wirelessly, and cannot be altered or expanded to do so.
Purchasing a wireless Ethernet converter (also called a wireless Ethernet bridge) may solve these problems....
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Curious where your favorite movies were made? Display maps of movie filming locations.
The Movie Map is a Google Maps mashup showing filming locations to a selection of movies. Want to know where the Twin Pines Mall is in "Back to the Future"? It's in California. Where was Happy Gilmore's famous golf scene where he fought Bob Barker filmed? British Columbia.
Users can add movie locations they know about complete with related links and YouTube videos....
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Keep Internet Explorer 7 from automatically resizing large images.
By default, when viewing large images in Internet Explorer 7, the browser will attempt to resize the images down so they fit in your browser window. This way you can view an entire image without having to use the scroll bar.
Though many people appreciate this automatic feature, others would rather see images, such as photos, in full detail. Thus, this setting can be disabled....
Read more at MalekTips.
Configure Outlook Express to be the default program used for managing e-mail and newsgroups.
If you are experimenting with multiple e-mail programs, you may have accidentally made one of them the default software used for handling e-mail and newsgroups. If so, you may wish to re-configure Outlook Express in Windows XP to be the default software for handling such actions.
1. Click the "Tools" menu, selecting "Options"....
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Don't waste CPU cycles or cause your hard drive to spin every time you hover your mouse pointer over a folder.
Normally, when you hover your mouse pointer over a folder in Explorer, Windows XP will automatically calculate the size of all files in the folder and its subfolders, displaying the results as a folder tip popup. Note that if the folder contains too many items, XP will eventually give up and only state the folder is larger than a certain size.
Many people find this functionality useful. However, others do not need this information, or they don't want Windows XP wasting CPU cycles and spinning up the hard drive to calculate folder sizes. Also, if you have a laptop and commonly navigate files using Explorer, calculating the size of every folder you hover your mouse pointer on can drain some power from the battery as the hard drive must be accessed more frequently. Thus, to disable this feature:...
Read more at MalekTips.
Learn about sales occurring on Black Friday, the Friday after Thanksgiving.
In the United States, "Black Friday" is the day after Thanksgiving, known as the unofficial start to the Christmas shopping season. Known to be one of the biggest, if not the biggest, day for retail shopping, many businesses offer a variety of deals to get people in the doors, sometimes at very early morning hours.
To help guide you through this holiday shopping bonanza, the following websites offer previews of the sales many stores will be offering after all of the turkey .. or turducken ... is eaten. Some of these sites also offer links to online deals available before and during Black Friday, as well as information on what will be sold on "Cyber Monday", the Monday after Black Friday....
Read more at MalekTips.
Digital camera buying advice for those afraid that a newer, faster digital camera will always be available.
As a digital camera owner, this scenario likely applies to you. After visiting a digital camera store, talking to friends, reading reviews, or possibly shopping online, at one time you bought what you thought was the perfect digital camera for your needs.
After purchasing this digital camera and using it for a few weeks, you later visited the same store, browsed the same websites, or scanned through the latest issues of those same magazines, and guess what? A newer, 'better', faster, and cheaper digital camera is now available, making your current camera seem 'uncool', agonizingly slow, and obsolete....
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Force a program executed by a batch file to minimize to the Windows Taskbar or appear full-screen.
In some instances, when creating a batch file in Windows XP, you may wish to execute a program and force it to display as a full-screen window. Perhaps the application is displaying information that you or the batch file's intended user needs to see, and by opening the window normally the information may not be visible due to a smaller window size.
Conversely, a batch file may need to run an application that its user normally should not need to see. Perhaps an application needs to perform networking or file maintenance operations, and seeing its output may be confusing. If so, the batch file can force an application to start minimized to the Windows XP Taskbar....
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Have Windows notify you if you accidentally or intentionally press the Caps Lock, Num Lock, or Scroll Lock key.
If you are touch typing a large document and keeping your eyes focused on the document and not the keyboard nor computer screen, it is possible while reaching for the A key that you might accidentally press the Caps Lock key by mistake. aLTHOUGH mICROSOFT wORD CAN HELP PROTECT YOU FROM THIS PROBLEM, OTHER PROGRAMS SUCH AS nOTEPAD DO NOT HAVE SUCH INTELLIGENCE BUILT-IN, CAUSING YOUR TYPING TO LOOK LIKE THIS.
Windows has a feature called ToggleKeys that can play a quick audio alert whenever you accidentally, or intentionally, press one of the "Lock" keys - Caps Lock, Num Lock, or Scroll Lock. To enable this feature:...
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From hydrogen to ununoctium, it's all here.
Do you know your lanthanoids from your actinoids? What about ununbium versus ununtrium?
Webelements, "the periodic table on the web", offers an extensive amount of information about all of the elements, including basic background information on each element and, in some instances, the history behind their formation. You'll find element uses (such as hydrogen in rocket fuel and silicon that's very important to what you're typing on), element photographs, crystal structures, compounds of elements, and much more....
Read more at MalekTips.
Request a read receipt for an important message sent in Outlook Express.
When sending an important message in Outlook Express in Windows XP, you can request a read receipt for said message. This way you can help ensure your e-mail reached its destination and was read, even if it has not been responded to yet.
Note that while read receipts may be a good idea for certain messages, receiving this notification is not guaranteed. Your recipient may use non-Microsoft software that does not support read receipts. Also, e-mail users with Outlook, Outlook Express, and Windows Mail can configure their software to never send receipts or ignore particular requests....
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Prevent Outlook Express from audibly notifying you when new messages arrive.
Outlook Express in Windows XP plays a sound whenever new e-mail arrives. This is useful if you are multitasking; instead of keeping track of the Outlook Express window, you can work on other software and know by a sound whenever you need to check your Inbox.
There are some circumstances, however, where you do not want to hear when new messages arrive. For example, you may be listening to music or playing a game and may find the sound distracting. Thus, it can be disabled:...
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For privacy reasons, clear the list of files you download in Mozilla Firefox, or prevent it from recording this list altogether.
As you download files in Mozilla Firefox, the Download Manager (accessible via "Tools" - "Downloads") records a list of these files. This way, you can easily find and open files recently downloaded from websites, especially useful if you download files to multiple folders and forget where you place them.
For privacy reasons, especially if you share your computer with others, you may want to clear this list. Or, you may not ever want to keep a record of these files in the browser. ...
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Prevent Windows Vista from hiding file extensions in Explorer, a possible security risk.
Depending on your configuration, Windows Vista may hide the file extensions of known file types in Explorer views. The reason for this is to "clean up" the display of files, as often the file icon signifies the type of file anyway.
Unfortunately, this configuration is a potential security risk. For example, it is possible that a filename that looks like it ends with ".txt", or a filename with an icon that looks like a notepad icon, actually has a hidden OTHER extension. If you double-click what you think is a simple text file, you may actually run malware instead!...
Read more at MalekTips.
Prevent Outlook Express from automatically trying to send messages as soon as you compose them.
Depending on your configuration, when you compose e-mail in Outlook Express in Windows XP, the software will automatically attempt to connect to the Internet to send your e-mail.
If you have an always-on connection to the Internet, this immediacy may be useful so you don't accidentally forget to send the e-mail later. However, if you are using a dial-up connection or one where you must pay for bandwidth, you might rather have Outlook Express queue your outgoing e-mail into the "Outbox" and only send it when you click the "Send / Recv" button or when Outlook Express automatically performs a periodic send / receive action....
Read more at MalekTips.
A fan site for the series of "Back to the Future" movies.
Do you like to drive DeLoreans? Does walking past a clock tower make you afraid a lightning bolt is about to strike? Do pine trees get you in the urge to go shopping?
If so, you may want to visit BTTF, a fan site dedicated to the "Back to the Future" movies. If you're a fan of the actors and actresses in the series such as Mary Steenburgen (Clara) and Tom Wilson (Biff), a calendar offers upcoming appearance dates. You'll also find related celebrity news and discussion forums. Plus, the "Time Travel Terminal" store offers a variety of items including t-shirts, DeLorean models, action figures, and a set of trading cards....
Read more at MalekTips.
Disable Java support in Firefox if you are concerned about applet security.
Java Applets are used in many webpages to display charts and graphs, navigational elements, games, or other interactive features. While Java applets are supposedly safer than ActiveX Controls due to a "sandboxing" mechanism that keeps applets from running trusted code or damaging the system, it is possible that this sandbox may have exploitable holes. See Secunia's 7/9/08 Sun Java JDK/JRE Advisory for an example of this.
Because of possible security violations, you may choose to turn off Java support in Mozilla Firefox at the expense of accessing features on certain websites....
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