What Happened To That Web Site? January 31st, 2006
I know it’s happened to me, and it’s probably happened to you. No, I’m not talking about forgetting a website’s address or forgetting where your bookmark/favorite is. I’m talking about the site that had good information — but the site is not there any more.
Sometimes, the site might be an online games site or such as that. If you are looking for interactive content or downloads you would have found there, try Google — www.google.com. Remember the mantra “Google is our friend.”
Read more in my article What Happened To That Web Site?
Controlling the Programs that Start Automatically January 31st, 2006
Now that you have identified the programs that start automatically on your computer, how can you get them under control? You’ve identified the program names – which are ok or safe to prevent from starting? Which are bad and need to be removed?
The basic tool to learn more about programs that are set to start automatically, if you are using MSConfig to identify them, is your web browser (I.E., Firefox, Opera, or whatever). Use it for a visit to our favorite search engine — Google. There, you can search for the program name. You might even want to search for the program’s path, as that will sometimes help narrow the selection of answers.
Read more in my article Controlling the Programs that Start Automatically
SPAM FILTER — Keeping spam out of your Inbox January 30th, 2006
Now, how can I ignore those spam emails? How can I keep them out of my Inbox? You need a spam filter!
We’ve all tried the old way – using a “block the sender” function. Basically, this is a specific filter (called a “rule” by some programs) that says “if an email comes from him, put it in the spam folder.”
Whether you use Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora (like I do), Mozilla Thunderbird, or some other email program, they almost all provide a way to block or trash emails from specific individuals or domains. But, that doesn’t work any more…
Read more in my article SPAM FILTER — Keeping spam out of your Inbox
Identifying the Programs That Start Up Automatically January 30th, 2006
Windows has a number of ways to start programs automatically. Unfortunately, it includes only a few ways to identify and control the programs that start automatically.
Windows will let you look at the Startup folder (Start / All Programs / Start). Unfortunately, very few programs put their startup commands in this folder because that makes it too easy to prevent them from auto-starting.
Read more in my article Identifying the Programs That Start Up Automatically
Email Reliability and Email Spam Filters January 28th, 2006
Email reliability in this Internet-based world.
It ought to be reliable, shouldn’t it? But, it is not.
You can thank all the spammers for much of today’s unreliability, as email spam filters at the Internet Service Providers and on our on machines manage to misclassify emails — both false negatives (where they let spam through to annoy us) and false positives (where our good emails get trapped and discarded).
Read more in my article Email Reliability in this Internet World
More new articles at Terry’s Computer Tips January 26th, 2006
I’m still busy adding new pages and articles and revising more at Terry’s Computer Tips.
I’m converting only newsletter articles to individual web pages because Google has trouble indexing, and keeping indexes of, newsletters. They are apparently expiring them based on age.
More new & revised pages:
Email Reliability in this Internet World
Has Joe Read the Email I Sent Him?
Google Earch and Google Moon
Free Software Review – WinPatrol
Indentifying Programs That Start Automatically
Controlling Programs That Start Automatically
Blogging
What Happened To That Web Site?
Uninstalling and Reinstalling Programs
Usenet Newsgroups
Usenet News Reader Programs
Agent, a Usenet News Reader
Powweb Web Hosting
Remote Computer Access
Anti-virus Programs
Spam Filters and Spam Filtering
Windows XP
Updates and new articles at Terry’s Computer Tips January 26th, 2006
I’ve been busily adding new pages and articles and revising more at my Terry’s Computer Tips website.
Some of these are new web pages from my older newsletters. I’ve discovered that Google’s search engine doesn’t do a good job on newsletters – there is too much unrelated content on an individual web page.
Google apparently indexes it for a while and then expires it out of their database. Even if I search for items that I know are in some of the issues and click on the radio-button for www.terryscomputertips.com, Google isn’t responding with some of the articles.
Now, with the new web pages, you can more easily access some of my earlier newsletter articles — including updated information where appropriate. I’m converting both the original email versions (from before the days of the subscriber-only email editions) and the on-line newsletters into individual web pages to make them more search engine friendly.
New and revised pages, so far, include the following:
Microsoft Update vs Windows Update
Restore Partitions and Restore CDs
Hard Drives, Partitions and Drives
My Computer Security Software Recommendations
Filezilla File Transfer Software
Free web Design Software – Nvu
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Linux for Windows Users January 23rd, 2006
Are you a Windows user who has been wondering about this Linux thing? Now’s your chance. Several of today’s Linux distributions are designed to be easier for Windows users to make the transition to Linux. Some of them even let you boot a CDROM and try out Linux without installing it on your computer.
Check out Linux for Windows Users for a quick view of Linux.
Coffee grinding, coffee beans and GOOD COFFEE! January 20th, 2006
New York Times writer Michelle Slatella has a very good article today in the “Online Shopper” column.
In her case, her coffee grinder broke and she went on an emergency replacement shopping trip — to find bewildering salespeople and strange grinders.
Read her Establishing Some Ground Rules article for a very good writeup on the subject of coffee.
Don’t miss her blog entry for her followup article. She mentions Sweet Maria’s in the blog entry, too.
Sweet Maria’s is where I get my green coffee beans. Read about coffee roasting at Sweet Maria’s or in my home coffee roasting pages.