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Sending Pictures By Email

Emailing Graphics Help
Do you have a folder full of family pictures or other types of graphics on your computer that you’d like to send to your friends, family or co-workers? It’s easy to do!

Open your email client (such as Outlook Express)
Compose/create email
Click the ‘Attach’ icon at the top of your new message toolbar (paperclip [...]

Exporting Favorites To HTML

How To Make A HTML Page From Your Bookmarks
Once you start bookmarking pages and find your favorites list growing out of control, you may want to look at creating a html page that will display all your bookmarks. It’s easy enough to do and you can even set the html page as your homepage [...]

Online Urban Legends

Urban Legends And Online Hoaxes
Sometime you may receive emails with incredible stories, requests to forward the email to as many people as you can or even instructions to remove certain files from your computer. If you’re not sure something is a hoax, you can check with Snopes.com to see if the story is valid.
A [...]

Escape Full Screen Mode

Fix Browser Window Size
Has it happened? You’ve been surfing online and the next thing you know - an application has forced your browser window into full screen mode and you can’t get it back to normal. The top toolbar is gone, and there seems to be no way to minimize or resize the browser [...]

Change Browser Text Size

Changing IE Text Size
Sometimes while surfing the web you’ll come across websites that have their font size far too small for you to read comfortably. Or you simply prefer reading larger fonts. One thing to try is changing the browser’s text size.
Looking At Your Top Toolbar In Your Browser:

Click View
Select Text Size
Change Size

When you [...]

Handy Reference Sites For Surfers

Internet Reference Sites
Here you’ll find a great selection of resource sites found on the web. We’ll be adding to this section as we find more great online tools for you.
Reference Sites
GasBuddy.com GasBuddy.com can help you find cheap gas prices in your city. It is comprised of 170 gas price information web sites that help [...]

Online Acronyms

You see them everywhere - lol, lmao, brb, bbl
Acronyms are accepted as shortcuts to words or messages. lol would be ‘Laugh Out Loud’, brb would be ‘Be Right Back’. Notice the first letter of each word is being used. bbl is ‘Be Back Later.
You can find quite a varied list of generally accepted online [...]

Handy Sites For Surfers

Surfing Reference Sites
We’ve found some great resources on the net for computer tweakers, power surfers and of course the newbies too. Check out these great sites:
Bob Cerelli’s Windows Site The main goal of this site is to provide clear, accurate and easy to understand information regarding Windows95/98/ME/2000/XP
NetLingo.com - The Internet Dictionary with thousands [...]

Here you will find various tips and tricks to using the Windows platform. Some are targetted for newbies, but there are more intermediate and advanced tips as well. Tweak your computer to be faster, cleaner and more reliable.