One of the thoughts that I would just simply share with you, it's probably not a bad idea to sit down and just arrange some kind of a contact plan, that if an event occurred you want to make sure you can -- the family wants to get in touch with one another. That's not a bad thing to do to prepare in advance of any kind of emergency, whether it's a natural disaster or a terrorist attack. Doesn't take a great deal of time. And I think it would make family members a lot more comfortable if they knew they were able to get in touch with one another in the event something happened.
Just buy a bunch of lego type building blocks in bulk (real ones will cost more), and dump piles on each table. People can build things, and trade pieces, etc. Lots of fun.
Is PNGOUT by Ken Silverman. Best kept PNG secret out there. It only works on Windows (console), but it almost always lets me squeeze a few more bytes out than PNGCrush.
Since 1969, AMD has grown from a fledgling start-up, headquartered in the living room of one of its founders, to a global corporation with annual revenues of $4.6 billion.
I guess I'm just not running into that problem a lot. I think in that case, if I needed to see it all at once, I might just use XP/IE's viewer since it does that (annoying) shrink to fit thing.
Hey, I'm a huge RAR fan myself. I even registered both the DOS and OS/2 versions back in the early 90s. My DOS RAR key still works in WinRAR today, so that's great. But I know what you mean about WinZip. I think it has a nicer "classier" interface than WinRAR for a lot of things. I generally use command line tools myself, though.
I have Mozilla always loaded (Quick Launch), so opening up a new window isn't a big deal. If I need to zoom in or do something more complex, I'll use a real photo application like Photoshop.
I can't say I've ever used ACDSee myself. I'm happy with the image viewing Mozilla provides, and I know lots of people that just use the IE viewing.
ICQ has a "feature" that Messenger can't easily reproduce: the userbase. Many millions of people already use ICQ (and AIM), and it takes a while to build up that sort of userbase with people exchanging their info. There's no doubt that Microsoft is building a userbase though. Personally, ICQ got way too big for my tastes. ICQ Lite was a step in the right direction.
Some people will always prefer third party products because they provide more/different functionality. However, there are MANY people who are happy with what comes with the computer. There are even people that use Wordpad for their word processing needs.
FidoNet is still very much alive. It's smaller obviously, but it still functions pretty much the same way. They've adopted the use of the internet for moving mail and files around cost effectively.
Even thought my BBS has been gone for 5 years (I was 1:114/244), I still get a copy of FidoNews by email just to keep up with some of things going on.
That deal was pretty nice. I didn't buy my Courier through it, but I bought it from a sysop that did. The modem is 7 or 8 years old now, but it still works great on the rare occasions that I need to use it.
Sadly, the latest thing (v92 or whatever), isn't available as a flash upgrade. Regardless, it made big jumps from 14.4/16.8 to 28.8/33.6 and finally 56K. Well worth the $250 I paid for it.
My university decided they wanted to stop spam, so they restricted smtp to accounts within their local network. If you're not on campus, or on the handful of dialup accounts, you can not use their server to send email. But, they say, you can use your ISP to send email! Just set your from address to your university address, and no one you're writing to will know the difference.
However, that won't work now thanks to Verizona's new policy.
Is this entirely Verizon's fault? No. Is this entirely my university's fault? No. But who gets hurt? The users. In both cases, the person paying for the service. Yes, there are ways around it, but not ways the average user will know or should have to go to the trouble of.
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From News.com and The Register, plus a big discussion at WebmasterWorld.
Just buy a bunch of lego type building blocks in bulk (real ones will cost more), and dump piles on each table. People can build things, and trade pieces, etc. Lots of fun.
Is PNGOUT by Ken Silverman. Best kept PNG secret out there. It only works on Windows (console), but it almost always lets me squeeze a few more bytes out than PNGCrush.
Even when Opera identifies itself as another browser, it still identifies itself as Opera at the very end. It's not difficult to spot.
I guess I'm just not running into that problem a lot. I think in that case, if I needed to see it all at once, I might just use XP/IE's viewer since it does that (annoying) shrink to fit thing.
Hey, I'm a huge RAR fan myself. I even registered both the DOS and OS/2 versions back in the early 90s. My DOS RAR key still works in WinRAR today, so that's great. But I know what you mean about WinZip. I think it has a nicer "classier" interface than WinRAR for a lot of things. I generally use command line tools myself, though.
I have Mozilla always loaded (Quick Launch), so opening up a new window isn't a big deal. If I need to zoom in or do something more complex, I'll use a real photo application like Photoshop.
I can't say I've ever used ACDSee myself. I'm happy with the image viewing Mozilla provides, and I know lots of people that just use the IE viewing.
ICQ has a "feature" that Messenger can't easily reproduce: the userbase. Many millions of people already use ICQ (and AIM), and it takes a while to build up that sort of userbase with people exchanging their info. There's no doubt that Microsoft is building a userbase though. Personally, ICQ got way too big for my tastes. ICQ Lite was a step in the right direction.
Some people will always prefer third party products because they provide more/different functionality. However, there are MANY people who are happy with what comes with the computer. There are even people that use Wordpad for their word processing needs.
WinZip is shareware, actually.
Now that Windows XP has built-in basic zip functionality, I wonder how many people will continue to download WinZip?
Autoscroll extension for Mozilla/Phoenix as reported by Mozillazine.
When people watch this movie, they should be happy it's not another No Holds Barred, Suburban Commando, Mr. Nanny, or Santa with Muscles.
FidoNet is still very much alive. It's smaller obviously, but it still functions pretty much the same way. They've adopted the use of the internet for moving mail and files around cost effectively.
Even thought my BBS has been gone for 5 years (I was 1:114/244), I still get a copy of FidoNews by email just to keep up with some of things going on.
That deal was pretty nice. I didn't buy my Courier through it, but I bought it from a sysop that did. The modem is 7 or 8 years old now, but it still works great on the rare occasions that I need to use it.
Sadly, the latest thing (v92 or whatever), isn't available as a flash upgrade. Regardless, it made big jumps from 14.4/16.8 to 28.8/33.6 and finally 56K. Well worth the $250 I paid for it.
My university decided they wanted to stop spam, so they restricted smtp to accounts within their local network. If you're not on campus, or on the handful of dialup accounts, you can not use their server to send email. But, they say, you can use your ISP to send email! Just set your from address to your university address, and no one you're writing to will know the difference. However, that won't work now thanks to Verizona's new policy.
Is this entirely Verizon's fault? No. Is this entirely my university's fault? No. But who gets hurt? The users. In both cases, the person paying for the service. Yes, there are ways around it, but not ways the average user will know or should have to go to the trouble of.
So, do not simply think this is a non-issue.