Cleaning Computer

While online, do you sometime get a pop-up that says "Your Computer Has A Virus and needs to cleaned now!" and then proceeds to try to download a program? When you try to stop it, you cannot exit the program even if you use the 3 finger salute (ctl+alt+del).

Here is a way to get out:
1. First close all online pages from the toolbar at the bottom of your screen.
2. Now use the ctl+alt+del combination. A window should pop up.
3. Keep clicking on 'End Task' until all tasks are closed. That should get you out.
4. I would then turn off computer and reboot.

Here is a subject that I have covered in past years but newbeeys may not know. Old time radio.
Read instructions and then click on:

http://www.otr.net/

1. When online at OTR, you will a library of old radio shows..
2. Click one of your choice..
3. Click on an Episode.
4. Your Media Player should open and the sound will start. (Note: If file does not play, click link below to download a small player and install it.)

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/audio_video/media_players/real_alternative.cfm


Interesting Video that you may enjoy:

http://www.wimp.com/citymayor/

Odd files

Have you ever received an e-mail from someone with an attachment ending in .eml or some other suffix that will not work on your computer?

I have been able to view these problem files by first copying the attachment to my Desktop (Just because it is easy to find there) and then opening the file from there.

Here is the Video Du Jour. Be sure to watch the last few seconds. (Personally, I think it is a doctored video):

http://biertijd.com/mediaplayer/?itemid=21816

Don't forget to run your cleaning programs regularly. (I do it every Saturday morning). I use AVG (FREE) for an antivirus. CCleaner (FREE) for junk files.and Advanced Window Care (FREE) for Adware files and Registry cleaning. Some programs take a while to finish so I clean the house while I wait.


From my opinion blog September 5, 2008. A fable....or is it?

http://frankdcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/01/be-careful-what-you-wish-for.html

Mouse Stuff

Last week I mentioned that you probably have a 3 button mouse even though you only see two buttons. Try this:

1. Go online and to this web page:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/185288/bring_your_middle_mouse_button_to_life.html

2. Press your Scroll Wheel as if it were a button.
3. A circle with an up and down arrow should appear on screen.
4. Without touching the mouse scroll wheel, pull the mouse toward you. You should see the page scroll down toward the bottom of the page.
5. Push the mouse away from you and the page should scroll up to the top.
6. To disengage this feature, just click any mouse button. It should be back to normal. (You may want to read the article on this page about mousing).
7. It should also work with your word processor and spreadsheets.


Here is the 'YouTube' presentation of the week. Hope you like it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaAVZ2yXDBo

On my 'Opinion' Blog this week, my thoughts on curiosity:

http://frankdcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html

Google Stuff

Beside locating an IP address, here are some other things that you can do with Google search.

1. Type in a bar-code number it is just below the bar-code.
a. Format= 5 digits a space and 5 digits.
b. Search this bar code sample 61720 05650 what is it?

2. Airline departure and Arrivals.
a. Get flight number and type it into Google. (Why wait 4 hours for granny to arrive?)
b. Try this example Delta 1461

3. Phone numbers
a. Type in your home phone number into Google.
b. (This does not work on unlisted numbers).

4. Math
a. Try 1+2+3/4 ( One plus two plus three devided by four).
b. The answer will even put in the parenthese for you.

5. Trigonometry?
a. Type Cosine of 50?

Try other stuff and let me know what you find.

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More very unusual art: (Sideshow, use full screen view)

http://www.slideshare.net/UshaMakvana/interesting-publicplaces

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Six Things you didn't know your cell phone could do. (Some may not work on your particular phone).

http://blogcritics.org/scitech/article/things-you-never-knew-your-cell/

Many of my 'Tips' are sent to me by readers. If you have something interesting, send it to me. I prefer the link if possible.

Sudoku

If you like to play Sudoku, here is a FREE version that you can download. It has many skill levels from beginner to expert. You don't have to be on line to play. It even solves the ones in your local newspaper for you if you get stuck. There is even a beginners mode where most of the squares are already filled.

1. Click the link below.
2. Click on 'Open'.
3. Click on 'Sudoku.exe'
4. Click on 'Extract all'.
5. Click 'Next'.
6. Click 'Finish'.

The program will install itself on your computer. This will run on XP but I don't know about Windows 7. Let me know if id does work on 7.

http://www.easysw.com/~mike/sudoku/sudoku-20051209a-windows.zip


Here is some more of that Trompe l'oeil art work:

http://www.stustake.com/2009/12/john-pugh-is-at-it-again-painting-incredible-murals.html


Interesting hidden symbolism site:

http://www.neurosoftware.ro/programming-blog/facebook-web-design/tutorial/smart-logos-with-hidden-symbolism-2/


Thanks to all of you who send me this great stuff.

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New Blog

I lost my website a while back when my Web provider went out of business. Most of my archives from that site were lost, so I just created a new Blog to permantntly archive my Tips.

My new Blog is called frankstips (no spaces or caps).

http://frankstips.blogspot.com/

I have posted my last few weeks of tips there.

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I think that we all receive videos in our e-mail box at one time or another. Although they are sometime welcome, sometime they just take a lot of our time in downloading them. A video file can take many minutes to load via our e-mail.

If you notice, I never send a full blown video in an e-mail. I always send a link to the source so that you do not have to download a large video file, you can run it right on the Internet.

How do I do it? This week I was sent 2 large videos by my readers. They were beautiful, but took long to download. I looked at the video of the Army parachute team and decided to share it with my subscribers In this week's 'Tips', but I did not want to make this e-mail download take 5-10 minutes.

What I did, and you can do is, see what the title of the video is. I used Google to search for "Youtube+Army+skydiving+ Kite". I got the following link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBaQAu3wkTI

So now you can see it without downloading the video by clicking the link above....(Use Red Arrows for full screen view).

Same for a beautiful Power Point slide show. It took me a while to download it. I watched the show and searched for "Chinas+amazing+bridges". I got the following link:


http://www.slideshare.net/ag205/chinas-amazing-bridges-4491503

Again you can view it without downloading. Use full size screen view. The best part is that you can e-mail the link to a friend and they too can view these files without downloading them. You use less disk and e-mail storage space too.

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My political Blog this week features, "Something Wicked This Way Comes".

http://frankdcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/

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Word Searching

I have written about this 'Tip' in the past, but some of you may have missed it.
When you have a large document to read, you may want to find a relevent word in that piece quickly. Whether it be on the Net or on your computer you can use 'Find' to locate words quickly.
(To save time, read entire instructions and then come back and click the link in step 2.)
1. Open your Internet browser.
2. Into the Address line type http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/freedom/doi/text.html
3. This will open a copy of the Declaration of Independence.
4. Press Ctrl+f
5. A little window will open. In the 'Find' box, type the word right
6. Then click next a time or two. The word right will be highlighted each time you click 'Next".
7. Notice that any word with right in it will also be highlighted. (You can change the search options to make it more selective).
This also works with PDF files, word files, spreadsheets etc.
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Julian Beever is baaaaack. He gets more amazing each time. Enjoy. (Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SNYtd0Ayt0
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Comment/Opinion:
Back in October of 2008, in my political Blog, I wrote about a story and film called "Seven Days in May". It was a story about an inept president ,who's acts, alarmed the military to such a degree that they devise a secret plot to overthrow him.
I am not a physic and it is June and not May and there is no plot that I know of, to overthrow an inept president, I think that the coincidences to the posts on my Blog site in 2008 are becomming more and more frequent..
If you want to reread my Blog 'Seven days in May', click the link below.
http://frankdcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/01/seven-days-in-may.html

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