March 19th, 2003 It's great to see you again - well, sort of.  I guess it's great for you to see me (through my words). We're together again for another episode of This and That Computer Tips - with some humor, some education and ways to make your computing life more fun! We event have a cost savings for DSL at the bottom of this week's ezine. Enjoy, Clyde Featured Product - GoBox Software (www.gobox.net) This prefaces the next category for a very important reason - it's an awesome software product that goes to the web and does searches of many things without ever having to open up your web browser. It has a little "Find" area where you fill in your term, then a box of popular searches you might make. Examples of these  include Yahoo!, Google, Maps, ebay, Amazon, New, Business & Personal Phone numbers, movie listings, stock quotes. You can even go right to a website, send an email or do a spell check with this little guy. Underneath the drop down boxes are very unobtrusive ads, coupled with the weather and news highlights. It's an incredibly, cool, FREE product.  From the scuttlebutt I've read, most of the coding is done by a 13 year old in Berkeley, California! Try it and let me know your experience with it. PC only - but Mac version is on its way. Web Design, Web Hosting, Getting your own "name" on the Internet and for Email We do it all in regards to web design: we put you your new site, we update your old site, we host your site and we can help you establish your personalized identity. This is a crowded field and we distinguish ourselves by providing many benefits over the standard shop. First of all, we've had a combined 20+ years surfing the Internet. We know what works and what doesn't. Secondly, having a business degree and being an entrepreneur helps me guide you along the path of what will sell. Thirdly, we must be doing something right as our web design and hosting business tripled in the past year. Lastly, we have a listed phone number on our site and will guide you through any sticky issues over the phone which cannot be resolved over email. Check out our most recent work, our first artist's site, at www.cmcbryan.com . Christine McBryan from New York demonstrates her classic realism. See samples of the work we've done at http://www.itmcomputing.com/samples.html . Register you own "name" on the Internet, like "itmcomputing.com" at www.iwantadomainname.com . See our full bevy of Web Design solutions at www.helpformywebsite.com Search Engine Stuff Google Tips 1) Type in your phone number and push search - If your listed in the phone directory - you'll see your 2)  If the search engine at a website you like doesn't work that well, or is too cluttered (microsoft.com, norton.com are examples), do the following in the google search bar - viruses site:norton.com . This will have google go to norton.com and search for viruses. Just separate search term with a space then "site:websiteyousearching.com" Google - Language Tools - Showing the International nature of the Internet - Ways to Translate Text and have Google show up in your native language http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en SearchWiz.com - Search The Top Search Engines at Once - This gives you results to 6 of the popular search engines http://www.searchwiz.com/ Google Press Center: Zeitgeist - Fun overview of what people are searching on Goggle this week, last week, last year.... http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html Criticisms of Google - Providing another viewpoint - Does Google have too much power? Meet Mr. Anti-Google http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/29/google_watch/index.html Google Watch http://www.google-watch.org/ We provide you "In The Moment" Tech Support Worldwide! Get any computer question answered - from anywhere you are. Know a cousin, sister, brother or mother who isn't happy with her computer tech where they live? Need a quick answer to a question and don't want to wait on hold for an hour? We have the solution!! We have opened up our support services on a world wide basis. We are now supporting clients via phone, remote access and email. Our response time is fantastic and we have knowledgeable folks in all areas of computing, accounting, web design, file management, Internet access, email and lots more. Our remote access allows us to view your computer, real time, from our offices here in California. Call 408.732.8500 or e-mail us http://www.itmcomputing.com/contact_computer.php today to set up an appointment.   Just For Fun Married with Children Fun One of my guilty pleasures in life - the show is just plain wrong - but it makes me laugh. Al Bundy - Saturday Night Fever http://www.bundyfever.de/english.html Bundyology http://www.bundyology.com/ Bundyphilia - Married With Children Episode Reviews http://www.bundyphilia.com/ FindVideos.com - Watch Free Music Videos http://findvideos.com/ Making your own CD case out of Paper http://www.papercdcase.com/ Norah Jones - Music - Listen to samples of her music recorded Live http://www.norahjones.com/av/ Oscar Polls - Vote for your favorite Movie http://snurl.com/oscarpoll The Movie Times - Best site I've seen for box office gross for last weekend, last year, all time http://www.the-movie-times.com/ Palindromelist.com -Word, phrase, verse, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward - I prefer pi (an example) http://www.palindromelist.com/ Universal Remote Control - Interface changes with each device you choose - only see buttons you need for each device http://snurl.com/uremote Weather Underground: An alternative weather station - gives lots of fun facts, weather stations in your neighborhood http://www.wunderground.com/ Yahoo!! I think Yahoo!, except for it's very sneaky privacy policy explained here, is one of the best all around Internet Portal sites. It provides a HUGE service to the Internet community. Yahoo! takes off where AOL has been invasive and condescending - providing many of the same services for a lower cost or free (with ads) with a very stable, reliable servers. I'm going to highlight just a few of the many great services Yahoo provides: Yahoo! Mail Extra Storage https://ordering.yahoo.com/or/ypm/splash?577&Pkgs=us:ym:space&.osig=3Anzm Everyone knows about free Yahoo! email accounts. Did you know, for a VERY low cost, you can increase your storage? This will prevent your mailbox from filling up when I send loads of attachments ;-) You may also get one large PDF file, which will shut down your email account until your download it. It's worth a look. Yahoo! Maps and Driving Directions http://maps.yahoo.com/ This is a wonderful place to get directions and a map to where you want to travel. If you have a Yahoo! account, after signing in, you will not need to enter origin address. Yahoo! Photos http://photos.yahoo.com/ With your Yahoo! email account, you get 30 mb of storage of photos, free of charge.  Once you upload these photos, you can share them with others via email or order prints of them. For a nominal fee, you can go up to 50 or 100 mb of storage. You can also use this for storing non-photo files. Yahoo! Privacy http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy I highly encourage people to use fake information when signing up for Yahoo! and never put your primary email address. Yahoo! by default, will share your Yahoo! mail address with many vendors. To avoid this, go into your profile and edit your marketing preferences. Once you change everything to "no," you'll not get annoying ads in your email. Yahoo! by Phone http://phone.yahoo.com/ For $4.95 a month, you can listen to your Yahoo! email, sports, weather and stock quotes. You don't have to push numbers - it's all accessed by voice commands. Yahooligans - Web surfing for the younger set http://www.yahooligans.com/ Friendly web surfing for the younger set of folks. Great home page - lots of games, ecards, reference sits and more. SBC Global DSL - Monthly Price Reduction to $34.95/month Sent from one of our readers - thanks Ben! We love tips - I need your help to make this such a great newsletter! If you want to lower your monthly DSL Internet fee, call up SBC and tell them you would like to get the new subscriber rate of $34.95 / month. You need to commit for a one-year contract, but that's not a big deal. If they say no, tell them you will go to Earthlink. ************************ Hope you enjoyed the ride.... Clyde Lerner, In The Moment Computing Phone: 408.732.8500 E-mail comments/feedback to: http://www.itmcomputing.com/contact_computer.php This newsletter is a service of In The Moment Computing and is Copyright 2005 Clyde Lerner. 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