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MISSION
To provide busy, worn-out, stressed-out people with information they can
use to get
things done.
CLICK!-Tip
 Turn
on StickyKeys
StickyKeys is a Windows XP feature
this is designed for people
who have difficulty holding down two or more keys at a time.
For
example, when a shortcut requires a key combination such as CTRL+C for
copy, StickyKeys will let you press one key at a time instead of having to press
them simultaneously.
To turn on StickyKeys:
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Click the Shift key five times and read the instructions that pop
up.
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Click Settings to explore different options.
Stop
sending ugly blue email messages in Outlook
By default, Outlook
2003 is set to send email replies in blue ink, which is hard on the
eyes.
To change the default to
black:
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Click the Tools
menu. Then Options, Mail Format tab, Fonts.
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Next to When
replying and forwarding, click Choose Font, and change color
to Black or Auto.
 I
cleaned out both my sent mail and my inbox THANKS TO YOU. You are a fun
and dynamic presenter and a great motivator.
Your warmth is infectious.
Maureen Beck, Vice President
Select Meeting Sites, Inc.
Did
you know
that magnets will not wipe out
data on more modern storage devices such as SD cards and flash drives.
WORD CHOICE-Tip Barbara McNichol
www.barbaramcnichol.com
Annuals, perennials
– When
buying flowers for spring planting, remember that annuals last for one
growing season (annual pertains to one year, like an annual picnic)
while perennials have a life cycle that lasts more than two years.
I like to plant a
variety of annuals every spring, but I think more carefully when I
choose perennials because they last longer.
Anecdote, antidote
– Anecdote is a short account of an incident, a mini-story. Antidote
is a remedy to counteract the effects of a condition (e.g., poison,
disease, etc.).
Telling an
anecdote that’s funny is an antidote for boredom.
 One
of my staff attended
MPI and specifically went to your session on my recommendation.
She said it was the best session
of the conference! -JD
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TECH-Tip
Keep passwords private when
using public machines
by
Peggy Duncan
There is another threat to steal your personal information. A keylogger is a computer program (or
hardware that fits between the computer and the keyboard) that captures
the keystrokes of a computer user and stores them. Modern keyloggers can
store additional information, such as images of the user’s screen. All
this information is sent to the source via email.
Keylogging is mostly a problem on public machines because you have no
reliable way of knowing what has been established as protection (e.g., a
firewall, email attachments that were downloaded, etc.).
According to Microsoft researchers, you can use the following method of
logging in to public machines.
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Navigate to the desired
login page.
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Type in your USERID as you
normally would.
Use this new method of
typing your password. You're going to type one character at a time, click
off the password field, then type some random characters, then repeat the
process until you've keyed in your full password.
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After you type each password
character, click somewhere else on the screen (even if nothing looks
selected, do it anyway because this takes the focus off the password
field).
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Type some random characters.
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Now go back and type your
next password character as you normally would.
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Repeat steps 3 and 4 until
you've typed all the characters in your password.
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Submit.
The string of characters that the keylogger receives
will contain your password, but it will be embedded in so much random junk
that its owner will not be able to figure out what it is. This trick works
with all versions of Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, and Firefox.
On another note, some
companies are experimenting with on-screen keyboards as a secure way to
log-in so stay tuned (the Windows XP on-screen keyboard should not be used
at this time).
For more information on this
research conducted by Microsoft,
click here.
To find out if your computer is infected, download
spyware detection software. Or find something that's free at one of my
favorite Websites, snapfiles.com.
Stay safe.
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Peggy Duncan is a personal productivity
expert. For more free tips, visit her Website at
www.PeggyDuncan.com.
It's
always great when someone masters a computer program in terms of
accomplishing a given
task, as opposed to just learning
its features -
and Peggy has done
that with Outlook. Her book is so
full of practical
tips and techniques
that it makes learning the program (or improving your Outlook)
a
pleasure.
Tom Bunzel, Columnist
(read
review on www.informit.com)
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...After
reading and using your ideas in Conquer Email Overload my inbox routinely
stays at half a page or less. Your tips helped me super turbo charge my
email productivity!
Thanks, Peggy!
Jane Nowak
BellSouth Telecommunications
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MY-Tip
Help for your organization, time management, and other challenges is right here.
Let me know how I can help you too.
Peggy, I have a lot of high resolution jpegs I want to add to my Web site.
I've put off doing anything with them because I dread resizing all of
them. Is there a quick way to resize all the photos at one time? - Jay
I've discovered that just about anything I
dread doing, there is some type of technology that will do it for me.
I found some free software that
makes resizing photos quick and easy.
It's called "Digital Photo Resizer" at icegiant.com. There are probably
other products out there, but this is the one I found and like.
The software is intuitive in
most cases, but I do want to point out the following.
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Input Image Folder. If
your photos are on a CD/DVD, create a folder on your Desktop (or anywhere)
and move the files there. You'll Browse to this folder when you
start.
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Autoset Output Image Folders.
If you want your images to stay with the folder you created, tick this
box. If you don't, leave it unticked and Browse to find the folder
you want to save the resized pictures to.
It's not obvious, but your photos will be resized into the folder you
specify, but they will land inside a subfolder named "out."
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Resize to. I usually put
this at 25%. It gives me the perfect size for a Web-based photo gallery.
You'll have to play with different sizes to find what works for you.
When the software asks me if I want to see the resized photo, I click No
because that's all I can do with it. I always go to PhotoShop to view the
resized photos because I can get a better feel for the new size/pixels.
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Generate. Explore this
feature for different options for your final output. I don't use this
because I'm usually creating a photo gallery for a Website.
Finally, anytime you have a project you dread doing,
look for a better, slicker way to do it. Find other free or inexpensive
software downloads at snapfiles.com.
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Peggy Duncan is a personal productivity
expert. For more free tips, visit her Website at
www.PeggyDuncan.com.
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