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This week’s email and on-line newsletters are now available:
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This week’s online newsletter includes:

*   Changing the Current Font and Font Size in Microsoft Outlook
Many times when we’re writing emails, we want to change the font or font size for more emphasis or better readability…

*   Setting the Default Font and Font Size in Microsoft Outlook
And, sometimes, we want to change the default from that awful Courier New 10pt font and change to a font and size more to our liking…

*   My Security Software Recommendations
My recommendations for anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, and anti-spam software…

*   User Feedback – Solving Locked Files
In last week’s online newsletter, my article "Which Program Has Locked My File?" was about a utility that I use to help identify and solve the problem when Windows refuses to let me change a file. This week, I had feedback and alternatives from two readers…

This week’s email newsletter includes:
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*   Copying and Moving Files and Folders – Left-click or Right-click?
*   Removing a Virus Infection

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This week’s online articles include:

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*   My Security Software Recommendations

*   Windows XP Screen Freezing

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The Google Screensaver is one of the amazing free applications that is part of Google’s free Google Pack software package. Make your PC more useful. Get the free Google Pack.

The Google Screensaver is optional as part of Google Pack, but it’s one component that you should not miss. With it, you can have a screensaver that uses your own photos that you’ve accumulated and edited in Google Picasa, from Picasa Web Albums, from your own photos from folders on your computer that you specify (so you can use some photos as screensaver images, but not others), and from photo feeds (which defaults to “Default Google Photo Feed.”)

You can control how often the picture changes. You can also control the type of transition from one image to the next. The Visual Effect lets you choose Pan and Zoom, Collage, Wipe and Cross-Fade.

You can access the control panel…

Continue reading Using the free Google Photo Screensaver

Getting a new computer, or your first computer, is not like getting a toaster. You have to decide among many options and buy for the future. Computer For Christmas

A new computer is more like a new car — you need the “dealer prep” (which you can do) before you ever take it out for a spin on the Internet…

Buy the computer. Set it up. Make your recovery CDs. Get your firewall, your antivirus, your antispyware all operational. Then, surf the Internet or do email.

Read more at
Computer For Christmas and in the
Computer For Christmas BLOG