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• Your questions & review |
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• Dressing up your e-mail |
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• E-Mail Tips |
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• Help with web searches |
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• What you can do with Picasa
program |
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Can you
access your PC away from |
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home? |
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Finding those mysterious downloads |
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Web site
hoaxes |
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• Video,
Download, Website, & |
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Windows tip of the month |
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AOL's software, email, and many compelling AOL
features -- including your Address Book, Screen Name, the Buddy List®
feature and more -- will be free to everyone with an Internet
connection.
Nothing about your service arrangement with us
will change unless you want it to. Your current plan, which includes 24/7
customer support, unlimited email storage, your email addresses and all the
AOL content and services you rely on, will still be there for you. |
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Several basic ways – |
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Background,
Stationery, Signature |
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1.Background |
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Click Create then Click Format, Background |
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Can enter Picture, Color , or sound for the
e-mail background |
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Color |
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If you pick color, a palette of colors is
displayed from which to pick |
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Picture |
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If you pick
picture you can select from
the Stationary folder or select any picture from your hard drive |
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Sounds |
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If you pick sound you can select any wav file a
play it for x times or continuously. |
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The Media folder within the Widows folder has
many sounds |
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2. Stationary
– Click Format and |
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select Apply Stationery |
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You
will be shown 10 choices. |
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If you
want a different design select more stationery. |
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You can
select any web file
(htm/html) or create you own |
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On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click
the Signatures tab. |
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To create a signature, click New and then either
enter text in the Edit Signature box or click File, and then find the text
or HTML file you'd like to use. HTML provides more font choices |
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Select the Add signatures to all outgoing
messages check box. |
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To use a signature on individual messages only,
make sure to clear Add signatures to all outgoing messages. When you
compose the message, on the Insert menu, point to Signatures, and then
click the signature you want to use. |
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AOL 9.0 Security Edition SE |
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1. Extras allows about 10 different
backgrounds in the email sheet (clouds, popcorn, legal paper etc. |
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2. Stationery (next to extra) allows postcard
backgrounds or birds etc. in the sheet. |
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3. Art allows an animations or pics of
various animals or bouncing block fonts |
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4. Sounds - Can appoint various sounds via link in
the email sheet |
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Sending a web page or link via e-mail |
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From web page |
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File, Send Page or Link |
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ALSO |
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Can add a shortcut to web page on your Desktop |
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Add relevant keywords such as |
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sale |
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free |
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problem
or error |
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freeware or shareware |
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xp |
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book or
film |
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e.g. xp
shut down problem |
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Find an exact phrase and use quotes |
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Film
“prairie home companion” |
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Specify Time |
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employment statistics 2002..2006 |
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Use a Fuzzy search |
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If you are unsure about terms spelling use
a space tilde example microderm ~ for
microdermabrasion |
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People addresses www.addresses.com |
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Weather www.weather.com |
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Info about a specific city |
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www.citysearch.com |
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Find and organize all your pictures |
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Move/Edit (View, Edit View) |
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Label – can search on label |
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Slideshow – pictures in a folder |
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Import/Export from camera |
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View Timeline – rotate through all/selected |
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photos |
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Create CD-backup or gift |
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Add to TIVO (Create) |
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Make a Web Page
(Create) |
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Make a collage - Order or Publish to Blog |
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Website to help find hoaxes and urban legends |
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http://www.snopes.com/ |
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Access your PC away from home |
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Use search – name & date |
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Windows hiding place Folder |
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Documents and settings |
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Owners name |
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--- Local settings |
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---- Temp |
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To opt out of receiving credit card applications
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1-888-5-OPTOUT |
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Or go to this URL. |
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http://opt-out.cdt.org/submit.shtml |
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Starter Kit of security programs at Download.com |
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http://www.download.com/ |
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Free software sites |
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NONAGS |
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http://www.nonags.com/ |
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FREEWARE FILES |
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http://www.freewarefiles.com/ |
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rated |
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