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 NEWBIES, NERDS & NITWITS

Your 'support' ezine if you're nervous about the Net

 December 15, 2001 Vol.1 Issue 17

 Sheldene Chant, Editor
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IN THIS ISSUE

 o Time for a Break...

 o Image Discovery

 o Your Virtual Photo Album

 o Are Your Windows In Focus?

 o The World's Largest Garage Sale

 o Newbie Club Hot Tips - Use BCC

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TIME FOR A BREAK...
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HELLO again. I hope you will have time to read this
before settling into your Christmas groove - and if not
let me at least wish you a happy and prosperous New Year
before you put it away to read later.

My husband and I are about to drive 1800km to spend the
festive season with our adult children in Zimbabwe. And talking
of children I know many people agonise over what their
youngsters might unearth on the Internet. With good reason.

The only time I fell into a messy pit of porn sites was when
I was demonstrating to a friend, who was into nursery schools,
all the good things she could find on the Net. Inevitably the
infant education sites threw up some enticing toys and things.
We decided to have a closer look at one of the toy sites and
...Oh boy!

Needless to say my friend decided she didn't want to have an
Internet connection after all.

To get back to this issue. The Newbie Club tutorial, Image
Discovery, tells you how to check out your Temporary
Internet Files - and find out whether you have any mind-boggling
images you don't know about on your computer. Images from
all the web pages visited are stored here.

If you are concentrating on being given a digital camera for
Christmas you'll like Your Virtual Photo Album by Maureen
Fleury. Then Pam Allen explores the ins and outs of eBay - in
case you're planning to pick up a few bargains in the New Year.

Tom Glander brings us down to earth with Are Your Windows
in Focus? A reminder that the real purpose of this ezine is to
help one learn computer basics - even though I do get carried
away quite often.

So, have a great time, and see you all next year.

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IMAGE DISCOVERY - or keeping tabs on kids
The Newbie Club Tutorial
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EVERY time you view a web page, the images on that page are
downloaded to your computer. This happens automatically. The
images are stored in a special group of folders. You can go
in there and look at all the pictures!

If you have kids, or want to check up on what someone has been
viewing on the Net, this is the place to do it. Be warned... if
others have access to your computer, there's no telling what
you'll find!

To view the images stored on your computer from Web pages,
do this:

1. Using My Computer icon, double click to open.
2. Open the Windows folder.
3. Open the Temporary Internet Files folder.

Inside, you'll find a lot of stuff. Images will be there, and you
should have the icon of whatever image editor you have installed
on your computer. If you don't have an image editor, the icon
may look like a blue "e" or Netscape's ship's wheel icon.

Double click the image file, and it will open in your image editor,
or in your browser, depending on the software installed on your
computer.

Also, check the History folder in the Windows folder. It will
also reveal a lot of information.

This is just a glimpse into the bowels of your computer. A lot of
stuff is stored there. If you want to delete the stuff you find
in the Temporary Internet Files folder, just highlight the item,
and hit the Delete key. Or highlight one item, and press Ctrl
and A keys at the same time. (Ctrl+A). This will select all of
the files... then hit the Delete key.

There are many ways to skin this cat. This is only one. If you
know of a faster way to delete files, use it.

Copyright 2001 Roglan International
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YOUR VIRTUAL PHOTO ALBUM
by Maureen Fleury
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I BOUGHT a digital camera recently and began to wildly shoot
pictures in order to learn all the functions on the camera. It is
bringing lots of enjoyment to me and I love the idea of seeing
the photo right away.

In order to see the pictures in their true size and to get them off
my camera, I had to upload them to my hard drive. Fine, now I
have a bunch of jpg files on my hard drive, encroaching on
valuable space. I can't show them to my friends because the
pics are on my computer!

Oh, I must mention that I lost about 40 pictures when my hard
drive crashed and needed to be reformatted.

In the beginning, I was uploading the photos to my personal
website. It took a lot of fiddling to get the pictures sized and
anchored on my web page. In addition, it was rapidly filling the
alloted webspace on the server.

I explored around and found out there was a better way.....
Online photo albums!

These are sites where you can upload your digital photos or
scanned prints for online storage. By storing the images on
someone else's server, you free up your resources and allow
others to view your albums.

In my search for albums, I found that most sites offer the same
services---free online storage and free ePostcards.

Some of the sites have sweetened the pot to attract business.
I've seen some places that allow you to mail in your rolls of film
for developing for a fee. They will put those pictures up on the
web site for you and mail back the prints or put them on a CD.

All sites will sell you prints of the images you upload. Some of
them have introductory offers such as the first 50 pictures are
free. Most sites sell you items where they have put your picture
on it---such as coffee mugs, T-shirts, mousepads, plates, or
posters. This is how they make money. Most sites allow you
to upload your pictures and not make a purchase.

I think online albums are useful. Aside from saving you disk
space, it allows you to share your photos with family and frinds.
A lot of sites give you the option of allowing the photos to be
viewed only by the people you choose. This is a nice privacy
feature and anti-piracy tactic.

The following is a list of online photo sites I found on the internet.
All of them have the basic storage features, so I'll only outline
some of the extra services they provide.

http://www.picturetrail.com/
picture sharing or privacy -
photo gifts and digital picture printing coming soon -
option to email pictures rather than uploading from browser -
viewer stats on album pages -
add music to albums -
offers thumbnail view or slide show as options to the visitor -
electronic cards

http://communities.msn.fr/content/features/photoalbum.asp
albums have themed pages (vacation, wedding, family, baby) -
thumbnail or full-size images -
message board or chat room can be added

http://www.photoworks.com/main.asp?f=emem
album is password protected -
can send in rolls of film for developing -
pictures processed on paper or CD -
photo gifts

http://www.yourphotos.com/
public or private albums -
guestbook on public albums -
photo printing -
photo gifts

http://www.imagestation.com/
online public albums -
digital video clip storage -
photo printing -
photo gifts -
greeting cards by email

http://www.photofun.com/online_photo_album/
online invitations -
screen savers -
picture shows -
online scrapbook

http://www.clubphoto.com/
online album with password -
electronic cards -
film processing -
touch up tools for images

http://www.seemesmile.com/index.sms
online postcards -
albums -
unique service to professional photographers where they
can upload proofs for the clients to view

http://y42.photos.yahoo.com/
online albums for public or private viewing -
prints from digital pictures -
developing of film rolls

I have been very pleased with my online photo album at Yahoo!
I have a safe place for my pictures. I've been able to send a
viewing invitation to my family and friends who live out of town.
It's a lot easier and cheaper than getting extra prints of pictures
and mailing them. You don't run the risk of having the pictures
wiped off your hard drive. Seems to be for all the right reasons.

If you are the least bit curious, here is My Photo Album!
http://y42.photos.yahoo.com/bc/mktravel99/lst?.dir=
/My+Digital+Pictures&.view=t

(NB - You may have to copy and paste the longer URLs
to your browser)

Copyright 2001 Maureen Fleury
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Maureen Fleury is a Senior Managing Editor at Suite101 and
is the Contributing Editor for the topic Communication in
Cyberspace
http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/communication_cybersp
ace
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DIGITAL CAMERAS
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have one but don't know what to do with it,
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http://newbieclub.com/digicam/?pearlsandpigs
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ARE YOUR WINDOWS IN FOCUS?
asks Tom Glander
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THIS one's a fundamental basic. You don't have to know
HOW it works, or even WHY. Really, who cares? But you do
have to know WHAT IT MEANS. What does what mean? Help!
I'm already confused!

Okay, we're talking about the windows you see when you
click an icon. Let's take the silly little 'My Computer'
icon. It's probably hiding in the upper left hand corner
of your computer's monitor right now.

Double click, and up pops a window. (Wow! That's why they
call this thing 'Windows'.)

Leaving that window open, let's say you drop down a notch
and click the 'My Documents' folder. Up pops another window.
Now you've got two open windows.

You could go on clicking stuff, and opening more and more
windows. And soon, you'd be lost in a sea of windows. Be
careful, coz that's a lot of glass to break!

Now, how do you know which window is active? Which one is
'in focus'? The window that has the focus will be richer
in color. Or 'not grayed out.' It won't be dim. It will be
bright. It will look alive, instead of the opposite. Isn't
there a better clue? Do we have to depend on colors or
shades thereof for our visuals?

Why, yes there is! And fortunately, it's pretty easy to tell
just by looking. However, if you ever get confused, here's
how to know instantly which window is active. Just hold down
the Alt key (next to the spacebar) and press the spacebar.
The active window will make itself VERY evident. You can try
it right now. Press Alt, plus the spacebar.

See? It's kind of cool. For a blow by blow account of this,
and an entertaining look at some Windows anatomy, visit this
page: http://newbieclub.com/anatomy/?pearlsandpigs

Why does this matter? Because the action of the keyboard,
and the action of the mouse, will be directed to this active
window. And no other. So you can't make a mistake and type
stuff in the wrong window.

Finally, if you want to see a whole bunch of windows open
at once, and in a cascade fashion, you can do the following:

Click Start, Run. And type 'sysedit' in the 'Open' line.
Press the Enter key or click OK. Pow! You'll get a face full
of windows. Don't worry, everything's cool. Just hold down
the Alt key, press the spacebar, and close the letter 'C' on
the keyboard. Do it now. While you're reading this.

Lesson: You're building confidence. There's nothing to fear.
You can master this machine, one step at a time. Kind of
like Windows for Newbies. Step by step. And soon enough,
you've built that foundation I keep preaching about. Take
another look now:
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See how easy it is to control you computer.

Copyright 2001 Roglan International
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EBAY - THE WORLD'S LARGEST GARAGE SALE
by Pam Allen
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EBAY is a great place to find some terrific bargains, but you
have to know what to look for and what (and who) to
avoid. Get the basics on finding trustworthy sellers, how to
bid, etc.

Ebay, the world's largest online auction site, is a fantastic
place to find some great bargains. However, there are a
few simple precautions that everyone should take before
bidding on that one-of-a-kind antique anvil that's going for
a song.

First and foremost, know what you're bidding on!! This sounds
like common sense, but you'd be amazed at the number of
people who bid on a "authentic" designer hand bag without even
noticing that the trademark logo is upside down. A good rule of
thumb is to avoid all auctions for high end designer pieces. This
category is filled with scam artists selling fake goods. Likewise,
do some checking around to find out what the average value of
an item is before you place a bid. I'm constantly amused by
otherwise rational people who will pay $50.00 for a secondhand
item that they can buy brand new at WalMart for $20.00. Yes, it
really happens!

Before you place a bid, make sure that the seller's Terms of
Service (TOS) are clear and concise. Shipping and Handling
charges should be listed in the auction description. If it's not
listed, contact the seller and ASK what the shipping charges will
be. The Ebay help forums are filled with posts from people who
won auctions for a small, lightweight item and were charged
$15.00 for shipping and handling.

Once you place your bid, you are contractually obligated to
complete the transaction. Make sure you note what type of
payment the seller accepts. Nothing irks a seller more than to
say 'No personal checks' 18 times in his auction listing, only to
have Aunt Mabel from Detroit send him a personal check. You
can always email the seller (before you bid, of course) and ask if
he will make an exception in your case. Sometimes they will.

Check the sellers feedback. The number of unique feedbacks
that he has received is in parenthesis next to his user name. A
unique feedback is one feedback per user. For instance, if the
seller has sold 10 items to 10 different people who have left
feedback, he will have a (10) next to his name. If he sold 10
items, but 5 buyers each bought 2 of them, the seller will have a
(5) next to his name, signifying that five different people left
feedback.

Avoid sellers with low feedback if they're selling expensive items.
Make sure you read any negative feedback that is left. If a seller
has 50 negative feedbacks out of 100 total transactions, and they
all say 'Seller never sent merchandise and didn't refund
payment", perhaps this seller isn't one you want to entrust your
hard earned cash with. Pay attention to the percentage of
negative feedback that a seller has received. After all, no one can
make everyone happy every single time, so a few negatives are
to be expected. A hundred negative feedbacks may seem like a
lot, but if the seller has 10,000 positive ones to offset those 100
negatives, that's a darn good ratio. Unless of course, all 100
negative feedbacks have been posted during the last week.

Remember, any bid you place is considered binding and active
until the auction ends and someone else is the winner. Do not
immediately place a bid on the same item with a different seller if
you are outbid on the first auction. That high bidder could back
out (a big no-no, but it's done anyway), leaving you the winning
bidder on two identical items.

Changing your mind and retracting a bid just because you found
it cheaper from someone else is also not permissible, so take
your time and look at a lot of different auctions before you choose
one to bid on. Price isn't always the main thing, and I will often
gladly pay more to a seller that has a high number of positive
feedbacks, simply because he is well established and has a
proven track record. Peace of mind is worth something.

Now that you've done your homework and checked out the
seller's reputation and looked for the best deal, your final step is
to place your bid. Here is where many people make the biggest
mistake. There are three methods of bidding, and only two are
considered ideal for bidder and seller alike.

The wrong way of bidding is called 'nibbling' or 'lowballing'.
This is where a bidder makes a really low bid initially, then
constantly keeps re-bidding and raising his bid by a dollar or two
over the life of the auction. This is time consuming, and Ebay
glitches have resulted in many a bidder losing an auciton
because the site went down before they could raise the bid price
again.

Before you place your bid, decide for sure how much you are
willing to spend on this item, including shipping and handling.
Then bid that much. No more, no less. Ebay's proxy system will
take care of the rest.

What is the proxy system? Simply put, it will remember your
maximum bid, and raise it by increments to beat any opposing
bids until your limit is reached. For example, if you bid a
maximum of $50.00 on the antique anvil and the seller has set
the opening bid at $1.99, your bid will show as $1.99. If Jim Bob
comes along and bids $25.00 on the anvil, your proxy and his
proxy will battle it out until his $25.00 is reached, and you will
be the high bidder at $26.00. If no one else bids, you will win it for
$26.00.

Remember, your maximum bid is just that; the maximum you will
pay for it. Just because you bid that much, doesn't mean that it
will cost you that much. There have been many times that I've
put in a max bid of $20.00 for an item and won it for $5.00.

The second method of bidding (and one I personally adore) is
called sniping.This is when you use an outside site to enter a
maximum bid amount. This site remembers the item number,
the time the auction is ending, and your bid amount. Seconds
before the auction ends, the site logs on to Ebay and bids for
you. This method is as close as you can get to guaranteeing a
win.

Why? Because once you place your bid on Ebay itself, your bid
is right there for everyone else to see, and bid against. If they bid
against you, the price will go up until it hits their maximum bid, or
your maximum bid. Many other buyers are 'nibblers' and will
slowly drive your bid up over the life of the auction.

You bid $50.00, and over the next five days, they raise their bid
from an opening bid of $10.00 to $52.00 and end up winning. If
you snipe, your opponent has entered his original $10.00 bid, and
since he sees no one bidding against him, he leaves it at $10.00.
At the last second, you come along and bid your maximum
$50.00, too late in the game for him to raise his maximum bid,
and you win the item for $10.50. The only time you'll lose
when sniping is if someone else has entered a maximum bid
higher than yours, either through sniping also, or using Ebay's
own bid entry page. No one will have a chance to slowly nibble
away and drive your bid up.

A great site to utilize for sniping is Vrane.com. Click on the
'sniping' link on the left and enter your information to set up a free
account. The only down side is that if Ebay's servers hiccup right
at the auction's end, your snipe may not go through.

Okay, the auction's over, and you're the big winner. Now what?
Contact he seller and let him know that you won (within three
days of auction end). Make sure you list the auction number and
what the item is. Put your mailing address and ebay user name
in the email so the seller can get your item ready to ship while
waiting for your payment. Don't email the seller every 20 minutes
asking if he's shipped your package yet. Give it at least a week,
then send a NICE email asking when it was shipped.

Most sellers are honest, and don't take kindly to accusatory
emails that imply they're stealing your money. When the item
arrives, rip it open and gloat over your great deal, then take a
moment to leave the seller positive feedback.

I like to drop them an emailing telling them that I received the
package, the item is great, and I left positive feedback. Most of
them will then leave you feedback in return. Negative feedback
should be reserved for sellers who are blatantly dishonest and
ripped you off without trying to resolve the matter. If you have a
complaint and the seller remedies the matter quickly and nicely,
positive feedback is warranted.

Neutral is known as a 'soft negative' and should also be used as
a last resort. A neutral feedback is generally used when the
transaction is resolved satisfactorily, but has taken too much
time and effort on the buyer's end to get it resolved.

I hope this little tutorial was helpful. Happy Ebay-ing!

Copyright 2001 Pam Allen
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For more articles by Pam Allen click on
http://www.newbiesandnitwits.com . In
addition Pam is webmistress of
http://www.quickdecor.com and
http://www.calamitycats.com
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knell: Press Alt-F4. Hold down the Alt key, and press the F4
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NEWBIES, NERDS & NITWITS 
Your 'support' ezine if you're nervous about the Net 
 December 15,
2001
Vol.1 Issue 17 

Sheldene Chant, Editor 
_______________________________________ 
By subscription only. Welcome to the 17th issue of 

Newbies, Nerds & Nitwits 
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IN THIS ISSUE 
 o Time for a
Break... 
 o Image
Discovery 
 o Your Virtual
Photo Album 
 o Are Your Windows
In Focus? 
 o The World's
Largest Garage Sale 
 o Newbie Club Hot
Tips - Use BCC 
 
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TIME FOR A BREAK... 
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HELLO again. I hope you will have time to read this 
before settling into your Christmas groove - and if not 
let me at least wish you a happy and prosperous New Year 
before you put it away to read later. 
My husband and I are about to drive 1800km to spend the 
festive season with our adult children in Zimbabwe. And
talking 
of children I know many people agonise over what their 
youngsters might unearth on the Internet. With good
reason. 
The only time I fell into a messy pit of porn sites was when 
I was demonstrating to a friend, who was into nursery schools, 
all the good things she could find on the Net. Inevitably the 
infant education sites threw up some enticing toys and things. 
We decided to have a closer look at one of the toy sites and 
...Oh boy! 
Needless to say my friend decided she didn't want to have an 
Internet connection after all. 
To get back to this issue. The Newbie Club tutorial, Image 
Discovery, tells you how to check out your Temporary 
Internet Files - and find out whether you have any mind-boggling 
images you don't know about on your computer. Images from 
all the web pages visited are stored here. 
If you are concentrating on being given a digital camera for 
Christmas you'll like Your Virtual Photo Album by Maureen 
Fleury. Then Pam Allen explores the ins and outs of eBay - in 
case you're planning to pick up a few bargains in the New Year. 
Tom Glander brings us down to earth with Are Your Windows 
in Focus? A reminder that the real purpose of this ezine is to 
help one learn computer basics - even though I do get carried 
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EVERY time you view a web page, the images on that page are 
downloaded to your computer. This happens automatically. The 
images are stored in a special group of folders. You can go 
in there and look at all the pictures! 
If you have kids, or want to check up on what someone has been 
viewing on the Net, this is the place to do it. Be warned... if 
others have access to your computer, there's no telling what 
you'll find! 
To view the images stored on your computer from Web pages, 
do this: 
1. Using My Computer icon, double click to open. 
2. Open the Windows folder. 
3. Open the Temporary Internet Files folder. 
Inside, you'll find a lot of stuff. Images will be there, and you 
should have the icon of whatever image editor you have installed 
on your computer. If you don't have an image editor, the icon 
may look like a blue "e" or Netscape's ship's wheel
icon. 
Double click the image file, and it will open in your image editor, 
or in your browser, depending on the software installed on your 
computer. 
Also, check the History folder in the Windows folder. It will 
also reveal a lot of information. 
This is just a glimpse into the bowels of your computer. A lot of 
stuff is stored there. If you want to delete the stuff you find 
in the Temporary Internet Files folder, just highlight the item, 
and hit the Delete key. Or highlight one item, and press Ctrl 
and A keys at the same time. (Ctrl+A). This will select all of 
the files... then hit the Delete key. 
There are many ways to skin this cat. This is only one. If you 
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YOUR VIRTUAL PHOTO ALBUM 
by Maureen Fleury 
_____________________________________ 
I BOUGHT a digital camera recently and began to wildly shoot 
pictures in order to learn all the functions on the camera. It is 
bringing lots of enjoyment to me and I love the idea of seeing 
the photo right away. 
In order to see the pictures in their true size and to get them
off 
my camera, I had to upload them to my hard drive. Fine, now I 
have a bunch of jpg files on my hard drive, encroaching on 
valuable space. I can't show them to my friends because the 
pics are on my computer! 
Oh, I must mention that I lost about 40 pictures when my hard 
drive crashed and needed to be reformatted. 
In the beginning, I was uploading the photos to my personal 
website. It took a lot of fiddling to get the pictures sized and 
anchored on my web page. In addition, it was rapidly filling the 
alloted webspace on the server. 
I explored around and found out there was a better way..... 
Online photo albums! 
These are sites where you can upload your digital photos or 
scanned prints for online storage. By storing the images on 
someone else's server, you free up your resources and allow 
others to view your albums. 
In my search for albums, I found that most sites offer the
same 
services---free online storage and free ePostcards. 
Some of the sites have sweetened the pot to attract business. 
I've seen some places that allow you to mail in your rolls of film 
for developing for a fee. They will put those pictures up on the 
web site for you and mail back the prints or put them on a CD. 
All sites will sell you prints of the images you upload. Some of 
them have introductory offers such as the first 50 pictures are 
free. Most sites sell you items where they have put your picture 
on it---such as coffee mugs, T-shirts, mousepads, plates, or 
posters. This is how they make money. Most sites allow you 
to upload your pictures and not make a purchase. 
I think online albums are useful. Aside from saving you disk 
space, it allows you to share your photos with family and frinds. 
A lot of sites give you the option of allowing the photos to be 
viewed only by the people you choose. This is a nice privacy 
feature and anti-piracy tactic. 
The following is a list of online photo sites I found on the
internet. 
All of them have the basic storage features, so I'll only
outline 
some of the extra services they provide. 
<a href="http://www.picturetrail.com/" eudora="autourl">http://www.picturetrail.com/</a> 
picture sharing or privacy - 
photo gifts and digital picture printing coming soon - 
option to email pictures rather than uploading from browser - 
viewer stats on album pages - 
add music to albums - 
offers thumbnail view or slide show as options to the visitor - 
electronic cards 
<a href="http://communities.msn.fr/content/features/photoalbum.asp" eudora="autourl">http://communities.msn.fr/content/features/photoalbum.asp</a> 
albums have themed pages (vacation, wedding, family, baby) - 
thumbnail or full-size images - 
message board or chat room can be added 
<a href="http://www.photoworks.com/main.asp?f=emem" eudora="autourl">http://www.photoworks.com/main.asp?f=emem</a> 
album is password protected - 
can send in rolls of film for developing - 
pictures processed on paper or CD - 
photo gifts 
<a href="http://www.yourphotos.com/" eudora="autourl">http://www.yourphotos.com/</a> 
public or private albums - 
guestbook on public albums - 
photo printing - 
photo gifts 
<a href="http://www.imagestation.com/" eudora="autourl">http://www.imagestation.com/</a> 
online public albums - 
digital video clip storage - 
photo printing - 
photo gifts - 
greeting cards by email 
<a href="http://www.photofun.com/online_photo_album/" eudora="autourl">http://www.photofun.com/online_photo_album/</a> 
online invitations - 
screen savers - 
picture shows - 
online scrapbook 
 
<a href="http://www.clubphoto.com/" eudora="autourl">http://www.clubphoto.com/</a> 
online album with password - 
electronic cards - 
film processing - 
touch up tools for images 
<a href="http://www.seemesmile.com/index.sms" eudora="autourl">http://www.seemesmile.com/index.sms</a> 
online postcards - 
albums - 
unique service to professional photographers where they 
can upload proofs for the clients to view 
 
<a href="http://y42.photos.yahoo.com/" eudora="autourl">http://y42.photos.yahoo.com/</a> 
online albums for public or private viewing - 
prints from digital pictures - 
developing of film rolls 
I have been very pleased with my online photo album at Yahoo! 
I have a safe place for my pictures. I've been able to send a 
viewing invitation to my family and friends who live out of
town. 
It's a lot easier and cheaper than getting extra prints of
pictures 
and mailing them. You don't run the risk of having the
pictures 
wiped off your hard drive. Seems to be for all the right
reasons. 
If you are the least bit curious, here is My Photo Album! 
<a href="http://y42.photos.yahoo.com/bc/mktravel99/lst?.dir" eudora="autourl">http://y42.photos.yahoo.com/bc/mktravel99/lst?.dir</a>= 
/My+Digital+Pictures&.view=t 
(NB - You may have to copy and paste the longer URLs 
to your browser) 
Copyright 2001 Maureen Fleury 
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Maureen Fleury is a Senior Managing Editor at Suite101 and 
is the Contributing Editor for the topic Communication in 
Cyberspace 
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ace 
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ARE YOUR WINDOWS IN FOCUS? 
asks Tom Glander 
____________________________________ 
THIS one's a fundamental basic. You don't have to know 
HOW it works, or even WHY. Really, who cares? But you do 
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I'm already confused! 
Okay, we're talking about the windows you see when you 
click an icon. Let's take the silly little 'My Computer' 
icon. It's probably hiding in the upper left hand corner 
of your computer's monitor right now. 
Double click, and up pops a window. (Wow! That's why they 
call this thing 'Windows'.) 
Leaving that window open, let's say you drop down a notch 
and click the 'My Documents' folder. Up pops another window. 
Now you've got two open windows. 
You could go on clicking stuff, and opening more and more 
windows. And soon, you'd be lost in a sea of windows. Be 
careful, coz that's a lot of glass to break! 
Now, how do you know which window is active? Which one is 
'in focus'? The window that has the focus will be richer 
in color. Or 'not grayed out.' It won't be dim. It will be 
bright. It will look alive, instead of the opposite. Isn't 
there a better clue? Do we have to depend on colors or 
shades thereof for our visuals? 
Why, yes there is! And fortunately, it's pretty easy to tell 
just by looking. However, if you ever get confused, here's 
how to know instantly which window is active. Just hold down 
the Alt key (next to the spacebar) and press the spacebar. 
The active window will make itself VERY evident. You can try 
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See? It's kind of cool. For a blow by blow account of this, 
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Why does this matter? Because the action of the keyboard, 
and the action of the mouse, will be directed to this active 
window. And no other. So you can't make a mistake and type 
stuff in the wrong window. 
Finally, if you want to see a whole bunch of windows open 
at once, and in a cascade fashion, you can do the following: 
Click Start, Run. And type 'sysedit' in the 'Open' line. 
Press the Enter key or click OK. Pow! You'll get a face full 
of windows. Don't worry, everything's cool. Just hold down 
the Alt key, press the spacebar, and close the letter 'C' on 
the keyboard. Do it now. While you're reading this. 
Lesson: You're building confidence. There's nothing to fear. 
You can master this machine, one step at a time. Kind of 
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EBAY - THE WORLD'S LARGEST GARAGE SALE 
by Pam Allen 
_________________________________________ 
EBAY is a great place to find some terrific bargains, but you 
have to know what to look for and what (and who) to 
avoid. Get the basics on finding trustworthy sellers, how to 
bid, etc. 
Ebay, the world's largest online auction site, is a fantastic 
place to find some great bargains. However, there are a 
few simple precautions that everyone should take before 
bidding on that one-of-a-kind antique anvil that's going for 
a song. 
First and foremost, know what you're bidding on!! This sounds 
like common sense, but you'd be amazed at the number of 
people who bid on a "authentic" designer hand bag without
even 
noticing that the trademark logo is upside down. A good rule of 
thumb is to avoid all auctions for high end designer pieces. This 
category is filled with scam artists selling fake goods. Likewise, 
do some checking around to find out what the average value of 
an item is before you place a bid. I'm constantly amused by 
otherwise rational people who will pay $50.00 for a secondhand 
item that they can buy brand new at WalMart for $20.00. Yes, it 
really happens! 
Before you place a bid, make sure that the seller's Terms of 
Service (TOS) are clear and concise. Shipping and Handling 
charges should be listed in the auction description. If it's not 
listed, contact the seller and ASK what the shipping charges will 
be. The Ebay help forums are filled with posts from people who 
won auctions for a small, lightweight item and were charged 
$15.00 for shipping and handling. 
Once you place your bid, you are contractually obligated to 
complete the transaction. Make sure you note what type of 
payment the seller accepts. Nothing irks a seller more than to 
say 'No personal checks' 18 times in his auction listing, only to 
have Aunt Mabel from Detroit send him a personal check. You 
can always email the seller (before you bid, of course) and ask if 
he will make an exception in your case. Sometimes they will. 
Check the sellers feedback. The number of unique feedbacks 
that he has received is in parenthesis next to his user name. A 
unique feedback is one feedback per user. For instance, if the 
seller has sold 10 items to 10 different people who have left 
feedback, he will have a (10) next to his name. If he sold 10 
items, but 5 buyers each bought 2 of them, the seller will have a 
(5) next to his name, signifying that five different people left 
feedback. 
Avoid sellers with low feedback if they're selling expensive items. 
Make sure you read any negative feedback that is left. If a seller 
has 50 negative feedbacks out of 100 total transactions, and they 
all say 'Seller never sent merchandise and didn't refund 
payment", perhaps this seller isn't one you want to entrust
your 
hard earned cash with. Pay attention to the percentage of 
negative feedback that a seller has received. After all, no one can 
make everyone happy every single time, so a few negatives are 
to be expected. A hundred negative feedbacks may seem like a 
lot, but if the seller has 10,000 positive ones to offset those
100 
negatives, that's a darn good ratio. Unless of course, all 100 
negative feedbacks have been posted during the last week. 
Remember, any bid you place is considered binding and active 
until the auction ends and someone else is the winner. Do not 
immediately place a bid on the same item with a different seller if 
you are outbid on the first auction. That high bidder could back 
out (a big no-no, but it's done anyway), leaving you the winning 
bidder on two identical items. 
Changing your mind and retracting a bid just because you found 
it cheaper from someone else is also not permissible, so take 
your time and look at a lot of different auctions before you choose 
one to bid on. Price isn't always the main thing, and I will often 
gladly pay more to a seller that has a high number of positive 
feedbacks, simply because he is well established and has a 
proven track record. Peace of mind is worth something. 
Now that you've done your homework and checked out the 
seller's reputation and looked for the best deal, your final step
is 
to place your bid. Here is where many people make the biggest 
mistake. There are three methods of bidding, and only two are 
considered ideal for bidder and seller alike. 
The wrong way of bidding is called 'nibbling' or 'lowballing'. 
This is where a bidder makes a really low bid initially, then 
constantly keeps re-bidding and raising his bid by a dollar or two 
over the life of the auction. This is time consuming, and Ebay 
glitches have resulted in many a bidder losing an auciton 
because the site went down before they could raise the bid price 
again. 
Before you place your bid, decide for sure how much you are 
willing to spend on this item, including shipping and handling. 
Then bid that much. No more, no less. Ebay's proxy system will 
take care of the rest. 
What is the proxy system? Simply put, it will remember your 
maximum bid, and raise it by increments to beat any opposing 
bids until your limit is reached. For example, if you bid a 
maximum of $50.00 on the antique anvil and the seller has set 
the opening bid at $1.99, your bid will show as $1.99. If Jim Bob 
comes along and bids $25.00 on the anvil, your proxy and his 
proxy will battle it out until his $25.00 is reached, and you will 
be the high bidder at $26.00. If no one else bids, you will win it
for 
$26.00. 
Remember, your maximum bid is just that; the maximum you will 
pay for it. Just because you bid that much, doesn't mean that it 
will cost you that much. There have been many times that I've 
put in a max bid of $20.00 for an item and won it for $5.00. 
The second method of bidding (and one I personally adore) is 
called sniping.This is when you use an outside site to enter a 
maximum bid amount. This site remembers the item number, 
the time the auction is ending, and your bid amount. Seconds 
before the auction ends, the site logs on to Ebay and bids for 
you. This method is as close as you can get to guaranteeing a 
win. 
Why? Because once you place your bid on Ebay itself, your bid 
is right there for everyone else to see, and bid against. If they
bid 
against you, the price will go up until it hits their maximum bid,
or 
your maximum bid. Many other buyers are 'nibblers' and will 
slowly drive your bid up over the life of the auction. 
You bid $50.00, and over the next five days, they raise their bid 
from an opening bid of $10.00 to $52.00 and end up winning. If 
you snipe, your opponent has entered his original $10.00 bid, and 
since he sees no one bidding against him, he leaves it at $10.00. 
At the last second, you come along and bid your maximum 
$50.00, too late in the game for him to raise his maximum bid, 
and you win the item for $10.50. The only time you'll lose 
when sniping is if someone else has entered a maximum bid 
higher than yours, either through sniping also, or using Ebay's 
own bid entry page. No one will have a chance to slowly nibble 
away and drive your bid up. 
A great site to utilize for sniping is Vrane.com. Click on the 
'sniping' link on the left and enter your information to set up a
free 
account. The only down side is that if Ebay's servers hiccup right 
at the auction's end, your snipe may not go through. 
Okay, the auction's over, and you're the big winner. Now what? 
Contact he seller and let him know that you won (within three 
days of auction end). Make sure you list the auction number and 
what the item is. Put your mailing address and ebay user name 
in the email so the seller can get your item ready to ship while 
waiting for your payment. Don't email the seller every 20 minutes 
asking if he's shipped your package yet. Give it at least a week, 
then send a NICE email asking when it was shipped. 
Most sellers are honest, and don't take kindly to accusatory 
emails that imply they're stealing your money. When the item 
arrives, rip it open and gloat over your great deal, then take a 
moment to leave the seller positive feedback. 
I like to drop them an emailing telling them that I received
the 
package, the item is great, and I left positive feedback. Most
of 
them will then leave you feedback in return. Negative
feedback 
should be reserved for sellers who are blatantly dishonest
and 
ripped you off without trying to resolve the matter. If you have a 
complaint and the seller remedies the matter quickly and
nicely, 
positive feedback is warranted. 
Neutral is known as a 'soft negative' and should also be used as 
a last resort. A neutral feedback is generally used when the 
transaction is resolved satisfactorily, but has taken too
much 
time and effort on the buyer's end to get it resolved. 
I hope this little tutorial was helpful. Happy Ebay-ing! 
Copyright 2001 Pam Allen 
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