See What Other People Might be Seeing About You
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Mr. Computer not only fixes computers, sets up networks, connects you to the
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Amazon Purchases Cost More Now!
The
US Supreme court has ruled that States cannot collect sales tax if the
business lacks a "physical presence" in the respective state, but that hasn't stopped New York. New York (Court) has ruled
that Amazon.com purchases (along with others vendors) are subject to taxation because they
have "affiliates", companies for whom
they sell products on line, in New York.
For most of us that's another 7.375%. Boo! It makes $sense to look for a vendors bottom line price after taxes, shipping and handling. (See Amazon Link to the left).
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Free Anti-Virus has Hidden Cost
 Upgrade! Upgrade! Upgrade! The people who release AVG Free (Grisoft.com) are on a campaign to get you to buy an upgrade. Don't. Ignore the ads and keep using this perfectly good free tool. You could optionally switch to one of the other free A/V tools (see panel left), but I suspect they too will be pitching soon enough. |
Googled Yourself Lately?
 LOVE may not be forever, but what you (and others) put on the
internet about you, certainly is. Facebook? MySpace? LinkedIn? MyLife? Surfers, including employers, are searching the internet more and more to
learn about you. Numerous websites have
sprung up to put together this information (about you) in a concise and
collected manor. One such outfit, Spokeo, (www.spokeo.com)
will use your email address to track your activities, photos, blogs and videos
and present them to anybody with the right dollars in a matter of seconds of
getting your name. Note the links on the left to this and other source
providers, some free. Limit the information these engines can collect by
modifying your profile or "opting out" at the each source website.
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| Ask MisterComputer:
John S. asks, "Why are images in (my) Microsoft Outlook Express emails represented by a little red X rather than the picture itself ? ".
MisterComputer Answers:
Outlook Express and
Outlook are trying to protect you from viruses that might arrive via
e-mail. This is an unlikely, though not impossible, scenario. Further, all of
the anti-virus software today have built in email scanners, so the likelihood of a virus getting in via an image, in MisterComputer's opinion, is small.
To see images as
soon as an email arrives (you can always right click an "X" and ask that the
image be displayed) depends upon your product. Follow the procedure below for your Email Client.
Outook 2003: Click Tools >> Options >> Security
>> Uncheck "Block images and other external content in
HTML e-mail".
Outlook 2007: Click Tools >>Trust Center >> Automatic Download (on the left) >>
Uncheck "Don't download images automatically in HTML e-mail messages or RSS
items".
Outlook Express: Click Tools >> Options >> Security (Button) >> "Change Automatic Download Options" >>
Uncheck "Don't download pictures or other content automatically in HTML e-mail"
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I hope you find this newsletter helpful. Look for future issues.
Sincerely,
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Ish Y. Alter
MisterComputer.com |
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