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War Records Online

Ancestry.com puts 90M war records online - Yahoo! News: "Ancestry.com puts 90M war records online By DONNA BORAK, AP Business Writer
Thu May 24, 10:00 AM ET

WASHINGTON - For every generation in this country there has been a war. And with wars come millions of records that can shed light on family history, detailing everything from the color of soldiers' eyes to what their neighbors may have said about them.

On Thursday, Ancestry.com unveils more than 90 million U.S. war records from the first English settlement at Jamestown in 1607 through the Vietnam War's end in 1975. The site also has the names of 3.5 million U.S. soldiers killed in action, including 2,000 who died in Iraq."

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Mind Your E-Mail Manners

"Don't contribute to rudeness on the Web; learn these ten rules and use them forever.
James A. Martin
Monday, September 25, 2000 12:00 AM PDT
Let's begin our e-mail etiquette course with a pop quiz: Your coworker Hank has such terrible breath that it's become a subject of office gossip. Should you send an anonymous e-mail to warn Hank, tactfully, of the problem?
If your answer is yes, you've violated PC World's second rule of e-mail etiquette: Don't use e-mail to deliver sensitive messages. But don't be discouraged: Lots of other people's e-mail manners are as bad or worse.
With the explosion in use of the Internet and personal computers have come massive violations of e-mail etiquette. An online survey conducted by Yahoo found that the majority of 13,000 respondents scored a C-minus in e-mail etiquette. As manners maven Letitia Baldrige recently said in a USA Today opinion piece, 'E-mail is so beloved, universally accepted, and adored that I feel almost like a traitor suggesting that there is a growing trend to abuse it.'"
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Community Learning Center

"Encore: The Senior College
ENCORE CLASSES: LEARNING IS FUN!
ENCORE is a new academic credit program at San Juan College designed for students 50 years and over BUT classes are open to everyone! ENCORE creates opportunities for students to maintain lifelong vitality through learning and these informative and fun classes can be enjoyed by students of all ages. Class tuition for students over the age of 65 is $5; tuition for students under the age of 65 is $25. The classes are offered for one college credit and all instructors are degreed or credentialed. "

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Jury Duty Scam

Federal Bureau of Investigation - Press Room - Headline Archives: "The phone rings, you pick it up, and the caller identifies himself as an officer of the court. He says you failed to report for jury duty and that a warrant is out for your arrest. You say you never received a notice. To clear it up, the caller says he'll need some information for 'verification purposes'-your birth date, social security number, maybe even a credit card number.
This is when you should hang up the phone. It's a scam. "

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Summer Course Schedule

I will only be teaching 2 courses this summer. Both will start Monday June 4 and finish on Wednesday June 27. The 2 courses are Computer Basics 1 and Working with Photos. Early registration for Encore members starts May 16, 2007.

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Keep your pictures safe

KODAK Gallery: "In the event of a natural disaster, human error, hard drive crash or theft, Picture Protection can help you re-create the Prints, Photo Books and anything else you've created with pictures you have saved at the gallery. "

Please note: This is an advertisement from Kodak.

Mobile Blogging

On the Go with Blogger Mobile

By Biz Stone
See also: Blogger Mobile FAQ
Back in the day, mobile phones were rare and pricey. Rich businessmen carried them around in suitcases. I remember when I was in middle school and Melissa Miller's dad had a car phone. That was fancy. Mr. Miller is a fancy guy. These days, mobiles are low-cost and everywhere. In many countries, mobile phones outnumber their land-line counterparts. Around the world, mobile phones are increasingly pervasive and this is especially true when it comes to developing areas. People even decorate, customize, and accessorize their phones to reflect their personality. Sound familiar?
Mobile phones are perfect little blogging appliances that people carry around with them everywhere. Sharing photos and stories with friends while you're on-the-go by sending them straight to your blog—what could be easier? Turns out it can be easier, that's why we created Blogger Mobile. To create a blog and post to it using your mobile phone, you will need to follow these directions:

Webby Awards

The best of the web as decided by the academy and peoples choice.

Webby Honorees, Nominees and Winners truly represent the best of the Web. They are but a small percentage of total entries and have been chosen by members of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences based on a number of creative and functional criteria. See them all here.


Webby Award Winners:
"11th Annual Webby Awards Nominees & Winners:"

"With nearly 70 categories, Website entries make up the majority of Webby Awards Winners, Nominees and Honorees. Some are beautiful to look at and interact with. Others are a testament to usability and functionality. And a handful excel across the board. To be selected among the best is an incredible achievement worthy of praise -- and perhaps a little bragging."

Subject is the Title

Message = Sent from cell

Best Buy Sued

Best Buy Sued Over "Shower Cam"

By David WoodConsumerAffairs.Com
April 12, 2007

The Best Buy "Geek Squad" brochure says that only "agents you can trust" will be sent to repair your computer, but a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court alleges just the opposite.
The suit, filed by 22-year-old Sarah Vasquez and her mother, alleges that Geek Squad employee, 26-year-old Hao Kuo Chi, placed a cell phone camera in the bathroom for the purpose of videotaping Sarah and her younger sister.
According to the lawsuit, Chi placed the phone on the bathroom sink at an angle that would record anyone in the vicinity of the shower.
Vasquez used the bathroom to take a shower and once out of the shower, she saw the camera phone along with its blinking red light.

Feeling that something wasn't right, Vasquez walked out of the bathroom to tell her sister about the phone, and when Vasquez returned to the bathroom, the phone was gone.
The younger sister later found the phone in her bedroom, removed the memory chip, and that's when it all fell apart for Chi. The video images on the chip show Vasquez in the shower.
The suit alleges negligent hiring, fraud, invasion of privacy, among others.
Best Buy released the following statement: "Best Buy was not informed of this action prior to being contacted by the media today. Obviously, we intend to cooperate fully with any investigation into this matter."

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Ohio Sues Best Buy

A lot of Ohio residents say the pledges and promises made by electronics super store Best Buy aren't worth the paper they're written on. Because of the hundreds of consumer complaints he's received about the giant retailer, the state's Attorney General, Jim Petro, is suing Best Buy, charging that it's engaged in a pattern of unfair and deceptive acts and practices. Petro says the primary objective of the lawsuit is "to bring Best Buy into conformity with Ohio's consumer protection laws and ensure that Best Buy's Ohio customers receive the service they deserve." The complaints filed by Ohio consumers claim -- among other things -- that Best Buy repackaged used goods and sold them as new, failed to honor rebates, failed to honor refund and exchange programs, and failed to honor extended service contracts. Additional Consumer Sales Practices Act violations charged in the lawsuit include: failure to honor implied warranties of merchantability, substandard and/or inadequate customer service, and making false and misleading statements to consumers. In the complaint, Petro is asking the court to prohibit Best Buy from engaging in practices that violate the Consumer Sales Practices Act, and to order the company to reimburse consumers who lost money or otherwise did not receive the full service they were promised. The complaint also asks that Best Buy pay a civil penalty of $25,000 for each violation of the Consumer Sales Practices Act.

Anti-aliasing

Anti-aliasing makes the edges of your type look nice and smooth instead of all jagged. Square pixels appear round because the color at the edge of your type is gradually changed to the color of the background, creating a more blended effect. This tricks your brain into thinking that the rounded and diagonal parts of letters aren't actually made of little squares, even though they are.

If you're working with large type, you'll definitely want to make sure "anti-aliased" is selected. But if you're setting small type - font sizes in the 6- to 9-point range (at 72 pixels per inch) - aliased type is usually easier to read than the anti-aliased type. But anything above 10 points looks better anti-aliased.

Photoshop Crash Course

"Photoshop Crash Course
Lesson 1
by Jim Frew

Photoshop Crash Course: "Page 1 — Photoshop Crash Course — Lesson 1"

Google Reader - Tour

"A quick tour of Google Reader"

Google Reader constantly checks your favorite news sites and blogs for new content. Whether a site updates daily or monthly, you can be sure that you won't miss a thing.


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Why and How DPI Matters When Printing

Digital Designer Toolbox » Blog Archive » Why and How DPI Matters When Printing:
"Sun16Jul '06
Why and How DPI Matters When Printing

Melissa's ideas about Designing Pages

Digital Prepress and inkjet printing are apples and oranges. The processes are completely different. A digital prepress is like a giant laser printer. The toner is a fine powder that is baked onto the paper. Ink jets use liquid ink that spreads when applied to paper because it’s liquid and thats what liquid does. As a result, ink jets print photo quality images with continuos tones as the ink spreads and overlaps. Files don’t need to be as large or contain as much information for a great ink jet print as they do for a great pre-press print. There is no visible quality increase over 150 dpi on an ink jet and in fact printing at higher quality may simply use more ink and cost more money."
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Picasa: Organize photos, instant albums, labels, stars, advanced picture search

Picasa: : "Organize
Picasa instantly locates and organizes all the pictures on your computer.
Find the pictures you forgot you had.
Picasa organizes your entire collection while you watch, scanning the images on your computer and automatically sorting them by date."


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Flower Garden

This one is just for fun -- click on the title and enjoy yourself. Try holding the mouse down or try individual clicks. Hit refresh on the browser to start over.