IN THIS ISSUE:
01. Secure IE
02. Disk cleanup on XP
03. Thanks but no thanks
04. Mouseless way home
05. Kartoo
06. XP time feature
07. Leaf Peeper Alert
08. Saving scraps
09. Quick access
10. Don't believe your email
And What's Coming Up Next Week in NNT Premium
01. SECURE IE.  For the past month or so, our Software Review Panel has
been giving a grueling test to Secure IE, a piece of software that blocks
Flash and pop-ups, prevents malicious file downloads, lets you customize
Security Zone settings as you browse dozens of Web sites simultaneously up
to five times faster with a tabbed interface, annotate Web page with sticky
notes and highlighter, and save complete Web pages, even secure server
(HTTPS) pages and archive online transaction receipts.  For what we believe
is one of the most thorough reviews ever conducted on a single piece of
software, check out what our Panel had to say at
http://www.NeatNetTricks.com/SoftwareReviews .  For a free trial download,
visit http://www.secureie.com .  And if this one sweeps you off your feet,
go to the NNT Store at http://www.NeatNetTricks.com/store and get a super
deal, just $17.50 if you order before September 14.  With a 30-day
guarantee, what's to lose?
02. DISK CLEANUP ON XP.  Windows XP users can do some fast cleaning chores
with Disk Cleanup.  Access this tool from the Start menu by right clicking
on your hard drive.  Then select Properties and click on the Disk Cleanup
button to determine how many files can be safely deleted.
03. THANKS BUT NO THANKS.  Continuing our periodic feature of
less-than-useful sites on the Web:  The International Center for Bathroom
Etiquette at http://www.icbe.org/ gets our recognition this issue.  It says
it's working hard to bring you the latest in cutting edge research and
technology regarding bathroom etiquette.  We'll resist some obvious puns.
. . . . .
West Virginia's Diane Stratton recommended NNT to some friends and is now
enjoying QuicKeys 2.0, a great Windows management software package.  Diane
is our latest winner and you could be next.  Just go to the NNT Web site at
http://www.NeatNetTricks.com and click on "Recommend NNT."  Nothing could
be easier.
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04. MOUSELESS WAY HOME.  To go home quickly in Internet Explorer, touch F6
to highlight the Address Bar and type two periods (..) there.  The Enter
key then takes you home.
05. KARTOO.  Search engines are everywhere on the Internet but Kartoo at
http://www.kartoo.net is quite unusual.  It's a meta search engine that
displays results on a map in the form of a ball.  The larger the ball, the
more relevant the result.  As you mouseover each result, site descriptions
are revealed.  If all that sounds confusing, the explanation is more
complicated than the service itself.  Just try it.
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You should make it a habit to visit the NNT Store at
http://www.NeatNetTricks.com/store . We try to have several great products
there at a limited-time price much less than anywhere else on the Net.
Currently, you'll find excellent ebooks, a very effective popup stopper,
and the very useful utility described in item 01 above, along with the
usual opportunity to subscribe to NNT Premium and ArchivesExpress.  Check
us out, you'll be glad you did.
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06. XP TIME FEATURE.  Windows XP added a nice feature that heretofore
required a separate software application.  It will connect, either at a
programmed time or manually, to a time server via the Internet and reset
that often erroneous internal clock.  Just click on the time in the systems
tray, go to Date and Time Properties and click the Internet Time tab.
07. LEAF PEEPER ALERT.  A bit early, but soon the changing colors of autumn
will begin here in the U.S.  For those who like to follow the display,
consider http://www.stormfax.com/foliage.htm for a comprehensive collection
of links and toll-free numbers to each state to determine peak color times.
08. SAVINGS SCRAPS.  Some oldies are worth repeating.  If you're working
with text in, for example, MS Word or WordPad, and would like a handy way
to save a portion for later easy retrieval, just select (highlight) it and
click/drag it to your desktop.  When the newly created icon is clicked on,
it will show the application with which the scrap was created, along with
the first few words of the text.  A double click opens the text in the
application with which it was created.
09. QUICK ACCESS.  To go to a frequently used program, you may find
yourself drilling down to the desktop and searching out the shortcut
icon.  Consider instead setting up a key combination that will provide
quick access without using the shortcut. Right click on the shortcut and
select Properties.  In the Shortcut key window, select any key you can
remember and click OK.  Ctrl+Alt and that key will open the application
whenever needed.
10.  DON'T BELIEVE YOUR EMAIL.  We've been asked about those emails with
virus attachments that appear to be coming from NNT, asking for a
confirmation of a subscription.  Don't believe it, and don't open the
attachments.  Maybe this exchange between NNT and Lyris (our mail manager)
will clear things up:
NNT: Is there anything that can be done about the current strains of virus
that implant on address books and randomly send email asking alleged
subscribers to verify their subscription (when they haven't subscribed at
all)? I've received some of these as well, and I know it's become a
widespread problem with other ezine publishers, creating a lot of ill will
all around.  Is there some configuration that we could change to keep
these from going out except to legitimate subscribers?
Lyris:  Unfortunately, there isn't much we can do about this since it
isn't actually ListManager doing the sending.  The real problem is that
people sometimes will add the "join" address to their address book and
that is what causes the problems.  The best we can do is advise people not
to have their address books set to automatically add any email address
that they send a message to even once.  The main culprit here seems to be
Outlook Express.
WHAT'S COMING NEXT WEEK:  Another batch of Neat Net Tricks in the Premium
issue, including:
*  A great collection of information and free downloads to make your system
more secure.
*  Free software to measure and display your real-time Internet speed.
*  Can you handle still another popup stopper - that's interference free -
and at no cost?
*  An easy-to-use tool to store and arrange all your passwords, user IDs,
and other info.
*  A Microsoft Word tip to easily work around that pesky autocompletion
feature.
*  A whole arsenal of tools to combat spam.
*  Software that provides more than 200 interesting facts about your
computer and displays about your CPU, memory, operating system, and your
computer's power source.
*  Our in-depth article discusses how to best manage our important
passwords and get out of trouble when we -inevitably - forget those passwords.
And more!  If you haven't subscribed yet, you won't find a better source of
useful information for just 42 cents per issue.  That's $10 for a year's
worth - 24 issues - at the NNT Store, http://www.NeatNetTricks.com/store .
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