Tip O'Tex Computer Club
June Newsletter
Pick Up E-Mail While Traveling
In the past, I've been using e-mailanywhere.com to pick up mail when I'm using someone else's computer. Now I've found a new site - one that doesn't have any pop-ups, and that's important. The new site is www.mail2web.com
Like the previous one, you just enter your full e-mail address and password, then click Check Mail and it takes you right there. Once you're signed in, you can read your mail, delete mail, reply to mail and create new messages.
When you're at home, on your own computer, or traveling with your laptop, you can just use your Outlook Express, or whatever mail program you're using. But at times, like you're visiting friends and family or need to check your mail at a library or other public facility, you need to pick up your mail and delete unwanted mail, in order to keep the number of mails down to a believable total for when you get home.
Some Quick Tricks
Every once in a while one of your windows opens up way too large - then you can't see all of it, and at times can't see the X to close it in the upper right corner. Nor can you see the single square up there that would make it "full size." Want to make it full size quickly? Just doubleclick on the title bar. Doubleclick again and it will be the adjustable size. Saves time any time, too - you don't have to get the mouse right on those little squares between the _ and the X.
Want to get to your Desktop really quick? It's a keyboard shortcut - Windows Key + d And for a quick trip to a Windows Explorer screen, try Windows Key + e
Want to close screens and/or programs quickly, without having to find the X in the upper right corner, or go thru the File> Exit bit? Just hold the ALT key and hit the F4 key, and it will close whatever program is "on top." When all programs are closed, one more ALT+F4 will close Windows. Pretty handy.
Need Help From A Pro?
Want to be able to ask some questions of a pro? Or read what others may have already asked regarding a problem you're having? Try That Computer Guy at http://www.thatcomputerguy.us/forums/index.php Scroll down thru the subjects and pick the area that best suits your particular problem. Or you can click on the Search button and put in your own keywords.
Some of the best things about that site is that there are no spyware cookies - no malware - no pop-ups. How often do you run across a web page that doesn't use one of those obnoxious features? Something else I really like is that you don't have to try to learn everything there is about your computer in order to get help. You just have to be able to search for your problem. Describe it as best you can and chances are that you'll find help, without having to scroll down thru a bunch of ads, as there are NONE. I subscribe to several techie newsletters and find the ads make it not worth the reading. Now that I've found That Computer Guy, I'll probably unsubscribe to most of them.
