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I've got a NAS
Gordon Woolf decided to
buy a NAS when he saw one for sale among the groceries at a
supermarket. He has found it useful, and it actually cost less than the
hard drive which was inside it. But what is a NAS?
Phones may not hurt you, but
shopping might
Gordon Woolf finds good
news for those wanting to use cell phones in hospitals but danger
lurking in shops for those with pacemakers and such devices
How does email work?
Gordon Woolf sees it as
surprising that email works as well as it does, but we should be aware
of some of the potential problems. For a while I thought of dropping
the word "how" and asking "does email work?" The 174kb zip file
includes two tif file illustrations.
Sending large files
When it is big, and it
really has to be there fast, email is not the answer. Here Gordon Woolf
reviews some of the options. The 294kb zip file includes the tif files
for which captions only appear in the other versions.
Dirty words
Gordon Woolf looks at
the dirty deeds upsetting the smooth flow of email. This isn't really
about that offal of the Internet: spam. It is about ordinary messages
from ordinary people which aren't getting to their destination because
of spam and the administrators and ISP managers trying to stop it.
What might have
been
Looking back at what
might have been, to mark 20 years of Desktop Publishing. This is a 12kb
text file. (Illustrations are available on request)
How long do CDs
last?
When you backup files to
CD, can you expect that backup to last 200 years, 200 months, 20
months, or will you be able to read it tomorrow? This article was
described by the computer columnist of the daily Guardian newspaper in
the UK as "a good summary of the situation" when he pointed to it in
his November 20, 2003, column (see http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/askjack/story/0,12196,1088436,00.html).
Uses for old CDs
What can you do with
them? Here an Internet discussion led to some good ideas. This is a 4kb
text file.
Picture files for print
Need to advise
contributors or advertisers on how to submit picture files. Here is a
suggested text file to send them. This is a 5kb text file.
Acrobat in a newsletter/newspaper
workflow
This explains how to use
Acrobat 4 with control over screen resolution for publications where
the required screen is different from the laser printer default.
Make the Web work for You
Selling on-line
in a changing world
Ten Ways to Ensure your Web Page is
a Failure
Web Attack
There are lots of
designers around offering flashy web sites. But what if you just want
one that works and brings in business. This is a 16kb file. The second
story tells how shopping carts work. The third has
some helpful hints on what NOT to do -- all based on real life
examples, though the identity of the guilty small businesses have been
hidden. In the fourth, Gordon Woolf found his
website had been fighting off raiders even as he slept. This isn't a
tale of a major denial of service by hackers, just the kind of thing
that happens to every webmaster almost every day.
Using a Web Page for File Transfer
There can be problems with sending large
files as email attachments. If you have a web site, there is a much
easier way... This is a 4kb file.
Is there really a PageMaker 7?
The Contenders:
which DTP program for you?
Ready,Set,Go!
Photoshop Elements
The first story is a review of the PageMaker
program, version 7.
The Contenders: which DTP program for you?
is a very brief guide to most of the DTP programs available,
including sources for more information.).
Then there's a review of a DTP program which
is new for PCs but which has been around as long as desktop publishing
itself: Ready,Set,Go!
The fourth is a review of Photoshop Elements
2 which is now a little old but it may help with some ideas.
Wake in Fright
Why doesn't the switch
actually turn off your computer, tv or video any more?
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