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Welcome to this week's edition of the Computer Kindergarten Newsletter.
Today is Sunday, July 19, 2009
In this Issue:
Special Feature: Don’t Get Hooked by a Phishing Scam
Tips & Tricks: Email: Add a Sender to the Address Book
This Week's Topic: The Difference Between Save and Save As
Question: Creating Program Shortcuts
Websites of Interest: Hotelicopter; All Cars Electric; BrainBashers!; Send a Fax for Free; Fifteen Ways to Save Money Online: 13. Free Music Downloads
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Special Feature: Don’t Get Hooked by a Phishing Scam
The following is from OnGuard Online: Your Safety Net
http://www.onguardonline.gov
Phishing is a scam where Internet fraudsters send spam or pop-up messages to lure personal and financial information from unsuspecting victims. To avoid getting hooked:
Don't reply to email or pop-up messages that ask for personal or financial information, and don't click on links in the message. Don't cut and paste a link from the message into your Web browser — phishers can make links look like they go one place, but that actually send you to a different site.
Some scammers send an email that appears to be from a legitimate business and ask you to call a phone number to update your account or access a "refund." Because they use Voice over Internet Protocol technology, the area code you call does not reflect where the scammers really are. If you need to reach an organization you do business with, call the number on your financial statements or on the back of your credit card.
Use anti-virus and anti-spyware software, as well as a firewall, and update them all regularly.
Don't email personal or financial information.
Review credit card and bank account statements as soon as you receive them to check for unauthorized charges.
Be cautious about opening any attachment or downloading any files from emails you receive, regardless of who sent them.
Forward phishing emails to spam@uce.gov – and to the company, bank, or organization impersonated in the phishing email. You also may report phishing email to reportphishing@antiphishing.org. The Anti-Phishing Working Group, a consortium of ISPs, security vendors, financial institutions and law enforcement agencies, uses these reports to fight phishing.
If you've been scammed, visit the Federal Trade Commission's Identity Theft website at ftc.gov/idtheft.
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Tips & Tricks: Email: Add a Sender to the Address Book
Follow these steps to add the sender of an email to your address book:
Outlook Express
Click on the email in the list of your emails. That will select it.
Click Tools on the menu and then click Add Sender to Address Book.
This will put the sender’s email address in your Outlook Express address book. If the sender’s email includes his or her name, that will appear, too.
If you want to edit the entry, open the Address book, select the sender and add any additional information.
Yahoo
Open an email from the sender you would like add to your Contacts.
At the top of the email, you will see From and the sender’s email address. To the immediate right of the address is a small icon that looks like an address card. Point to it; it says, Add send to Contacts.
Click on it. This will open the Add to Address Book screen where you can type in details about the sender. Click the Add to Address Book button when you are done.
MSN Hotmail
Open a message from the sender you want to add.
Click the Save Address button.
Type in any details you want about the sender.
Click OK.
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Today's Topic: The Difference Between Save and Save As
When you create a brand new document and click on File on the menu and then Save, you will be presented with the "Save As" dialog box because Word wants to know two things, Where do you want to save it? And, What do you want to name it?
In a typical Save, you'll usually just answer the second question; that’s the file name. If you want to save the file to, say, an external drive, you’ll change the answer to the first question. Click the Save button and you’re done.
After you have saved your file once, clicking on that same series of commands no longer gives you these choices. Why? Because Windows assumes you do not want to change the choices you made. Windows assumes you simply want to update the original copy by overwriting it with this new version of the same file. If you click File, Save again, your program will not even show you the Save dialog box after the first save.
Here’s where Save As comes in. If, in fact, you DO want to either put a copy in a new location, or create a new copy with a new name, you must go to the File menu and choose Save As. That will then display the Save dialog box, which you need to change the file name or location information.
Windows will not allow you to have two files with the exact same name in the same folder, so when you save a file to a location where that file already exists, Windows will replace the existing file with your new one. So, if you do not want to overwrite the existing file, but instead want to create another copy with a different name or in a different location or as a different file type, you must go to the File menu and choose Save As.
When you choose File then Save As, you can use the dropdown box at the top of the Save As dialog box, which says Save In, to select the location where you want to put your new copy. You can also change the name of your new copy in the File name box and save it either in a new location or in the same location as the original (because this new copy now has a different name).
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Question: Creating Program Shortcuts
I would like to create an icon on the desktop for a few of the programs I use most often. How can I do this?
Answer:
You can create a shortcut to the program. Shortcuts are pointers to programs and files on your computer. They have a little arrow in the lower left hand corner of the icon (called a jump arrow). A shortcut can be placed anywhere on your system. The most common places to place shortcuts are on the desktop.
The easiest way to create a shortcut to a program is as follows:
Open the Start menu, click on Programs and locate the program you want.
Point to the program with the mouse pointer and press and hold the right mouse button.
Drag the mouse to a blank spot on the desktop.
A menu will open; click Copy Here.
You will now have an icon on your desktop for that program.
If you would like to change the name of the icon, right click on it and then left click Rename. Type in the new name and press the Enter key.
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Websites of Interest:
Hotelicopter
Compares pricing and availability for travel and hotels.
http://hotelicopter.com/
All Cars Electric
news, reviews, photos, and much more information about electric cars.
http://www.allcarselectric.com/
BrainBashers!
A large collection of brain teasers, puzzles, riddles, games and optical illusions.
http://brainbashers.com/
Send a Fax for Free
MyFax - This site lets you send free faxes to 41 countries worldwide.
http://www.myfax.com/free/sendfax.aspx
GotFreeFax - Online service that lets anyone send free fax to Canada, US (48 states) and Hawaii. Unlike other similar services, it does not insert any ads into your fax.
http://www.gotfreefax.com/
Fifteen Ways to Save Money Online: 13. Free Music Downloads
From Wendy Boswell of about.com
No matter what your financial situation may be, it is always a good idea to learn new ways to save money. Find out how you can utilize the power of the Web to save money, find good deals, and improve your financial status.
13. Free Music Downloads
Free music downloads on the Web really does exist; as long as you're willing to listen to music other than what's on the radio and top 40 (for the most part). Here are a few places on the Web where you can find free music downloads:
http://www.pandora.com/
http://www.archive.org/details/audio
http://nutsie.com/
http://www.amclassical.com/
http://www.jazzpromo.com/
Tip: Some websites may require you to register to use their features. When you register at websites, you may be signing up for spam (junk mail) if the recipient sells email addresses to spammers. There is a way to avoid this and still be able to take advantage of the great things that site has to offer. Read our article, Minimizing Spam – Registering Online, at our newsletter archives, to learn how use websites without getting junk mail.
http://computerkindergarten.com/html/111608.html
Next Edition: Read Free eBooks
Please visit our newsletter archives for previous articles in our Fifteen Ways to Save Money Online series:
http://computerkindergarten.com/html/savemoney.html
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