They never give up, do they?

Here's yet another attempt to get one to give away personal information. Thanks to the ALERT READER who sent this one in. This is supposedly from AT&T.

Remember:
1. You will NEVER be asked to give this kind of information in an unsolicited email. Period.
2. Always, always be suspicious when they append odd "proof" of legitimacy- here, an outsized logo copied from some website somewhere and, very odd, a photo of an exterior sign on a building. Hmmmm... what does THAT prove?
3. All due respect to people who are English as a Second Language learners or persons with print related disabilities- we should STILL be suspicious of supposedly "official" emails that contain grammatical, punctuation, capitalization, or spelling errors. Can you spot the errors below that could clue you in?
4. My (somewhat sarcastic) additional observations are added below in RED.

From: AT&T Account Verification Service <j_fogg@sbcglobal.net> [HA- this looks EXACTLY LIKE an official email, doesn't it? (That was sarcasm.)]
Sent: Wed, September 28, 2011 1:57:48 PM
Subject: Warning !!!

[Now, you may be able to see that this is a relatively poor copy/paste job stolen from some website somewhere. My program shows a white border on the far right. A "real" logo wouldn't be so achingly large... nor have a random white border...] AT&T has discovered series of illegal attempts on your Account from a bad IP Location and will shut your account as it has been flagged as a spam account. You are to fill the form below by clicking on the reply-to button on your page, Filling the Correct Information Carefully and Send to att.net Mail Alert Center: [Oops- anyone notice...they forgot to actually give us an att.net Mail Alert Center email address to send this to? Gosh!] Full Name: ..................... User Name: ..................... Password:..................... Date Of Birth: ..................... Country: ..................... This is for your own safety to avoid account termination. Our automated server will keep your details on file as upgraded for the continue using of our service.After following the instructions in the sheet, your account will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Warning!!! Account owner that fails to verify his/her account after two weeks of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.Thanks for your attention to this request. We apologize for any inconvenience.. Sincerely,

 [This one made me smile. The exterior sign on a building during a ticker-tape parade?? Doesn't make you feel really confident in the authenticity of this email, huh?]

This little Underlined Letters?

In many programs, I notice that certain letters in the toolbar words or drop-down menus are underlined. Why is that?

These are keyboard shortcuts using the Alt key. For Instance, if the word File in the toolbar had a line under the letter F, then I could hold down Alt key and TAP the F to open the File menu.

In shorthand, you will see that written as ALT+F


Now, it doesn’t stop there. Once inside the menu, you can use the keyboard to select any of the features listed using the underlined key. Actually, in the image above, the D key needed to be pressed twice. The first time, it went to Export as PDF.
You can go anywhere just by typing the underlined letters with your keyboard. Just follow the dotted line.

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Article printed from Free Computer Help – Worldstart.com: http://www.worldstart.com
URL to article: http://www.worldstart.com/underlined-letters-in-toolbars/

Open Links in New Tabs with One Click

Posted By Karen Powers Liebhaber On September 13, 2011 @ 1:09 PM In Free Downloads,Using The Internet 

Have you ever had a list of links you wanted to open all at one time? If you’re like me, you’re always right-clicking, choosing “Open in a new tab,” moving to the next link, right-clicking, choosing “Open in a new window,” moving to the next link–oops! Darn, I chose window instead of tab–closing the window, going back, right-clicking, clicking on “Open in a new window,” moving to the–d’oh! I did it again!– Going back, right-clicking…. It gets pretty tiresome, especially when you have 2,497,685 Google search results to dig through.

Well, I have a fab solution for you. First, ditch Internet Explorer and get Firefox ^[1]. Enough said. Second, install a Firefox add-on named Multi Links ^[1] by Grizzly Ape. You’ll love how easy it opens all of your links into new tabs by simply right-clicking and dragging. 

Here’s how it works:
1. Access a page on the internet on which you want to open more than one link. I’m using a list of search results to demonstrate below, but you may use this feature on any webpage with multiple links. The only caveat is that the links must be next to each other.
2. When you’ve accessed the page, right-click–don’t let it go!–and drag your cursor over the list of links you want to open. Notice the picture below.

- The green dotted line indicates the area you are covering.
– The red boxes indicate links that will be opened when you let off of the mouse button.

3. After you have selected all of the links you want to open–and note, you can’t choose just some links and omit others–let go of your mouse button. The links will all open in new tabs of the current window, as shown in the image below.

That’s it! Now your links are all open in one window and available for you to view.

 

Can I hide a folder in Windows?

I wont' ask why you would want to hide a folder, but according to an article on the "WorldStart.com" website, you have a couple of options.

a. Windows doesn't really let you lock a folder. BUT it does let you HIDE a folder. This link tells you how: http://www.worldstart.com/finding-hidden-folders/

b. Then, there's a free program called My Lockbox, which allows users to hide and lock any single folder on their machine. Of course, you can move multiple items or folders into the protected folder. To use this program, first you have to download it from http://fspro.net/my-lockbox/ . There's a good Quick Start guide there, too.

Following a straightforward installation, set the password. Remember this password, as it is unrecoverable. If you forget the password, the the software is unusable and any items you have put into the locked folder are forever locked. Plus, the program also can’t be uninstalled without a password. So, DO NOT forget your password.

The free version allows one folder to be "locked." There is a paid version allowing unlimited folders.  I've worked around this limit by putting all the items I want locked into the single folder...even folder within a folder will work.

What to do with Long Links

The other day, I found a great article on the web. I copied the URL (uniform resource locator, or that little "address" that always starts with http://www...) and saw that, wow, it was nearly EIGHTY characters long! And, many of those characters were odd ones!

Now, I am confident that the internet can "find" that address, but less confident that it is "user friendly." What can one do?

Here are a couple of options. They are called "link shorteners." They... shorten the link! Here's how it works.

1. You copy the URL from the website you want.

2. On a separate tab in your browser, go to one of these:

• www.tinyurl.com
• bitly.com/
• http://goo.gl/
• tiny.cc/

Each of these are basically the same concept. Some ask you to "sign up," but most also offer the service without that. For all of them, you paste the "long" link into a dialogue box, click, and voila, you have a short link to use instead!

Then, copy and paste the short link where ever you need it.

For one thing, this helps with adding links to documents or business cards!