Quickly Saving E-mail Attachments

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Quickly Saving E-mail Attachments

 

From Lockergnome: Quickly Saving E-mail Attachments

If you are using Outlook or Outlook Express, you can save an attachment by using the Save Attachments command on the File menu. You can also attach a file to an outgoing e-mail by clicking Insert | File Attachment in Outlook Express and Insert | File in Outlook.

Alternately, instead of using the Save Attachments function, you can also click the attachment within the e-mail and drag it onto your desktop or into a specific folder. You can use the same process for attaching files to an outgoing message. Simply click the file you want to attach and drag it into the e-mail. Outlook and Outlook Express will automatically attach the file to your e-mail.

GoVideo VR2940

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GoVideo VR2940

From Gizmodo: GoVideo VR2940: VHS to DVD in One Unit

If you've ever tried to take your old VHS home movies and get them on DVD, you probably know what a pain it can be to hook up that ancient, possibly-functioning VCR to a PC-based video capture device. Once you get it capturing correctly, the fun begins: press play and wait. And wait. GoVideo hopes to change all that with their line of dual-deck DVD recorder + VCRs.

The VR2940 model is particularly cool, combining YesDVD (where it splits your VHS into 'scenes' or 'chapters' for easy selection from the DVD's menu screen­just like the pros) with a hi-fi VCR / DVD+RW.  It also sports CleanCopy, which is supposed to clean up and enhance the picture and audio quality of old VHS tapes. The actual effectiveness of this 'enhancement' is unknown.

The unit also sports a FireWire in for your DV Cam, so you can compose and burn DVDs directly from your camera, as well as Progressive Scan out for those of you who can take advantage of such things. It will not, naturally, work with copy-protected VHS tapes such as those featuring Macrovision, but a little birdie (more like a parrot) tells me Macrovision is more of a 'bump in the road' than actual effective DRM.
Read more about this unit here: GoVideo VR2940 [GoVideo]

Restaurant Bargains on eBay

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Restaurant Bargains on eBay

From: Dummies.com:

Did you know that you can find restaurant deals at eBay? The next time you're going on vacation (or even if you want a cheap night out at home) try searching for restaurant and a city name (including titles and descriptions) and you're likely to come up with bunch of restaurant gift certificates. A simple search for restaurant chicago, for example, returned 57 items, with the biggest savings being $25 in free drinks that had a starting bid of $0.99 and a 50% off coupon in a Mexican restaurant that had a starting bid of $2.00. Even those who shy away from coupons and those restaurant discount booklets will like these auctions. It's almost like you're being paid to eat out!

Restaurants.com is the seller in many of the eBay's dining coupons. Currently, this eBay seller has close to 9,000 restaurant gift certificates for sale. The certificates are wonderful for everyday use and make great gifts, as well!

Archiving Outlook and Outlook Express emails

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Archiving Outlook and Outlook Express emails

Excerpted from Inter-Alia:

Want to archive your Outlook or Outlook Express files so they don't clog up your e-mail program?  Create an empty folder on your computer, or within your CD-R drive -- name it whatever you want. Then navigate to the e-mails you want to archive.  If you want to archive selected e-mails, click CTRL and each e-mail to be archived. If you want to save the whole collection, just press CTRL-A and the entire bunch will be highlighted. Then drag these messages out of your e-mail program and into the folder you created. They will be readable as e-mail messages or as .MSG files. If you are saving them to CD, you can then "write these files to CD."  That's it.

JPEG Viruses

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JPEG Viruses

From Lockergnome:

Reports are growing regarding the flaw in Microsoft?s JPEG parsing software.  Many people have not even heard about it. The flaw is a buffer overrun that allows someone to execute code.  This means that any image you view could contain a virus. Quite a bad problem to have, considering that nearly everyone uses some form of Microsoft product that reads JPEG images.

You can solve by updating your Windows Office programs.  Microsoft makes this VERY easy to do.  Go to this website: http://office.microsoft.com/ProductUpdates/default.aspx
If you have never visited before, it ill ask if it can load some software.  Say yes.
When its done, click on the button: Check for Updates.  Install all updates.  Check again for updates.  install any others that are still needed.  Repeat until no further updates are needed.