Tire pressure caps

Easily tell when your tires need air through color-coded caps attach easily to your tire valves. Reduce fuel consumption, add to tire life, and improve traction for accident prevention.  Screws on easily. 32 psi for cars is available for $7.98 and 36 psi for vans/SUVs for $7.98 as well from harrietcarter.com.

Tire pressure caps help save fuel and drive safer

How do I add a signature with a picture to my emails?

Summary: The ability to add a signature to email depends on the email program you use. Whether or not you can include an image also depends on that program.

How can I add a picture to my signature when I send out e-mails? I want it to be like a business card with my picture & signature at the bottom of the e-mail.

First, we have to realize exactly what a signature is: it's nothing more than some additional content automatically added by your email program to the bottom of the body of an email when you send it.

Which in turn means that there is no single answer to your question, since signatures are a feature of your email program, and how you do it will depend entirely on which email program you're using.

So we'll look at it at a high level, and hopefully that'll point you in the right direction for whatever program that might be.

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First, if you want to insert pictures in the body of your email (and remember, the signature is just a part of the message body), then you need to be composing your email in HTML.

• Outlook 2007 - compose a new message, and then in the Options tab of the ribbon, make sure that HTML is selected.

• Outlook Express and Windows Live Mail - compose a new message, and then in the Format menu select Rich Text (HTML)

• Thunderbird - if your default format is not HTML, then hold down the Shift key when clicking on the Write button.

• Windows Live Hotmail - compose a new message, and if Plain Text appears above the From: line, click on that and select Rich Text.

"... signatures are a feature of your email program ..."

So now that you know how to create a message in HTML format, we need to back up a step and set up a signature.

• Outlook 2007 - Tools, Options, Mail Format, Signatures... opens a dialog that will allow you to add and edit signatures. In particular, Outlook provides a rich text editor that will allow you to, among other things, insert pictures directly into your signature.

• Outlook Express and Windows Live Mail - Tools, Options and then the Signatures tab. Click on New, and then below, you can edit your signature. The signature editing capability in Windows Live Mail appears to be only text. However, it will let you reference a file. If that file is a ".html" file, it can contain HTML referencing a picture by a fully qualified URL, stored out on the internet.

• Thunderbird - Tools, Account Settings, then click on the account for which you would like to set a signature. On the right will be a checkbox Attach this signature: which lets it point to a text file containing the signature you want. If that file is a ".html" file, it can contain HTML referencing a picture by a fully qualified URL, stored out on the internet.

• Windows Live Hotmail - Options (near the upper right), More Options, and then click on Personal e-mail signature. Windows Live Hotmail will allow you to create a Rich Text signature but it does not appear to support inserting a picture.

Since we've gotten this far, let's look at one little detail that pops up a time or two, and that's this "HTML" file that can reference a picture up on the internet. This turns into a three-step process:

1. Upload the picture you want to use to a location on the internet. A photo sharing site, your own web site, anything where the picture can be publicly accessed by a URL. For example, I could use my masthead, since it's available publicly as http://ask-leo.com/images/askleonew.png

2. Create a text file containing your signature, and referencing that image, encoded as a ".html" file. For example

   <p>Leo A. Notenboom<br />
   <img src="http://ask-leo.com/images/askleonew.png" /></p>

   Would create a signature that looks like this:

   Leo A. Notenboom
   

3. Use that ".html" file in those email programs.

Now, it is possible to create that ".html" file in web authoring tools, but they tend to add a lot of HTML that you don't need, and frequently assume that you're creating an entire page instead of just an HTML fragment. But they can be a place to start. After which, you might hand-edit the resulting HTML in a text editor like Notepad.

Finally, be aware that people may not be able to see your picture unless they have pictures enabled in the program they use to read email.

The bottom line is that, as we've seen, different email programs expose different levels of functionality, and in different ways. What you're able to do, and how, will vary depending on exactly what tools you're using, and possibly your own level of technical comfort. Hopefully, with these few simple examples you'll be able to determine your own specific steps.

How do I add a signature with a picture to my emails? - Ask Leo!

Identify your memory without cracking the case

256mb of memory is not enough for anything nowadays.

You should but that rig up to at least 1gb. Memory is cheap just go to this link and you will be able to scan your memory and get all sorts of useful facts and prices. Crucial makes your life easier by telling you how much memory your system can max out at and what type it needs and best of all how much its going to cost you.

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Monitor Power

by Loyd Case

Q. I want to encourage members of my staff to turn off their monitors overnight. How much money do we waste by leaving a monitor on for 16 hours?—Jane Ford

Power consumption seems to be on everyone's minds these days. As the cost of energy rises, there's a natural desire to want to save money by minimizing energy costs. But the answer to your question isn't as straightforward as it seems. For example, are you running CRT displays or LCDs? CRTs use more power when operating than LCDs do, but use slightly less power at idle (according to a power-management study conducted by Microsoft).

Some people have the absurd notion that using a screen saver will reduce power. That's simply not true. Even a screen saver that puts up a black screen results in no power decrease whatsoever. In fact, some 3D-intensive screen savers, while very pretty, may draw even more power, since they're using the 3D graphics card to render those colorful pixels.

Consequently, you want power management to shut down the display before any screen saver kicks in—or just turn off that screen saver and use your operating system's power management to shut down the monitor. A typical 35-watt LCD will use about 2.5 watts per hour while idle.

Of course, if you have 500 displays, all drawing 2.5 watts per hour, that's around 20,000 watts per night. There's no downside to turning a display off, so if you have a lot of displays, turning them off manually at night is probably a good idea.

Monitor Power - Solutions by PC Magazine

Diplodocs - Read the Manual Before You Buy

From Appscout:

How often have you purchased a device or product, only to get home and discover that setup and configuration is so complicated that it'll take days to finish? Some manufacturers and product designers engineer their products to be easy to use and simple to set up, but that's certainly not always the case; and other times, the owner manual is absolutely no help and you're on your own.

If you find yourself stuck in this kind of situation, check at Diplodocs. You can find over a million user manuals in 26 different languages for a wide variety of products, from computer equipment to sewing machines. You can therefore check out the user manual before you buy, and make sure the product you're interested in is as easy to use as the commercials say it is.

Diplodocs is free, so if you're looking for a manual to show you how to thread your mom's old sewing machine, you don't have to pay some obscure service to go research it, scan it, and e-mail the PDF to you. The beauty of Diplodocs is that it serves as both a reference utility for products and services that you already own and a resource for you to check out the owner's manual of products you'd like to buy before you drop the cash on them.

One of the major benefits to a service like Diplodocs is that you can check product manuals to see if the manual would be helpful when it comes to set up or configure a device, and whether the setup is complicated. You can also use the product manuals of competing products to judge for yourself if one device is significantly more difficult to set up and use than another, which helps you make an educated buying decision before you actually go and purchase the product. Similarly, the service lets people who have inherited a used item or who have lost their owners manual search the site and print out a replacement copy for free.

Simply search for the brand or product name, or pull down the brand and product menus to select specifically which device or product you're looking for. Once the site has found the manual you're looking for, you can preview the first three pages to make sure it's the right manual before downloading. You can download manuals in PDF format after filling in a captcha. All of the 1.2 million manuals that the service supports are free to download.

Diplodocs is completely user-supported, so the site encourages you to scan and upload your own user and product manuals to help the library grow. You can even create an account with the service to upload your manuals and refer back to them if you ever need them. This way the service can work as both a shared service and online storage for digital copies of your own manuals.

Diplodocs: Read the Manual Before You Buy - AppScout