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In a proportionally spaced font, the letter I is narrower than the letter Q. Most books, magazines, and newspapers use a proportionally spaced font.

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Non-graphics display screens, display text in a monospaced font.

Almost all printers, with the exception of line printers, are able to print with either proportionally spaced or monospaced fonts.

Q. "Alot of websites have opening pages that show a movie-like presentation. I use a 56k modem and it sometimes takes forever to load this stuff. What are my options?"

A. Yep, I know what you mean. These sites are using an animation technology called FLASH.

It's pretty, it's entertaining and it's a LARGE file that's being transmitted to you. It's assumed that you have High Speed Internet Access and that it'll download quickly.

I have added a FLASH presentation as a regular feature to this website. You'll find it below. Check it out. It's really good. Feel free to get a fresh cup of coffee during the 3 minutes it'll take to download. It's 777k in size but it's worth every "k".

And remember that you can "steal" it by right-clicking on the link and choosing "save link as".

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Trading Of Music Online Is Huge
"The online bootleg bonanza isn't limited to music anymore. Anyone with an Internet connection and a little patience can download pirated movies, including first-run films like American Pie 2."

Mean E-mail Lands Law Firm In Trouble
"The mail message said: Can we go for a real fit busty blonde this time? She can't be any more trouble and at least it would provide some entertainment."

Future Of Online Ads
"We're already seeing online ads look more like TV commercials, and that's only going to continue,"

Judicial Net Monitoring Plan Comes To A Head
"The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, in preliminary monitoring of court employees' computer use, detected heavy downloading of music and movies — frankly, adult movies."

Windows XP: A Boon For Home-Networking market?
"For years, technology companies have touted the virtues of home networking, through which people might do everything from starting their ovens via the Net to downloading movies on demand."

It's one thing to click on and read an email. It's another thing to click on an attachment that's included in the email.

If you must play the attachment-opening game, make sure you look closely at file names.

Photos normally have one of the following 3 letter "extensions" after the photo name... JPG or BMP or GIF.

They do not have EXE or VBS at the end.

What might look like a simple picture of Aunt Millie's kittens, CUTE_CALICO.JPG.exe, has the .exe at the end. It's not a picture, and it's not cute! Don't open it!

Also watch out for the .vbs extension. This indicates a Visual Basic script. That's the language in which some viruses operate. Chances are very, very slim that anyone will send you a Visual Basic script innocently.

Viruses are extremely cunning, sometimes using file names from victims' own computers to appear legitimate. If the extension is .exe, .vbs. or something you've never seen before don't open it.

I normally do not open any executable (EXE) attachments unless I'm expecting someone to email me such a computer program. And I'll double check by calling or emailing the sender to confirm that the file is safe to open.

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