Jerry's Tips

Last Update: 12/17/03

*Click on the full screen button on the upper right of this page (looks like a coffee cup) before you begin. Makes the page a lot shorter. Someone told me this week the tips are too long to read all the way through.   Maybe this will help :-)

Some interesting sites:

http://www.census.gov/

Pick a subject it is probably here:
http://www.census.gov/main/www/subjects.html

If your sense of humor is low don't surf this site. Go to this site and
adopt a favorite computer pet. Find a pet you can love
but don't have to feed:
http://www.pfmagic.com/dogz

Adopt a catz or a oddballz digital weirdo pet
http://www.catz.com/

News, funny pages, regional and local news ..... check it out ....
http://www.crayon.net/
Build your own customized newspaper .... check it, check it, check it
......it only takes a few minutes to build your own. It is much better than
it sounds. If you don't want to build one, then you are welcome to read
mine it's not password protected.    I see this as a potential research
site with your research materials presented to you each day based on what
you have selected as topics and from which newspapers, comic strips,
whatever you want. It is automatically brought up to date each day drawing
from current news contained on the web. If you are a librarian, author or
a student doing research, be sure you examine this site in detail. It
doesn't look like much at first glance ... but stay with it until you build
a paper and you will see what I mean.

Read about the geology of the BIG BEND of Texas
http://mahogany.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/GEO/BIGBENDgeology.html

Links to University Libraries:

http://www.geology.wisc.edu/library/university.html

Astronomy Picture of the day archive:

If you like to change your wallpaper in Win95 often you might like some of
these pictures .
Just point to the picture you like, click the right mouse button, save to
windows as a bmp file, then set as wallpaper
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

Subject: Speaking of sound (an appended tip)

You have external speakers, right. You should be hearing a loud ring
through your external speakers when your mail arrives. If you are not
hearing any sound (and want to) then check the following:
(1) See that the speakers are plugged in to the proper place in the back
of the sound card.
(2) Speakers have to be turned on at the speakers on some units. Some
have more than one switch. Especially those that use batteries. Don't do
like me and forget to turn off any battery powered ones when you are
through using them. The next day you will have to buy another set. I
guess batteries are getting more difficult to build, their prices seem to
go up real often.
(3) In Win95 click on the volume icon on the task bar, set the volume at
about 1/2 to 2/3 setting if you want to hear for some distance.
---------- appendage ----------
Still not getting any sound, after checking all the settings I have already
mentioned?
I am going to keep giving you places to look until you get the sound turned
on ...
(4) From the Internet Explorer mail, select mail, options, read, see if sound
is checked.

If all of the above is done then proceed to next step.

(5) Click on Start button, settings, open control panel, sound, scroll down
and highlight New Mail Notification -- name box should read c:\windows\chimes.wav,
click on Play button next to the preview box ... you should hear a chimes.wav
sound.     If you see none in the name box that may be your problem. Click
on Browse and search for the chimes.wav and select it and be sure to click
OK.   Still no sound? DO YOU HAVE SPEAKERS HOOKED UP TO
CORRECT HOLE IN CARD!!!!! Any other ideas?
(6) Yes, go to Bryan's Computer shop and have Chuck to install a new
sound card. Quit wasting time with all this technical stuff   :-)
(7) I may give you some more tips sometime about this .... we have only begun
to check all the places where the problem could be.

Are you still trying to find out where you have been
on the WWW?

Well, by now you have found out how to locate places you have been to on
the WWW ... if not, click on Go in the Eastland Internet Explorer, look at a
few of the places listed, then click on History Folder to get all the
details of where, when, and what time you surfed the web... well as you can
tell the surf is up, better get going.... tell Bryan that Cowboy Jerry sent
you in to buy another computer, one of the 200 MHz should do.

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