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At the time of writing (Thursday 12th) I have just celebrated my 25th birthday and as sit in front of my laptop today I find it genuinely hard to believe that when Click started over 300 articles ago that I was a teenager - Where has the time gone?
To digress I plan on taking everything a little bit more easy today and as a couple of readers have recently contributed some interesting questions and comments I thought I would leave the article predominantly in their hands today!
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With reference to your Herald Express article on copying DVD films I can tell you that last year I downloaded several free programs for backing up CDs and DVDs, although I am unfortunately still saving up for a suitable DVD writer! I thought the websites below would be of interest to your readers as there is a fair amount of information and guidance on the subject:
www.vso-software.fr/dvdvideo.htm ; www.daemon-tools.cc ; www.dvddecrypter.com ; www.dvdshrink.org ; www.doom9.net ; www.dvddemystified.com />
I personally found all these websites of interest and hope that Click readers may be able to get something from them.
Michael Darby, via e-mail
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Currently I have the Symantec Antivirus however this version doesn´t have a spam filter with it. Someone I spoke to suggested Spam Shield 3 but before I download it is there anything you could recommend?
Michele, via e-mail
Whilst I have very little experience of spam filters one thing that strikes me about Spam Shield is that you have to pay for it which is something that I always avoid whenever possible. A reliable free alternative would be a product called Mail Washer which can be downloaded for free by heading to www.mailwasher.net. The program works in the background checking your mail server directly so it doesn´t matter which mail program you use to read your e-mails. It has the ability to accept e-mails from recognised addresses only or to refuse e-mails from known `spammers´. By working slightly more intelligently it can also read the e-mail and attempt to assess whether it is junk or not and you can also view and delete e-mails on the main server before you download them in order to save wasting time downloading junk. Any mail that is deemed to be junk mail can be `bounced´ back to the sender to make it appear that your e-mail address was invalid which would hopefully mean they´ll remove you from their lists.
As an alternative would be to try using the Mozilla ThunderBird e-mail client which has spam protection built in - this can be downloaded free of charge by heading to www.mozilla.com/thunderbird. A more thorough review of this particular application can be found on my Click archive website at www.computerarticles.co.uk />
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It has been a while since you touched the subject of PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) or WAP phones but I still thought it would be worthwhile contributing that any readers with one of these devices may be interested to know that a number of internet pages are specially designed for them. The easiest way to find these sites would be to head to www.google.co.uk/pda or wap.google.com. Users will find using these search engines to find relevant pages a lot more productive trying to navigate conventional larger websites on a device boasting a small screen and typically slower Internet connection.
Ian MacMillan, via e-mail
That´s it for this week. Please do keep your suggestions and comments coming in as I would like to be able to continue keeping this article fresh and interesting well in to my thirties!
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To digress I plan on taking everything a little bit more easy today and as a couple of readers have recently contributed some interesting questions and comments I thought I would leave the article predominantly in their hands today!
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With reference to your Herald Express article on copying DVD films I can tell you that last year I downloaded several free programs for backing up CDs and DVDs, although I am unfortunately still saving up for a suitable DVD writer! I thought the websites below would be of interest to your readers as there is a fair amount of information and guidance on the subject:
www.vso-software.fr/dvdvideo.htm ; www.daemon-tools.cc ; www.dvddecrypter.com ; www.dvdshrink.org ; www.doom9.net ; www.dvddemystified.com
I personally found all these websites of interest and hope that Click readers may be able to get something from them.
Michael Darby, via e-mail
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Currently I have the Symantec Antivirus however this version doesn´t have a spam filter with it. Someone I spoke to suggested Spam Shield 3 but before I download it is there anything you could recommend?
Michele, via e-mail
Whilst I have very little experience of spam filters one thing that strikes me about Spam Shield is that you have to pay for it which is something that I always avoid whenever possible. A reliable free alternative would be a product called Mail Washer which can be downloaded for free by heading to www.mailwasher.net. The program works in the background checking your mail server directly so it doesn´t matter which mail program you use to read your e-mails. It has the ability to accept e-mails from recognised addresses only or to refuse e-mails from known `spammers´. By working slightly more intelligently it can also read the e-mail and attempt to assess whether it is junk or not and you can also view and delete e-mails on the main server before you download them in order to save wasting time downloading junk. Any mail that is deemed to be junk mail can be `bounced´ back to the sender to make it appear that your e-mail address was invalid which would hopefully mean they´ll remove you from their lists.
As an alternative would be to try using the Mozilla ThunderBird e-mail client which has spam protection built in - this can be downloaded free of charge by heading to www.mozilla.com/thunderbird. A more thorough review of this particular application can be found on my Click archive website at www.computerarticles.co.uk
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It has been a while since you touched the subject of PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants) or WAP phones but I still thought it would be worthwhile contributing that any readers with one of these devices may be interested to know that a number of internet pages are specially designed for them. The easiest way to find these sites would be to head to www.google.co.uk/pda or wap.google.com. Users will find using these search engines to find relevant pages a lot more productive trying to navigate conventional larger websites on a device boasting a small screen and typically slower Internet connection.
Ian MacMillan, via e-mail
That´s it for this week. Please do keep your suggestions and comments coming in as I would like to be able to continue keeping this article fresh and interesting well in to my thirties!
Sponsored by Refresh Cartridges
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[ Back to Main Page ]