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Posted - June 02 2010 : 06:35:41
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Question: A listener asks, "How do I remove entries from the 'My Recent Documents' list?"
Answer: Good question. The My Recent Documents list is a menu item on the start button of Windows XP. In Vista and Windows 7 it's called Recent Items, but Windows 7 doesn't show it by default. The entries you find on that list are just shortcuts to the files they represent. If you delete one, you don’t delete the file it pointed to. On the other hand, if you've already deleted the file, there's no point in having a shortcut to it anymore. So, click the start button and point to the My Recent Documents (or Recent Items) list. When it opens, click your right mouse button on the shortcut you want to get rid of and choose Delete. It's really that simple. On the other hand, if you want to empty the list altogether, then go to the show notes for today and we'll have a link there to an article over at Microsoft's website that tells you how to do just that.
Cool Site: Rational Christianity: If you have questions, your pastor should always be your first stop, but if he's unavailable, or if you're the pastor, check out this site. It's a good place to go when you get a question you're not sure how to deal with. At Rational Christianity dot Net, you'll find answers to about 200 questions that answer objections to Christianity, the resolutions of many supposed contradictions, reasons to believe, and other answers for skeptics. In stark contrast to most of the websites out there, this site's design is very simple and seems to be modeled on Google. No graphics, minimal text on the main page. There's a search box, but I found it more useful to just browse the articles. All the articles I read had a list of links at the bottom for more information and expansions of the views expressed there. As an example, one article called "Who are the sons of God and the Nephilim?" showed three different views (I only knew of two), the pros and cons of them and an assessment of their strength. This article had links at the bottom that point to more information by people who argue for the various interpretations.
Cool Gadget: Smartti ION AC Charger: This week's gadget is for anyone who's ever run out of battery power in the middle of a phone call. We have the Smartti ION AC Charger. It is a credit card-size ultra slim power bank (USB type). 5V. It's designed to provide high-quality, power-on-the-go, backup power for your iPhones, iPods, cell-phones and all devices with 5V or less. The iON features a Li-ion rechargeable internal battery cell, built-in standard USB input for recharge, standard USB output (included), standard barrel connector (included), iphone/ipod connector TIP (included), soft carrying case (included) and power-level indicator. It runs about $30, but is worth a whole lot more than that when your battery gets low. This is a Dad's day gadget he can really use.
It's All "Geek" To Me: POP3: This week's term is POP3. With Father's Day coming up, POP's a good one, but this one is an acronym. POP3 stands for Post Office Protocol version 3. It's the language your email program uses to go out and get your email and deliver it to you if you use a program like Outlook Express to get your email. If you read your email with Internet Explorer or Firefox or some other web browser, you are using webmail, not POP3. While there are pros and cons to both methods, what happens is that your email comes into your Internet Provider's mail server, and the POP3 server takes that mail and puts it into your mailbox. Later, you start Outlook and it goes out to the mailbox and gets your mail so you can read it, and that process is called POP3.
Links
Clearing the 'My Recent Documents' list:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307875
Rational Christianity:
http://www.rationalchristianity.net/
Smartti iON AC Charger at VirTech:
http://www.virtech.ca/detailProduct.php?str=SM-19CHARGER¤cy=USD
POP3 on Techterms:
http://www.techterms.com/definition/pop3 |
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