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 Posted - December 03 2009 : 14:06:16
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Question: Pam asks, I use Outlook for my email. For some reason now, when I press the email button on my keyboard, the computer starts Outlook Express instead. How come? More importantly, how can we fix it?
Answer: OK, great question. Well, you'll be glad to know that the fix is really easy. Most of the time, an internet or email button on the keyboard will just start the default web browser or email program. Additionally, if someone accidentally happens to start a program like Outlook Express, it will check whether it's the default or not. If it isn't it will ask if it should be the default or not. If you're like me, and you just click "yes" without looking at it very closely, the default program will change, and I think that's what happened here. The problem can be repaired from within Outlook, but the best thing to do is to go to the Control Panel, open Internet Options, click the Programs tab, and where it says Internet Programs, it lists the current default programs for editing web pages, for email, newsgroups, internet calling, calendar, and contacts. Right now, email is probably set to Outlook Express. Choose the programs you want to use from the drop-down lists and click OK to both save the changes and close the window. If you want to try out the changes before you close the window, click the apply button only and then try out your changes.
Cool Site: Pilgrim Hall: Since Thanksgiving was last week, I was curious about some of the Thanksgiving proclamations of our previous presidents, so I went to Google and found pilgrimhall.org. Pilgrim Hall is a museum located in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Their website has the standard stuff you'd expect from a museum's website, but what I was looking for was Thanksgiving proclamations, and I found them. The text of each Presidential Thanksgiving proclamation is available on this site. For example, did you know that while George Washington issued two such proclamations, our second President, John Adams, in 1798 and 1799 issued proclamations calling for a day of "fasting and humiliation"!? Imagine the uproar if a President issued such a proclamation today. They also have the text of the two Thanksgiving proclamations issued by the Continental Congress in 1777 and 1784. I am constantly amazed at the amount of information that's available on the web from the time of our nation's founding. I've got another one we'll look at next week.
Cool Gadget: Splitview Technology: This is being shown at the LA Car Show this week. Sharp developed this technology five years ago, and it's now being included in some Mercedes-Benz cars. The splitview system is an LCD screen that shows one image to the driver and another image to the front seat passenger. In the case of Mercedes-Benz, the driver sees navigation data, while the passenger can watch a movie both on the same screen! This is cool, and it would be illegal to use a regular screen in Texas and maybe some other states because you can't have a DVD movie setup that's visible to the driver while the car is in motion. This is much better and safer, too. I just wish Chrysler had it because I'm a big fan of theirs.
It's All "Geek" To Me: Dither: Here's a word that's gotten a lot of use lately: dither. As it's been heard lately, it means indecisiveness; but this term is used in digital audio and computer graphics as well. In graphics, this word means fooling your eye by using a pattern of just a few colors to approximate more colors. It's a common technique in printing also. Check the link in the show notes which will illustrate this because as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. You've seen this before, but now you'll know what it's called.
Links
Pilgrim Hall:
http://www.pilgrimhall.org
Pilgrim Hall’s listing of Thanksgiving Proclamations:
http://www.pilgrimhall.org/ThanxProc.htm
Splitview in Mecerdes-Benz at Gearlog:
http://www.gearlog.com/2009/12/la_auto_show_mercedes-benz_spl.php#more
Dither at ColorCube:
http://www.colorcube.com/illusions/dither.htm |
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