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Greetings from Polar's E-Connections Team
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Surfer
Beware - Guard Against Online Scams This
Online scams tend to rise
during the holiday season as criminals take advantage of people being busier
and in a more festive, trusting mood. Two areas of particular concern are
fraudulent holiday e-cards and phony e-commerce sites.
Keep in mind that a wholesome-looking e-card, once clicked or downloaded, might
actually be a spyware installer or a computer virus. The holiday greeting could
also be a phishing attack intent on obtaining your
Social Security number, credit card data, or brokerage account information. To
help avoid e-card troubles, take the same precautions as with any e-mail you
receive:
- Never download or click on anything from any unknown
source.
- Use a firewall.
- Use antivirus and antispyware software and keep it up
to date.
- Don't accept an end-user agreement without reading the
fine print first.
When doing
holiday shopping online, help protect yourself with these guidelines:
- Purchase items through well-known retailers you can
contact via phone if necessary.
- Check for a small lock icon at the bottom corner of
your browser window when making a purchase. This indicates a secure
transaction.
- Check bank and credit card statements frequently for
suspicious transactions.
- Do not click on links to websites embedded in e-mails.
These links can direct you to phony e-commerce sites.
LAST
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Ask
The Help Desk - Why
Are My Most Recent E-mail Messages Not Listed First?
Question: My Outlook Express normally
lists the e-mail messages in my inbox in descending order from the most current
to the oldest. Now, however, the e-mail messages in my inbox are listed in
alphabetical order rather than by the date I received them. This is frustrating
because now I have to scroll through my entire list of e-mail messages in order
to find the most recent unread messages. What is going on?
Answer: Normally, Outlook Express as well as other e-mail software
programs sort both incoming and sent e-mail messages
by date. The most recently received e-mails are listed at the top of your
"Inbox" message pane. The most recently sent e-mails are listed at
the top of your "Sent Items" pane. It appears that you may have
inadvertently clicked on the "Subject" column located along the top
of your list of messages causing them to be sorted alphabetically by subject
rather than by date. If you look to the right of the word "Subject,"
you will see a small arrow pointing either up or down indicating that the
message list is sorted by subject. If this is the case, simply click your
cursor arrow on the "Received" column. Your e-mail messages will now
be listed in chronological order with the newest shown at the top and the
oldest at the bottom. The little arrow should now be next to the word
"Received" instead of "Subject." This works with messages
in your "Sent Items" folder, too. Click on the "Sent"
column to sort by the date sent. Actually, you can sort messages in any folder
simply by clicking on its column heading; you can reverse the order by clicking
on the heading a second time. This can be a handy feature as long as it's
something you intended to do.
Great
Sites To Check Out This Month
Funny Honey
http://www.beemovie.com - Everybody's buzzing about Bee Movie, an
animated comedy created by Jerry Seinfeld that flies into theaters this month.
Seinfeld provides the voice for a bee that's recently graduated from college
and ventures outside the hive for the first time, meeting Vanessa the florist
(Renée Zellweger). Visit the site to watch the clever
trailers and TV spots, and to download recipes from the National Honey Board. Rated PG.
Medicine Cabinet Makeover
http://www.webmd.com/video/medicine-cabinet-makeover -
Recent news reports about the risks of cold medicines for children under six
serve as reminders to be mindful of what's in our medicine cabinet. WebMD
includes a Medicine Cabinet Makeover video on their site, which walks you
through the drug store shelves to help you stock the right over-the-counter
remedies. You'll also find safety guidelines for kids and medicine — just in
time for cold and flu season.
Organize Your Stuff
http://www.mythings.com - Before you get new stuff this holiday season, get a
better handle on the stuff you already own. MyThings
is a global online registry to help you organize and manage your belongings.
You create a list of items on your MyThings
Portfolio, then the site will give you free valuation
and market estimator services, help you find warranties and owners manuals, and
even simplify the process of selling, recycling, or donating items you no longer
want.
Talking Turkey
http://www.eatturkey.com/consumer/thanks.html - Whether it's your first year hosting Thanksgiving
dinner or you're looking for fresh ideas, check out this site. It covers all
things turkey including purchasing, thawing, preparing, seasoning, roasting,
frying, smoking, grilling, stuffing, carving, and storing. And since man cannot
live on turkey alone, recipes for appetizers, side dishes, and desserts are
also on the menu.
America's Walking
http://www.pbs.org/americaswalking/index.html -
To get fit, sometimes you just need to put one foot in front of the other. America's
Walking is a new fitness, travel, and lifestyle series premiering on PBS
stations nationwide. It's hosted by Mark Fenton, a leading expert on walking
and pedestrian issues, and spotlights different walking destinations each week.
The site features quizzes to help you kick off a walking program, discover your
fitness personality, and find out if your community is pedestrian-friendly.
There are also links to walking clubs and events across the country.
Short
Tutorial - Printing Your
Address Book For
More and more people are
using their e-mail program's electronic Address Book in place of the traditional
paper version. After all, this software makes it so much easier to update the
addresses of friends and relatives as they move. When it's time to do holiday
cards, however, you may find it useful to have a hard copy of this information
to refer to as you address envelopes. It's also a handy place to keep track of
sent and received cards.
To print a copy of your e-mail program's Address Book, follow these steps:
Printing Your Address Book When Using Outlook Express 6 In
Windows XP Home Edition
- With Outlook Express open, click your cursor arrow on
the "Addresses" icon on the Outlook Express toolbar. The
"Address Book" for the current identity (probably the Main
Identity) will appear.
- Sort your list the way you want it to print by
clicking on the "View" menu, dropping down to "Sort
By," and then choosing an option or options from the "Sort
By" submenu.
- You can also select specific contacts for printing by either pressing the "Shift" or "Ctrl" keys
and simultaneously clicking on the listed contacts.
- If you want to print all of the contacts, make no
selection.
- Click on the "File" menu. Drop down to and
select "Print" from the drop-down menu.
- The "Print" dialog window will appear. Look
for the "Print Style" area and select either "Memo"
which will print all data entered for the selected contacts,
"Business Card" which will print the names, company names,
e-mail addresses, and phone numbers of the selected contacts, or
"Phone List" which will print the selected contacts' phone
numbers.
- Enter the "Number of copies" in the
"Copies" area.
- Click the "Print" button.
Printing
Your Address Book When Using Thunderbird 1.5 On Mac OS X Or Windows XP Home
Edition
In Thunderbird, you can only print out the entire Address Book with very few
options. However, there's nothing to say that you can't make a second Address
Book just for printing a portion of the original.
- Click your cursor arrow on the "Address
Book" icon located on the Thunderbird toolbar. The "Address
Book" window will appear.
- Go to "File" on the Thunderbird menu bar and
drop down to "New" from the resulting drop-down menu. Select
"Address Book" from the submenu.
- A dialog box will appear with an empty field for your
new address book's name. Type an appropriate name and click
"OK." You will see your new address book listed in the
"Address Books" pane.
- To add contacts to your new address book, click on the
name of the original Address Book. You will see the contacts listed in the
upper right hand pane of the "Address Book" window.
- Click on the names you want to print and drag them on
to the Address Book you just created. This will add them to it.
- Click on the name of the new Address Book. A list of
contacts that you just added will appear in the upper right hand pane of
the "Address Book" window.
- To print the Address Book, go to the "File"
menu and select "Print Address Book..." from the resulting
drop-down menu.
- When the "Print" dialog box appears, click
the "Print" button.
Printing
Your Address Book When Using Mail.app 2, Address Book
4.0.4, and Mac OS X 10.4.9
Mail.app for the Macintosh uses a separate program to
handle contacts called "Address Book."
- Launch the "Address Book" program.
- Click on the "All" icon in the
"Group" column and the entire contents of the "Address Book"
will be listed in the "Name" column.
- Select all of the listed contacts or just some of them
by either pressing the "Shift" or
"command" keys and simultaneously clicking on specific
contacts. Your selected contacts will be highlighted.
- Click on the "File" menu and select
"Print" from the resulting drop-down menu. The "Print"
dialog box will appear.
- This is where the real fun begins. Look for the
"Style" button and click on it. You can choose from four
options. "Mailing Labels," "Envelopes,"
"Lists," or "Pocket Address Book." Select the one you
want by clicking on it.
- If you chose "Mailing Labels," you can
select from numerous Avery labels, DYMO labels, or custom label options
under the "Layout" tab.
- Under the "Label" tab, you can print the
listed contacts in either "Alphabetical Order" or "Postal
Code Order." You can print the country as part of the address and you
can change the font and font color.
- If you choose "Envelopes," you can choose
from "International," "North American," and
"Japanese" envelopes. You can choose either your home address or
work address as your return address. You can also choose from either a
vertical or horizontal envelope orientation.
- If you chose "Lists," you can include the
fields you want printed. You can also choose your font size and paper
orientation.
- When you’ve made all of your desired choices, click
"Print."
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Thanks for your business!
Best regards,
The E-Connections
Team
Polar E-Connections
Polar Communications
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