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Mitch's Corner |
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| Mitch designs, builds, and maintains commercial web
sites. Check out some of his work [1], [2], [3]. He also builds
custom computer systems for individuals and business. He enjoys
working on his own system to make it unique, stable, and low
maintenance. Mitch developed his links list in response to people
asking him about shortcut, bugs, and fixes when he was managing a
national ISP that has gone the way of may dot com's. Mitch is also
interested in home schooling. We want to thank Mitch for sharing his links with us, and for all the work it takes to put these together. You may scroll down through the links by year and month or use these short cuts to each year's collection:
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| 2003 | |
| November |
Another whole bunch of free files, lots
of Windows XP tips and hints. New XP power toy tweaking
utility. Some great websites and several need programs to
catalog your CD's and monitor your computer and your
network.
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| October |
You can customize your whole PC experience the
simple way or the supergeek way. But either way you will have a unique PC environment. This month our file collection features what one tech wizard considers to be " the 46 best ever freeware utilities". I agree with many of his picks. Some are new to me and some of little interest. But I'll wager everyone in the club could use some of them. Give that 46 and the other 50 or so apps a quick look. It's like fish'n with dynamite - just scoop'em up.
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| September |
Another great bunch of links to interesting sites, and some
great utilities. There are several that will prevent
websites from hijacking your browser and taking control or
taking you to place you do not want to go. There are
several nice disk management programs....find out where all
your space went too.
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| August |
Mitch took a well earned vacation. There is no submission
for August.
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| July |
Besides some great special deals on all kinds of stuff,
Mitch has found another Microsoft Office look alike...FREE
of course. There are some great utilities including a FREE
ZIP code look up book. There are a great bunch of utilities
for Window and your browser too.
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| June |
A whole lot of useful stuff here. A great set of useful
utilities for WIN 95 98 98SE ME and 2000. There are several
sites just loaded with great free software too.
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| May |
Mitch has made a change in the links this month that will be effecting all future article. Read what he has to say, and if you have a special interest, send him and email. Just use the letter above in the title box. In the
future,
I will look for unique, useful, important, and/or greatly improved
versions of winners.
I will endeavor to stay away from the antiquated or limited use stuff
generally.
I will try and pick those that will have the greatest appeal.
If you have any ideas about a program you would like to see, write
out a description
of what you want it to do in detail and send it out as a GCC email.
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| April | Another great bunch of sites and
files. Find out how to keep posted on the war by watching
internet TV from all over the world. Get some great free
tools. Eliminate SPAM. Try some of Karen's tools. These are
great FREE progarms. I use them for backing up my system.
We use several of her programs at the computer show to help
diagnose machine problems. There is even a great font
program to document what fonts are on your machine.
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| March | A great bunch of software,
links, and sites as usual. You might want to checkout free
search of online databases. Great for those who want to
check on friends, family or what ever. A very nice MS Word
tutorial. It even works for the MS Office alternatives we
discussed last year. Some great utilities as well.
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| February | Some real geeky stuff. A nice
email checker for those people with multiple accounts at
several different locations, and several copier programs
that automatically convert your scanner into a copy
machine. A nice collection of links, some stuff for music
and art, and a warning about Microsoft's XP automatically
assigning passwords to some accounts after you upgrade.
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| January | No file for this month
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| 2002 | |
| December | Games games and more
games....FREE-FREE-FREE. December is an off-site link. An internet
connection is required.
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| November | You will find an nice assortment of FreeWare
and some helpful hints of solving some of those annoying windows
problems. It all in this edition of our newsletter. (Take a
look...a nice HD space analyzer and a simple FREE desktop rolodex)
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| October | There is a nice section on
inserting Power Point presentations into your website. And a virus alert
and cleaner section that everyone MUST read.
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| September | As usual we have a great set of links and free program here. This listing is quite long and worth every word and link. |
| August | Mitch gave us a nice set of
links to some great programs. Try the Fonts site and ISO buster and
Album creator. Some great free software. Don't miss out the the changes
you need to make to IE explorer if you want to keep your compute safe. He also gave us a second bit of important data about Microsoft's plans to change XP registration as part of Service Pack 1. XP users better read this one.
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| July | Well he did it again.
How about a first class free office suite? Sun Microsystems has backed a long-awaited clone of the world's most popular-and profitable- "productivity" suite, Microsoft Office. OpenOffice (Off-site) includes Excel-like (spreadsheet) and Word (word-processing) programs, though as yet no e-mail client. Produced by a small army of "open source" programming enthusiasts, it's been getting respectful reviews for ease of use and for faithfulness to the original software's functionality (if that's the right word). It's also perfectly legal--Microsoft's code was reverse engineered, not stolen. And the price--free. Get a free eBooks reader (off-site). It will work great with free books we told you about in the Editor's column. Much much more great stuff and it's FREE.
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| June | Some great new stuff here. See
Mitch's column for information about some of these free gems.
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| May | Check out these the first one is
a killer for everyone, especially for those looking for help on how to
do things.
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| April | No files this month.
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| March | Mitch got ahead of us this time.
I called this one March, it actually came in mid February. Its another
nice list of things. I think this is the best one yet. Home schooling,
patches, some games and more. Interested in downloading mp3's? Checkout
the items at the end of Mitch's list.
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| February | A whole bunch of nice free software. Several planetarium
program, a nice quick spell checker. It even found some of my errors.
Now if it could just type too. There is also a nice simple to use PIM
for all of that unrelated stuff we all collect and can never find.
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| January | No files this month.
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| 2001 | |
| December | Lots of things here and a nice
tips, hints and observations section at the very end. This one is
very L O N G.
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| November | No files this month.
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| October | Here's a good list of things
too. It even has one of my favorites The 602Pro Suite. This is MS
Office suite alternative. It includes a Word Processor, Spreadsheet, Photo Editor, and WordArt program.
It looks just like the real thing. It keystroke and menu compatible. The
only difference is its free, it does not crash, and it fast. Only 15meg
of code. Its also on the Club's 2001 Utilities Disk.
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| September | There are some real gems on this
link. Here are a few for you guys with a half dozen HD running - HDD Temperature.
It monitors the temperature of you HD's and reports it in the system
tray. EnditAll will kill all of those many programs you have out
there running when you need to install something or just clean up the
mess your in. Sleepsmart is for all you video guys. It lets you
pre-arrange what using resources when you turn on your DVD drive or your
capture card. In short it makes sure you have enough resource to run
those hoggish programs. There are too many more to mention
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