Thursday, November 23, 2006

Pay Is It An Invitation

spam?

La Stampa found a nice ' article that talks about those who inundate you spam, unsolicited email, explaining who they are, why they do it, where and how spamming.
Happy reading!

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Printer Wont Stay Connected

History and other amenities of the question mark?

Wikipedia is really an endless source of answers.
Who is the question? Why has that shape? and other punctuation marks? A real
starting point for an unknown world ....

Thursday, November 9, 2006

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abbreviations, acronyms, etc..

"The informatichese" is full of abbreviations, acronyms and strange ways of speaking. If we went to a chat or a forum things get complicated.
Here is a list of resources where to find answers to the questions:
- Wikipedia here and here (in Italian)
- PcFacile: here (in Italian)
- FOLDOC: here (in English)

Monday, November 6, 2006

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iPod Killer

Here is a link (in English) to get an idea of mp3 players, competitors' iPod, available on the market this Christmas 2006.
Happy shopping!

Friday, November 3, 2006

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Goofy Christmas 2006, Mr. Rossi and Acme, or variables metasyntactic

Tom, Dick and Harry, Goofy, Pluto and Donald Duck, Mr. John Doe and Mr. John Smith, Acme are names that are often used generically to mean someone or something. It is used extensively in computer science.
variables are metasyntactic and talk about it on Wikipedia .
Here here and the general catalog of the Acme Corporation (A C ompany That M akes E verything - a company that produces everything).

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Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7.0

have been recently upgraded both browsers.
Here is the homepage Firefox and IE .
Here are the new features of Firefox and IE .
Here you can download Firefox 2.0 and Internet Explorer 7.0 here (warning: IE 7.0 only works on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, and will NOT work on Win 200 and older).

Happy surfing!

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Backup mail and address book

Sometimes you may want to make backups of their mail and contacts, or having to transfer these data from one PC to another.
Here, for the most popular mail programs, some sites that explain clearly how to do (in Italian):
  • Ms-Outlook: here and here
  • Ms-Outlook Express: here and here and here
  • Mail: here, or copy the folder that is located in Home> Library> Mail and then the file Home> Library> Preferences> com.apple.mail.plist
  • Mozilla Thunderbird : here and here , or copy the folder C: \\ Documents and Settings \\ [username] \\ Application Data \\ Thunderbird containing messages, contacts, accounts, extensions and themes.
To save the profile instead (which is not necessary for the restoration of post) save the files you find in C: \\ Documents and Settings \\ [username] \\ Local Settings \\ Application Data \\ Thunderbird . Or
for Thunderbird mail, you can use a product called TbAutosave .
Always there for Mozilla products MozBackup that stores everything you want where you want.

PS Many thanks to Riki that it posed a problem and allowed me to systematize everything.

PS PS Unfortunately I could not try all the solutions on display, if there were any news will report it, please also those who were to follow these instructions to post a comment on the goodness of them.