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Infopackets Email Newsletter: Monday, May 10, 2010 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to the next edition of the Infopackets Newsletter, featuring: MS Windows and technology news, software reviews, tech tips, weekly desktop games, plus 2 freeware goodies daily -- now that's a mouthful! ;-) To ensure future delivery of this email newsletter to your inbox, please take a moment and add newslet...@mailer.infopackets.com to your address book. Details: http://go.infopackets.com/e20100510-00 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Turn your Existing Harddrive Into a Backup Unit --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ... HoW iS tHat pOsSiBLe ?? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Let's say you own Acronis True Image and you use it to backup your computer onto CD or DVD recordable. Ideally it would be best to backup onto an external harddrive -- but like many folks, owning a secondary external harddrive is not within your budget. Using Acronis Disk Director Suite, you can take your C drive and split it in half (for example), and make another hard drive out of it. This is called Partitioning your harddrive. So, why is having a C and a D drive good news? In terms of performing a backup: now you don't need that external harddrive as a backup medium because you've reconfigured your existing hardware for this purpose. It also means you won't have to waste time inserting and loading media as it performs the backup because it will fit all on one device... Read more: http://go.infopackets.com/e20100510-01 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTE: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --> Save 50% off Disk Director Suite -- Expires May 17th, 2010 at 11:59PM EST Click link above! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Burn Photo Slideshows to DVD and impress your family & friends! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- For wedding, family vacation, birthday, anniversary, or as a gift.... Be creative and impress friends and family with photos viewable on your television set: using high-quality animated menus, smooth transitions, zoom effects and multiple background music tracks! --> Supports all major image formats: JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, and more! --> Transition effects give your slideshows a professional look! --> Animate your photos with an automatic zoom and pan effect. --> Mix slide shows and movies on the same DVD. --> Add your own background music. --> Check the resulting slideshow immediately in the built-in preview. And don't forget... The New Label Designer comes with a stack of professional themes! ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` Don't miss this SUPER deal -- NOW 60% off! P R I C E S S L A S H E D ! Ashampoo Burning Studio 9, now only $19.99! ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` ... 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If you missed an email newsletter or two, use method #1 above ;-) Click to visit main page now: http://go.infopackets.com/e20100510-03 (main page) ... or continue reading below! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > In This Issue: At a Glance --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Today's Headlines --> HP Windows 7 Tablet May Not Be Dead After All --> Microsoft Confirms: Internet Explorer 9 Won't Run on XP --> On this Day in History: for Monday, May 10, 2010 --> Windows Game of the Week: WordJong --> Freeware Picks of the Day: 'Dark Screen', and 'WizMouse' >>> Incase You Missed It -- Last Friday's Top Stories --> Digital Photocopiers Store Everything They Scan: Report --> MS Readies Light Patch Tuesday, but Omission Raises Eyebrows >>> Further Down ... --> More Detail: Today's News + Synopsis and Link >>> At the Very Bottom: Subscription Management --> Link to: Archive Pages --> Link to: Remove / Unsubscribe --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Today's Headlines: With Synopsis (plus link to story) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> HP Windows 7 Tablet May Not Be Dead After All Hewlett-Packard (HP) has refused to confirm reports that it has cancelled work on a Windows-based tablet computer. In addition, its website still includes promotional material for the device, known ... http://go.infopackets.com/e20100510-04 >>> Microsoft Confirms: Internet Explorer 9 Won't Run on XP Microsoft has confirmed earlier reports that Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) will not run on XP. That's prompted speculation that the company may be using the browser as a way to encourage users to upgrade ... http://go.infopackets.com/e20100510-05 >>> Digital Photocopiers Store Everything They Scan: Report (20100507) The digital photocopier in your home or office could offer a hacker a gateway to your personal or sensitive data. Unbeknownst to many, nearly every digital copier built since 2002 contains a hard ... http://go.infopackets.com/e20100510-06 >>> MS Readies Light Patch Tuesday, but Omission Raises Eyebrows (20100507) Just five weeks after it was forced to release an emergency patch for a zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer (IE), Microsoft may again have to consider yet another out-of-schedule fix for an ... http://go.infopackets.com/e20100510-07 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > On This Day in History: Monday, May 10, 2010 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- On this Day in History -- May 10 Famous people born on this day: --> 1788, Augustin-Jean Fresnel, pioneered in optics. --> 1899, Fred Astaire, tap dancer. --> 1902, David O. Selznick, film producer. --> 1936, Glenda Jackson --> 1946, Candice Bergen, the dime lady. --> 1949, Billy Joel, "Piano Man" --> 1960, Bono, (B. Paul Hewson), of U2. Events on this day in history: --> 1775, Continental Congress issues paper currency for the first time. --> 1823, First steamboat to ascent the Mississippi River arrives at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. --> 1869, The Driving of the Golden Spike, Promontory Point, Utah -- The Transcontinential railroad is completed. --> 1930, First US planetarium opens, in Chicago. And don't forget... --> Native American Day is observed. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Windows Game of the Week: WordJong --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enter the lush world of WordJong, a colorful mix of a Mahjong and spelling game! WordJong gives you letter tiles you remove from the board Mahjong- style, to spell big words for bonus points. Three unique ways to play -- Classic, Versus or Link mode -- will keep you spelling for hours. Each set of tiles is a new game to play, with dozens of tile layouts to enjoy. Key Features Build Words Mahjong-Style! Collect Virtual Treasures Play Classic, Link Or Versus Mode Rich Graphics And Sounds Requirements OS: Windows 98/Me, 2000, XP Memory: 64 MB Sound: Sound Card CPU: P 500 Graphics: ... http://go.infopackets.com/e20100510-08 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Freeware Picks of the Day: 'Dark Screen', and 'WizMouse' --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dark Screen Some computer users experience problems with glare from the screen. Dark Screen sits over all windows and provides a means of dimming the output between 20 and 90%. Dark Screen is multi monitor aware, and can be used on the main monitor only or all monitors. WizMouse WizMouse is a mouse enhancement utility that makes your mouse wheel work on the window currently underneath the mouse pointer instead of the focused window. This means you no longer have to click on a window before being able to scroll it with the ... http://go.infopackets.com/e20100510-09 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subscription Management --------------------------------------------------------------------------- To view our archive: http://go.infopackets.com/e20100510-10 --- To remove yourself from our mailing list, visit: http://go.infopackets.com/e20100510-11 You are subscribed as: archive@mail-archive.com
