Dan Rather Cartoons (funny)

Some Awesome Tools

Help keep your contacts organized 

Help fight spam

Ok have you ever wanted to update all of you contacts in your address book at one time. Well I found a great tool to help you do just that. This tool will keep all your contact up to date, as well as let your contacts update you. Best of all its free. The program is called PLAXO. It integrates with your email programs like Outlook and Outlook Express. You set of few options, and select which contacts you want to update, and vwalla. You can also create a pretty nifty looking SIG file. The program also gives the contacts that you are updating the option to join in themselves. It is not spam and very unobtrusive. I know that when I moved I had about 150 active contacts that I wanted to update. I did not have phone numbers for all of them, and I didn't want to email individually each contact, one at a time. So I used Plaxo and let them all know my new information. Not only that, when they replied, Plaxo automatically updated me with their information. Addresses, phone numbers, even birthday info was updated, and I didn't have to input each contacts information individually. You get a little icon next to the contact to let you know if it is updated or not.I highly recommend you pick this up. You can find it @ http://www.plaxo.com. This is a great little program for everyone, not just professionals. Check it out and let me know what you think. You will be pleasantly suppressed.

Next, are you tired of spam - who isn't right. Ok here is a program that will help fight spam in you inbox, and let you join a community that puts all this "spam" data into a central data base to help others fight spam as well. You get a rating based on the amount of spam you block and when you report "new Spam". The program also lets you know how much time and money you have saved yourself and the community. This program also integrates with you e-mail program and lets you add information to your SIG file to let people know that they can join, hoe much spam you have stopped, and other things. This program, is shareware and has a 30 trial period of the full program. Ok, the company is called CloudMark and the program is called spamnet. You can get it here @ http://www.cloudmark.com. 

I use the programs - I do not work for the companies. I just wanted to pass these along.

The Daily Giggle

A collection of funny e-mails

Cowboy story

A cowboy was herding his cattle in a remote pasture
when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust
cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci
shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and
asks the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and
calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"
The cowboy looks at the man, obviously a yuppie,
then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers,
"Sure, Why not?"

The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell
notebook computer, connects it to his AT&T cell phone, surfs to a

NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation

System to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another
NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it
to an image processing facility in Hamburg , Germany . Within
seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been
processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through
an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with hundreds of complex formulas.
He uploads all of this data via an email on his Blackberry and, after
a few minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints out a
full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and
finally turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1586
cows and calves."

"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my
calves," He watches the young man select one of the animals
and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his
car. Then the cowboy says to the young man, "Hey, if
I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me
back my calf?" The young man thinks about it for a second
and then says, "Okay, why not?"
"You're a consultant." says the cowboy.
"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did
you guess that?" "No guessing required." answered the cowboy.
"You showed up here even though nobody called you; you
want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I
never asked; and you don't know anything about my business.. ...Now give
me back my dog."

I promise more will follow

I  have two program that I want to recommend. They are both free and very useful to even the beginner.

The first program is from a company called Xteq they have actually changed the name of the software. Xteq X-Setup is now called XQDC X-Setup Pro

This software is very powerful and allows registry tweaks in all versions of windows - well, back to Win 95. - I highly recommend you at least take a look at it.

XQDC is totally spyware free, and powerful - please be careful  though 

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You should be able to click on the logo (X-Setup) and go directly to that sight for more info, and the Major Geeks logo to download the software.

Another program that find useful is called Regseeker and is stuffed full of very pertinent info  - I use it for cleaning my registry. Often times when you remove a program it leaves orphan entries that cause you system to load slower and work harder than it needs to. I have had no problems when using either program. This program can be downloaded by clicking on the Regseeker link hear - - ---> REGSEEKER

I hope you find these two freeware programs as useful as I have. I would like to hear from those who of you who have used them and who will  use them.