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12.16.1998 - GnomeREPORT Now, this list was not created for an "ego stroke", so before you go bashing my brains in, remember that, please? The best submissions happened to be ones either directly revolving around myself or Lockergnome. They're not incredibly funny, but many submissions for this 7 list were extremely alike. I guess I have to pick more exciting subjects? 7 things Lockergnome Subscribers really want for Christmas 7. Hourly newsletters. (Leigh Anderson) 6. A Locker of their own. (Amee Abel) 5. Bumper stickers that say: "I'd rather be reading Lockergnome!" (R. Torres Jr.) 4. A 150-watt, 3D spatial, Dolby Surround sound card to announce the impending arrival of more Lockergnome goodies. All other mail uses the regular speakers. (Miki Bolvary) 3. A computer that would win the approval of Mr. Bigglesworth. (Brent Miller) 2. Mr. & Mrs. Lockergnome action figures to play with while downloading all the fabulous programs they'll find in next year's issues. (Sven Eivind Sagmyr) 1. To have Chris Pirillo on disk: "Simply insert the disk into your PC and it fixes everything." (Rich Keitel) If you have ideas about any "top seven" lists you'd like to see, let me know: seven@lockergnome.com. Or, use that e-mail address to submit ideas for the next week's list: "7 things to do to when your ISP goes down." (Allan Moritz) -- Chris Pirillo GnomePROGRAM Copernic 98 v2.51 [2.1M] W9x/NT FREE Along comes another searching utility--but this one is truly a winner. Copernic will search the "top" search engines & directories then collect the results, remove the duplicates, and "score" each match. There are different "channels" that you can use which will access search engines specific to that topic (movies, music, sports, kids, jobs, etc.). The freeware version is limited only to searching the web, newsgroups, and for e-mails, but that's enough to show you why Copernic is golden.
http://tucows.tierranet.com/files/copernic98.exe GnomeSYSTEM Microsoft Windows 98 Y2K Update "While the year 2000 issues discovered in Windows 98 result in the incorrect display of dates in 2000 in certain rare scenarios, they pose no risk of data loss. Most customers would have an extremely small chance of ever running into these issues in their normal, daily computer use." Wait a second... I thought this stuff was already fixed in Windows 98? I wonder what else we weren't told?
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/1998/Dec98/2YKPR.htm GnomeCANDY Microsoft's Free Kidstuff The big boys (and girls) in Washington aren't all that bad. Sure, they could have made Windows a little more user friendly, but nobody's perfect. If you've got a little boy (or girl) in the family, s/he probably wants to be on the computer more than you do. You've probably spent hundreds of dollars purchasing games & things that they never play with. So, why not save a few pennies and download these demos? For the most part, they won't be able to tell the difference. Thank you Santa Gates! http://www.microsoft.com/kids/freestuff/ GnomeFAVORITE Christmas Television Show Themes I hope your hard drive has a few dozen megabytes open right now, because you're going to want to download and keep every song that Patrick Kenny has uploaded for us. Ya know those "old" Christmastime cartoons that they usually show on TV this time of year? Well, this guy has captured (in WAV format) some of the songs from those shows! Frosty The Snowman, Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town, and a few others. How merry! http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/kennyp/xmas/ GnomeDESKTOP FONT: Gnomes [59k] I was absolutely thrilled to find this particular font because of its name, but even MORE thrilled to see the author's other fonts! You won't believe your eyes when you see the phenomenal collection of dingbats this guy has created. I mean, beyond these little dancing, happy gnomes (all of whom are brothers, I assure you), you'll find other "graphic" fonts available for download at the site. Throw away your clip art, people... these are much better!
http://www.webgate.dk/klaus/Fonte/gnomes.zip GnomeTIP I was up late last night trying to write tips for this issue of Lockergnome, and I suddenly got an e-mail from a good friend. He was asking if there was a program available that would allow you to navigate through links on a web page by using the keyboard. I responded immediately with two cool programs I found: Internet Explorer & Netscape Navigator. Yes, both of them allow you to use the TAB key to flip forward through any link on a web page (SHIFT+TAB to flip backward). Just goes to show you what most of us don't know about the programs we use every day. That, and we shouldn't work too late at night. |