NEWS FROM THE EDGE

Tech Tips and Advice from the Experts at Dynamic Edge

Sayonara Spam!

Imagine a day when you open your email to find that all of your messages are from actual people that you know. No offers for prescription drugs, home loans or sexually explicit content, and no more sifting through mounds of trash to find the few messages you actually want to read…

… okay, so maybe that will never happen. But while eliminating all that junk mail may be impossible, there are a few things you can do to seriously limit the amount of spam you have to deal with in your inbox.
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The Absurdity of the Keyboard

Here’s a little discovery that was made last week:

The key that’s called “Num Lk” is not, in fact, your computer’s shortcut to a very cold lake.
Its actually a function that allows you to enter numbers.
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The last several posts have been pretty much just the facts, ma’am… and that’s good, but I’m a little worried that you might be getting a little bored with that. So this will be a 60-second update of life at DE this past week or so:

Deb had an incident with the dumpster. It’s big and she’s small, so there was a little bit of a hubbub in the parking lot. Nothing major really, and I think the dumpster got the worst of it.

One of our owners had a landmark Birthday. I’m not going to say which <owner> or which <birthday> because I like my job <a lot> and I would really like to keep it. Great party(ies) though, Tim!!! You don’t look a day over 23.
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Tons of Tips and Tricks!

Tons of tips and tricks to be added very soon!

That’s right, I’m scouring the office leaving no stone un-turned to find any great and useful tips and tricks to post on the blog for you: our lovely readers! I’ve already got a pretty good list going on here, so be looking forward to at least one juicy tidbit per week in this space.
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If you keep getting complaints that people can’t open your file attachments, it’s probably because Office 2007 is saving all its usual extensions with an “x” at the end. You can stop (or avoid) running into this frustration by following these steps:
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What’s in a Page?

So, today while previewing Skyler’s “Win Our Wii” drawing results page, I happened to notice that Jason’s blue sheet (Jason is a programmer and blue sheets are how we keep track of what we’re getting done in a day) had a whole giant column of ones and zeros on it. Acknowledging that it was some type of code, I asked… “So, what’s with all the ones and zeros?” To which I received a shockingly blank stare.
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