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as 'NetlineNews editor. Please feel free
to drop an email with your comments and
ideas on 'NetlineNews! Tell me
what you want to see in the
newsletter. netnews@meltel.net
February is the month where Phil, our
lovely groundhog, will let us know if
winter is over or if it just begun.
I predict that he will not see his shadow
and Spring will soon be here.
Phil
Himself..............................................
In this issue there is a helpful link for
the happily engaged couples (or the
mother-of-the-bride), there is a
link for the sports fans, a great site for
tax preparation,
a link for Valentine's Day fun, plus many
more enjoyable and entertaining sites.
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Editor-Shanna
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| In
This Month's Issue |
<> Your
Local Help Desk
<> Tech
Tips & Tricks
<> Places
to visit
<> Humor
is Good Medicine
<> Unsubscribe
information
NetlineNews
Archives |
<> Feature
of the Month
<> Internet
Classes
<> This
Month's Chronicles
<> Quote
for Thought
<> Quick
Facts |
| Your
Local Help Desk |
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When calling your local help desk be
sure that you are sitting in front of
your computer and it is turned on.
If you have received an error message
you will need to be able to tell the
technician what the error message reads.
So either have the error message
displayed on the computer or write down
what the error message says. This makes
it
easier for the Technician and for the
caller.
Help desk hours are:
Mon - Fri 8am to 9pm & Saturday 10am
to 2pm
256-8324
764-8324
597-8324
Or e-mail to: support@meltel.net
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Tips & Tricks |
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Are you finally getting a new computer?
Did you know that you can export your
list of favorites to a file and import
them back in your new computer. It is as
easy as 1-2-3! Just following these
steps:
1. From the "File" menu choose
"Import and Export...", and
work your way through the wizard. On the
second screen, choose "Export
Favorites". On the third screen you
can select which favorites you want to
export. The forth and final screen
allows you to export them to your file.
2. Once you have your file of favorites,
insert the disk in your new computer.
From the "File" menu choose
"Import and Export.", On the
second screen, choose "Import
Favorites". On the third screen
select drive A and click on your
favorites. Continue through the screens
by hitting next. On the final screen hit
finish and your favorites are now in
your new computer!
Arm yourself with the information needed
to defend yourself from computer
viruses.
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| Places
to Visit |
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Patton Schad Funeral Services of Melrose
and Grey Eagle have printable online
obituaries for you. No more trying
to locate more newspapers to clip the
obituaries of your family and friends.
For those of you that
miss the sports headline news. Check out
this site, it offers streaming video and
photos of the most recent news!
Whether it is football, baseball, hockey,
or basketball this site has all the
information you need.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/videoplus/
Valentine
Fun for the kids! Here you will find a
great site that allows you to enjoy
valentine crafts, clipart, books, riddles,
games, puzzles, and valentine party
activities.
http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/val/
It's
that time again, tax time, check out this
site for helpful tips. Don't get tangled
in the IRS's red tape. Get advice before
you need it to prevent future problems.
http://www.taxhelponline.com
The wedding season is
just around the corner. Need help
planning your wedding? This site offers
great ideas for invitations, programs,
tips on budgeting, and most of all the a
great timeline to follow!
Check it out!
http://www.weddingbook.com/
Create, save and reload your favorite
wallpapers. It's a lot like
decorating your home with an interior
designer. Tile, center or resize your
images, even have them analyzed to find
the best matching backgrounds or most
readable icon captions.
http://www.wallpaperchanger.de/
Pink portable drills
are not in the toolbox at Karen's Power
Tools.
Instead, visitors will find dozens of
handy computer gadgets, all simple,
low-tech and free -- specifically for
Windows users. Karen is
Karen Kenworthy, a writer for the
now-defunct and much-mourned
Windows Magazine and its online version
winmag.com
http://www.karenware.com/powertools.html
Picturing the Century: One Hundred Years
of Photography from the National
Archives," commemorates the end of
the 20th century with a selection of
photographs from the National Archives and
Records Administration (NARA). They depict
both the mundane and high political drama,
society's failings as well as its
triumphs, war's ugliness as well as its
bravery. This online exhibition is
arranged in "galleries" for easy
viewing.
http://www.nara.gov/exhall/picturing_the_century/home.html
Awesome Chef Recipes is a
"kitchen on the web".
Here you will find more than just recipes,
check out the ingredients section for a
great tips on those "secret"
ingredients. The techniques section,
is filled with cooking tips and
tricks the pro's use.
http://awesome-chef-recipes.tripod.com/
Take a
break. Relax. Play a game at Game Scene,
providing over 20 simple Flash games
that require no experience but can
become instantly addictive.
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Signs - Here and There:
The following are actual signs seen across
the good ol' U.S.A.:
-At a Santa Fe gas station: We
will sell gasoline to anyone in a glass
container.
-In a New York restaurant: Customers who
consider our waitresses uncivil ought to
see the manager.
-On the wall of a Baltimore estate:
Trespassers will be prosecuted to the full
extent of the law. --Sisters of Mercy
-On a long-established New Mexico dry
cleaners: 38 years on the same spot.
-In a Los Angeles dance hall: Good clean
dancing every night but Sunday.
-In a Florida maternity ward: No children
allowed.
-In the offices of a loan company: Ask
about our plans for owning your home.
-On a Maine shop: Our motto is to give our
customers the lowest possible prices and
workmanship.
-On a display of "I love you
only" Valentine cards: Now available
in multi-packs.
-In a clothing store: Wonderful bargains
for men with 16 and 17 necks.
-In a Tacoma, Washington men's clothing
store: 15 men's wool suits, $10. They
won't last an hour!
-In the window of an Oregon store: Why go
elsewhere and be cheated when you can come
here?
-In a Maine restaurant: Open 7 days a week
and weekends.
-On a radiator repair garage: Best place
to take a leak.
-In the vestry of a New England church:
Will the last person to leave please see
that the perpetual light is extinguished.
http://www.mnsi.net/~brucpatt/
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Feature
of the Month
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New
Bill Paying Option!
diversiCOM Melrose Telephone
Company is pleased to announce that we now
accept Visa and Master Card as another
payment option. Payment must be made in
person, over the phone, or as your automatic
payment choice.
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Community Webpages
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| Photo
Contest |
PHOTO
CONTEST
You could win $50.00
Our
2002 Phone Directory needs
a cover
photo. Submit your best
shot by
February 22. Our Photo
Contest
Committee will select
one from all
entries.
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Free
Internet Classes
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Beginner Internet
Melrose High School :
Feb.26.......7:00pm to 9:30pm
Mar. 26.......7:00pm to 9:30 pm
Beginner
Internet
Eden Valley High School
Feb.11......7:00pm to 9:30pm
Mar.11......7:00pm to 9:30pm
Beginner Internet
Kimball High School
Feb.25......7:00pm to 9:30pm
To register or for more info:
Call the main office
Melrose Telephone Company
256-7471
764-7600
597-3333
548-3200
Intermediate Internet
Sauk Centre High School
Feb.
25.........6:30pm to 9:00pm
Call Mainstreet Communitcations
to register and for more info:
320-351-1460
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| This
Month's Chronicles |
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Flower: Violet
Birthstone: Amethyst
Calendar
| February.... |
Heart Month |
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Feb. 2........ |
Groundhog's Day |
| Feb.
8........ |
Winter
Olympics |
| Feb.12....... |
Abe
Lincoln's B-day |
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Feb.13....... |
Ash Wednesday |
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Feb.14....... |
Valentines Day |
| Feb.15....... |
Galileo's
B-day |
| Feb.17....... |
National
Engineers Week |
| Feb.18....... |
Presidents'
Day |
| Feb.21....... |
Chinese
New Year |
| Feb.22....... |
G.
Washington B-day |
| Feb.23,
97' |
Dolly
the cloned
sheep was announced
a
success. |
| Feb.24....... |
George
Harrison B-day |
This Day
in History
http://www.scopesys.com/anyday
Horoscope
http://www.easyscopes.com/
Capricorn..........12-22 to 1-19
Aquarius............1-20 to 2-18
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| Quotes
for Thought |
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"Let every nation know, whether it
wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay
any price, bear any burden, meet any
hardship, support any friend, oppose any
foe, in order to assure the survival and
the success of liberty."
-- John F. Kennedy (35th President of
the United States)
"If there is anything we wish to
change in the child, we should first
examine it and see whether it is not
something that could better be changed in
ourselves."
-- Carl Gustav Jung
"A person without a sense of humor is
like a wagon without springs, jolted by
every pebble in the road."
-- Henry Ward Beecher
"Life's battles don't always go to
the stronger or faster man. But sooner or
later the man who wins, is the man who
thinks he can."
-- Vince Lombardi
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Quick
Facts
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Hershey's Kisses are called that because the
machine that makes them looks like it is
kissing the conveyor belt.
The 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents
the number of varieties of pickle the
company once had.
315 entries in Webster's
1996 Dictionary were misspelled.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not
allowed to speak.
http://www.angelfire.com/hi/
InMyZone/index6.html
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