Welcome

Welcome all of our new Internet subscribers.   This newsletter is sent out the first of each month.  Scroll down for some tips and tricks along with links to some useful, informative, and entertaining websites.  We hope you enjoy this newsletter.  Your comments are always welcome.   netnews@meltel.net

With the holiday season beginning, we encourage you to grab a cup of hot chocolate, coffee, cappuccino, or whatever warms you up and visit some of the sites we've gathered for you this month.  You will find out where the best Thanksgiving websites are, information about the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, how to find the current snowmobile trail conditions, quiz yourself on the U.S. Capitols, and more! So, sit back with your feet up and start surfing the web.  

Please if you happen to see some sites that you think others would enjoy, drop me an email, so I can add the site to the next issue:   design@meltel.net

Search Engines

What is a search engine? A search engine by definition is software that searches for specific information or files on the Internet using search criteria that you enter. They allow you to search for websites and information using keywords. Thus allowing you easier access to information without knowing a specific websites address. Listed below are a few of the more popular search engines out on the Internet. Along with the name is the website address of each and a short description of each.

• Google:  http://www.google.com. Searching 2,469,940,685 web pages. Google is one of the most powerful search engines available today. Google allows you to search and browse nearly 4,000 continually updated news sources.

• Excite: http://www.excite.com. Use this well-known service to  search by keywords or text strings, or browse the categories of  reviewed sites

• Infoseek: http://www.infoseek.com. Search the Web, email addresses, newsgroups or a company directory by keyword, name or full questions, or browse reviews.

• Yahoo: http://www.yahoo.com. Original search engine and directory of the Web.  Search the entire database at once, or comb through the categories.

• Lycos: http://www.lycos.com. Customizable search engine allows you to enter a search string or browse the Web by subject.  With a newcomers’ section.

• Ask Jeeves: http://www.askjeeves.com. Features a question-answering system allowing anyone to ask a question in plain, simple English without having to use keywords or Boolean search strings.

Black & White not Color

Ink cartridges are an expensive item to buy for your printer. Here is a little tip that can help you save on your color ink cartridge.  Instead of always printing an article or ad in color, print it off in black and white. 

Depending on the brand and model of your printer, you can select a setting to print black and white only.  That doesn't mean that the color items  will not print, they will be replaced with black ink. 

Next time you go to print, choose Print and select Properties. Under the properties menu, select the button that says black only.

Each printer is different, you might need to explore to find where your setting is located.  You can also look in your printers manual.

Connect with your Senators!!
http://www.senate.gov

Have an interest in the United States House of Representatives, check out this site:
http://www.house.gov/

It's time to start preparing for the upcoming holiday season that can be the downfall of our best efforts for healthy eating.  Get some useful tips at this website.
http://www.ivillage.com/diet/

Go online and renew your license tabs for the year.  This is easy, and secure!!
http://www.dps.state.mn.us/autolicense

A web site of resources for stitchery enthusiasts providing decorative patterns and designs for needlepoint, cross-stitch and other forms of decorative stitching.
http://www.needlework.com/

Gobble up some time! This site has a list of wonderful Thanksgiving sites for the whole family!
www.library.ucsb.edu/holidays/thanksgiving.html

Homework help site!
http://school.discovery.com/students/index.html

For up-to-date latest news, this site is where you want to be!
www.cnn.com

Discover the Society's photos, maps, globes, magazines, worldwide expeditions, travel tips, vacation planning, and more.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com

Looking for the current snowmobiling information? This site includes snowmobile trail conditions, snowmobile trail maps and other useful information for the snowmobiler!
http://www.snowtracks.com/

We sometimes take English for granted,
But if we examine its paradoxes we find that
Quicksand takes you down slowly, Boxing rings are square,
And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

If writers write, how come fingers don't fing.
If the plural of tooth is teeth,
Shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone beeth?
If the teacher taught, Why didn't the preacher praught.

If a vegetarian eats vegetables,
What the heck does a humanitarian eat!?
Why do people recite at a play, Yet play at a recital?
Park on driveways and Drive on parkways?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy
Of a language where a house can burn up as
It burns down, And in which you fill in a form
By filling it out, And a bell is only heard once it goes!

That is why When the stars are out they are visible,
But when the lights are out they are invisible.
And why it is that when I wind up my watch
It starts, But when I wind up this poem It ends.

Received from Pastor Tim.

Feature of the Month

Installation  prices have dropped! In fact, they no longer exist.

When you sign up for any telephone feature, you will no longer have an installation fee!

Some Features include:

Quick Tip

Did you know you can increase or decrease the text size on a website?  

It is as easy as 1-2-3!

Beginner Internet 
Melrose High School Library
Nov. 26.......7:00 - 9:30 p.m.

Beginner Internet
Eden Valley High School
Nov. 12.......7:00 - 9:30 p.m.

Beginner Internet
Kimball Elementary School
Media Center
Nov. 25.......7:00 - 9:30 p.m.

Call to register and for more info:
Melrose Telephone Company
256-7471        548-3200
597-3333        764-7600

Beginner Internet
Mainstreet Communications

Sauk Centre High School
Computer Lab
Nov.14......6:30 - 9:00

Call to register and for more info:
351.1460

Flower:  Calendula
Birthstone: Opal

This Day in History
http://www.scopesys.com/anyday

Horoscope
http://www.easyscopes.com/
Scorpio..........10-23 to 11-21
Sagittarius.......11-22 to 12-21

Q: How do I attach a picture to an e-mail?

Answer:: 
1. Open up Outlook Express.  
2. Once you are in Outlook Express click on New Mail.
3. Type the email address of the person you are sending the letter to and type the Subject Line. Now you can type whatever you would like to say in the email.
4. When you are done typing the email, click on the Paper Clip that says Attach or click on Insert and File Attachment.
5. Notice that you are put into My Documents.  We now need to find the picture you want to send.  Select the folder in which you have saved your picture in.
6. Once you find the picture you would like to send double click the picture and it is going to add it to your email.
7. Your picture is now under the subject line on the Attach line.  Your last step is to click send on your email.

If you have a question you would like answered please email us at: design@meltel.net and we will try to answer it.

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
~Dr. Ralph Gerard

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
~Fernando Flores

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
~Booker T. Washington

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
~Daniel J. Boorstin

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.
~Dean Acheson

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
~Richard M. Nixon

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
~Peter F. Drucker

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
~Martin Luther King, Jr.

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