Computer Q&A

How to Protect Yourself from Phishing and Identity Theft? Check these suggestions...

Do you have Spyware on your PC? Check out these facts.

Windows 98 and Windows ME error messages - Are you getting strange error messages from Windows. Check out this resource that may explain your message(s).

Virus Hoaxes - For a good list of virus hoaxes that are floating around out there, check out this site.

More Hoaxes:

• http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/hoaxes/
• http://www.snopes.com/index.html

Tips on Searching the Internet. Learn how to search better and how the major search engines work from a searcher's perspective. Also see how people search and other fun stuff: http://www.searchenginewatch.com/facts/index.html

Find all the major search engines; popular meta search engines; MP3 search engines; kid-safe services and much more:
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/links/

Computing Terms. Don't you hate it when you see a computer term somewhere and have no clue what the term means? Here are some of the most common computer terms listed alphabetically. Just click the link for a definition.
http://www.webopedia.com/

Image File Guide. I get questions about image formats all the time, so if you don't know your JPEG's from your GIF's, this is for you.
Image File Guide

Recipes

• Better Homes and Gardens recipe Center:
  http://www.bhg.com/bhg/recipe/
  
  
• Here is a great site with Bed & Breakfast Recipes from all over the US:
  http://www.bbonline.com/recipe/index.html
  
  
• Here is another great site with a huge database of recipes, food tips, stuff on wine, a food chat area, and too many other areas to list here. Check it out at:
  http://www.epicurious.com
  
  
• Not enough recipes? Check out this cookie recipe site:
  http://www.cookierecipe.com/default.asp

Windows Help Sites

• Windows 98
  http://www.windows-help.net/windows98/all-tips.shtml

• Windows ME
  http://www.windows-help.net/windowsMe/
  
  
• Windows XP
  http://www.windows-help.net/WindowsXP/

Excellent Knowledge Base

Here is a site you might want to bookmark as it could be a useful reference. I am amazed at the reference material available:

http://www.bartleby.com/

They bill themselves as "The pre-eminent publisher of literature, reference, and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectual curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge."

When you look at some of the stuff available, it gives you access to things like:

• On-Line Reference Books
• Columbia Encyclopedia
• History Encyclopedia
• Cultural Literacy
• Columbia Gazetteer
• World Factbook
• American Heritage Coll.
• Dictionary
• Roget's Thesauri
• Roget's II: Thesaurus
• Roget's Int'l Thesaurus
• Bartlett's Quotations
• Columbia Quotations
• Simpson's Quotations
• Respectfully Quoted
• Cambridge History
• The King James Bible
• Oxford Shakespeare
• Harvard Classics
• Gray's Anatomy
• Farmer's Cookbook
• Post's Etiquette
• English Usage
• American English
• Modern Usage
• Fowler's King's English
• Strunk's Style
• Mencken's Language
• Sapir's Language
• Art of Reading
• Art of Writing
• Brewer's Phrase & Fable
• Bulfinch's Mythology
• Frazer's Golden Bough
• Robert's Rules of Order
• U.S. Inaugurals
• World's Orations
• Fiction like H.G. Wells, Edgar Alan Poe, Aesops fables, etc.