Terry Harvey conducted this WAUC SIG for an overflow crowd of our members on this warm, Spring-in-the-Air, Thursday evening. When some members were seated on the station's plastic milk crates, we were reminded, again, to bring our folding chairs from home, in the future. The lighting was dimmed, and questions were requested.
Member Schneider replied with, "What is a 'blog?'" to which member Brinkmeier replied, relating his vacation experience; where he was able to keep the folks back home current with significant day-to-day vacation activities, using a "blog". A blog, it seems, is an on-line diary, posted to a web page on the internet. The author is permitted to make entries to this web page, as often as he wishes, at any internet-connected P.C., and Roger used his blog to describe his vacation happenings for the benefit of family back home. The term "blog" is a shortened form for "web log." These are available at many web sites - some are FREE and others more costly. Roger used one at www.bloglines.com where his entries were maintained in chronological order. Blogs can be 1.)hosted at the program's web site or 2.)the blog software can be installed on any web site by a competent webmaster. Blogs are similar to the "guestbook" but, only the person having the proper username and password is permitted to make entries for all to see, from anywhere in the world.
We then visited the yahoo group "BoardWAUC" where Terry demonstrated all the navigational possibilities, as listed in the left margin. These became active after signing-in with member Leo's username and password. We viewed many of the photos contained in various folders by clicking on their thumbnails. We also reviewed a few of the messages maintained in the BoardWAUC archive. Member Durand asked about clicking on a link in an email message he received in his yahoo web-mail account which failed to render a BoardWAUC photo, as intended. We tried this, with the able assistance of member Livermore, using his own Yahoo account, and it worked perfectly, so no positive explanation was determined.
Member Durand asked how to search for a particular person's email address. Terry then tried a great number of searches for various folks' email addresses, to no avail, as those particular folks had not made their addresses public. We did, however, find many folks with the name "Richard Durand," and many more with the name "Terry Harvey." It was suggested that when signing-up for a web-mail account at such places as hotmail, lycos, netscape, yahoo, etc., that we not choose "public" so as to avoid much spam.
In our surfing, we learned "http://my.email.address.is" is claiming to be the "World's Largest Email Address Directory." We also tried "http://whowhere.lycos.com," "http://www.switchboard.com," and Yahoo! People Search at "http://people.yahoo.com." We also learned that Terry on bigfoot is 32 years of age.
A google search for "exyooper" revealed top billing for member Livermore's web site. Tom formerly lived in the U.P. of Michigan, and is an exyooper.
Member Bailey asked if it was O.K. to delete his "Temporary Internet Files." Yes, it is O.K. to do this, as they will download, again, when those sites are re-visited, assuming the site's files remain in existence.
We then surfed over to "http://www.anisigs.co.uk" for Keith's animated signatures and names, using various styles, for personalizing one's email, stationery and web-sites, where we found many cute animated gifs by first name. We chose to save one as an example for member West, to our desktop, using the right click of our mouse, to demonstrate its use in email stationery for MS Outlook Express.
There are instructions on how to use these signatures in the many different email clients right on the web site at: "http://anisigs.fateback.com/how_to.htm" but, here's how we did it in MS Outlook Express, using the gif we had saved to our desktop:
Open Outlook Express in your usual fashion. Choose "Tools" from the bar at the top. From its drop-down menu, choose "Options." Then click the "Compose" tab at the top of the Options dialog box. Check the "Mail" checkbox in the middle "Stationery" section and click the "Create New" button in that section. The "Stationery Setup Wizard" widow will appear. Read the brief message and click "Next" at the bottom, for the next window. Check the "Picture" checkbox, and hit the "Browse" button to find that image you saved to your desktop. In the resulting dialog box, go "Up One Level" as many times as required to get the "Desktop" to appear in the "Look in:" text box at the top. Then scroll as necessary to find your signature gif by name. Select it, so its file name appears in the "File name:" text box and click the "Open" button. Preview the gif in the "Preview:" window of the Setup Wizard. Almost done - Choose "Top" "Center" or "Bottom" from the "Position" drop-down. We clicked "Bottom," and the image moved to the bottom of the "Preview:" window. Click "Next," "Next," and "Next," and enter a unique name in the "Name:" box. We entered "Bob." Click on "Finish," "Apply," and "O.K." ...You're done!
Now, to use it, choose "Create Mail," → "Format" from the top menu bar, → "Apply Stationery" from the drop-down, → and click "More Stationery" from its side menu. Scroll as necessary to find the file you named, above, and select it so its file name appears in the "File name:" text box and click the "O.K." button. Enter your message, as usual, and send it out!
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