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Issue #678
Volume 13 Number 51
October 7, 2016

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A comment from Thelma
Thank a lot to TC for setting up Thunderbird for me yesterday (a day early). I am having a tootle around it and getting used to setting up filters etc. - and I can use stationery. It's so amazing to see him taking over my PC and saying please don't use your mouse while I'm working - I wouldn't dare. Thanks again, I've said this before but you two are the best.

A comment from Kristine
I have used Cloudeight Direct Computer Care services twice now (I have a laptop and a desktop). Each time I have gotten professional service from both Darcy and TC. They solved all of my problems, and they even gave me some tips to help me keep my computer running well.. If you've never used Cloudeight Direct Care, it's the best deal going... the price is amazingly low and the service is just plain amazing. They get a grade of A+ from this former high school teacher.


A comment from Linda
Dear Darcy, Want to Thank You so much for Setting up My Thunderbird E-Mail. When You said Give Me 10 Min. I didn't Realize that's about How Long it will Take For You to do the Work. Such a Great Job, considering I forgot My Password at the Last Minute. Absolutely will Call on you Both Again if I need anything Done. Thanks Again Darcy! Linda F.

A comment from Ann
Just want to thank TC for setting up Thunderbird email for me. There were a few glitches, which were my fault, not his, but it was finally all set up and working. I'm still getting used to it, and like it so far. Thank you again TC...you do good work. Ann

A comment from Brian
Darcy did my Thunderbird installation for me. She was fast, courteous and thorough. I am so happy to have a great email program that won't break every time Windows 10 updates - which seems to be every couple of weeks these days. Thank you Darcy & Cloudeight for offering the Thunderbird service.

A comment from Shari
Dear Darcy - I have never written to Cloudeight before with respect to your flawless remote repair but today seems to be an exception. Though we had an appointment scheduled, you contacted me to see if I wanted to start a little early. A little early indeed! You spent, I think, at least 2 hours, possibly more (guilt shielded my vision a bit) on simply installing Thunderbird on my two computers. To begin with, I probably have the slowest system known to man, and secondly, for reasons unknown, it refused to accept my email password on the laptop, which took an inordinately long time to solve. You also took the time to fix another problem not connected with this installation, and now, after I sit down and figure out how to "make this my own", I am good to go, now that I'm out from under "that other email" which shall remain nameless. I have emailed everyone I know telling them that (a) I have a new - and wonderful - email provider, and (b) once again I expounded upon your remote repair opportunity which I have made use of more times than either of us can count. I truly hope you last forever, and I am EAGERLY awaiting your new stationery. The samples look scrumptious and I can't wait to use them. Thank you again, with all my heart, and save a little of that thanks for TC if you will. Sincerely, Shari C.


Thanks to Thelma, Kristine, Linda, Ann, Brian, Shari and all of you who wrote to us during the past week about the computer services you received from Cloudeight Direct Computer Care. We are so glad we've been able to help so many people from all over the world If you need computer service we hope you'll let us help you. TC & EB

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Our new Cloudeight Direct Thunderbird Email Set-up Service

Microsoft has announced that as of January 2017, they are no longer updating or supporting Windows Live. Microsoft addresses no longer work in Windows Live, and many ISP that use new secure servers, or have plans to, will soon stop working with Windows Live Mail.  And Windows Mail on Windows 10 is a problem because every time Windows 10 has a major update, Windows Mail has to be reset. Plus, the Mail App included with Windows 10 is very basic and few people find it useful

Mozilla Thunderbird is a great alternative for those of you who have been using Windows Live Mail or Windows Mail on Windows 10 and who don't want to use the limited Windows 10 Mail App. Thunderbird is compatible with all email accounts, including all Microsoft accounts, Windows 10 updates don't affect it, and has the familiar look of Windows Mail and Windows Live Mail. However it's very different as far as setting it up and configuring it.

So we're offering Cloudeight Thunderbird Email set-up service.

Our new Thunderbird Email set-up service includes installing and setting up Thunderbird to look and work as much like Windows Live Mail / Windows Mail as possible. We'll configure up to 3 email accounts for you and set them up as IMAP so that all your mail messages and folders on your mail server(s) are included in your Thunderbird Email program too! Plus, we'll give you a list of tips & tricks to help you get the most out of Thunderbird Email program.

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Walter wants to know about Secunia PSI and Norton
I presently use Secunia 3 PSI to keep me apprised of program updates, and Norton Internet Security to protect my computer from viruses and other security problems. I have used both products for many years and have never had any problems.

I recently read an article from another well respected computer authority (Fred Langa) that stated that Secunia and Norton NIS have not been diligent in providing necessary updates and are now considered useless. I am sure you are familiar with both products and would be interested in your thoughts on them. Respectfully, Walter


Our answer
Hi Walter. We have been saying basically the same thing for many years. Secunia PSI claims to keep all your software updated, but most modern browsers already update automatically, and browsers are certainly the point of attack for most malware and mischief. Secunia uses a lot of resources but, in our opinion, provides no real benefit. We have said several times before,  that in our opininon, Secunia is useless.

We can also tell you we have seen many using Norton whose computers were bogged down with a lot of malware, PUPs and hijackers. We do independent testing and evaluation and the only security software that we found that protects against almost all malware, hijackers, PUPs, etc. is Emsisoft. As far as viruses are concerned there are very few true viruses around these days, and you're not likely to ever encounter one -- but Emsisoft protects against them too.

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Susan needs to back up her Firefox bookmarks
I need to back up my Firefox bookmarks so when I get another new laptop but I can't seem to find them. I searched your forum and couldn't find what I needed. Thanks for your help. Thanks, Susan

Our answer
Hi Susan. We've made a little tutorial to help you.

1. Make sure your Firefox Menu Bar is visible (see below)
 
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2. Next click "Bookmarks" on the Firefox toolbar and choose "Show All Bookmarks".

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3. When you click "Show All Bookmarks" you'll see a toolbar at the top and one of the choices is "Import and Backup" (see below). Click on "Import and Backup" and then click on "Export Bookmarks to HTML" (HTML is just a fancy name for a web page.)

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When you click "Export Bookmarks to HTML" Windows Explorer (File Explorer) will open. Choose the location where you want to save your exported bookmarks and give it a name that you will recognize when you want to import your Firefox bookmarks back into Firefox on your new computer. A good place to save this HTML file would be on a USB flash drive or external hard drive.

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Now when you get your new laptop, follow all the steps above, except this time, instead of exporting your bookmarks, you'll want to import them. When you click on "Show All Bookmarks" and click on "Import and Backup", click "Import Bookmarks from HTML"...then browse to the HTML file you exported above.

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All the Firefox bookmarks you had on your previous computer will be available on Firefox on your new laptop.

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Mae wants to know if she should install this PDF converter
A popup offered a converter PDF to Word from "@devunity, 2016" (also it offered to check for window 10 driver update)I'm careful following your advise. Copied-"PDF to Word converter App gives you a tool that easily converts your PDF files to word and now the word to pdf. Soon we will have major improvements in the app to better use google chrome and its derivatives, If you consider this useful app sort it 5 stars. This will help us continue to keep it free and having a good number of users. Thanks!"

Our answer
Hi Mae. We wouldn't trust something that just popped up out of nowhere. There are so many online PDF to Word converters available online, why bother installing one? The online converters are fast, free, and work great. Here are a couple of safe online PDF to Word converters.

http://www.zamzar.com/convert/pdf-to-Word/
Zamzar has been around a long time. This is a good free converter and although they try to sell you speedier service, if you're in no big hurry it works great. You upload your PDF file by clicking a button. They convert it to Word (Docx) and send you an email with a link to download your Word document. The whole process took us about 3 minutes to convert a 3.2 MB PDF file and download the Word Document format. But this site has no tricky minefield of ads to navigate and the interface is logical and easy-to-use.

http://pdf2doc.com/
Be very wary of the ads on the page - especially the big green download buttons. You'll have to tippy toe through a maze of ads, but if you're careful, the service is fast. You can choose from *.doc and/or *.docx with *.docx being the newer Word doc format.

And if you have MS Word on your computer you can open a PDF file with it and convert it to Word format. Word does give you a warning that if the PDF file contains "lots of images" it may not look exactly like the PDF file.

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Hope this helps you, Mae.

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Allen fell for the Speed-Fix scam
I am sorry to admit i fell for this( speed fix tool plus ) yesterday paid them $50 using my Credit Card ( i know i did everything wrong ) they said they would clean out my computer for an extra $90, my concern now is can these people be trusted not to use my credit card any time it suits them, i am thinking about going to the bank to get them to change my card details.

Our answer
Hi Allen. We're sorry to hear this. Almost every week, we have someone ask us about miracle computer fixes like Speed-Fix and TurboBooster and Fix-it-Stick. There are no miracle one-two-three clicks-and-your-computer-is-fixed programs. We understand that many people want to believe that there are miracle cures, but sadly, there isn't. These scammers are not stupid - they know that people want to believe that there are easy fixes for complex problems.

Call your credit card company and tell them you want your money back – tell them you were scammed. They will reverse the charge for you. We don’t know if you need to change your credit card number and info – that’s quite a lot of work – ask your credit card company what you should do. Maybe you could have them set up email or text alerts so you received an email or text any time your card is used. Right now, the first thing you should do is get your money back.

Call your credit card company and explain what happened.

Read more about Fix-it-Stick, Speed Fix and other scams here.

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Jason wants a safe YouTube downloader
Is there a safe but free video downloader for You Tube? I had one some time ago but don't remember what it was.

Our answer
Hi Jason. See if this works for you Jason: http://www.thundercloud.net/infoave/new/how-to-download-youtube-videos-without-installing-any-software/

//Jason wrote back//

The SS worked perfectly. Thank you.... Jason M.

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The Holidays Are Coming. And It Begins With the Season of Tricks
All computer users

The Holidays are just around the corner – and it’s time to publish our yearly reminder to be extra careful during the Holiday season – which really has already begun. Yes already those “You’ve got a Halloween greeting” messages are starting to appear in your email inbox. Keep this in mind: it’s only going to get worse.

We’ve been looking into our crystal ball and what we see ain’t pretty! We can see millions of innocent computers and baffled PC owners being bombarded with thousands of ecards beginning with Halloween and reaching a crescendo on the night before Christmas.

‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through my computer,
The e-cards were coming, I should be astuter –
‘Cos I clicked on a link and my computer was fried,
I banged on they keyboard and to no one I cried:
“My computer’s infected with malware and spam,
So I’m fixing my computer while my family eats ham!”


Anyway, the holiday season is almost upon us and you’re bound to see some of the following in your inbox this year:

“Your friend has sent you a Halloween ecard”

“Your cousin loves you and sent you this Halloween greeting”

“Your brother sent you this Thanksgiving ecard”

“Your classmate sends you Christmas greetings”

“Your secret admirer sent you a Christmas greeting!”

“Your co-worker wishes you Happy Holidays”

“You have received a musical Christmas e-card”

“——- (name of bank) requests you update your account security”

“Important message from ———- (name of bank): Your account may have been breeched”

From now through the first of the year, you and everyone else is going to be bombarded with spam which appear to be from friends and admirers – some appearing to have been sent from legitimate ecard/e-greeting sites. Scammers will be busy trying to steal your personal information. They’ll send you emails that appear to be from banks or other financial institutions – asking you to “update your account” or that your account may have been breeched – or some other fable. This time of the year is prime time for criminals, miscreants, and other misanthropes.

The subject lines of these kinds of emails will be telling you that you’ve got a wonderful greeting of some sort from some unnamed family member or friend. Or they may appear as legitimate emails from your bank or credit card company. Beware! These emails will contain links that may infect your computer with something when clicked. And the something may be a Trojan, a virus, adware, spyware, or other malicious junk you can bet your chestnuts you won’t want. Or they may contain links that lead to a site that is a mirror images of your credit card’s site, or your bank’s site. Whatever kinds of emails you receive like this, you need to make sure your brain is functioning – and you need to stop and think before you click.

So, here we ago again, appealing to you to use your common sense. Because going through the holidays with a Ho! Ho! Ho! devil-may-care attitude, could have you working on your PC during your family’s Christmas dinner. While you’re busy formatting your computer, reinstalling Windows. Or worse – calling credit card companies telling them your identity has been stolen – and your credit cards have been used to buy Mercedes cars, big-screen TVs and the like, none of which were purchased by you. Use your common sense – and keep your brain engaged when on the Web – especially this time of year. If you do, you’ll be sitting down with your loved ones eating Christmas dinner instead of talking to strangers on the phone untangling the financial mess you’re in because your identity was ripped-off.

Many of these emails will contain links which lead directly to a download of some kind of malware. Some will contain links that will ask you for personal information. Your first line of defense is not your anti-spyware, firewall, or anti-virus. In fact, it isn’t any kind of software at all. Your first line of defense is YOU. Think before you click. A legitimate ecard will almost always contain the name of the sender…not “a friend”, “an uncle”, “a business partner” or a “secret admirer”. That’s your first clue. Would your uncle sign his name “uncle”. If uncle Joe sent you a ecard, wouldn’t he sign it “Uncle Joe” not “uncle”. The subject line say “You’ve got an ecard from your uncle” not “You’ve got an ecard from Uncle Joe” – see?

If you’re not sure, copy the link by right-clicking it and choosing “copy shortcut” and paste it in a blank email or better yet, into notepad. See what it says. If you come up with something like http:// 71.316.419.284 DO NOT CLICK IT! It’s almost certainly something you don’t want. Anyone can forge a link – see? http://thundercloud.net/ – click it and see where you end up? (Don’t worry we wouldn’t send you to someplace dangerous!) If you’re very astute, you hovered over that link and saw where the link goes. You would have also seen if the site name was disguised as a numerical IP address. Hovering is good!

Banks, financial institutions, and/or credit card companies NEVER ask you to change your password, update your information, or ask for any kind of personal information by email. If you receive an email that appears to be from your bank or credit card company and you suspect it may be legitimate, don’t click any links in it. If you want to find out if something needs to be changed on your account, or something needs to be updated, type in URL of the Web site of the bank or credit card company that you use and login securely. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER click links in these kinds of emails.

More than anything, you’re going to see tons of e-cards this time of year – and lots of them will be sent by the millions by spammers, scammers, and criminals. So, be a cynic. Be a skeptic. We all can’t be TC. No one would ever send him an e-card; nobody likes him. He knows any e-cards that he receives have to be scams, worms, Trojans or something else suspicious. People probably like you and people might even like you as much as EB who gets inundated with e-cards from admirers, friends, well-wishers and fawning minions. You might get real e-cards from real people that like you. If people like you then you have to be extra careful because you might actually get a few dozen e-cards from real people. The avalanche of ecard spoofing is coming to your email program soon. Of that you can be certain. So be safe – don’t be sorry. THINK before you CLICK.

Make sure you update your anti-virus program several times a week. WHAT? You still don’t have one? Get one! Right now. Don’t read another word. We recommend AVAST and it’s free for home and personal use. You can get it here…come on…do it right now before you forget!

Also, make sure you have good security software installed. We recommend Emsisoft because it protects you from the widest spectrum of malware, viruses, PUPs, hijackers and ransomware.

Summary:

Your First line of defense? YOU! Use your own good common sense and good judgment

Your second line of defense? Good security software

Forewarned is forearmed: The holiday ecard pandemic is right around the corner. So, remember this warning. You know now much we love to say: “We told you so!”

And speaking of the Holiday Season & Halloween - did you know EB's second car is a broom?


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A Windows 10 Quiz For You
Windows 10

All right all you Windows 10 users, we have a test for you:

1. What is the fastest way to open Control Panel?

2. What is the fastest way to open Device Manager?

3. What is the fastest way to open a command prompt with administrator privileges?

4. What is the fastest way to open Computer Management? Disk Management?

5. What is the fastest way to open Power Options?

Do you want to know the answers?

Here they are:

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You can access all of these features and more, just by right-clicking on the Windows 10 start button and clicking the item you want. Those of you with Windows 10 Redstone (Anniversary Edition) will see a slightly different menu.

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Simple Little Windows 10 Tips
Windows 10

Peek at Your Desktop

Did you know if you click the far right edge (to the right of the clock) you will go to your desktop. Indeed. Now how would you like to peek at your desktop just by hovering over the far right edge of your taskbar. Well, it’s simple to do.

Right-click an empty area of your taskbar and choose “Properties”. Lo! Taskbar and Start Menu Properties appears. Now look near the middle of that dialog and you’ll see “Use Peek to preview the desktop when you move your mouse to the Show desktop button at the end of the taskbar”. Check the box next to it. Once you do, you can peek at the desktop without actually going to the desktop. If you want to go to the desktop, you can click the Show desktop button at the very far right edge of your taskbar. Hint: You can get back to the desktop by pressing the Windows key and tapping the D key too.

Don’t forget to press “Apply”  “OK” to save your settings.

Upside Down Taskbar

How many of you remember Windows 98? Windows 95? How many of you remember accidentally dragging your taskbar to the right or left or top of your desktop. I started with Windows 95 (Darcy started with Windows 3.1). I can remember feeling lost when my taskbar ended up at the top of my desktop – it was upside down to me. Well, it wasn’t really… But you know Darcy and I work on a lot of computer and there are some folks who like their taskbar at the top or at the right or left edge of their desktop. It still confuses me but once I settle down, I get used to it.

If you’re brave, crazy, just want to be different, or want to try out the taskbar at the top or at the right or left edges, it’s easy to do – no more trying to grab the taskbar with the mouse and dragging it around – man, I used to hate that!

Anyway, in case you didn’t know this, right-click on an empty space on your taskbar and click “Properties”.

In the dialog that appears, look next to “Taskbar location on screen”. Using the down arrow at the right of the selection box you can choose where your taskbar appears on your screen – at the bottom, to the left side, to the right side, or at the top.

Don’t forget to click “Apply/OK” to save you settings. This is sure a lot easier than dragging your taskbar around you desktop by accident. Plus, you may actually enjoy an upside down taskbar or a conservative desktop or a liberal one. I will let you figure that out.

As for me, I’ll leave my taskbar right where it is —  at the bottom. I’m old and set in my ways. I’m a centrist

How about some of that upside down cake, EB? Got any left, or did you and porky eat it all?

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Saving Mail from Windows Mail to Thunderbird
Windows 7, Windows 8x, Windows 10

a. Make a folder on your desktop called Saved Mail. Now open Windows Mail and choose File, Export Messages.

b. Now choose Microsoft Windows Mail from list  and choose next.

c. Browse to the folder you created - we named it Saved Mail on our desktop

d. Select Folder you want to export, or choose All.

e. Create a folder under Local Folders (important to do it here) and name it Saved Mail

f: Click Tools, ImportExport Tools, then choose Import all messages from a directory, then choose Also from its subdirectories, click Ok and you are done. If you have a lot of folders and mail, it will take a lot longer, so don't interrupt the import!

See below for a step by step picture tutorial.  Alternatively, you can create a folder on your desktop called Saved Mails, and drag and drop mail from your Windows Mail program to this folder. Then, Open Thunderbird, Create a Folder under Local Folders called Saved Mail, and drag the emls directly into the folder from your desktop folder.

Screenshot #1: Make a folder on your desktop called Saved Mail. Now open Windows Mail and choose File, Export Messages. >

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Screenshot #2: Now choose Microsoft Windows Mail from list and click Next.

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Screenshot #3: Browse to the folder you created - we named it Saved Mail on our desktop

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Screenshot #4: Select Folder you want to export, or choose All.

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Screenshot #5: Now Open Thunderbird, Create a folder under Local Folders (important to do it here) and name it Saved Mail

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Screenshot #6: Click Tools, ImportExport Tools, then choose Import all messages from a directory, then choose Also from its subdirectories, click Ok and you are done. If you have a lot of folders and mail, it will take a lot longer, so don't interrupt the import!

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To see this tutorial online (with larger screenshots ) as well as all our other Thunderbird tips & tricks, visit this page.

If you don't have Thunderbird installed yet and you'd like us to set it up for you, check out our Thunderbird Setup Service! 

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Why Is System & Compressed Memory Hogging All My RAM?
Windows 10

If you've ever opened Task Manager and looked under the Processes tab, you may have noticed something called "System and compressed memory" taking up 30% of your available RAM. If you see this, don't worry about it - it's Microsoft's new way of making Windows faster. There's a long technical explanation if you're interested in paging files and memory management (if you are, you can read more about it here).

Basically, what Windows 10 does is compress old pages of memory so they take up less space. So let's say you have a program running that's been open for a while, but that you haven't used, Windows 10 compresses it and makes it smaller rather than dumping on your hard drive in a paging file. RAM is much faster than your hard drive and therefore is much faster than using the paging file - this helps make Windows 10 run faster.

On the flip side compressing and decompressing memory takes up a lot more CPU cycles. But, according to Microsoft, the performance cost is much lower than it would be Windows had to continually to retrieve data from the hard drive. Simply put: It’s faster to bring back open programs that are open but that you haven't used for a while, out of memory than it is to load them from the hard drive’s page file.

All kind of technical geek-speak, but we wanted to give you a brief overview so you won't worry if you open Task Manager and see something like this going on:

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The more you know, the less you have to worry? Not always, but in the case of PCs, it's most often true.

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October Rain

It's not supposed to be this way. The rain I mean. The sullen, gray skies belong in November, not now, not here, not in October. The October rain is cold and steady. The day is morose and dark. Not a sad day but a melancholy mood could set in if I were not careful. The October rain comes too early; the world outside seems out-of-step and incongruent with the world inside --- my mind.

I think we could all let the little things carry us off to dark corners where we don't like to be. I am sure we all do it although few of us, I think, do it intentionally. I hear the rhythm of rain pounding on the window from which I've observed many sunny, unseasonably warm, October days recently. But the seasons, like life, are a balance of good and bad, happy and sad, pleasure and pain, and beginnings and endings. No season goes gently into its good night. No person should go gently into that good night. I will not, I hope.

The rain feels tiny sabers of ice as it stabs at my summer-acclimated skin. I'm not, ready for this. Not ready for the pounding November gales and chilling rain that cuts my skin and slices down into my bones. I'm not ready. But, in the grand scheme of seasons, and life, what will come will come. Although sometimes I won't be ready for what tomorrow brings, it has always been this way. The older I get the more aware of this I become.

Summer has come and gone but it did not go gentle into that good night...

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In this day of Facebook, InstaGram (oh how much I want to start a web site called InstaGramma – for all of you fine ladies who woke up one morning to discover you were a grandmother ), Flickr and other web services that let you make you own web pages via templates,  but you don’t learn a darn thing about coding.

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On the left you can see the HTML code; on the right you can see what it does – your web page comes to life like a butterfly emerging from its cocoon.

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