On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:11:58 -0500, madgardener wrote:
I just found out that somehow Outlook express has altered the way I copy
and paste comics that I send to myself and my son and friend. It used to
go as JPG's and now they are converted to GIF and instead of a comic
just being on the e-mail I receive (which was way easier to move to a
folder I've marked "comics" for saving) it now has little red paperclips
that say "GIF" next to them and when I click to open them, I get a
warning first before opening them. And to add to my aggrivation, my
husband now tells me that with regular upgrades that Microsoft offers on
regularity, some of the security measures are so extreme now, they don't
even allow some perfectly harmless e-mail to get thru. I want to get
off the teat and get my computer on a better program. How I don't know.
I have a bad feeling I'll have to start from scratch and get a new
software and everything. plus backing up everything first so I don't
lose what I have now. Bill Gates is evil for doing this. And before
someone asks me where have I been. it sometimes takes me a bit to "get
it". Like there are some things I can't send to my garden friend who has
a MAC because his computer runs better. In fact, he's never had ANY
problems with worms, viruses, trojan codes and destructive things sent
out in the last seven years because he HAS a MAC computer and program.
But I can't send him some things because his computer isn't compatable
in some programs. very frustrating to me. It feels like I'm using a
phone from 1930 trying to talk to someone using a can and a
string.............(not a good analogy as his MAC seems to be far better
than my IBM that uses Microsucks, and I have the Windoz 2000 XP pro
version. Unable to buy a home edition to put on my machine because you
can have home version on your computer and upgrade to pro, but not have
pro and "downgrade".


I didn't take it as such. Hopefully my HTML has been turned off and
this will come out as plain text. If not, just let me know and I'll go
back into settings in my options and try again. madgardener (the
BABLEfish worked wonderfully by the way)

If your really in the market to make a move from Outlook, then check out
this:
http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/why/

This is a mail/newsreader that is very stable and secure. I hear tell that
it will even import Outlook databases.

And while your at it you should take a peek at:

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

I promise you, after playing with FireFox for a week, you'll never go back
to Internet Distroyer 80) I'm in love with the tabbed browsing.

As far as you copy paste issue, maybe just attaching them to the email
message instead of inserting them into the message body would help? I have
my mail client ignore all html and binary due to security issues that can
arise with embedded code. I tend to want to see what's in my message Vrs
being shown my message.

If your looking for a big change away for Micro$oft, then you may want to
look into mac. Mac just came out with a $500.00 system.

http://www.apple.com/macmini/

I'm thinking about getting one for my daughter due to it's small size.
Will have to see if she can stand the mac os or not. Mac's also have tons
of free software out there in the open source market.

Your friend shouldn't have too many issues now' day's with anything that
you send him. Mac/linux support most everything now. With my linux system
I can create and or read word docs, ms powerpoint.. etc with open office.

http://www.openoffice.org/

I can do everything with Open Office that a windows user can do with MS
office.

If you think I write alot, you should hear me talk...
Have a good day.


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Yard Works Gardening Co.
http://www.ywgc.com