slapping forehead!

YUP or a USB flash drive.. cant believe i forgot that method, I just bought one for me! DOH! Sorry about that Jessica

volant:
U could use those (hotmail, yahoo or even google mail) which give u a gig a space. But I wouldnt reccomend it without having the stuff backed up on disc anyways.   They can disapear off the site and nothing u could do about it.  Same as the "free" online sites that host your pics..   Can disapear anytime and u would lose everything.   If its a "new" PC that your getting, it will have a CD/DVD burner for you.  Use that for best protection.

ßăķëď Äłáşķǻñ: thank you, I thought that sounded too easy :) It's good to know.

Does anyone have first hand experience of using BrainKing with the Nintendo DS Browser? Is it any good?

Wow - I been hosting my websites at http://powweb.com for about $7.77 a month. In December, I had 20GB disk space, 400GB of monthly bandwidth

In January, they upgraded me to 40 GB of space & 800GB of monthly bandwidth

In February, they upgraded me to 300GB of space & 3,000GB of month bandwidth

Anyway, if anyone is looking for a lot of space & bandwidth - http://www.powweb.com

Gr☺uch☺: lol, thanks for making my day, I used to work for gm in baltimore maryland before the shut down.I used to drill out the dash panel holes,lol.I had heard this before but still funny to me.

Anyone using it yet?  
Just wondering if I should spend the $$$ or wait till the price comes down..
Worth buying now?

ßăķëď Äłáşķǻñ: I would wait a while to be honest, that what i am doing

ßăķëď Äłáşķǻñ: I have limited exposure to Vista. But what I have seen is not good. I would expect many programs to quit working once you upgrade (crossgrade? downgrade?) to Vista. I am a Software developer and several of my company's products don't work on Vista. Some of the products we interface with also don't work.

It also seems to be cumbersome to use. Our software, like most, is not "Signed" and does not have a "Trust Certificate" with it. So, Vista ALWAYS asks "Are you sure" every time we try to run something. VERY annoying after a while.

Finally, as with any Microsoft OS, I would wait until some "Service Packs" have been released to fix the expected bugs.

Summertop: I would most definitely call it a downgrade rather than an upgrade. All you get at the moment are some additional restrictions and obscure "security advantages" which are so annoying that everybody will ignore them/ turn them off after a short while. This article ("20 Things you won't like about Windows Vista" may be a good start, although I wouldn't agree on some of his statements, especially on his "OS-Ranking". It definitely shows some disadvantages from the user's viewpoint.

Anyway: I have not heard of any reason to switch to Vista except its improved look&feel (which is IMHO inferior to the look&feel of other modern OSes like MacOS or up-to-date Linux distributions) so far.

Hi all,

My taskbar has suddenly disappeared.  Everything is fine, I just don't have my taskbar and start menu on my desktop.  Can anyone help?

Thanks.

King Reza: I know of two scenarios in which the taskbar disappears:

a) Explorer crashes
b) It is hidden

If explorer crashes, it usually just restarts. and if the taskbar is hidden, it usually reappears when you move your mouse to the bottom of the desktop. You can hide/unhide the Taskbar through Start -> Setting -> Taskbar&Startmenu.

If your taskbar is not hidden, and explorer doesn't recover, go into the task manager (Ctrl+Alt+Del -> Task Manager) and start explorer (click "new task" and type "explorer", then hit enter)

Gordon Shumway:Thanks for the reply.  No it's not hidden.  I already checked that.  And I did what you said, running explorer and stuff, and it didn't work. 

King Reza: That's bad news :(

Is explorer running then? If it is, you can see "explorer.exer" in the list on the "processes" tab of the task manager. Also, if explorer is running, hitting WinButton+R should show the "Run" dialog.

King Reza: CAUTION - this might be a stupid question:

Have you tried rebooting? ;)

1) Reboot computer if you have not already - if something went bad to cause it to not display, a fresh computer bootup will solve most all problems.

2) What I see some people do is make the taskbar smaller. Put your mouse at the bottom of the screen - VERY bottom, does it change from a pointer to a up/down 2 arrow? If so, then the taskbar may have been minimized - click while you see the double arrow and drag up a little bit to "expand" the task bar back to the regular size.

Is there any way to get the Tab button on your keyboard to work as a tab in a typing box here, rather than it jumping to the next field ?

BIG BAD WOLF:Nope!  None worked. 
But thanks for the help.

Gordon: I thank you too.  None worked either

King Reza: I wonder if pressing F11 might possibly bring it back.

jessica: Buy a flash drive load your pics on it and and transfer em, its much faster and they are going cheap.

Rose: They are great ain,t they? Going cheap over here!

Mousetrap: $39 for 1gig and $60 for 2gig.....real cheap backup system

BerniceC: I bought a 4G for £22.99 That is arround $40 I think. The 1Gs are going for arround £10!

Rose: So sorry that I haven't read the computer board in such a long time! LOL Everything is built right in & the only time I'm asked if I'm going to use dial-up or DSL is my ISP server. I have a DSL modem after I changed ISP's to dial up & I can't use it because 1 part flashes red unless I want to get a brand new 1

Rose: Network Card? When I ordered the new comp, they never mentioned it to me let alone knowing about it. On this comp, everytime I look under for High Speed, I need a DSL modem for it unfortunately

Everything was working great last night & when I tried logging on this morning, my messenger wouldn't connect at all & I get a pop=up saying that MSN wouldn't be able to connect w/o it. I'm on webtv again. I'm wondering if it is because my comp would automatically upgrade to Vista when I 1st got it & changed everything or would I have to reboot the comp & ten re-install MSN again?

MagicDragon: Why do you need MSN at all?

Fencer: It is my comp's ISP & webtv is my back-up. Mom doesn't like to go near a comp 1 bit & webtv is safer for her to use & understand mostly especially no waiting for me to get off the comp so she came get on-line! LOL I play games & have accounts at different sites that webtv can'y get into (no java)

Anyone who created websites knows or I assume should know what an alt tag is. I have been having trouble recently with alt tags not showing up in FF but work as they are intended in IE. Anyone else heard of this happening?

Rose: "Alt" is supposed to show up if the image won't load. If you want a tooltip text, use "title" instead.

Fencer: Very kool! It is so weird how something works in IE but has to be changed to work in FF. Yet, using Title works in both browsers.. DOH!

Thank you oh-great-one!

Rose: That's because IE is not a browser, but a strategical weapon. Its intent is not to give you a good internet experience. If that were the case, MS would have developed it constantly, but they didn't do anything about it when there was no threatening second browser. Its sole purpose is to be the quasi standard and to let people get used to it. It doesn't conform to any standards - if you try to develop valid in means of w3c-standards, IE will kick your a**.

It accepts a mess and renders it. That might sound good - but is actually bad. It's the main reason why more than 90% of the internet is not standards compliant! And it simply ignores a huge stack of standards, especially CSS (just consider their broken Border-Box-Model). That's why it is hard nowadays to develop both correct and successful in the meaning of reaching out to many people. If you want many people to see what you are doing, you have to consider IE. If you consider IE, your design gets broken.

Just consider you wouldn't have tested your site on FF: You would have thought, that using the "alt" tag was actually correct, and would have expected your users to see those titles. You wanted to do everything correct and cared about the user. The user also did nothing wrong. And despite it might look like FF was lowering the user's experience by simply not displaying the (intended) titles, it was acutally IE which made you think you could use alt when you had to use title.

IE is a pain in the a**. Please, everybody: Use Firefox! If you don't like Firefox, use Opera. But NEVER use the Internet Exploder. It really plainly sucks.

Hi there,
My firefox icon on my desktop changed its title from "firefox" to "vddf" .... what/why is this and should I worry?

The main reason I don't like Firefox is that my bookmarks always disappear... and I do mean always. What causes this and how do I prevent it?

Am I supposed to "personalize" Firefox in any way, not by adding extensions but somewhere on my computer where it differentiates between me and the other 2 users on this computer?

Finally, I'll bake a lovely cake for whomever will come and fix my problems.....

Binabik: sorry ! me as new at foxfire see's it not complete yet, in my opion not worth much i know, i would wait till it's complete as it is still in prosseses, so to speak. if you want it to do only certain things at this time it will do that. it has no botton clicks for toolbar and thats why i'm waiting, but others here brag on how fast pages load for here....no cake for me i'm a pudding person,lol

nightmagic: Thank you, I did notice a speed improvement when I first started to use it, but I have a suspicion I didn't complete the process, if that's the right word. I'm tempted to delete it and either start over or go to Opera, which hasn't lost my bookmarks, but which tends to pay overmuch attention to details here on BK...

Binabik: both may be ok after they get fully in mode, not as i see it at this time, others may help u more. me its only 1'2 a program, but like i said works for others as not me yet, will also depend on your useage and for what, personaly i like ie7 for now.i guess others use it differenty, but that to my bookmarks dissapear too.

Binabik: don't delete till u hear from others that may be able to help u better understand your problem. someone may be able to clear your problem, as with me i just preffered going back to old till all is complete. but i have heard alot on here are on foxfire now

nightmagic: Thank you, I don't plan on deleting until I hear more, like you said. :O)

Binabik: cool!!! then u might be able to help me out too. send me pm message of how it works for you.then i can start over again with it. thanks!

ie7 loaded all my pages here in less than 5 seconds per move and a 10 sec. re fresh

nightmagic: Lucky you are.

Fencer: now what do you mean by that other than trying to be the smarty u are. what i mean is it does work for me, you sound suprised..

Fencer: thanks, i would think you would want it to work fast for all, nomatter what browser anyone uses as long as it workes for them. ie7 works for me as no brainking button on foxfire, have you been working on getting a button there? if so as you said it works for you, i'll go for it as if easy access,lol

nightmagic: what bothers me is the fact Fencer is thinking of giving members who use FF another advantage over those that dont....I hope he says on the main BK page that this may happen because there is no way I would pay a membership and be dictated to as to what browser I can use.
I know he is just thinking about this but it dont seem to be fair to those that DONT WANT to use firefox....I have ADSL2+ which is a hell of a lot faster than normal broadband so I dont need crappy old firefox. Ive had it before and was not happy

BerniceC: Don't you recognize a joke?

Fencer: if you had of had "jk" after your statement then maybe i would have....it is like :) showing you im in a happy mood, or when Im sad

BerniceC: i was getting at that!!! as i read about the fact ones can get free site membership due to using foxfire.but as fencer hnows himself ie7 does work. as foxfire may be something later for most but not yet

Fencer: lose me easy, lol, maybe, but as long as i got my games no matter how fast or slow, i'll be here,lol

BerniceC: i had it along with ie7 for months, use it once in a bit, more work on it needs done yet but it may be ok in the end.