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Today's fresh software picks were provided courtesy of Bob Helmer at Shell Extension City. Please note that the below software descriptions are provided solely from the developer and are absent from any guarantee or warranty. You are encouraged to ... review the Shell Extension Software Policy for more details. Lucid Link Wi-Fi Security can be hard. There are many options, many settings, and a lot of techno-babble in many WiFi clients that make it difficult for non-technical users to understand. The LucidLink WiFi Client eliminates all of the clutter and only presents what you need to connect to ... (view more)

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 SPECIAL NOTE: This 2-week special offer expires T O D A Y (Wednesday, November 28th) at 11:59PM EST! -- RE: PC Tools Software Mega Deal Dennis here from infopackets with another super deal on simply sensational ... software! If you thought last month's deal was great, you simply won't believe your eyes when I tell you about this one -- and I absolutely *mean it*! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You Won't Beat This Deal! PERIOD! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As you know, we regularly recommend two award-winning programs by PC Tools Software in our email newsletters, namely: ... (view more)

Love to talk? Many of us do. It's one reason Skype has becomes such a popular "telephony" service, although both Skype Ltd. and its customers are pulling out hairs this morning over news that a nasty worm is inching its way through the instant ... messenger service. Skype, which is a Voice over Internet Protocol, or VOIP service, has seen its fair share of threats. In April we reported on a similar issue, whereby a text link led to a JPEG file that in turn presented an executable link. Clicking that meant spyware-central, and a whole lot of headaches for a service developed by former ... (view more)

Junction Link Magic Junction Link Magic is a utility that lets you create junction points with Windows 2000, XP, 2003 or Vista. Junction Link Magic automatically lists existing junction points, and it offers an easy interface to add, modify or ... remove junction points. http://www.rekenwonder.com/linkmagic.htm Freenigma Adds privacy technology -- with strong e-mail encryption -- to your favourite webmail service. Supports not only Google Mail, but all large webmail services. Freenigma encrypt your e-mails in Google Mail, Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail, plus others. Encrypt your private and business e- ... (view more)

Sometimes it seems as though Microsoft Excel is almost too efficient. For instance, Excel will automatically update a chart when you make a change to the chart data. If you need to capture a screenshot of your chart before a change is made, you need ... to break the link to its data source. Follow the steps below to prevent MS Excel from automatically updating your charts: To keep Excel from automatically updating a copy of a chart with new data, you need to break the link to the source data. Launch MS Excel if it isn't already open. Copy the chart that you do not want to be automatically updated ... (view more)

Sometimes, folks may inadvertently change the Web hyperlinks in Word documents simply because it's so easy for them to accidentally change a link by simply following it. I'll show you how to make it a bit more difficult for readers to change your ... links. When you add a hyperlink to a Word document, you can go to the site by pressing CTRL and clicking your mouse on the link at the same time. If you want to edit the hyperlink text, you have to click inside it and make your changes. While you are working on the document, you want to be able to easily edit it, so this default setting is very handy ... (view more)

The Paste Special command can be used to create a link between cells. The source cell values must be copied to the Windows Clipboard. The link is created when the values are pasted to the target destination cells using the Paste Special Command. To ... create a link by USING the Paste Special command, follow the steps below: Open the desired workbooks, if necessary. Select the source cell(s) to be copied. Click on the Copy button on the Standard toolbar. Or right-click on the cells and then choose copy from the shortcut menu. Choose Edit | Copy. Press CTRL + C as an alternative. Select the ... (view more)

One of the rising technologies right now is Skype, a peer-to-peer telephone network devised by the same entrepreneurs behind the now decrepit Kazaa. But, don't be too alarmed; although peer-to-peer and Kazaa have both become dirty terms in the ... security vocabulary, Skype is a rather safe (and in many cases, cheap) and effective way of reaching friends long distance. However, Skype grows in popularity, so too do the threats, including a recent instant messaging worm that has spread its way to a few unlucky users. The recent issue hitting Skype's instant messaging service isn't much different ... (view more)

If an Excel chart already exists, it's a simple matter to link or embed one into an MS Word document. The techniques are similar to those for linking and embedding Excel worksheets by using the Paste Special command. Documents dealing with numeric ... data can often bog you down in details, causing a reader to miss the main point. A well-placed chart can show at a glance the trend or relationship among the numbers. While you can create a chart from scratch in MS Word, you don't need to do so if the chart already exists in Excel. Follow the steps below to link or embed an Excel chart into a Word ... (view more)

The Paste Special command can also be used to link an Excel worksheet. In contract to embedding, linking sets up a link between the worksheet cells in the document and the original Excel worksheet source. The MS Word document holds an image of the ... Excel worksheet and a shortcut to it but not an actual copy of the worksheet. Because of the link, any changes in the original are automatically reflected in the MS Word document. The advantage to linking the worksheet is that if the source worksheet in Excel changes, the values are automatically updated in the Word document. If you make a change in ... (view more)