Newsletter ArchiveSUBJECT:Searching TV - Reasonable Explanations The Internet 800 Directory - http://www.inter800.com The Internet 800 Directory Newsletter This issue is for Friday, February 04, 2005 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents 01. Searching TV 02. Reasonable Explanations 03. Tip Of The Week --------------------------------------------------------------------- *01 Searching TV Google is today's version of an ancient Greek Oracle, a place where, if you pose a question correctly, it will provide you with the answer you seek. The answer Google imparts comes from searching more than 8 billion web pages to find the most relevant pages, hopefully containing the proper information. However, in today's world, much of the communication (like television) is not in a written form or so I thought. Google is now indexing televised content by using the closed captioning text found in the programs. This new tool is in the testing phase and right now they are only indexing a small number of channels, but it does demonstrate the potential of indexing television shows. Try it for your self at http://video.google.com/ The world is changing. Less than a hundred years ago traveling from the east coast to the west coast took months. Now it takes hours. It's very easy for me to see that in a not too distant future you will be able to search man's total intellectual output in the blink of an eye. At that point will we stop learning facts and instead learn the paths to the information? You don't know anything, but can find out about everything. New site using our data We have some pleasant news to announce regarding the Internet 800 Directory. We are now providing the toll free data for Switchboard (http://www.switchboard.com/). Switchboard is one of the leading provider of local Internet-based yellow pages and a wholly owned subsidiary of InfoSpace, Inc. (NASDAQ:INSP). There should be a press release coming soon and I will include it in the next newsletter. Chuck Arning chuck@inter800.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- 4Clicks Solutions, LLC., (4Clicks) is a veteran owned small business company specializing in the development of SABER/JOC/IDIQ estimating and project management software. We develop our software in house with a very experienced staff dedicated to creating and maintaining software tools and solutions for the management and estimating needs of SABER/JOC/IDIQ. Visit us at http:// www.4-clicks.com or Call 866-438-4254 --------------------------------------------------------------------- *02 Reasonable Explanations REASONABLE EXPLANATIONS FOR STRANGE OCCURANCES This morning I washed my clothes brush before I finished dressing. Therefore, Murphy's Law automatically kicked in, as I needed the brush for my black coat and overcoat. My reasoning led me to the nearest solution, which is a hairbrush, which I can also clean. It worked fine. However, I knew that I also had to clean that brush, and, upon doing so I removed many long black hairs, which caught my attention, because I have very fine blondish hair. My wife has luxurious black hair. Aha!!! I thought (except that I have never seen her use that brush). Nonetheless, "J'acuse!" Even without counsel present, she adamantly denied it. It is a mystery. Upon further reflection we realized that we are prone to never lock our house, as we did not do that growing up. In fact, in our cabin in Horseshoe Bay, we didn't even have a lock on our side door. Therefore, we finally concluded is that someone is sneaking in, while we are at work, and using my hairbrush! But they made a mistake and left clues. Did you know that there is no DNA category in the Yellow Pages? Steven Jackson - saj@inter800.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Once every second someone searches the Internet 800 Directory looking for someone to supply them with goods or services. Will they find you or your competition? Call 800-299-1879! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tip of the Week This week's tip comes from Paul Davis, who sent me his way of backing up his data. ----------------- Speaking of backing up data, I discovered a while back that technology has now provided a realistic, practical way to do this. Over the years, I've tried everything: tape, zip, on-line, you name it, and every one of them was unreliable or expensive and, at best, a hassle to use. But on a trip through Costco last year I noticed they were selling a little memory module about the size of one of those flat, oblong erasers you used to use in school. It plugs into a USB port, and the one they were selling held 256 megs. I bought that one, but since then I've noticed that the prices keep coming down and the capacities keep going up. I now have three of the little buggers, two 256 meg and one 512 that I got at Tiger Direct. The thing is, they have zero moving parts. Which means you can drive over them with a truck or drop them from an airplane and you don't lose your data (provided you could find the little bugger if you did actually drop one out of a plane!). Another thing is, when you plug them into the USB port they install themselves, and you suddenly have a new "drive". When you go to My Computer you now not only have the c: drive and the d: (CD-ROM) drive, you have e: and maybe f: and g:, depending on how many of these you have plugged in. So moving or saving files is no more complicated that what you would do in moving between folders on the c: drive. I now do a daily backup of my Outlook .pst file to my 512 meg USB drive, and ditto for the data from Quicken. I've copied ALL my documents over, and now any new documents I create I save directly to one of my external drives -- I no longer even bother with saving any documents on the c: drive at all! Now, at last I can have a hard drive crash without getting an ulcer! I have bought a second computer with all my apps already loaded and running, making restoration almost trivial. All that happens now is I plug the USB drives into the other computer, restore the backups to Outlook and Quicken, and I'm on my way! Paul Davis GoldThrift(sm) Market makers for e-gold since 2000 http://goldinfo.biz ---------------------- If you have any tips or shortcuts that you think the readers of this Newsletter will find useful, send them to chuck@inter800.com Banners? Pay-per-click? Why not target your market with links or information placed in relevant content? The Internet 800 Directory Newsletter offers direct access to business people who are interested buyers. 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