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The Internet 800 Directory Newsletter
This issue is for Friday, April 1, 2005
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Table of Contents
01.	Switchboard
02.	What if…..?
03.	Tip Of The Week
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*01 Switchboard

If you are a regular visitor to our site you may have already noticed
the Switchboard logo in our partner's links. However, the official
announcement that they are using our toll free data just took place
yesterday.

Here is yesterday's press release:

------ Press Release------
Internet 800 Directory Signs Agreement with InfoSpace Search & Directory
to Distribute Listings at Switchboard.com

ALBUQUERQUE, NM --- March 30, 2005 --- The Internet 800 Directory,
www.gotollfree.com, the online leader in the toll free directory
industry, has teamed up with the Search & Directory business of
InfoSpace, Inc. to provide toll free listings at InfoSpace's
Switchboard.com online yellow pages site. This new service expands the
capability for Switchboard users to locate and talk with companies that
do business with toll free dialing for their products and services. It
also provides increased value to online business customers, helping
customers to contact them via the web or by free dial-in.

"We are especially pleased to be affiliated with InfoSpace's
Switchboard.com destination site and look forward to bringing more
utility to both their customers and users and ours," said Steven A.
Jackson, President of the Internet 800 Directory. " Since the majority
of E-commerce today is still being completed or augmented by phone
today, 800, 888, 877 and 866 numbers are important tools for any
business."

With the growth of commerce on the Internet starting to approach its
potential, businesses are beginning to realize that their own business
may not just be local, just as toll free numbers are no longer viewed as
national-only in use. The addition of toll free listings is a natural
extension of Switchboard's comprehensive directory of information on
local businesses nationwide.

"This agreement with Internet 800 Directory represents our efforts to
continually add new content sources to Switchboard in order to create a
better online yellow pages experience for our customers," said Ron
Winter, director of product management for the Switchboard site at
InfoSpace.

About Internet 800 Directory

Since 1995, the Internet 800 Directory, http://gotollfree.com and
http://gotollfree.com, is the biggest and only US toll free directory on
the Internet to provide all listed US companies by 800/888/877/866
number, free, and regardless of long distance carrier. It has agreements
as the toll free directory with Dex Media, InfoSpace, Switchboard,
WorldPages.com, Acxiom, YP.com, Yellow.com, Net2Phone, WhoWhere?,
Internet Tollfree, Yellow.com and thousands of other links. It has
international recognition and has achieved prominent positioning as the
toll free directory with such sites as Google, Yahoo, Excite, Lycos,
MSN, Yahoo, AOL, NBCi, Overture, LookSmart, AskJeeves, C/Net, About,
DirectHit, C/Net, HotBot and Alta Vista. It is also a targeted marketing
content site. The Directory is owned by Digital Information and network
Co, Inc. (DIANCO)

Contact: Internet 800 Directory
Chuck Arning, 800-299-1879
chuck@inter800.com
------End Press Release-------

We are both pleased and proud of this new association and we will
continue our effort to add our toll free data to other prominent sites.

Chuck Arning chuck@inter800.com
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*02 What if…..?

Since I live 16 miles from our office, as does my wife, we drive a total
of 64 miles every day (32 miles each) when we use two cars, which is
more often than not, no matter how we try.  My wife's car gets about 30
miles per gallon to my clunker which gets about 20, if I'm not being
chased by a skinhead.  Therefore, based on my junior high algebra, at
$2.20 per gallon (which may be cheap shortly) I spend $3.52 every day,
not counting side trips to Krispy Kreme.  My wife spends a paltry $2.35.
However if one puts them together: that means we spend $5.87 per day,
just to have the privilege to listen to Golden Oldies on 98.5.

Since we generally go to work at least 5 days per week, that means we
spend $29.35 per week just in order to wave at the people passing us,
since we are now old enough to know better not to speed, thanks to the
regulators given us by the state police.

Now you may think this is weird, but I've always tried to figure out why
our traffic problem is so bad.  When one is driving 20 miles per hour
down any major freeway in the US at 8:30 am, he is looking at someone
else driving 20 mph going the other direction.

Ever wonder why these people are going from point X to Y, when, if they
just lived at Point X or Y, they wouldn't have to drive.

Now I know that we live in the "Land of the Free and Home of the Brave",
so I am not proposing that this be a law, but I wonder what could have
happen to the country (or the world) if we had a law, or an
dictatorship, that simply said that one must live within, say, a 5 mile
radius of where one works.

Consider how different the cities would look and how much oil we would
save.

Oh wait - that would be Manhattan, wouldn't it?

Steven Jackson - saj@inter800.com
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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!
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Tip of the Week

Windows-Shut Down

Here is a way to shut down your computer with just one click.

Windows 95/98/ME:

1-Right "click" your Desktop
2-Select "New" then "Shortcut"
3-In the "Command Line" Paste

rundll32.exe shell32.dll,SHExitWindowsEx Y

4-Replace the "Y" at the end of the command line with one of the
following numbers. (make sure you have the space between Ex and the
number).

-  0  - Log Off: Shuts down all running processes and logs user off.
-  1  - Shutdown: Shuts system down
-  2  - Re-boot: Shuts system down and re-boots computer.
-  4  - Force: Shuts system down without notifying any running
programs-Warning information can be lost using this one
-  8  - Poweroff: Shuts the computer down and turns the power off

5-After you have changed the "Y" for a number, click  "Next"
6-Name the shortcut


Windows XP:

1-Right "click" your Desktop
2-Select "New" then "Shortcut"
3-In the "Command Line" Paste one of this options:

For Shutdown:
Shutdown -s -t 0

For Restart:
Shutdown -r -t 0

For Log Off:
Shutdown -l -t 0

4-Click "Next"
5-Name the shortcut

After you setup the shortcut, click it and windows will shut down.

If you have any tips or shortcuts that you think the readers of this
Newsletter will find useful, send them to chuck@inter800.com

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