I recall someone at a recent C&C meeting asking about how to
check
for dead pixels on an LCD monitor. I've put in an order for a
new
19" LCD monitor and will check it carefully on arrival. The
application I have found to do this check is called Dead Pixel
Buddy. It's freeware from http://www.laptopshowcase.co.uk/downloads.php?id=1
The download zip file is only 26 K in size and unzips to 294 K so it
would fit on a floppy if you wanted to take it somewhere to test an LCD
screen. Works on XP, 98, 2000 and Me.
DPB enables you to view the whole screen in a single selected colour so
that you can eyeball it for dead pixels in that colour. You
can
set the screen to each of these stock colours: red, green, blue, white
and black. If you want to, you can also set the screen to any of about
40 other colours, but I can't see how that would add anything to the
test of the stock colours.
Happy eyeballing!
Mike Boesen
Mail forwarding -
free advice for members
Go to the PCUG home page www.pcug.org.au -
click on either side link to
(I even made them a
different colour to make them obvious).
- after entering your user name and password, you are
presented with a lot of options which include a script to forward your
mail with a single click, and entering the address you want to forward
to.
Cheers - JohnS
WinBackup 1.86
Uniblue Systems have
just released the full and unlimited version of WinBackup 1.86 for free.
Packed with advanced features, WinBackup 1.86 has been termed
"exceptionally simple" by PC World and awarded "Best Backup Software of
the Year" by Computer Shopper. The free download product is available
exclusively at http://www.backupanswers.com/freewinbackup/
(I reviewed WinBackup
2.0 in the October edition of Sixteen Bits, and
recommend it as a fine product. Terry
Bibo)
Watermarks in Word
Sometimes Help Files are not quite up to what many users expect of
them. Certainly Word 2003 left much to be desired for a member of my
small computer group. So I have compiled a small tutorial that, I hope,
details how to insert a graphic object into a Word file as a watermark.
The same principle applies to text or word-art as a watermark.
Available here.
