Design Your Keys - Put Your Keys To Work For You

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        I am really excited about our new program, Design Your Keys. It has made my time on the computer quicker and easier. Have you tried it out yet?
        Here are some things that you can do with Design Your Keys. Just click on the Quick Start button on the front page of Design Your Keys to set up the following functions.
        To start Windows' Calculator, just press the Insert button.
        To shut down your computer, press the End key.
        To play Solitare, just press the F11 key.
        Open the browser, Internet Explorer, by pressing the F2 key.
        Open Windows Explorer with the F4 key.
        Hibernate the computer with the Home key and make the computer Sleep with the ScrLk key.
        Check your emails in Outlook Express by clicking on the F1 key.
        To go to YouTube, just press the F7 key.
        To get a map or get directions online, press the F8 key.
        You can also open Yahoo Messenger, play Freecell and Hearts, disable/enable Design Your Keys, load the next theme of Design Your Keys, and show the Design Your Keys menu by clicking other keys.
        If that is not enough, there are other functions in other themes, like, Shopping (quick shopping on the internet) and Control Panel (load the individual items with a keypress).
        And if that is not enough, build your own themes. You name it, Design Your Keys can do it with a press of a key.
        Give Design Your Keys a try for free at - http://superwin.swmirror.com/designyourkeyz.exe. Get more information at http://www.superwin.com/designyourkeys.htm.


Roaming the Streets of the USA online

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        I came across this feature in Google Maps (http://maps.google.com) quite by accident. I was looking for a location in Los Angeles. When I found what I thought was the right address, I clicked on the Satellite button. I zoomed in and identified the building to be the probable location. Then fumbling around I did something and all of a sudden I was on the street looking at the surrounding buildings from street level. Wow. Now I could see a more normal view of the building.
        I made it full screen so that all I saw on my monitor was the street view. I dragged the picture around a full 360 degrees with my cursor. The screen had an imaginary line which was the street with two arrows on it. Clicking on an arrow took me a little ways down the street for a different vantage point. The approximate street address was given at each location. Clicking on the arrow I drove down the street checking out the neighborhood located thousands of miles away from my computer. Modern technology is awesome.
        I have since extended my neighborhood "stalking", from North Carolina to Louisiana all from the comfort of my home. I even went to my parent's house and saw that my son was there visiting them (good son) along with an unknown white car (a girlfriend?). Of course the pictures may be a few years old.
        How did Google get the street views? It appears that they mounted a special camera on a cartop and drove across the country through town and cities taking pictures every few feet. Not all roads are covered. Remote locations (like my home) also have not been photographed.
        How do you get the street view from Google Maps? The map has a zoom in and out bar. At the top of the bar is a little man. If the man is orange the street view is available. If it is grey, no street views are available on the displayed map. Drag the man to the location you want to see. If you hold him over the map for a few seconds, all of the streets that he can be put on will be outlined in blue. Drop him on the location you want to see and wait. Soon the street view will come up. Use the icon in the upper right corner to expand to full screen view and you are ready to roam the streets of America.
        Google has also implemented this in Google Earth. If you check the Street View item in the Layers box, it will show cameras in the streets where views are available. Double clicking on the cameras will bring you to the street level.
        Happy trails, urr, streets, to you until we meet again.

The Last Issue

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        It has been 4 years and 2 months since I started Ray's Computer Tips. You are one of thousands of people who have subscribed to this free weekly newsletter. I thank you for staying with me all this time. I hope you have learned about your computer and the internet.
        This is the last issue of Ray's Computer Tips. If you would like to receive the old weekly issues, you can use the subscription link to the left to start back at the first issue; otherwise, this will be your last issue. The other services of Super Win Software, Inc. will continue (including the discussion board). Just the newsletter is ending.
        One reason for ending this newsletter (other than having exhausted my brain) is that the other part of my life now takes up a bigger chunk of my time. To see the other part of my life, you can go to www.mcii.org.
        As you probably know, besides programming and running Super Win Software, Inc., I am a pastor and was a missionary. At the above mentioned website you will find the missions organization that I run, my sermons, and a new version of the New Testament that I am working on.
        If you are a good Christian and you or your church supports missionaries monthly, I ask you to consider monthly supporting the Light of Christ Church that I started in St. Petersburg, Russia. They are doing a great work there. You can subscribe to their monthly newsletter at http://www.mcii.org/church1.htm.
        I oversee the Light of Christ Church. They are on a monthly budget of $950. This pays the rent for the church office and sanctuary (which is a large part of the budget), the full-time salary of the pastor (who has not received a raise in 7 years), the part-time wages of his assistant, and other miscellaneous expenses. They are in desperate need of support to meet their budget. If you can help, please let me know.
        Once again, thank you for reading this newsletter and recommending it to your friends.


Questions on our Discussion Board

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• Repeated Downloads of Windows Updates
  
• Missing Icon
  
• nvram
  
• Speed Start Up
  
• Anonymous Browsing
  
• no micromedie
  
• Administrator Account Windows Vista
  
• Windows Installer Service failure
  
• PANDORA ON AN MP3 PLAYER
  
• Device Drivers
  
• Windows 7
  
• attachment only loads 99%
  
• speedstart trojan?
  
• Dell Keyboard
  
• Reinstall OS
  
• Computer shuts down
  
• Windows 7 versions of programs
  
• hp printer problems
  
• computer problem
  

Thanks for reading,
Ray Geide