Number 233 - September 2002

Dummies Tips
as seen on www.tyler.net/tcc
Surfing the Web can be tough to do. Now you can sit back, relax, and let FM Reader (www.fm reader.com) speak the Web to you! You heard right! If you have AOL or Internet Explorer, FM Reader reads the text out loud to you. It can also look up words for you, find similar Web pages, or help you seek out relevant encyclopedia pages. This free tool is invaluable for the visually impaired, or those who are learning to read.     The Windows XP Resource Center at Dummies.com is your one-stop shop for everything Windows XP. And it's all available 24 hours a day, just in case you can't wait for your next Dummies Daily eTip1 to arrive in your Inbox. Be sure to browse our How-To's, such as Making Sense of the New Windows XP Control Panel and Making Older Programs Run under Windows XP. And be sure to check out the new column, Windows XP's Most Helpful--and Most Hidden--Features, by Andy Rathbone, author of Windows XP For Dummies. [Office XP Resource Center too - TOGGLE ed]     You won't believe it's free. Here's a full-featured accounting software for Windows 95/98/NT that includes gereral ledger, accounts receivable, accounts payable, bank reconciliation, invoice/order entry system, automated check printing, and more. All this is free to you from Clarisys. [It is called 3S, available at www.clarisys.ca/ free.html. But, you might want to check accounting assumptions and be a bit careful using these programs for anything really important.	This is a Canadian company and if Canadian accounting practices are used they may be slightly different than those used in the US. For example some US Loan companies and banks take loan interest "off the top" at the beginning of a loan period. Thus if you borrow $100 at 10% they take back $10 and leave you $90 to use during the period (really 11.11% interest) whereas Canadian practice, by law, is to take interest "not in advance", i.e. you get $100 and they wait until the end of the period before they get their 10 bucks. That is true simple interest! - TOGGLE ed.]     A free Internet music radio service, Spinner.com offers non-stop Internet radio for hours on end. Spinner's own expert DJs select the music at Spinner.com, which offers all of the standard music types (jazz, rock, country, and so on), and was voted best Internet Radio by Yahoo! Internet Life for 2001. So check it out and rock on!     Dread going to traffic school? Now you have the option of taking the course on the Web at Traffic School Online. The course is divided in ten segments (including short reviews and quizzes), and takes about eight hours to complete. Traffic School Online is approved by many jurisdictions nationwide. The pricing and final testing varies, according to individual jurisdictions.     Want to have your eTips1 delivered to you? Do it all at the Dummies Daily [http://www.dummies daily.com] site.
Number 233 - September 2002