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2001-06-28
(2001-Jun-28)
1) Bugged By Web bugs?
2) Now This Is A *Real* Security Issue
3) Smart Tags = Dumb Idea?
4) BIOS Update Update
5) New Security Test Site
6) Last Days To Enter June's FREE Drawing
7) Email "Header" Forgery
8) They Loaded The Code
9) More Goodies From An Old Favorite
10) Just For Grins
11) Fred's PC Cooling Mods;
A PIM-like Info Organizer;
A Free Way To Capture/Store/Organize Web Info
2001-06-25
(2001-Jun-25)
1) The Web-Bug Boondoggle
2) I Hate Sites Like This One
3) PhoenixNet BIOS's Performance Hit
4) Word, NetMeeting Security Holes (and Patches)
5) Freeware Reader Rave
6) Last Week To Enter June's FREE Book Drawing
7) Netscape 6.1 Preview
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
9) More Uses For "Search Bar"
10) Just For Grins
11) Awesome Free File-Conversion Site;
Huge List For Ad-Blockers;
R.I.P. CueCat...
2001-06-21
(2001-Jun-21)
1) Readers Reply Re: Alternative and Backup Power
2) More On Windows XP's "Raw Sockets"
3) Search Bar 1.1
4) The Classic On/Off Question Returns
5) Last Week To Enter June's FREE Book Drawing
6) Instant Software Rentals; Instant Networks
7) They Loaded The Code
8) New Firewall Contender?
9) Just For Grins
10) Free Tool To Let You Avoid Downloading Unwanted Emails;
A Different (and free) ">>>>>>" Stripper; Free DOS Memory Tester;
And A Good Use For Old PCs; Updated Image Preview Repairer...
2001-06-18
(2001-Jun-18)
1) Flashes, Flickers and Fluctuations
2) Generators, Rolling Blackouts, etc.
3) Easy Alternative Power For Laptops and Small PCs
4) Tons Of RAM = Memory Hell?
5) More On Cookie Deletion
6) $10,000 For Your Trouble?
7) Win2K Security Bug
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Just For Grins
10) Clever Ways To Configure Windows Explorer;
Drive Image Automation Tricks;
SurfWax...
2001-06-14
(2001-Jun-14)
1) Bad Site Improves; Good Site Gets Attacked
2) Finding Needles in The LangaList Haystack
3) Readers Reply: How Much Reg Cleaning Is Enough?
4) Useful Freeware
5) Nice Search Engine
6) Don’t Make Me Beg! 8-)
7) Anti-SpyWare Site
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
9) AOL Revisited, #1
10) AOL Revisited, #2
11) Just For Grins
12) Search Bar 1.1,
How To Restore Munged "Image Preview" Options,
And What's Even Worse Than The 'Dust Bunnies From Hell?'
2001-06-11
(2001-Jun-11)
1) Good And Bad Online Security Check-Ups
2) Corrupted and Insecure Word Documents
3) Wow! Lots More Free Image Viewers!
4) DOS Tip; and The WinMag Articles Move Again
5) Speaking Of DOS: A Long File Name Trick
6) Is This Newsletter Useful?
7) Cool (and Free!) Tray Applet
8) New Code-Load Graphic
9) Freedom of Association
10) Just For Grins
11) Free "Undelete" Tools;
How To Automatically Get Rid of The ">>>>>" In Forwarded Emails;
Beware The Dust Bunnies From Hell!
2001-06-07
(2001-Jun-07)
1) How Much Protection Is Enough?
2) Firewalls For Dial-Up?
3) Oh No! *Hardware-Based* Phone Home Apps!
4) Synchronizing Multiple Mail Clients
5) Free CD Rippers
6) "PassThisOn" Page Hijacking
7) George Got His Gift Certificate. Want One?
8) Meet Derlan, of Brazil...
9) More Reader Sites!
10) Just For Grins
11) More Free Font Tools;
Automatic Email For Your Web Pages;
More on Editing IE's Title Bar;
and a Free Utility To Test Your PC Hardware
2001-06-04
(2001-Jun-04)
1) How To Restore SULFNBK.EXE; And Hoax Follow-Up
2) How Much Protection Is Enough?
3) Finally! A Good Use For Old CDs
4) New Month, New Drawing!
5) "Disappearing Ink" For Emails
6) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
7) Free Bandwidth/Throughput Checkup
8) Just For Grins
9) Gain Speed, Stability By Reducing Font Overload;
Changing IE's Title Bar Text
2001-05-31
(2001-May-31)
1) The "SULFNBK" June 1st Virus Hoax
2) NeoTrace For Free
3) Karen K's Site Woes, Other Newsletter Sites
4) QCheck Your Network For Free
5) Last Day To Enter May's FREE Drawing
6) HyperTerminal Security Problem
7) More Reader Sites!
8) Another Free Renamer
9) Drowning In CDs? (Plus: Freeware)
10) Just For Grins
11) More On Free Hard-Drive Cloning Tools; Easy Links To The Online Win95
Resource Kit; FREE, Bloat-Avoiding Excel-HTML Tool
2001-05-24
(2001-May-24)
1) MS Word Security Problem
2) How'd I Miss This One?
3) Download Forcer Dead?
4) No LangaList Monday (National Holiday)
5) Another Overzealous Mail Filter
6) Karen Kenworthy's Software Archives Now Live
7) Last Week To Enter May's FREE Book Drawing
8) Free: Remove "System Restore" From WinME
9) They Loaded The Code
10) More "Must Have" Tools
11) Just For Grins
12) Clone A Hard Drive For Free;
Easy Links To Win98 Resource Kit;
Reprogrammed BIOSes (Cheap!)
2001-05-21
(2001-May-21)
1) How Much Reg Cleaning Is Enough?
2) More File-Hiding Software
3) New Threat #1
4) New Threat #2
5) Brain-Picking
6) Another Way To Speed Downloads
7) Don’t Make Me Beg! 8-)
8) A "Wow" Site
9) They Loaded The Code
10) Just For Grins
11) Free Tool To Clear "Typed URLs;"
More Burn-In Tools; More AutoRun Info
2001-05-17
(2001-May-17)
1) It's No Joke!
2) The "Download Mage" Shuffle
3) You An Alexa User? Read This!
4) Easy Renamers
5) "Bios Savior"
6) Want $10,000 To Spend This Season?
7) Easy WinMag Article-Finder
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
9) WinME Performance Tips
10) Just For Grins
11) How Do You "Burn-In" A New System; MyVitalAgent; Easy IE Repairs...
2001-05-14
(2001-May-14)
1) The "Dead Drive" Security Loophole
2) The PEBKAC Blues
3) Spyware-Free Download Manager
4) How Can You Tell If Something's Spyware-free?
5) *Triple* Your Connection Speed?
6) Is This Information Useful?
7) Collaborate To Improve Security Online
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
9) "Script Sentry" Updated
10) Just For Grins
11) Easy, Do-It-Yourself Auto-Run CDs; A Comprehensive Computer Spec
Checklist...
2001-05-10
(2001-May-10)
1) Hard Drive Thrashing
2) Free Image-Viewer
3) Backing Up Outlook, & Express
4) Rename Many Files (e.g. MP3s) All At Once
5) Want To Be A Ten-Thousand-Aire?
6 )More Spell-Check Resources (Even multilingual!)
7) They Loaded The Code
8) Special Request to Past Code-Loaders
9) BIOS Recovery?
10) Just For Grins
11) More Peltier Cooling Info; Two Free MS-Compatible Office Suites;
Fred Cries "Anacol"
2001-05-07
(2001-May-07)
1) More CPU-Slowdown Sleuthing
2) More Free Spell-Checkers
3) Free: Hide Folder Contents From Prying Eyes
4) DSL, Cable, RASPPPoE & WinPoET
5) Could You Use An Extra $10,000?
6) New: 181.6 Gigs In A Single Hard Drive!
7) Reader Sites Are Back!
8) Meihem in ce Klasrum
9) Just For Grins
10) Free "MacroAngel," WinMag Article Index,
Peltier Cooling, More...
2001-05-03
(2001-May-03)
1) Email Horror Stories--- And Solutions!
2) Spell Check Almost *Anything!*
3) Link Wins... And Woes
4) A "Must Have" Free Tool For Advanced Users
5) MS Office ShortCut Bar Problem
6) A New Month; A New Chance
7) More On IE6's "Blank Page" Problem
8) Reader Sites
9) Serious IIS Vulnerability
10) Just For Grins
11) Free Tools To End DLL Hell;
Three More Free "Content Advisor Password" Workarounds
2001-04-30
(2001-Apr-30)
1) Message In A Bottle
2) Heads Up! Langa.Com Site Move In Progress
3) CPU Slow Down?
4) WinMag's Content Returns!
5) Three Excellent Freeware Utilities
6) Last Day To Enter April's FREE Drawing
7) Quick Helper
8) New "Reader Site Roulette"
9) What A Find!
10) Just For Grins
11) How To Work Around The Content Supervisor Password;
Clean Up files for WinMe and Win2K;
and a Free Spyware Blocker
2001-04-26
(2001-Apr-26)
1) Internet Explorer Patch Patch
2) Last Chance: Grab The Final Byte "Monitor" Column
3) DSL vs Cable
4) IE6 Beta Woes Continue
5) Powerful, Free Editing Tool
6) Last Week To Enter April's FREE Book Drawing
7) Free XXcopy
8) Where Are The Code-Loaders?
9) Secret Speedup Tip
10) Just For Grins
11) "White Lists/Black Lists," Easy Ways To Find A New ISP, Free Security
Tests...
2001-04-23
(2001-Apr-23)
1) Final Byte Column Live Today
2) New, Faster "Langa.Com" In The Works
3) The "AnswerWorks"
4) Sizzling HotSpots
5) Son Of "Clippy"
6) Quick IE Tip
7) Recommend It!
8) Time-Saving "MetaBrowsing"
9) Those Pesky "FFF..." Files
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights
2001-04-19
(2001-Apr-19)
1) BrowserTune 5.0 Released
2) WinTune: Lost, And Found
3) One-Click CureAll For Windows Problems
4) New (Still Free!) "Script Sentry" Released
5) More Clever Google Tricks
6) Don’t Make Me Beg! 8-)
7) R.I.P. Clippy
8) They Loaded The Code
9) More on Page Redirection
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights
2001-04-12
(2001-Apr-12)
1) Schedule Change: No Monday Issue
2) Easter Eggs
3) Out-Of-This-World PCs
4) Trojans Rampant
5) More Fine-Print Follies
6) Page Redirection
7) Is This Information Useful?
8) Meet Pape Tanor, Part of the LangaList Family
9) More Reader Sites!
10) New Search Engine Front End
11) Just For Grins
12) Plus! Edition Highlights
2001-04-09
(2001-Apr-09)
1) IE6 Beta Warning
2) Compression Question
3) An Expert-Level Disk Imaging/Compression Tip
4) New Archives / New Format
5) UNIX Mini-Grin
6) Want $10,000 Extra This Month?
7) Shortcuts
8) They Just Keep Coming and Coming...
9) LavaSoft/Ad-Aware Returns At Odd Moment
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights
2001-04-05
(2001-Apr-05)
1) Free, Way-Cool Desktop "Search Bar"
2) Serious Internet Explorer Security Problem
3) Less Serious "Compressed Folders" Security Hole
4) (Psssst! Here's A Way To Access WinMag Material)
5) And: Here's NEW WinMag Content... Without WinMag
6) Edson Got His Gift Certificate. Want One?
7) Ad-Aware Defunct?
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Just For Grins
10) Just One Thin Dime...
2001-04-02
(2001-Apr-02)
1) Patch Released For Fake Security Certificates
2) And Speaking Of Security Patches...
3) Free: Jason Levine's "Cookie Jar"
4) WinProxy 4
5) Is All Adware Spyware?
6) Xteq Systems' X-Setup 6.0 Out Of Beta
7) Fresh Start For Monthly Drawing
8) Minor Venting From Langa and Pirillo
9) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
10) Just For Grins
11) Free Tool For Clearing Document List, Private Web Site, DCC in Win2k...
2001-03-29
(2001-Mar-29)
1) Windows XP Preview
2) Addendum on the "Fake Security Certificates"
3) More ICQ Replacements
4) Acronym Soup
5) "Tiny Firewall" Set Free
6) Free "Freedom" Suite Followup
7) Last Day To Enter March's FREE Drawing
8) Woram's "Rogue's Gallery" Grows
9) They Loaded The Code
10) Just For Grins
11) Free Custom Desktop Search Bar, DCC Tricks, Old PCs as Servers.
2001-03-26
(2001-Mar-26)
1) Alert: Fake Microsoft Security Certificates!
2) More On The Closing of WinMag.Com
3) More ICQ-Related Info: Alternatives
4) More ICQ-Related Info: Another Ad-Remover
5) More ICQ-Related Info: Trivia
6) "Return Receipt" Helper
7) Last Week To Enter March's FREE Drawing
8) They Loaded The Code
9) New Version Of Ad-Aware
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights
2001-03-22
(2001-Mar-22)
1) Bad News
2) Easy Rescues For Outlook, Outlook Express
3) Road Runner, Verizon, @Home Email Problems
4) System File Checker Conflicts
5) More ISP Shenanigans? (This time: Earthlink)
6) Could you Use An Extra $10,000?
7) ICQ Ad-Busters
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming....
9) Just For Grins
10) Plus! Edition Highlights
2001-03-19
(2001-Mar-19)
1) Duck And Cover
2) The Heat Is On
3) More Help For WinME/9x Users
4) HotSpots Sizzling
5) Is This Information Useful?
6) ICQ Users Feel AOL's Gentle Touch
7) Cleaning Typed URLs
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Rosetta Stone Even *More* Improved!
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights
2001-03-15
(2001-Mar-15)
1) Hot Chips, Cool Replies
2) Yes, WinME Does Work For Many
3) Rosetta Stone, Improved
4) ZoneAlarm Pro Updated
5) More On That " 1,000 GB CD"
6) $10,000 For Your Trouble?
7) Warning! More ISPs Follow Juno's Lead!
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming...
9) A Free Window-Positioner
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights
2001-03-12
(2001-Mar-12)
1) None Like It Hot
2) WinMag.Com Changes Course On WinME
3) New Variant On An Old IE Security Problem
4) Many More Gadgets That Spy On You
5) Granny Knows Best
6) Don’t Make Me Beg! 8-)
7) Windows 9x/ME Setup "Switches"
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Space Stations Keep Fallin' On My Head...
10) Just For Grins
11) Plus! Edition Highlights
2001-03-08
(2001-Mar-08)
1) WinME Woes
2) What About Windows 2000/XP?
3) Xteq Systems' X-Setup 6.0 Public Beta 1
4) "SpamEx"
5) Is This Information Useful?
6) A Rosetta Stone!
7) More Reader Sites
8) Saving Auto-Download Files Locally
9) Just For Grins
10) Plus! Edition Highlights
2001-03-05
(2001-Mar-05)
1) 10 Ways To Make Windows ME Run Better
2) Juno Reples
3) 9,000 Ways To Back Up Your Registry <g>
4) Heads Up: New Site Opening Soon!
5) "Joey" Got His $30 Gift Certificate. Want One?
6) More CDR Backup Questions
7) They Loaded The Code
8) Netscape 6.01 and WinME
9) Just For Grins
10) Plus! Edition Highlights
2001-03-01
(2001-Mar-01)
1) Vendors Want A Piece Of Your CPU
2) Feedback Re: The Ads
3) A FREE "Go Back" or "System Restore" Tool
4) More Free Tools You May Already Have
5) CacheMan 4 Arrives
6) New Month--- New Winner!
7) A CD That Holds 1,000 Gigabytes?!
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming...
9) Just For Grins
2001-02-26
(2001-Feb-26)
1) Cool Tools
2) WinME's Mixed Bag
3) Two Security Alerts
4) P2P's Dark Side
5) CD vs DVD For Backups
6) Reminder: The Safe Way To Delete ANY File
7) No More Free LangaLists?
8) More Search Engine Feedback
9) Just For Grins
2001-02-15
(2001-Feb-15)
1) What's The Best Email Client?
2) Free Add/Remove Fix--- And "Gear Hobbing"
3) Self-Contained Backups
4) DIY AutoRun
5) Internet Sharing Options
6) More Registry Info, And Beyond
7) Recommend It!
8) Window-Positioner, And More
9) More Reader Sites!
10) Brief Hiatus
11) Just For Grins
2001-02-12
(2001-Feb-12)
1) What's The Best Email Client?
2) Time out re: "Deleting IE5 Typing Errors"
3) Double Protection Better Than Single?
4) Which CDR Format Is Best?
5) But Speaking of UDF...
6) Don’t Make Me Beg! 8-)
7) Italian Virus Alert
8) More Reader Sites!
9) Watch Those URLs!
10) Second Plus! Charitable Contribution
11) Just For Grins
2001-02-08
(2001-Feb-08)
1) Juno to Users: TANSTAAFL
2) Deleting Typing Errors in IE5 URLs
3) Speaking Of The Registry...
4) Adios "Flow Control?"
5) Is This Information Useful?
6) Defrag Solution #2,345,677...
7) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
8) Other Lesser-Known Cool Tools
9) Just For Grins
2001-02-05
(2001-Feb-05)
1) Now Available: Updated "CleanAll!"
2) R.I.P. SysEdit
3) BIOS Updates
4) Another TweakUI Trick
5) Speaking Of Tweakers...
6) John J Lovas Got His Gift Certificate. Want One?
7) About The "Universal Disk Format"
8) They Loaded The Code
9) I Want My NGI
10) Just For Grins
2001-02-01
(2001-Feb-01)
1) Never Too Late For "System Setup Secrets!"
2) WinME? NotME!
3) Psst! Wanna Peek At Your Online Future?
4) Free Registry Primer, and More
5) New Month--- New Drawing!
6) Another Way To Help Defrag (And More)
7) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
8) DIY " Restore CDs"
9) Just For Grins
2001-01-29
(2001-Jan-29)
1) Coming: A Better Internet?
2) Update: System Setup Secrets
3) Shutdown Woes--- Solved!
4) AntiVirus Frustration
5) Last Days To Enter Drawing!
6) PowerPoint Patch Patch
7) More Reader Sites!
8) Polarized Reactions To Yoline
9) Just For Grins
2001-01-25
(2001-Jan-25)
1) More on
the "Freedom" Firewall
2) Tweaks Times Three, With Two For Free
3) M*lissa Virus Returns
4) Meet Yoline Louis, Part Of The LangaList Family
5) Fed Up With Outlook/Outlook Express?
6) Last Week To Enter January's FREE Drawing
7) The "PowerPoint File Parsing Vulnerability"
8) They Loaded The Code
9) Puka-Puka Leads To Another Discovery
10) Just For Grins
2001-01-22
(2001-Jan-22)
1) General DMA-dness Continues
2) ... And Don't Forget Win2K/NT
3) All Your OE5 Problems Solved?
4) And A Specific Reader-Generated OE Tip
5) Want Every LangaList Ever Published?
6) Don’t Make Me Beg! 8-)
7) Promising New Free Firewall!
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming...
9) Another Way To Prevent Internet Fraud
10) Just For Grins
2001-01-18
(2001-Jan-18)
1) MAD About DMA
2) DMA on Win2K & NT
3) "NTLM" Security Problem
4) Plus Edition In High Gear
5) Awesome Free Resource For OE5 Problems
6) $10,000 For Your Trouble?
7) Putting the "Deep Web" To The Test
8) Reader Sites Top 1,000
9) Son of PUKA!
10) Just For Grins
2001-01-15
(2001-Jan-15)
1) Faster Drives, For Free!
2) LangaList Plus! Edition Now Available
3) More Reformat Time- and Step-Savers
4) Miss Your OS CDs? Me, Too!
5) Host Files: You Be The Judge
6) Recommend It!
7) Surface Vs Deep Web
8) More Reader Sites
9) PuterGeek Strikes Again
10) Just For Grins
2001-01-11
(2001-Jan-11)
1) More on "Whistler"
2) Avoid The Reformat/Reinstall Two-Step
3) Ever Get An Email Blast From The Past?
4) Coda: Time To Upgrade Your Search Engine
5) Watchdog Redux (FREE!)
6) Thanks!
7) Good Idea Or Bad?
8) They Just Keep Coming And Coming and Coming...
9) Zone Alarm Responds
10) Just For Grins
2001-01-08
(2001-Jan-08)
1) A Dozen
*Great* Reader-Chosen Search Engines
2) The Scoop on "Whistler"
3) ZoneAlarm's "Flaws"
4) ISSN 1533-1156
5) HotMail Hell
6) A Fresh Start: January's Drawing Now Open!
7) They Loaded The Code
8) Adobe PhotoShop, For Free?
9) Just For Grins
More!
2001-01-04
(2001-Jan-04)
1) Happy New Year!
2) Time To Change Search Engines?
3) More Mystery Files
4) More Wishes For 2001
5) Your OS Picks
6) "Plus" Update
7) Another "Missing Manual"
8) Lissa Got Her Gift Certificate. Want One?
9) Another Way To Get At Windows Update
10) More Reader Sites!
11) Quick Reader Tip
12) Just For Grins
More!
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