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Our Goal:: In order to promote a better understanding of emerging technologies, especially online activities, many outstanding free incentives are being provided via this monthly newsletter. Many of the online tutorials, courses, tech support websites, and business software programs have already been located and categorized in the popular, award-winning website: "Bob Bowman's Guide to Free Educational Technology" <http://www.user.shentel.net/rbowman>. "I know that a little guidance and a little assistance goes a long way. That's why I'm making it easy for businesses and consultants to publish newsletters which will help their work teams and clients see more benefits of technology." Project Editor: Bob Bowman Contributing authors are Charlie Ross, Beth Bowman, and David Bowman Make Quality a a Personal goal!     TechQuote:     Farmers' Almanac, 1978: "To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer."

Tips of the Month Frequent Multiple Backups (say every 10 minutes) to both the hard drive and to a floppy will help to prevent data losses, especially during thunderstorm power outages, but the second best data loss prevention strategy is to use a Computer Virus Checker on a regular basis (and more frequently if diskettes are being transferred between offices or external locations). One very popular DOS-based program F-PROT is free for private use and it can both detect and disinfect all the known viruses. Get your copy at: DataFellows.com FTP site <ftp://ftp.DataFellows.com/> Parent's Corner Parental Blocking Software programs were reviewed quite a while back by a link in the Department of Education's website. Parents can review many of the browsers and other programs which filter the Internet for their children: See them at: Parents Guide to the Internet - Sites along the Way <http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/internet/ sites.html> Top Freeware: Medved's freeware QuoteTracker program is our pick of the month. It runs under Microsoft® Windows® and will pull out quotes from financial sites you select from an available web list, and among other feats, alerts you when the price goals you set are reached. This freeware version employs banner ads as the program runs.

Download your copy from: Medved's QuoteTracker.com <http://www.quotetracker.com> Free Y2K Software Free Y2K diagnostic software with instructions (no custom support) to fix the problem yourself is available from: NSTL YMARK2000: FREE Y2K: Diagnositics <http://www.nstl.com/html/nstl_ymark2000.html> Net Resources U.S. Government websites: The following sites are just a few of many which offer various no-cost items of interest to those in business or starting a business: U.S. Business Advisor - Serving Businesses On Their Terms - Anytime, Anyplace<http://www.business.gov/> U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: Search Trademark database <http://www.uspto.gov/tmdb/index.html> U.S. Small Business Administration Offices <http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov/> © 1999 - This newsletter is copyrighted by Bob Bowman; all rights reserved; reprint rights are available through membership - see details at: <http://www.micro-tutor.com/techtutor/>; The FreeSource-Locator Newsletter, FreeSource- Locator Guides, and Your Newsletter Generator are trademarks of Bob Bowman. Other names are trademarks of their respective owners