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In this section we have collected some great Tips & Tricks.

Is your mouse giving you problems ?
Most likely, the mechanism inside of your mouse is dirty and corroded. If you are really tired of your mouse, you should consider an optical mouse, that does not use any rollers or balls but a fiber optic light for optimal accuracy.

It is recommended to clean your input and output devices from time to time. Why?
Dirt on a scanner's scanning area can affect the scanned images' quality. Toner, liquid, or dust can affect the quality of printed images. Dirt can affect or destroy a keyboard. Dirt can cause a mouse to behave erratically. Dirt can propagate on a monitor, making it hard to see your work. Check your equipment manuals for specifics on how to clean your equipment. All we are saying here is that it should be done for optimal computing quality.

Are you having difficulties creating CDs ?
You should choose a 'good' manufactured CD any brand name (Kodak, Mitsui, Maxell, TDK, Sony) will do just fine. Pull out the blank cd from the jewel case box by holding the brim of the CD edge by your first and third finger and put it into the recorder drive without touching the inner circular ring or the writing surface. Once you ready to burn a CD close all unneccessary program from windows from end task menu when you press CTRL-ALT-DEL. These steps should reduce your coaster collection.

Do you have a PDA or are you in the market for a PDA?
We here at NPS, all stay well connected with our PDAs. The ability to go anywhere and have all of the information at our fingertips, keeps us one step in front of the competition. In fact, 30-40% of this website was developed on a Hewlett Packard PocketPC. These devices are not only for business, with the new Toshiba e740 you can utilize high speed internet connections. Here are some great tips and tricks for PDAs.

Ready to put a stop to Junk Mail and SPAM ?
Setup a SPAM magnet e-mail account, obviously junk e-mailers want to send you e-mail. Give them a place to send it, setup a free hotmail account and give that out to any website you choose. You just have to log into the account once a month but with built in spam filters you can set messages to auto-delete based on content. You will find out how well it works to have both a public and private email address. Then be strict with whom you give your private e-mail address. Another tip is when you are filling out those web forms be sure to unsubscribe and opt-out of advertisers emails.

Should I try those On-line Casinos? how are the payouts?
We have tested a few Casinos and we feel your money would be spent just as well investing in Worldcom, Enron, Qwest, Kmart, (Insert today's company that cooked their books.) No joking, save your time and money!