Keeping Appointments with Windows Calendar
Vista tosses in a new program not found in Windows XP: Windows Calendar. Just like it sounds, Windows Calendar is a full-fledged scheduling program that replaces hastily scribbled sticky notes on the refrigerator. Fire it up by choosing Start --> All Programs --> Windows Calendar.
Shown in Figure 1, Calendar presents a monthly calendar on the left side, your day's appointments in the middle, and the highlighted appointment's details on the right.
Figure 1: Vista's Calendar shows the appointments of you and your friends, making it easier to plan events.
To add an appointment, click a day on the calendar, click the time of the appointment, type a description, and start filling out the additional details on the right.
The beauty of Calendar is the way it lets you share appointments through e-mail or by publishing them to a Web site where friends and relatives can automatically subscribe to them, meaning that Calendar will download and display them automatically.
The downside of Calendar is that you have no excuse for being late anymore. Check out the following features of Calendar:
· For a quick way to add dates for holidays, sporting events, TV shows, moon phases, and similar items, visit iCalShare.com. The Web site lets people publish and share calendars.
· Windows Calendar lets you share calendars with people using Microsoft's Outlook program and Apple's iCal program. For a real downer, you may be able to share your calendar from work, as well — ask your office network guru.
· To share your own calendar with friends, click your calendar's name from the Calendars section shown in Figure 1. Then choose Send via Email from the Share menu. Calendar will e-mail your calendar to your friend, where it will appear on your friend's calendar program.
· Calendar lets you assign different colors to your friends' calendars so that you can easily tell which appointment belongs to which person. To remove somebody's appointments from your calendar, click his or her calendar's name and press Delete: All the appointments disappear.
While Wandering The Web
20Q is a computerized game of twenty questions that began as an experiment in artificial intelligence. It was invented by Robin Burgener.
The game 20Q is a website based on the spoken parlor game known as twenty questions. 20Q will ask you to think of anything you like and will then try to guess what you're thinking with twenty yes or no questions. If it fails to guess in 20 questions, it will ask an additional 5 questions. If it fails to guess even with 25 questions, the player is declared the winner
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Dave's Got An iPod .... Now What?
There are several things you can do with an iPod. Some of them may even amaze you. So, without further ado, allow me to share some of my new found knowledge with you! Below are just a few of the coolest tricks I could find that you can practice with on your iPod. Here we go! 
1.) Worried about using up all the battery power on your iPod? Then just learn to conserve it a little. The iPod does offer approximately 14 hours of battery life, but why not make it more? When you're not using your iPod, make sure you switch the Hold button into the locked position. That will prevent the iPod from being turned on accidentally and it will save you some power. You can also salvage some battery life by turning off the background light on your player and by not skipping between songs too often.
2.) Did you know you can use your iPod as an alarm clock to wake you up in the morning? Well, you surely can! Go to the main menu and choose Extras. Then select Clock and then Alarm Clock. Choose Alarm to turn it on and then set it for the time you want to wake up. You can also choose your very own sound to wake up to from the options available. If you really want to go all out (maybe you have trouble waking up), you can set your iPod up with a speaker set and be awakened by a playlist of some of your favorite songs.
3.) Don't have time to read your e-mail on your computer? Then check it with your iPod! You are able to synchronize your iPod with your e-mail client so that you can check your messages on the go. In order for this to work, you need to install the free K-Pod program (find it on Google) onto your computer. You can then download and view your e-mail from the Notes feature on the Extras menu. Mac users can try the program called PodMail to do this as well.
4.) In a hurry to create a song playlist for your iPod? Well, you can use the "On-the-Go" feature that comes with your iPod to create a quick playlist while you're away from your PC. All you need to do is highlight a song from the music menu and hold down the Select button until the song's name flashes on the screen. The flashing indicates that the song was successfully added to the "On-the-Go" playlist. You can then access the new playlist from the main Playlists menu on your iPod.
5.) Don't have enough time to read through the morning news? Well, forget the newspaper, forget the computer and just do it with your iPod! A Web based utility called iPodulator allows you to convert Web material into a form that is compatible to be read right from your iPod. All you have to do is visit this Web site and enter in a Web address for one of your favorite Web pages or RSS feeds. When you're finished doing that, click on the iPodinate button and then save the results. Also, make sure you copy the file onto your iPod so that you can look at it regularly.
How cool is all of that? Now, go on and have even more fun with your iPod!
