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Techworks Memory Corporation is offering users a cash-back rebate on their old memory modules (selected modules only) when they purchase new Techworks memory at the Computer Connection. For details contact the Connection, 898-3282, or Techworks, 800/416-8155.

If you install PPP for Windows but no icons appear, exit Windows and type win pmddeml at the C:\NET\BIN prompt.

To ask a reference question online, use the electronic form available through the Library's Web home page (http://www.library.upenn.edu) or send e-mail to librefer@pobox.upenn.edu. While the telephone is quicker during those hours that reference desks are staffed, you may ask an online reference question anytime and expect an answer within a day.

Quick dates: You can insert the current date in a Microsoft Word 6.0 for Windows document by pressing <Alt-Shift-d>.

Did you know that sending chain letters through the Internet is a violation of Federal law? See the Postal Service's home page on the Web for more information (http://www.usps.gov/websites/depart/inspect/chainlet.htm).

Concerned about the safety of children using online services? Check out http://www.omix.com/magid/child.safety.html, a site developed by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. This site offers a balanced view of the risks children face online and how they can protect themselves.

StuffIt Expander for the Macintosh can decompress files created with several different compression programs. You can use it to decompress files that have the following extensions: .sit, .sea, .cpt, .pkg, .bin, .uu, .gz, .Z, as well as the DOS-based .zip and .arc file extensions.

All or nothing: You can select an entire document in Microsoft Word 6.0 for Windows by pressing <Control-a>. In Microsoft Word for Macintosh, you select the entire document by pressing <Command-a>.

Window shopping: To move between open applications files in Windows, press <Alt-Tab> to cycle through the currently active applications.

Tired of clutter on your Mac's desktop? When you want to move from one open application to another without having to shuffle all those windows, try this: Hold down the Option key and click on the desktop. The active applica tion window will disappear, even though the application and any of its files that you were working with are still active. To return to your file, select the application from the Finder icon.

The RLIN/Eureka databases, which include the combined catalog of the Research Libraries Group (22 million records) and several other databases, are now available from 11 AM Saturday through midnight Friday.

Replacing your US Robotics 14.4 Sportster modem with a 28.8 model? Be sure you use the power cord that came with the modem. The 28.8 modem will not work properly with the 14.4 modem's 9-volt power cord, and the 14.4 modem (as well as the power cord) will overheat dangerously and break if used with the 28.8 modem's 20-volt power cord.

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