GulfTel Communications Offering Wireless Home Networking
E-Mail Hoax - Sunscreen Causes Blindness
Step Up The Speed - At A Low Price That Lasts Until 2004
What's The Best Way To Stop Pesky Pop-Up Ads While I'm Surfing?
Great Sites To Check Out This Month
Short Tutorial - Set Alerts For New E-Mail
Families can share their Broadband and connect without wires
Now GulfTel Broadband customers can share their broadband connection among multiple computers in their home. With a new service called GulfTel Home Networking, customers can also go online without worrying with Internet connection wires or cables.
Customers can add a wireless network to their high-speed GulfTel Broadband connection for an additional charge of just $9.95 a month or even less with a service agreement.
Family members can surf and email simultaneously on multiple computers, without tying up the home phone line. The computers connect to the Internet without wires or cables. That means no expensive rewiring for hard-to-reach desktop computers. And with a laptop, users can stay connected while moving from room to room or when going outside. Customers can connect without being tied down by Internet cables.
“We wanted to give our customers an easy, cost-effective way of optimizing their Broadband connection. The benefits don’t have to be limited to just one computer. With our high-performance wireless network in their home, GulfTel Broadband customers will be able to share the fun of their broadband connection and enjoy the freedom of going online without wires,” said Randy Wood, President of GulfTel.
For more
information about Wireless Home Networking or GulfTel Broadband, call GulfTel at
251-952-5100.
It's that time of the year when the infamous "Sunscreen Causes Blindness" e-mail hoax – around since 1999 – resurfaces fervently.
The mother of a 2-year-old child supposedly writes the e-mail, describing how he/she recently applied waterproof sunscreen to her son Zack. Zack somehow got some of it in his eyes. When the mother supposedly attempted to flush out Zack's eyes, the irritation and pain became much worse. When the mother called the poison control center, they told her to "RUSH Zack to the ER Now!"
In one version, the text continues as follows: "I got him there and they rushed me back without a second to spare. They started flushing his eyes out with special medications. Anyway, I found out for the first time that MANY kids each year lose their sight to waterproof sunscreen. It burns the eye and they lose complete sight!"
This e-mail is a hoax. The Food and Drug Administration has jurisdiction over the formulation and labeling of sunscreen products. The FDA's website (http://www.fda.gov) has an online database of information about sunscreens. It includes nothing about sunscreens causing blindness in children. In fact, federal law would require either an appropriate warning label or the withdrawal of FDA approval until a product in question is safely reformulated.
Sunscreen products do contain chemicals that can irritate the eye, and the label on sunscreen products typically states this fact. Parents are urged to take reasonable precautions when applying sunscreen products to their children's hands and face. If a sunscreen lotion does cause eye irritation, Prevent Blindness America (see http://www.preventblindness.org) recommends that you flush the eye with water for fifteen minutes or until the irritation subsides. If the irritation continues, you are to seek medical attention.
For a limited time, upgrade from dial-up to super-speed GulfTel Broadband at a really low price that lasts until 2004.
How low? Broadband for residential customers is just $34.95 a month for the first six months. Enjoy lightning fast downloads, surfing at super-speed, quick-click shopping and research. Send and receive email in a flash, even with pictures or large documents attached.
Pick a package of several services - Internet, long distance, calling features - and save even more, including free installation of your Broadband service.
To take advantage of this special offer, just give us a call today at 251-952-5100 for details.
Download the free Pop-Up Stopper from GulfTel. Here are some exciting features of the product:
- Blocks windows that appear above or behind a web site making clutter and wasting your time.
- Easy to activate. Just download and then click the Pop-Up Stopper controls on your browser toolbar.
- Alerts you by sight and sound when a pop-up window has been blocked.
- Lets you allow pop-ups from web sites you specify.
- Lets you see how many ads you've zapped.
- Lets you easily override the blocker by pressing the "Control" key.
The program is quick and easy to download and simple to use. Just click here to get Pop UP Stopper, available free to all GulfTel Internet and GulfTel Broadband users. (http://www.gulftel.net/local/tools/popup2.php).
Find long lost treasures
www.unclaimedbaggage.com - Wonder where lost luggage winds up if it never finds its way home? At a 31-year-old store in Scottsboro, Ala. At the store’s web site, you can buy lost luggage and its contents at a fraction of the original cost. How do the treasures get here? Airlines pay settlements to passengers whose bags they can’t find after 90 days. Unclaimed Baggage buys unidentified baggage for resale.
Finding The Quickest Way To Anywhere
http://mapquest.com - Looking for driving directions before you hit the road? Head to this popular website, click your cursor arrow on the "Driving Directions" link and enter your starting and destination locations for each day. MapQuest will then provide you with a detailed map along with step-by-step driving directions for each day.
Getting The Most Out Of The Great Outdoors
http://outdoorsite.com - Find information on camping, fishing, hunting, boating and more. This site has hundreds of helpful archived articles, an interesting "Trade-A-Trip" section and includes dozens of recipes for the outdoor chef. Use the "Fishing Calculator" link to easily calculate the weight of your most recent trophy catch.
New Spy Kids Movie Released This Month
http://spykids.com - It's the official site for the upcoming movie release of Spy Kids 3-D Game Over. Check out the link to the movie trailer – it looks like a fun movie with lots of cool special effects. Plus, wearing 3-D glasses at the show will make you feel like you are right in the middle of the action! The Cortez family cast remains the same as the first two movies. Sylvester Stallone is one of the new stars added to this sequel.
Daily Updates On The Tour De France
http://www.tourdefrancenews.com - The U.S. Postal Service Team's Lance Armstrong (Sports Illustrated's "Sportsman of the Year" for 2002) goes for his fifth consecutive win in the biggest bicycle race of the year: the Tour de France. This site provides minute-by-minute reports and action photos throughout this grueling, 2,082 mile, 23 day event. It also includes commentary from Bobby Julich, Phil Liggett, Greg Lemond and others. The Tour runs through July 27th.
Official Popular Baby Names
www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames - Popular Baby Names, which is operated by the Social Security Administration, ranks the 1,000 most common boys’ and girls’ names since 1990. You can also look up a specific name and track its status over time. The site, started seven years ago, was initially the side project of a government actuary named Michael Shackleford. Michael reigned as the No. 1 boys' name for 35 years beginning in 1964, after about a decade of duking it out with David and Robert. It was unseated by Jacob in 1999.
E-mail software can pick up your incoming e-mail while you are surfing the Web. It can even notify you when you have new mail. For Outlook, follow these steps:
- Open Outlook and, using your cursor arrow, click on the "Tools" heading located on the menu bar at the top of your computer screen. Select "Options" from the drop-down menu.
- Click “Email Options.”
- Click, making a checkmark, on the box “Display a notification when new mail arrives.’
OR, if you prefer a sound alert
- Open Outlook and, using your cursor arrow, click on the "Tools" heading located on the menu bar at the top of your computer screen. Select "Options" from the drop-down menu.
- Click “Email Options.”
- Click “Advanced Email Options.”
- Select “Play a sound” under “When new items arrive.”
- You can also select to have your cursor change momentarily to alert you to new mail.
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