31st January 1998

Okay, so a lot of you have never had (or even heard of) a chocolate Coke. I'm sorry that I can't ship them to you. ;) It really isn't that difficult to make, gang. Get yourself some Hershey's Chocolate Syrup and some Coke, pour the Coke into a glass, put in some Hershey's, stir the concoction, throw in a couple of ice cubes... and voila! Well, hopefully voila. Your best bet is to go to a professional soda jerker... but if you can't, this small recipe will have to do.

Some Outlook Express users were furious when they discovered that Mail and News weren't separate applications. Until now, you might not have been able to avoid that. I was tipped off that you can add (without quotes) "/mailonly" or "/newsonly" to the end of the Target line in the Outlook Express shortcut. Just get the shortcut's properties (right click, select properties) and select the Shortcut tab an look at the Target line. If you end up with problems, you can always remove those extra settings in the shortcut.

I don't know how many times I've received a message this week about the "Join The Crew" virus. Let me say this again: IT'S A HOAX. Please, if one of your friends sends you a message "warning" you about this sucker, do us a favor and don't pass it on? You can act the part of an informed Internet user and tell the silly sender that s/he has been duped. :) And while we're at it, the same thing applies for "Good Times." They're not real, gang.

Lockergnome subscriber Robert William Gaudette submitted this tip: "There are times when I don't want the screen saver to start...running the Compression Agent, de-fragmenting a drive, etc. I've discovered (by accident) that after the program is running, if you click on the Start button and open the Start Menu, the screen saver won't start." Awesome!

In Internet Explorer 4.0, type in the root word of a site you want to visit on the Address line (for instance, Microsoft). Then, instead of hitting Enter, hit Ctrl+Enter and IE4 will automatically fill in the http://www. and .com/ for you. That should save some typing time!