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I need to advertise my column, but how? I don't have alot o fmoney, so i don't want itto cost. Is there a free way?

go to http://www.joynic.com and register a domain. Have it point to your column. Then go and turn off the advertisments(it's somewhere in the menus, I forgot where). Then tell all your friends your new, easy to remember domain name. Post about it online. Eventually people will start going to it. There's no way to put advertisments anywhere without paying, though.

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i know how to put in an image for the background for a website but, how do you make it stay still? i have stripes as the background and i dont like it to move with the text. thanks.



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Can anyone tell me a website that has a career aptitude test...that is accurate, because i have no idea what i want to do when i get older (i'm 16 now)

Also, can anyone tell me a test that tells you which college you should go to?

Thanks soo much!

this test will give you an idea of jobs you'd be good at. It'll give a list of about 20, not just one:
http://similarminds.com/career.html
colleges are basically all the same, you don't need a test for it.

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ok....how do i get i tunes on my computer??
also does it cost anything to just have it??
i know the songs cost money but im talking just about the program itself Whelp thanx

the program is free, you can get it here:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

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i have netscape 8.1, and lately its been freezing up a lot. the whole web browser goes white, and then i have to drop it down and wait a while, then bring it back up and it works again, but its extremely annoying. is there something wrong with 8.1? or is there something i can do to fix it? because i know its not my computer, because i can do other stuff on my computer when netscape freezes. thanks!

Netscape uses a lot of RAM and it's unstable. I did a scientific comparison of all the popular browsers, and netscape performed the worst of all of them in RAM. You should get a better browser, my comparison might help you:
http://tinyurl.com/2j8g6l

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i just downloaded netscape 7.2. it wont let me see peoples myspace pages. whenever i click on someones profile, an error message comes up that says "the plugin performed an illegal operation. you are strongly reccommended to restart browser" and then it closes. why is this? and is there a way to fix it? thanksss!

netscape uses an old version of the gecko layout engine, which causes those errors. You should upgrade to either a newer version of netscape, or a browser like k-meleon or firefox. Here is my comparison of free browsers:
http://freesoftwarecomparison.wordpress.com/2007/02/05/free-browser-comparison/

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does anyone know any websites you can like make photo albums on and post pictures? and make slideshows with pictures? thankss.

picasa lets you do all those things:
http://picasa.google.com/

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when is it going to get warmer? i need to work out soon outside but its too cold

i thought global warming would warm the earth?

Global warming changes the *overall* temperature of the planet, which has strange effects. In some places it will make it colder, and increase the amount of rain/snowfall. Other places will get scorching hot, or be completely underwater. Go to http://weather.com and put your zip in, you can get a forcast for the month.

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I'm reading this one book called the Scarlet Letterman and it's by Cara Lockwood, but apparantly there is also another book in the series that I haven't read called Wuthering High by the same author. Can anyone tell me hat that book is about, because right now I'm reading the second book and I'm lost.

Thanx in Advance

The series sounds boring to me, but here is the summary from http://www.bardacademy.com/summaryWuthering2.html :

When Miranda, a slightly spoiled but spirited fifteen-year-old from Chicago, smashes up her father's car and goes to town with her stepmother's credit cards, she's shipped off to Bard Academy, a boarding school where she's supposed to learn to behave. Gothic and boring and strict, All Is Not What It Seems At Bardit's everything you'd expect of a reform school. But all is not what it seems at Bard.

For starters, Miranda's having horrific nightmares and the nearby woods are eerily impossible to navigate. The students' lives also start to mirror the classics they're reading tragic novels like Dracula, Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre. So Miranda begins to suspect that Bard is haunted by famous writers who took their own lives and she senses that not all of them are happy. Complicating things even more is the fact that Ryan Kent a cute, smart, funny basketball player who went to Miranda's old high school landed himself in Bard, too. And the attention he's showing Miranda is making some of the other girls white as ghosts. Something ghoulish is definitely brewing at Bard, and Miranda seems to be at the center of ominous events, but whether it's typical high school b.s. or otherworldly danger remains to be seen.

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My computer is infected by a trojan virus that came in through a video off the internet. I know where the file is and everything but it won't let me delete it saying that another program or person is using the file and won't delete. I use Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security and attempts to clean and quarentine the virus failed. The file is a Video AudioX Object. I dunno how to get rid of this virus if anyone has any ideas please let me know I want to get rid of it as fast as possible. thanks.

I can help you more if you send me a personal question with more info, including the name of the file. If you're going to send me a personal question, don't use the method I describe below. If you just delete the file outright, like I tell you how to do below, it could make it worse.

Make note of where the file that you want to delete is. Turn off your computer. Turn it on and immediately press and hold F8(if it doesn't work the first time, wait longer before you start holding F8). You'll eventually get a menu. Select "safe mode with command line" using the arrow keys, and press enter. Some text will go on the screen and after a while(sometimes up to 20 minutes), you'll get a login screen. Log into your user account. You'll get a command prompt(C:\>)
Type this in:

del /F "C:\wherever the trojan is"

and press enter. If it asks for confirmation, type y and press enter. Make sure you put "quotes" around the filename. Make sure you use the backward\slash, not the forward/slash.

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how long would it take to get to bermuda from massachusetts?

i looked it up but couldnt find it.

as you can see from this map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Bermuda&ie=UTF8&z=8&ll=32.486597,-63.880005&spn=3.057946,6.899414&om=1
Bermuda is in the middle of the ocean. So it really depends on how you get there. Between 3-10 hours by plane, probably.

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how do you save like my videos on to like a DVD+R? i need to send it in for a university application but i can only figure out how to save to a CD-R. It won't let me do the other one.
How to do that?

You need a DVD burner to do that. A CD burner won't work. If you have a DVD burner, use a program like cd burner xp pro to burn the files:
http://www.cdburnerxp.se/

From my experience, it's very difficult to create a disk that will play in a DVD player. You need all kinds of programs to get it in the right format, then onto the DVD, and then it sometimes doesn't play and it's always of poor quality. So unless you absolutely have to have it play in a DVD player, just put the files on the disk so they can be played on a computer.

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Other than limewire...Which i have...
Where can you download free movies???


Thanks

bittorrent, here's my guide:
http://www.advicenators.com/talkaboutmetopic.php?t=94&userboard_id=38985
also there are some shows and movies you can view online at http://quicksilverscreen.com

Downloading movies using bearshare isn't legal unless you paid for the movie. It also uses the exact same network as limewire, so it's the same speed with the same files. It's pretty much the exact same thing.

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i personally dont see what is so bad about drugs! maruana(sp) and weed and everything. i would never try it because my parents would freak out, but why is it illegal? all it really does is make you high, which is exactly what alchahol does! if drugs are illegal, alchahol should be aalso!w/ what is the difference? someone please explain to me and why drugs are so bad?

There is no difference. Marijuana is actually healthier than tobacco, and it's much less likely to cause cancer. The reason it is illegal in most countries is because it's thought to be a "gateway drug", leading to use of other illicit drugs that *are* harmful. There's evidence supporting the theory of it being a gateway drug, and there's evidence contradicting it. In my opinion the reason it's a gateway drug is because it's illegal, and so the same people that sell it sell other drugs. There has never been a death from using marijuana, and it's perfectly safe to use. Just avoid doing anything potentially dangerous, like driving.

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I have a religion project due soon. I'm soo stumped on the part about Daniel. I did the majority of the project, I just need to know:

1. Under what circumstances was the Book of Daniel written? By whom? For whom?

2. Discuss the contents of the Book of Daniel: (a) the stories found in chapters 1 - 6 and (b) the visions in chapters 7 - 12.

3. The Book of Daniel is an example of apocalyptic literature. What are the characteristics of apocalyptic literature in general?


Thank you so much! It means the world to me!

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/id-103,pageNum-52.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalyptic_literature
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Daniel

when getting info, wikiprojects are helpful. Also check out my google searching guide:
http://www.advicenators.com/talkaboutmetopic.php?t=115&userboard_id=38985

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Hey,

What happens if you drink alcohol when you are taking isotrenin?

I am invited to a party in a few nights time, and I was going to take a drink to relax, but I am wondering if anything would happen to me.

Anything USEFUL would be appreciated.

You shouldn't drink alcohol when using that. It probably won't kill you, but the combination damages your liver.

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I opened up a word document just a little while ago, and i couldn't make any changes to it. On the bottom left hand screen, it says that the document is locked.

i've gone to the Microsoft word help section to try to unlock it, but it doesn't tell me how to.

So, how do i unlock the documents? I'm the only one usnig this computer, and i have no idea how it even happened. Help, please?

tools>unprotect
help>activate product, see if it's registered

If you can't fix it, openoffice should be able to open it:
http://www.openoffice.org/

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Hi, I'm a 14 year old girl in Junior High. Today, I was called down to the office and accused of doing drugs. (Which I DON'T.) The guidance counselor and vice principal then practically strip searched me, made me empty my bag, take off my shoes, and then they called down a nurse to give me an eye test, take my blood pressure and listen to my heart to determine if I was high. Their reason behind all of this? Apparently earlier, a girl whos name they "could not tell me" told the office that "I was seen in the bathroom with a tube of white powder." I had been in the bathroom, but I had absolutely NO tube shaped items or any item, not even any makeup with me, that looked like powder.

My mom and I are thinking of suing the school district. Do you think that this is a violation of my rights? I do not think they should of searched me just because some random girl TOLD them that. Obviously she was lying. Do you think this is enough to bring forth a lawsuit against the school?

Probably not. While you are at school, the school can act as your parent. That means they can search your stuff. If you would have refused to give them your stuff, and then they took it from you by force, then you might be able to sue.

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does anyone know how many pounds are in a kg or how many kg are in pounds? When you weigh yourself on those things they give it in pounds but when I read celeb's profile to compare my weight to theirs it's like 63kg and always in kg and I don't know much much that is in pounds!

1 kilogram = 2.20462262 pound
1 pound = 0.45359237 kilograms
google gives you the answer to any conversion by just typing in "something to something"

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I want to download this pretty font called Violation but I need winzip and I don't like downloading fonts that need winzip because winzip will pop up every time you use it, I need it to be True Type but every fotn I come across needs winzip.

Can anyone send me Violation in True Type and a font site where all the fonts are True Type?

You use winzip to extract the truetype font. The truetype font is inside of the zip/rar/ace file. If you don't like winzip, use 7-zip, which is free and not annoying:
http://www.7-zip.org/

Here's violation truetype only:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XNI3DR9K
put it in C:\windows\fonts

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