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Play it Safe You've seen them on everything from old-fashioned floppy disks and Zip drives to hard drives. AVOID EXPOSURE TO ALL MAGNETIC FIELDS. DO NOT BEND OR FOLD. Unfortunately, most people don't pay close attention to the warning, resulting in damage to untold thousands of disks and drives. Millions of dollars and more than thirty thousand jobs are lost each year because of this carelessness. Luckily, GayGezunt's got a hot answer: bright fluorescent BeSafe Tags that will be noticed and remembered! Self-adhesive and tough to remove, BeSafe Tags carry the important warning all end-users should heed. Available in over thirty colors, such as Hot Pfunk, Sizzling Scatado, and Cool Culumber, the tags use standard fonts as well as Algarian, Zonk and Bondini. Try BeSafe Tags on other items, such as your morning newspaper, your car, your spouse, and your children. List price: $3/roll. GayGezunt Int'l. (714) 555-safe. www.gaygezunt.com Do It Yourself Receipts Do you cut those rebate coupons out of the newspaper? You know the kind: Send in the product's UPC code, fill out the form, and include the store's original receipt. Do you always fall for it? Don't feel bad, it happens to all of us, In fact, it's a well-thought out marketing scam, because you never, ever save the store receipt, and never send anything, saving the company plenty of bucks. Fortunately, there's BoguStub, a hot solution developed by a cool programmer with too much time on his hands. >From an easy to use Windows interface, type in the name of the store, the date purchased, and the price and name of the purchased items. And Voila!, out pops an authentic receipt from your laser printer, complete with accurate sales tax added to the total. BoguStub's features include a handy pull-down menu of local stores, the ability to change tax tables, and even a friendly "Thanks for shopping with us!" tag at the bottom of the receipt. BoguStub is also useful when you've lost a receipt and need to return an item. Future releases will let you print a color watermark on the receipt, add store names to a look-up table, and print realistic perforations. List price: Free. LastMinuteProductions, www.bogusystem.com/ Summary Yes, before you send me e-mail, all of these products are entirely fictional. Except, strangely enough, BoguStub, which is a legitimate product, available on the author's web site.
Steve Bass is a Contributing Editor with PC World and runs the Pasadena IBM Users Group. He's also a founding member of APCUG. Write to him at steve_bass@pcworld.com. Check PCW's current edition at www.pcworld.com/resource/toc/index.asp and sign up for the Steve Bass online newsletter at www.pcworld.com/bass_letter. |
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No, this is not the stuff they spray into your truck bed in a rainbow of colors- or stuff to make your skin soft and moist. Have you ever destroyed a device by crushing it in your briefcase- or sitting on it? Rhino●skins are actually PDA protective cases. They are made for all the popular handhelds including Palm, Visor, Sony, iPaq, Jornada and Casio. They come in several styles and are fabricated in aluminum, titanium, leather and synthetics. Many designs allow access to your PDA ports while in their protective cocoon. Other cases have additional pockets for accessories Happily no rhinos are injured in the manufacturing process. Check out www.rhinoskin.com for more information. These cases start at $39.95 and go up to $99.95 msrp for titanium. Having destroyed a Rex in my briefcase, I am a firm believer in protecting my PDA. Check it out at our next meeting! |
