Pages on Obby's website

Email and the Internet

• Avoiding Spam  |  Deceptive "Opt Out" Links in Emails
• Don't Accidentally Distribute Addresses  |  Email Print-outs Are Too Big
• Font Demonstration  |  Free Downloads May Be Harmful  |  Mass Mailing Viruses
• Missing Pictures  |  Obscured Email Addresses  |  OE Mistakes  |  Outlook Express
• Photos in Email  |  Programs That Protect Your Computer  |  Small Emails are Appreciated  |  Sorting Email Automatically  |  Spam—What Is It?  |  Viruses
• When You're Getting Lots of Spam

• Nasty Stuff  |  Obscured Email Addresses on WebSites  |  Printing Hints  | 
• Sites of Interest  |  Translation  |  Viewing Web Pages

Using Outlook Express Stationery

• Stationery—Introduction  |  Font Demonstration  |  Missing Pictures
• OE Mistakes

Stationery to copy, assemble, use and change

• Stationery—About my Stationery Pages
• Save and use this piece of stationery  |  Change pictures and background
• Stationery_styles: how to change fonts, colors and borders
• Birthday balloon stationery  |  Make birthday balloon background
• Christmas backgrounds to use in your own stationery
• Use a Christmas background, either through the Wizard or by copying this script.

Background tiles to save and use

Lots of free backgrounds for stationery and web pages

• Butterfly tiles  |  Flower tiles  |  Lace tiles  |  Twiggy tiles

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Making Pictures

Tutorials

• Paint in Windows 98  |  Paint in Windows XP  |  Paint in Windows Vista

Mini-tutorials—Making various shapes using only Windows Paint

• Preparing a workspace and making cutouts in Windows Paint
• Concentric circles to make a wheel  |  Attaching_spokes to a painted bicycle wheel
• Twenty-four evenly spaced spokes for a bicycle wheel
• Decorative hub for the centre of a wheel  |  A regular hexagon
• A six-pointed star  |  A five-pointed star  |  Five petalled flowers
• Distribute numbers evenly around a clock face  |  Simple faces
• The sort of rose window pattern you make with a compass and pencil
• An octagon with a point at the top  |  An octagon with a flat side at the top

Information

• Make Paint's Zoom Tool Behave Nicely  | 
• What is dithering and how can it cause problems?
• Symmetry:getting pictures the same on both sides
• If you're used to Paint's colors and upgrade to Vista  | 
• Re-using Pictures from Web Pages
• Graphics Formats—Choosing the Appropriate One  |  Photos in Email  | 
• Free Graphics Programs

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Making Fancy Text in Paint

• Fancy Headings

This suggests several ways that you can make eye-catching headings to use on cover pages or at the top of word processed documents. It also explains how to make a "mask" in order to cut text from a photograph.

Symbol and Picture Fonts

• Symbol Fonts—How to Find Which Key Yields Which Picture

• fontchartsdoc.zip in doc format Chart and instructions for easily finding all characters in any font. Useful to use with decorative fonts or picture fonts. fontchart.zip in rtf format

Charts of Symbol Fonts to Print

• Arial Extended Characters  |  Monotype Sorts  |  Webdings  |  Wingdings  |  Zapf Dingbats

Seamless Tiles for Stationery Backgrounds

These tiles repeat all over the background of a piece of stationery and add much less to the upload/download size of an email than do those designed to go right across the page.

Lots of free backgrounds for stationery and web pages

Ready to save and use

• Butterfly tiles  |  Flower tiles  |  Christmas Tiles  |  Lace tiles  |  Twiggy tiles

• How to Make Seamless Tiles The whole process, step by step.

• Seamless Tiles—How to Cut Detailed explanation of turning a tile inside-out so that edges meet seamlessly.

Different Tiles to Make Step-by-Step

• Seamless Flower Tiles from a Scan  |  Seamless Birthday Tiles  |  Wingding Tiles  | 
• Gift Wrap

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Sample Seamless Backgrounds

• Text can be hard to read if it doesn't contrast with the background, or if the background is busy and distracting. On these sample pages you can see and compare differences or save any background that you think you may find useful.

• Mid Blue, Blurred  |  Dark Red  |  Green  |  Navy  |  “Busy” or “Noisy” Background Tile
• Parchment Colour  |  Rose Pink  |  Salmon  |  Soft Pink  |  Yellow

Computer Colours

• Computer Colours Explained Computer colours work differently from dyes and pigments. You can't make green by mixing blue and yellow, for instance. This page explains computer colours in detail.

• These are just for fun, but give you some playspace for experimenting.
  Colour Cube  |  Colour Favourite  | 

General Computer Questions

• Backing Up  |  Characters and Symbols  |  Fields in Word Processors
• File Types  |  Headers and Footers  |  Hidden Extras  |  Maintenance
• Manipulating Windows  |  Memory  |  Notetab  |  Restore
• Paths to Files and Folders  |  Penny Wise  |  Publisher 3
• Screensaver  |  Screen Shots  |  SendTo Menu
• Screen settings in XP  |  Shortcuts
• Start Button (part 1) Shut down, Log off, Run, Help,
• Start Button (part 2) Search/Find  |  Start Button (part 3) Control Panel
• Task Bar  |  Word Processors  |  Virus Protection  |  Your Computer
• Computer Index

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Family Pages and Photographs

• Family Pages Directory and Notes  |  About Alex  |  Alex's Pictures
• About Jennifer 2005  |  Jennifer's Pictures 2005  |  Our Pets
• About Jennifer 2010  | 

Garden and Animals

• All about one special tree and the birds that visit it  | 
• Birds in my garden  |  Photos and Facts about Redback Spiders  | 
• Vegetable Growing at Home  |  Herbs—Pictures and Notes  |  Garden Thoughts
• Caterpillar Story  |  Yvonne's Mystery Tree  |  Small Garden Animals

Picture Stories

• At Home  |  At the Seaside  |  Beautiful Butterflies at Melbourne Zoo
• Chester—a Naughty Poodle  |  Denise’s Family  |  Denise's Pictures of Snow in Halifax
• Healesville Sanctuary 2004  |  Healesville Sanctuary 2005  |  Nature Park in Gippsland
• Pirate Night  |  Silky Oak—Death of a Tree  |  Sky Pictures—Melbourne Feb 2005
• Stormy Sky—Melbourne Feb 2005  |  Underwater—Things in Rock Pools

Photo Album

• Alex and Lidy  |  Alex and Trina  |  Bush Road  |  Bushfire  | 
• Caves at Mole Creek, Tasmania  |  Charlie Brown—a Persian Cat  | 
• Cockatoo  |  Connor and Jennifer  |  Jennifer’s Dancing Page
• Dean and Jennifer  |  Ebony  |  Frits beside Old Tree  | 
• Guesthouse in Launceston, Tasmania  |  Jennifer’s Music Page  | 
• Jessie—a Tiny Terrier  |  Seagulls  |  Our Garden Path
• Paula and a Parrot  |  Pelicans  |  Pictures from Here and There  |  Platypus
• Tasmanian Countryside  |  Yarra from Prince’s Bridge

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Stories, Poems and Jokes

Funny or Ironic

• Chicken Jokes  |  Dear Teacher—Unusual Grammar Definitions
• The Dragon and the Princess  |  The Filing Assistant  |  Health and Beauty Quiz

For Children

• Goldilocks and the Three Bears  |  The Yetti’s Shoe

By Children

• Egyptian Poem  |  Park Story  |  Rudi

Thoughtful Pieces

• Stories in Fifty Words  |  Lost Children  |  Small Things  |  The Man  |  Winter Solstice

Anita’s Rhymes

• Rhymes List  |  About the Author
• Alligators’ Cricket Match  |  Eating the Alphabet
• On the Edge of Confusion (there lived a small mouse)  |  Man from Daraban
• Mary Maloney (was eating some bread)  |  Mr Bardoo (had a very fine zoo)  | 
• Noah’s Rap  |  November 24  |  Sebastian Spider  |  Tiger in My Toothbrush  | 
• Mostly Invisible Toad  |  Untimely Partners  |  Video Remote Control  | 
• Weather Elsewhere  | 

Games

Games List

• Battleships  |  36 Piece Concentration  |  16 Piece Concentration 16
• Secret Codes  |   |  Dots and Dashes  |  French Sentences  | 
• Guess a Number  |  Hangman Geography  |  Pokemon Invaders  | 
• Write a Number in Words

Questions or comments? I’d love to hear from you. My email address is here.

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