Anne,

What program was it opened in? It might be in "recent" and you can save it somewhere else.

Or

Go to the same email, and pretend you are going to "save as."

Have you any idea what the extension was? If so, you might use search on the hard drive to find any files of that extension modified within the last day.

Daniel, I can't remember exactly how I tracked it down, but when I went into an "open attachments" menu (I think) there was a search box. I typed in the file name, and was able to pull it out of the ether.

I've since saved it to my desktop and have opened it several times to make sure it's really, truly there.

Does anybody use Vonage? I am so pissed at Verizzzon right now I want to dump our land-line service.

I use Vonage and love it. I occasionally get a bit of echo, and I can't call if I'm ahemming at high bandwidth. But other than that, it's been flawless, and it's really nice for my folks in Indianapolis to be able to make a local call to me. It's not so nice for my friends here in Arizona, but as soon as they get local numbers for me here, it'll be fine.

However, they are currently dealing with a load of issues trying to work out their workaround with Verizon's broad VOIP patents, so I might hold off and see what happens with that first.

I loathe Vonage (terrible quality calls, and their customer service, if possible, is worse than Verizon's -- the whole story is in this thread or the previous one somewhere), but have been very happy with my cable company's digital phone service.

Because it's dedicated bandwidth (Vonage has to piggyback on what you're already using for internet), the call quality is outstanding and we've never had the issues with dropped calls that we did with Vonage. And only having to deal with one company for phone/cable/internet is nice and convenient when something does go wrong.

I use Vonage and after a bit of a rough start it has been excellent for a long time.

OK-- I really like the interface on this online comic. (The content is OK. I think the narrator is intended to be creepy, but also sympathetic. I'm right there with the former, but not with the latter.)

It is basically a zoom interface. Each panel contains a really tiny thumbnail of the next page you press when are ready to go on. It zoom in on that thumbnail to the next page. (You can also use a page list at the bottom or arrow keys if your browser allows it.) Regardless of how you indicate you are ready for the next page (or the previous) it navigates by zooming.

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When you hear about it, it does not seem a big deal. But to me, subjectively, it is the easiest multiple page on-line navigation system I've ever used.

Part of it is the light weight. I think it does just the right amount of caching. So it actually moves faster than almost any page at time navigation system I've ever used. I think the zoom method works better than scrolling cause your eye does not get "lost" for a second about where you left off. I think the zooming works better than normal page navigation system, again because it keeps your eye focused on the right spot for the next page. In short, I think it reduces eyestrain in terms of reading large amounts of material on-line. I'd be curious if other people using it find the same.

So I'm fiddling with XP profile setting locations, and it's just highlighted a lack of comprehension that's been hiding in the back of my brain.

What the hell is up with XP Home user management? I'm assuming it's a home thing, because if this were the interface presented to me as sa professional I'd be longing for the obscurity of Linux command lines, because it would at least make me feel grown up.

Anyway, I am wanting to set up a second administrator account, just like my first. Seems easy enough, since I'm only presented with two account types. I create "Admin" and realise that I can't use it to browse the Docs & Settings folder of my original admin user, although the original can browse this.

Why? Is it that I need to manually give rights to that folder? Is XP Home really paying attention to who created which user, leaving Admin's private files open to me by default as the creator?

eta: I found the "private" checkbox. That's not on by default, I'm guessing from the two I just created. Wonder if I knew of it and then forgot its very existence...

Typo, that interface fails to load on Opera/OS X for me, so I can't be too nice about it. Does it really put the thumbnail in the middle as it appears in the promo thing I could look at?

Yep it really does. I'm not so much down with the details as they are. I think normal navigation buttons would be find. I just like the easiness of the zoom.

And after seeing your post, I checked it. Apparently it only works as presently coded on IE and Firefox. I mean it was written by a graphic artist, so I'm not suggesting the code is great. I'm just think zooming is actually a great way for the transition from page to page to happen, just because it produces less eyestrain for me than any other method I've ever used. Also given that it is navigating pure graphical pages, it is amazingly light, and fast, as I said probably because of clever caching. It is written pretty purely in flash, so I would never suggest the code itself is anything to model. Just the use of zoom interface. Also, while I don't think I'd like the thumbnail in the middle of everything as a usual thing, It is also responsible for some of the lack of eyestrain. Don't have to move my eyes to a navigation bar and back with a navigation button right in the middle of the page. But it would be absurd normally; it is part of the feel of the particular comic, builds in the feeling of falling, of getting more and more out of control as the main character grows creepier and more obsessed.