April 3, 2006 Newsletter

Dear Brainstorm Customers It’s Spring and with the change of colors will come a lot of new, exciting changes for Brainstorm Internet. Watch your newsletter in the coming months for expanded DSL coverage, new products and improved services. Our team is dedicated to making your web experience the best one possible and we thank you for choosing us. - The Brainstorm Internet Team
Inside this newsletter: Refer A Friend & Save DSL Now Available Ask The Help Desk Why can't I see graphics in my incoming email messages? Brainstorm Community Give Back Program New Wi-Fi Hotspots Email Storage Is Expanding Short Tutorial Printing Web Pages Using The Landscape Option www.gobrainstorm.net Office: 247-1442 Toll Free: 1-877-651-6299	Email Storage is Expanding… Ever wish you could have a larger email box? Well now you can! Brainstorm has upgraded your email storage capacity from 5mb to 100mb. That means you can store more emails, photos or anything you like, on us. Enjoy! New Wi-Fi Hot Spots Brainstorm is always looking for new Wi-Fi locations to benefit our customers and community. Recently we have added some new additions that we want you to know about. Our newest spots are Kohlers Print Shop located at 2525 Main Ave and the Hillcrest Golf Course at 2300 Rim Dr. This is just one more way Brainstorm is connecting the Durango community every day.
Brainstorm Community Give Back Program Did you know that every month Brainstorm can designate a portion of your monthly dial up fee to the local charity of your choice? This is just one way that Brainstorm supports the local community every day. Call us and give funds to the charity of your choice today!	Refer a Friend and Save! Refer your friend, neighbor or co-worker to Brainstorm Internet and we will waive your next months fee. It’s as simple as 1,2,3. 1. Tell your friends and neighbors about our service 2. Have them call Brainstorm to sign up for service 3. Tell them to give us your name You’ll see a credit on your next bill. This is just our way of saying thanks to you our customers!
DSL is now available... Brainstorm is growing all the time and so is our service area. We have several new areas that are now available for DSL service. These areas include: • Gem Village • County Road 250 and Florida road. This will include about 1 mile north on County Road 250 • County Road 203 from just south of Sweeney’s north about 1 and a half miles. If you have dial up and are interested in DSL give us a call today at 247-1442.
Ask The Help Desk  Question: Why Can’t I see graphics in my incoming e-mail messages? Answer: In fall of 2004, Microsoft Corp. released a new software called Service Pack 2(SP2) to assist with the threat of e-mail viruses, e-mail worms and hacker attacks. One of its protective features was to block images from being dispayed on incoming emails messages. This is most likely the reason you are unable to see graphics within emails. There is an easy option that will allow you to fix this problem. 1. Click your cursor arrow on the gray bar located just below the subject line of the message. It will say, “Some pictures have been blocked to help prevent the sender from identifying your computer. Click here to download pictures.” If you click anywhere on this gray bar, the pictures for that particular e-mail will appear for as long as you have the e-mail open. 2. If you go to a different e-mail and then come back to this message, you will need to click on that bar again to see the images within the message. If you want to be able to see all pictures on all incoming e-mail messages that contain images, you can disable SP2’s default blocking feature by using the following steps: 1. Go to the Outlook Express “Tools” menu and drop down to “Options.” When the “Options” window appears, click on the “Security” tab. About half way down the window you’ll see an item titled “Download images.” You will see a checkbox next to the words “Block images and other external content in HTML e-mail.” If you uncheck this box, it will allow images to be viewed again just as it was before your SP2 update. 2. Click “Apply” and then “OK” to save your new settings and close the window.
Short Tutorial Printing Web Pages Using The Landscape Option If you’ve ever tried to print an order form or a receipt from a web page, you’ve probably found that sometimes web pages are not optimized for printing. When you pull your paper out of the printer, you may discover that the right side of the page has been cut off or pages have been split vertically down the middle. By default, some browsers will attempt to scale web pages down to fit when printing onto standard size paper. However, this may leave the type size on the printed page too small to read. A handy solution is to change the orientation of the page you are printing from “Portrait” (up and down) to “Landscape” (side to side). This allows you to print the text that would normally be cut off the printed page. Follow these steps to print web pages in a landscape format. Printing Web Pages in Landscape When Using Internet Explorer 6.0 Browser and Windows XP Home Edition: I. With Internet Explorer open, click your cursor arrow on the “File” menu and drop down to and select “Page Setup.” The “Page Setup” window will appear. II. Under “Orientation,” select “Landscape.” III. Click “OK” and then proceed to print the desired page. Alternate Method of Printing Web Pages in Landscape When Using Internet Explorer 6.0 Browser and Windows XP Home Edition: I. With Internet Explorer open, click your cursor arrow on the “File” menu and drop down to and select “Print.” The “Print” window will appear. II. Click on the “Preferences” button. III. Under “Orientation,” click “Landscape,” click “OK,” and then click “Print.” Printing Web Pages in Landscape When Using Firefox 1.0 Browser and Windows XP Home Edition Or Macintosh OS X: I. With Firefox open, click your cursor arrow on the “File” menu and drop down to and select “Page Setup.” The “Page Setup” window will appear. II. Click on the “Format & Options” tab. III. Under “Format,” select “Landscape” for your Orientation. IV. Click “OK” and then proceed to print the desired page. Printing Web Pages in Landscape When Using Safari 2.0 Browser and Mac OS X: I. With Safari open, click your cursor arrow on the “File” menu and drop down to and select “Page Setup.” II. When the dialog box appears, look for “Orientation” and select one of the icons that indicates a landscape view. III. Click “OK” and then proceed to print the desired page. Printing Web Pages in Landscape When Using Netscape 7.2 Browser and Windows XP Home Edition Or Macintosh OS X: I. With Netscape Navigator open, click your cursor arrow on the “File” menu and drop down to and select “Page Setup.” The “Page Setup” window will appear. II. Click on the “Format & Options” tab. III. Under “Format,” select “Landscape” for your Orientation. IV. Click “OK” and then proceed to print the desired page.   We hope you found this newsletter to be informative. It’s our way of keeping you posted on the happenings here. If, however, you’d prefer not to receive these bulletins on a monthly basis, click on this link to unsubscribe. The link will open a new email message to us, all you need to do is hit the send button and we'll take you off this list.