I have outlook 2007 on my laptop and have had this annoying little beep every new email I receive. I found a setting in outlook under notifications that said something about beeps but that didn’t work. I even muted my speakers and that didn’t work. I finally found a SOLUTION in Google somewhere.

 No need to to disconnect the speaker, simply set this values in the registry. Defaults are set to yes and there is no way to turn this into a no from the gui. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Sound] “Beep”=”no” “ExtendedSounds”=”no”

AND IT WORKS! So now no jumping every time I get an email while concentrating on something else. FYI Thank You!!!

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What I (and many others) hope will be the biggest story of the year, the Microsoft takeover bid of Yahoo thus far is a big snoozefest. I really wished they would just kiss and make up and get on with acquisition details.  I’m not a big user of Live, MSN, or Yahoo so I guess that is what excites me the most about the deal personally is to see what comes out of it an see if they can persuade me to leave Google Gmail and several other Google services I currently use every day.

Word on the digital street is Yahoo is looking for a deal (Microsoft or otherwise) but believes the current deal on the table undervalues their company but I’m unsure if it’s th eYahoo of today or tomorrow. Yahoo has given a projection of a major financial increases by 2010 mostly from a new online AD platform that isn’t even out currently and other promised technologies. It sounds to me like Yahoo is just buying time and playing games and stockholders need to step up to the plate if they expect to get their piece and lets get this thing rolling. If nobody else is stepping up to buy, it’s sounds like Microsoft has found  the target or better market value to me.

Am I missing something here? What do you think about the deal?

I had a really wierd dream this weekend. I can’t remember a lot of it but one piece I picked out of it and pondered as I was lying in bed waking up Saturday morning was I was teaching some sort of strange class and an assignment was for the class to bake a cake that has a self-help or useful message. I was of a technology I’m assuming we’ve never heard of anyways but basically it involved sorts of computer chips or nano bots for lack of a better term that are perfectly harmless and would pass through our system but while in our system would send messages “directly” to our system via contact through the nerves in our body. I’m pretty sure that is still science fiction but you heard it here first if anyone is in fact thinking along the same lines as this. However what a useful tool if in fact it could be make and was actually harmless to our body. We could send not hungry signals to ourself for weight loss. We could send entire textbooks down our throat ((literally!)) for classes. Is something like this really possible? I promise I didn’t see it on a movie. A true direct input into the brain. WOW! What do you think??