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Volume 17 Issue 12 December 2008<br />
SatPaul Singh, Sikhdar <strong>Guru</strong> Amrit<br />
Kaur, Bibiji and Shanti Kaur during the<br />
300th <strong>Guru</strong> Gad<strong>de</strong>e Day Yatra. More<br />
pictures on page 6<br />
Punjabi Chhole—p 5<br />
Pictures of 300th <strong>Guru</strong> Gad<strong>de</strong>e<br />
Day Yatra—p 6<br />
NOTE: The <strong>Ashram</strong> phone number<br />
has changed to 505-753-6341<br />
Table of Contents<br />
Lecture by Siri Singh Sahib<br />
Ji<br />
<strong>Ashram</strong> Calendar 2<br />
Missal Duties 2<br />
Community <strong>News</strong> 2<br />
Computer Corner 3<br />
Ads & Tidbits 4<br />
Food for Health 5<br />
Sangat Birthdays 6<br />
1<br />
<strong>Ashram</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />
Winter Solstice Sadhana<br />
Lake Wales, Florida<br />
December 19 - 25, 2008<br />
White Tantric Yoga®—December 21<br />
to 23<br />
Advance yourself! Join us in the serene<br />
setting of Central Florida for a rejuvenating<br />
experience guaranteed to bring<br />
the light back into your life during the<br />
cold winter months.<br />
As the year ends, join the warm and<br />
welcoming international spiritual community<br />
for a week of inspiration, rest,<br />
and renewal. The camp, situated around<br />
a quiet lake, is nestled in the tranquil<br />
hills and lovely gar<strong>de</strong>ns of Lake Wales,<br />
Florida. Celebrate autumn‘s passing,<br />
connect with friends old and new, and<br />
give yourself the chance to start the<br />
new year with a greater sense of tranquility<br />
and fulfillment.<br />
For more information, go to:<br />
http://www.3ho.org/events/yogaretreat.html<br />
Paying Attention<br />
Lecture by the Siri Singh Sahib<br />
December 3, 2002<br />
The very fact that a man is born is so he<br />
can study and see <strong>de</strong>eply into the life<br />
around him. From his first breath of life,<br />
if he doesn‘t get into the habit of penetratingly<br />
paying attention to everything,<br />
to reach to the core of creativity, he loses<br />
the chance to be certain, and doesn‘t un<strong>de</strong>rstand<br />
the message and doesn‘t un<strong>de</strong>rstand<br />
the Universe.<br />
God created so many things. Ultimately,<br />
everything is in balance. Nature is neither<br />
a friend nor an enemy; it is simply<br />
indifferent. When a human pays attention,<br />
then he un<strong>de</strong>rstands the meaning of<br />
indifference, the life purpose of it, the<br />
glory of it. And also he can see the darkness<br />
and sadness of it. Such an involved<br />
human being comes out of all circumstances<br />
with absolute sensitivity and fairness<br />
of purpose. He enjoys life and extends<br />
that joy to his own self and to others,<br />
and lives a very fulfilled life.<br />
On the other hand, people who do not<br />
pay attention are unfortunate; they want<br />
to get attention. They forget the purpose<br />
of life. When you want to get attention,<br />
you have to play so many games, show<br />
so many colors and shadows; you have to<br />
lie and tell bigger lies to get people to<br />
hear you.<br />
In the long run, people who get attention<br />
paid to them by unnatural means are very<br />
dull and extremely cunning. They do not<br />
have strength of character. They cannot<br />
see that they can be liked and loved for<br />
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Dec. 19-25<br />
December 21<br />
December 22<br />
December 25<br />
6th of the<br />
month<br />
Sundays<br />
6:30 am<br />
Wednesday,<br />
6:00 pm<br />
Every Thursday,<br />
12:30 pm<br />
Every Thursday,<br />
4:00 pm<br />
Fridays<br />
4:30—5:32 pm<br />
Gurdwara or<br />
langar hall<br />
Sunday‘s after<br />
langar<br />
December <strong>Ashram</strong> Events<br />
Winter Solstice Sadhana<br />
Lake Wales, Florida<br />
Winter Solstice Day (first day of<br />
Winter)<br />
Hannukah<br />
Christmas Day<br />
Ongoing Events<br />
Gurdwara commemorating the martyrdom<br />
of the Akal Takhat.<br />
This is traditionally a ―Wish-and-a-<br />
Dish‖ langar .<br />
Ishnaan Seva, washing the marble<br />
floors in the Gurdwara. All are<br />
welcome to participate in this uplifting<br />
event.<br />
Sat Nam Rasayan classes are held<br />
Wednesday evenings from 6:00 to<br />
7:30 pm at Terath Nivas, the home<br />
of <strong>Guru</strong> Terath Singh and Jivan Joti<br />
Kaur. Call 505-753-6241 for more<br />
information<br />
Langar served in the Langar Hall.<br />
All welcome! To help, call Amrit<br />
Kaur, 753-7705 for food preparation,<br />
and Deva Singh at 927-0988<br />
for general information.<br />
Return of the Children‘s Program<br />
every Thursday: This program is<br />
held in the Langar Hall at 4:00pm<br />
each Thursday. There are activitiesfor<br />
the children followed by a simple<br />
meal prepared by the parents.<br />
<strong>Guru</strong> Simran Kaur from the Ranch<br />
coordinates the program.<br />
Prosperity Meditation to ―<strong>de</strong>velop<br />
the intuitive business mind and<br />
bring prosperity home.‖<br />
Free healing sessions are held in the<br />
Gurdwara. Acupuncture treatments<br />
by <strong>Guru</strong> Mitar Kaur and Sat Nam<br />
Rasayan Free Clinic facilitated by<br />
Jivan Joti Kaur.<br />
Mayoral Proclamation for Yoga Day in Santa Fe<br />
The Mayor of Santa Fe proclaimed 12/14/08 as Yoga<br />
Day in Santa Fe -- and our community is noted in the<br />
proclamation as providing music for the 108 Sun Salutations<br />
on that day! If you can, please make it a priority to<br />
attend -- to do some or all of the sun salutations and/or to<br />
provi<strong>de</strong> music!<br />
The 108 Sun Salutations for World Peace is on Sunday,<br />
December 14, 2008 from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at<br />
the Genoveva Chavez Community Center. Please come<br />
with a donation of some amount. The goal is to raise<br />
$5000 for the Yoga In Schools program in Santa Fe.<br />
Contact me at <strong>de</strong>vsuroop@<strong>de</strong>vsuroop.com or 505-927-<br />
2519 for more information.<br />
New Sushi restaurant in Espanola<br />
There is a won<strong>de</strong>rful new sushi restaurant. It's not a<br />
chain and is run by a local family. I spoke to the owner<br />
and she is very sweet and said she <strong>de</strong>signed their menu<br />
with vegetarians in mind....Age Tofu, edamame, <strong>de</strong>licious<br />
cucumber, avocado, asparagus rolls and more. It's<br />
located in the Lowe's parking lot, in the new building,<br />
right next to Eatza Pizza Buffet. It's called Jo-Ji's Sushi<br />
and Teppan Grill, 747-4113....in case you want to call<br />
ahead and get take out the next time you take a trip to<br />
Walmart!<br />
Blessings, Dr. Japa Kaur<br />
December Missal Duties<br />
Date Set-up Langar Clean-up Akhand<br />
Path<br />
12/1-12/7 1 2 3 4<br />
12/8-<br />
12/14<br />
12/15-<br />
12/21<br />
12/22-<br />
12/28<br />
12/29/08-<br />
1/4/09<br />
Community <strong>News</strong><br />
2 3 4 1<br />
3 4 1 2<br />
4 1 2 3<br />
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Computer Corner<br />
Microsoft Word Tips<br />
By <strong>Guru</strong>ka Singh<br />
Many of us open Microsoft Word in one of its many available<br />
versions for our routine word processing needs. Few of us,<br />
however, explore some of the subtleties that add to our experience<br />
and can make a world of difference in our productivity<br />
and the final output. I‘m going to explore just a few of<br />
those tips. Some are unique to only one or two of Words'<br />
versions and, if known, the version will be indicated.<br />
SHRINK DOCUMENT BY ONE PAGE IN MICRO-<br />
SOFT WORD. A document whose last page is mostly blank<br />
is a waste of printer paper, especially if you have to make a<br />
lot of copies. Your letters and mailings will also look more<br />
professional if they fill the pages nicely. If Print Preview reveals<br />
a skimpy last page, click the Shrink to Fit (Word 2003)<br />
or Shrink One Page button (Word 2007). Word will tweak the<br />
fonts in the document to make it a page smaller. Don't like<br />
the results Just press Ctrl-Z to Undo.<br />
MICROSOFT WORD CALCULATES IN TABLES.<br />
Sure, you can embed an Excel worksheet in a Word document,<br />
but if you just need a few simple calculations, you can<br />
use Word's own math skills. Select a cell at the bottom of a<br />
column and click Formula on the Table Tools Layout ribbon<br />
(Word 2007), or select Formula from the Table menu (Word<br />
2003). Word will suggest =SUM(ABOVE), but you can select<br />
among over a dozen functions. Besi<strong>de</strong>s choosing<br />
ABOVE, BELOW, LEFT, or RIGHT to work with all cells in<br />
the specified direction, you can reference individual cells and<br />
ranges as you do in Excel-for example, =AVERAGE(A1:C3).<br />
MICROSOFT WORD MERGE TO EMAIL. If you need<br />
to send a common message to a group of correspon<strong>de</strong>nts, you<br />
may be unaware that the familiar mail-merge feature can also<br />
send email messages. In Word 2007, complete your letter,<br />
click Finish & Merge in the ribbon and choose Send Email<br />
Messages from the menu. In Word 2003, select "Email messages"<br />
at the very first step of the Mail Merge wizard. Either<br />
way, you'll be prompted for a subject (the same for every<br />
message) and for a data field that holds email addresses of the<br />
recipients.<br />
COMPARE TWO DOCUMENTS IN MICROSOFT<br />
WORD. In Word 2003 open the old document, choose Compare<br />
and Merge Documents from the Tools menu, and select<br />
the new document. In Word 2007 choose Compare | Compare<br />
from the Review ribbon and select both the old and the new<br />
document.<br />
INSPECTING DOCUMENTS IN MICROSOFT WORD<br />
2007. Your Word 2007 documents contain consi<strong>de</strong>rable information<br />
such as tracked changes, comments, hid<strong>de</strong>n text,<br />
private properties, and more. To learn what information is<br />
carried by your document, click the Office button at the top<br />
left, point to Prepare, and click Inspect Document in the resulting<br />
menu. In Word 2003, some of this information may<br />
also be found at the Security tab of the Options dialog. To<br />
guard against disclosing information to other recipients of<br />
your documents, check the boxes "Remove personal information<br />
from file properties on save" and "Warn before printing,<br />
saving, or sending a file that contains tracked changes or comments."<br />
MICROSOFT WORD'S BUILT-IN TRANSLATOR. The<br />
Research panel in both Word 2007 and Word 2003 inclu<strong>de</strong>s an<br />
option to translate the selected text or the entire document<br />
between various languages. It's more useful when you're trying<br />
to puzzle out what a foreign-language document means<br />
than when you want to communicate your own thoughts with<br />
those who don't speak English. To see why, translate a few<br />
sentences from English to another language and then back to<br />
English.<br />
EQUATIONS IN MICROSOFT WORD. To insert an equation<br />
into Word 2007, choose Equation | Insert New Equation<br />
from the Insert ribbon and use the tools on the Equation Design<br />
toolbar that appears. In Word 2003, select Insert | Object<br />
from the menu, choose Microsoft Equation 3.0, and click OK,<br />
then use the Equation toolbar that appears.<br />
USE MATH AUTOCORRECT IN MICROSOFT WORD<br />
2007. Click the Office button at the top left, click the Word<br />
Options button, select Proofing, click AutoCorrect Options,<br />
and check the box "Use Math AutoCorrect rules outsi<strong>de</strong> of<br />
math regions." Now you can type \aleph to insert an aleph (),<br />
\int for an integral sign () or even type \quadratic to insert the<br />
entire quadratic equation (x=(-b±(b^2-4ac))/2a).<br />
CHANGING CASE IN MICROSOFT WORD. Have you<br />
ever nee<strong>de</strong>d to change a word or section in a Word document<br />
from upper case to lower case (or vice versa) such as when<br />
you acci<strong>de</strong>ntally hit the CAPS LOCK key by mistake Or<br />
simply <strong>de</strong>ci<strong>de</strong> to call attention to a word or section by using all<br />
upper case Well there is a much quicker way than clicking<br />
through the formatting menu or retyping.<br />
Simply select what you want or need to change by highlighting<br />
it, then hold the SHIFT key down while tapping on the F3<br />
key. Voilà! You will see that you can toggle back and forth<br />
between upper and lower case. And that's the Word from here.<br />
Have you ever seen a ―winmail.dat‖ file in an email<br />
Winmail.dat is an email attachment you normally don‘t see. It<br />
contains formatting information for RTF (rich-text format)<br />
messages sent by Outlook. The system used for this is called<br />
TNEF (Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format ) but <strong>de</strong>spite<br />
the word ‗neutral‘ it‘s a proprietary Microsoft format. Because<br />
it‘s an ‗in-house‘ Microsoft format some non-MS email programs<br />
(such as Lotus Notes) can‘t convert the incoming mes-<br />
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their organic beauty, nor do they <strong>de</strong>velop wisdom to replace<br />
their organic existence so that they are naturally<br />
liked.<br />
If you <strong>de</strong>velop the habit of paying attention, then you<br />
reach the heart of everyone.<br />
By paying attention,<br />
you attract warmth, wisdom,<br />
analytical reach, and<br />
superior un<strong>de</strong>rstanding of<br />
another person and his<br />
qualities, faculties, and<br />
facets, which are the elements<br />
of his character.<br />
That can add to your own<br />
character and characteristics.<br />
In this way your life<br />
runs smoothly, sincerely,<br />
cozily and warmly and<br />
there is great <strong>de</strong>dication and strength of character in<br />
your words. Everybody likes you, even though you do<br />
not know why.<br />
There are none in this world who don‘t have wealth,<br />
value, virtue, and the sixth sense. If you can realize this,<br />
you will look on any individual and his universe and his<br />
space in a simple way. You will know the beauty, the<br />
essence, and the exaltedness of the person.<br />
When I became an adult, I reversed my childhood cycle<br />
of getting attention to paying attention and I was so<br />
loved, so liked, so gifted that I couldn‘t believe how,<br />
with that one little change, my life could become so vast<br />
and I could cross any hurdle. Instead of pretending to<br />
have tears in my eyes, I tried to put on a face of smiling<br />
beauty, and I got what I wanted. No doubt I was born<br />
rich but that was the time when I un<strong>de</strong>rstood and liked<br />
the meaning of richness.<br />
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Gurdwara Date Topic Lecture Date<br />
November 2 Marriage 3/20/87<br />
November 9 Story of GRD Chant 10/30/88<br />
November 16 General lecture 5/10/87<br />
November 23<br />
November 30<br />
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Relationship to your<br />
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Snatam Kaur and Sopurkh Singh are happy to<br />
announce the birth of Jap Preet Kaur, born in<br />
Espanola, NM on Saturday, November 22, 2008<br />
at 11:27AM MST. Her name means “one who<br />
loves to constantly meditate on God” - and we<br />
are feeling blissful in this vibration!<br />
In the same way I un<strong>de</strong>rstood courage; in the same way I<br />
learned to walk tall in my life. I found out another secret.<br />
God walks with me in every nook and corner of my<br />
life. I always have a companion. I simply pay attention<br />
to it. It is there all the time, through thick and thin, and<br />
my journey of life is getting completed. Walk with me<br />
and pay attention. Surely we will enjoy it and we‘ll<br />
make the journey so happy that we‘ll never get tired.<br />
That is the way to walk.<br />
© YB Teachings, LLC 2002<br />
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Food for Health<br />
Punjabi Chhole: Chickpeas, the Punjabi way!<br />
by A MAD TEA PARTY<br />
http://www.sikhchic.com/article-<strong>de</strong>tail.php<br />
id=527&cat=7<br />
Serves 6<br />
3 C chickpeas/garbanzo beans, soaked overnight (or<br />
soak for 3-4 hours in hot water)<br />
½ t baking soda<br />
1" piece of ginger, peeled and grated<br />
2 C chopped onion<br />
1 C chopped tomatoes<br />
2-3 T oil<br />
2 t red chili pow<strong>de</strong>r<br />
1 t garam masala (optional)<br />
salt<br />
for the masala:<br />
2 T (heaped) corian<strong>de</strong>r seeds<br />
1 T anardana (seeds of wild pomegranate), omit if not<br />
available<br />
1" cinnamon stick<br />
4-5 cloves<br />
1 t black peppercorns<br />
3-4 black cardamom<br />
2 t cumin seeds<br />
1 or 2 whole dry red chilies (optional)<br />
to garnish:<br />
green chilies, slit down the middle<br />
tomatoes, cut into thick wedges<br />
lime, sectioned<br />
Drain the chhole; some of what makes these beans<br />
hard to digest is water soluble and you will get rid of<br />
some of that this way. Rinse them out once more to<br />
make sure. Put them in a pressure cooker with enough<br />
water to cover them (by about an inch). If you like<br />
your chhole a bit on the softer si<strong>de</strong>, add half a teaspoon<br />
of baking soda (more will make them mush) to<br />
the chhole. No salt at this point. Cook un<strong>de</strong>r pressure<br />
for 20 minutes, or cook covered in a heavy pan till<br />
ten<strong>de</strong>r.<br />
grind to a pow<strong>de</strong>r.<br />
Heat oil in a heavy pan (or karahi). Add ginger and stir<br />
till just fragrant. Add chopped onions and cook till<br />
pink, when they are just getting tinged at the edges.<br />
Now add the tomatoes and fry (bhunno), stirring all the<br />
time, till the oil separates. There isn't much oil to separate<br />
here, so it has to be done on medium heat and takes<br />
a long time (20-30 minutes).<br />
When cooking a larger quantity (or when short on<br />
time), I would suggest you increase the amount oil (one<br />
and half times or double) since you don't want to be in<br />
the kitchen for the good part of a day.<br />
Once the ginger-onion-tomato is fried well and almost<br />
dry, add the fresh ground spice blend, garam masala<br />
(optional), and red chili pow<strong>de</strong>r. Add the slit green<br />
chilies and stir for a few minutes till your kitchen<br />
smells like heaven (Remove the green chilies and add<br />
this fragrant paste to the cooked chhole, and salt.<br />
Adjust water to your liking - I like mine really thick.<br />
Mix and cook (simmer) for 20 minutes, stirring every<br />
now and then, or cook in the pressure cooker for 10<br />
minutes.<br />
Serve hot with poori, bhature, or naan, garnished with<br />
the green chilies you have set asi<strong>de</strong>, wedges of tomatoes<br />
(drizzled with oil and swirled around in a hot pan<br />
for a minute or two, if you like), and lime.<br />
While the chickpeas are cooking, heat a pan to roast<br />
your whole spices - I use my cast iron pan. On medium<br />
heat roast the spices, all together, shaking and<br />
tossing, till they have almost blackened. Cool and<br />
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Pictures from<br />
300th <strong>Guru</strong> Gad<strong>de</strong>e Day Yatra<br />
Prabhu Singh with a friend in Sword Shop<br />
Dr. Balkar Singh with a friend<br />
December Birthdays<br />
2 nd Sat Mitar Kaur (OR)<br />
5 th Sat Want Singh<br />
Sat Jiwan Kaur (FL)<br />
6 th Satya Singh<br />
Siri Simran Kaur<br />
Jagat Singh<br />
Dharma Kaur (Birs)<br />
7 th Krishan Shiva Singh<br />
8 th Dharma Singh<br />
<strong>Guru</strong> Nam Kaur (CO)<br />
11 th Nirbhe Kaur<br />
<strong>Guru</strong>nam Kaur (DAO)<br />
Dev Dharam Kaur<br />
13 th Sat Bir Singh (Santa Fe)<br />
Nirinjan Kaur (Santa Fe)<br />
15 th Dr. Sat Kirpal Kaur<br />
Ragu Bir Singh<br />
Ruby Kaur<br />
Sat Shabad Kaur<br />
16 th <strong>Guru</strong> Tera Kaur<br />
17 th Sree Aatmaa Kaur (daughter of Gobind<br />
S & Vir K.)<br />
18 th Dr Sat Siri Kaur<br />
19 th Dharam Singh (Dharam K.)<br />
Dharma Kaur (daughter of Parmatma S<br />
& <strong>Guru</strong> Daya K)<br />
20 th Siri Nirongkar Singh<br />
21 st Siri Karam Kaur<br />
22 nd Daya Singh<br />
Sat Sangeet Kaur<br />
25th Bhajan Kaur<br />
26 th Hari Har Singh (Nam Nidhan K. )<br />
Saat Pursha Singh<br />
28 th Hari Rai Kaur (daughter of Dharm S &<br />
<strong>Guru</strong> Kirn K)<br />
31 st <strong>Guru</strong>ka Singh<br />
<strong>Guru</strong> Kirn Kaur, Shanti Kaur, Sat Jiwan Kaur<br />
and Sat Hari Singh taking a chai break<br />
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sage into a fully formatted message – the result is plain text<br />
plus a mysterious winmail.dat attachment.<br />
These days RTF formatted messages have been largely replaced<br />
by HTML formatting because it‘s more wi<strong>de</strong>ly supported<br />
by email software. Outlook has supported HTML formatted<br />
emails for the last few versions and is much preferred<br />
over the proprietary Microsoft system.<br />
The solution is to check your Outlook settings and make sure<br />
all messages are sent in HTML format.<br />
Switching to HTML format<br />
These days even Microsoft recognizes the superiority of<br />
HTML formatted messages. The <strong>de</strong>fault format is HTML and<br />
there‘s even an option to convert RTF messages to HTML<br />
format when sending to Internet email addresses (as opposed<br />
to intra-organization recipients). Go to Tools | Options | Mail<br />
Format to see the <strong>de</strong>fault message format (should be HTML)<br />
then click on the Internet Format to see Outlook Rich Text<br />
option to convert messages.<br />
Outlook - Rich text option - convert to HTML.jpg<br />
Most Outlook users (except perhaps those in large companies)<br />
would be using HTML formatted messages already without<br />
even knowing it. If you have people asking about winmail.dat<br />
messages from you then check your Outlook settings.<br />
Individual Messages<br />
You can control the formatting for individual messages and<br />
overri<strong>de</strong> the global setting in Outlook. In Outlook 2007 this<br />
choice is on the Options tab:<br />
Meebo<br />
The real-time benefits of instant messaging need no hype. If<br />
you've used IM to communicate with friends or colleagues,<br />
you know what a time-saver it is, and how useful it can be to<br />
reread archived conversations. The problem is that for the<br />
most part, the major IM networks don't talk to each other—<br />
that's AIM, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Google's Gtalk, to name<br />
the four biggies. Thus, you may have accounts on some or all<br />
of them so you can talk to everyone you know.<br />
If so, you need a multi-protocol IM client. There are several,<br />
but it's hard to beat Meebo for sheer simplicity and price<br />
(free). You don't need to install a thing, it's entirely Webbased.<br />
You don't even need an account with Meebo to sign<br />
into one IM network at a time. If you do sign up, Meebo can<br />
log you into all four IM networks at once, with one giant<br />
buddy list. Got more than one AIM account Multiple Gtalk<br />
accounts You can have Meebo sign into all of them simultaneously.<br />
The Meebo Rooms feature lets you create chat areas to use<br />
with anyone, even guests who aren't regular Meebo users.<br />
Insi<strong>de</strong> the room, users can share media files. Some are public,<br />
and would remind you of an old-school AOL chat from<br />
the early '90s, but with music. Create a private, passwordprotected<br />
room instead to chat with your coworkers. If the<br />
room is public, you can also embed it in a Web page.<br />
Other options: Downloadable multi-protocol IM clients<br />
abound, including Trillian, Pidgin, and Digsby, but new Web<br />
-based services are popping up all the time, including imo.im<br />
and eBuddy.com.<br />
Please do keep letting me know if this column is useful to<br />
you, and also keep sending me your suggestions for column<br />
topics, along with your own tips or cool downloads, so I can<br />
share them with the Sangat here. Just email them to me at<br />
guruka@sikhnet.com Thanks!<br />
Outlook 2007 - mail format for single message.jpg<br />
In Outlook 2003 the same choices are on the e-mail toolbar.<br />
In normal practice you‘d skip over the Rich Text option entirely.<br />
HTML is the best and most compatible choice for most<br />
purposes. Plain text is handy for special situations like messages<br />
to ‗Email to phone‘ gateways.<br />
But what if someone sends you an email with a winmail.dat<br />
attachment and you can‘t read their email Well just save the<br />
file and upload it here http://tud.at/php/tnef/ and it will <strong>de</strong>co<strong>de</strong><br />
it for you.<br />
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