LAP DESKS Wal-mart has a lap desk for around $5.00-Under $10.00.. You will find them in the stationary department. The lap deck has a plastic top and a bean bag bottom. You can try www.lapdesk.com (how original huh?) to see if they have anything to your liking. They have about eight or so different styles. I have the "crossword" model with a flip-top cover and some storage underneath. Love it! Happy Lapping,                           Danny WEBTV MAINTENANCE Wednesday morning is the WebTv maintenance period. PST = 1am to 4am MST = 2am to 5am CST = 3am to 6am EST = 4am to 7am Depending on the time zone trying to log-on during the above times will very likely result on seeing "WebTv Unavailable" every week. WHAT UNIT DO I HAVE? First of all, if you have a short memory, I would recommend that you print out or write down these instructions ... now: • Turn your WebTV off. • Press Option twice and enter "411". The green, yellow, and red lights will cycle a couple of times to let you know the command was accepted. • Turn the WebTV back on. • You will see the WebTV Technical Information screen, sometimes called the System Configuration screen. • Look at Box Type. You will see one of the following codes which tells you what type of unit you have: Old Classic: FCS New Classic: BPS Old Plus: LC2 "New" Old Plus: Derby New Plus:LC 2.5 There were apparently two versions of the old (original) WebTV Plus unit. Don't know what the differences were between the two versions. STACKING & COOLING TIP There are things called "furniture bumpers" in hardware stores---Radio Shack--K-Mart--etc. (about $2 for a pack of 8) They are a rubber stick-on about 1 inch square and about 3/4 inch high. Just stick them on the bottom of the LBB or anything else and they provide lots of ventilation between anything that you stack. I use them as "feet" between anything I stack. Also wont slide around and will not let any thing get scratched. LINKING BACK When transloading a graphic which asked for a link back, I put part of the site name in the graphic's name. For instance, all the graphics I transloaded from Draac have "123" in their name. rbj SCRAPBOOK GIFS I put some gifs in a scrapbook of another user, put them on an image page there, published it, and sent that page to this user (templar4). All I had to do was look at the images page, select the gif I wanted, put the url on my page and it worked perfectly. Makes no difference where the gif came from so long as it has an url. mike PLACES YOU WILL HEAR SOUNDS FROM YOUR WEBTV Short list of sounds: 1)when pressing view to flip between tv world and web world (while already connected) 2)when clicking on anything that turns the cursor from yellow to green 3)pressing BACK 4)After something is highlighted, pressing CMD+C 5)Messenger, sign in 6)Messenger , buddy on line 7)messenger, receiving message 8)mail, send 9)new mail arrives 10)news, post 11)web wizards wows (nice and noisy) 12)clicking the popup "More centers" menu on the home page 13)pressing the Home key (web side) 14)options, save, send , goto, info,find, recent panels rising 15)options, save, send , goto, info,find, recent panels falling 16)typing using remote and onscreen keyboard (only some units/versions make the noise) 17)trying to go beyond the end of a page (the thump noise) 18)Transponder signal level displays (satellite products)