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Helpful Hints:

Can't get your card?
How to save your postcards.
Can't get things to work?
How to send multiple cards at the same time.
A note about the music on BlackDog.
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Can't get your card?

For more help and for answers to frequently asked questions, go here: http://blackdog.net/postcards/help1.html.

How to save your Postcard

There are many available browsers -- and some browsers are eccentric! You need a browser that has forms implemented (older versions of MacMosaic will not work). Go to this useful test page for browsers. Also, Hotwired has a browser tuneup page to see how well your browser performs various tasks. You can also run a browser diagnostic and tune up at BrowserTune.

Your best bet is to download the latest full version of Netscape or Microsoft's Internet Explorer. They are both free for download here:

http://www.netscape.com
http://www.microsoft.com.

Here are some other problems users have encountered:

• AOL: The Preview option might not work: send the card anyhow. Some users cannot send cards at all - clicking on a picture doesn't work. Also, AOL caches files indefinitely. To solve this problem, clear your machine's cache.
• Pipeline: Cards sent from pipeline often have some extraneous headers embedded in them. This makes them unreadable!
• Prodigy: Doesn't allow some users to access the Postcards at all.
• Music Files: Some users (primarily AOL users) have web browsers that will not allow you to hear the sounds that accompany the Postcards. Download Netscape or Internet Explorer. If you are already using Netscape, Netscape version 2.0 or later has a plug-in called Netscape Player. If you do not have it (NPaudio.dll), you should download the latest version of Netscape. Make sure you get the FULL version, not the 'lite' download, which is what many internet service providers (ISP's) give out. For Internet Explorer, you might need to download Crescendo.

For more help and for answers to frequently asked questions, go here: http://blackdog.net/postcards/help1.html.

So, you want to send holiday greetings to all of your friends. Or let them know what fun you are having in cyberspace. If you are able to create a mail alias (that is, an electronic mailing list) you can simply send the postcard to the list. Everyone on the list will receive notification of a waiting card and everyone on the list will be able to access it. And you only needed to fill out one card.

Note: You can't send to an email list on your machine within your personal email program. Also, you can't send to a corporate email list from the outside the corporation's email system. To create a mail alias, you need to have created a mail list and stored it on your internet service provider's mail server. To find out if this is possible, check with your ISP. There is also a web site on line called "List Bot" - a free service where you can create a mail list and store it on the net: http://www.listbot.com/.

The music on BlackDog has been gathered either from midi sites which represented that the files available were in the public domain (not copyrighted), or which were created by the BlackDog staff. In addition, we have checked the names of the music files at The Harry Fox Agency, Inc. to try and confirm that they are, indeed, free for public use. Therefore, to the best of our knowledge, all of the music/midi files on BlackDog are public domain and we are free to use them. If we have made an inadvertent mistake and a music file on any of our pages not in the public domain, for whatever reason, please let us know. We will need to know the name of the song, who owns it, and why it is not freely available for our use. Once we have been notified, we will remove the sound from our pages. Please send this notice to BlackDog's Webmaster.

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Certain portions of the Helpful Hints are courtesy of Judith Donath who designs and maintains
MIT Media Lab's The Electric Postcard. Thanks!