For our loyal readers of PhotoStockNOTES who are also members of PhotoSourceFOLIO, we'd like to tell you about a new feature we've recently added. Now you can edit your FOLIO photo captions and ID numbers whenever you like. Any changes you make to your contact info (either via the BANK update page, www.photosourcebook.com/update, or the new FOLIO update page, www.photosourcefolio.com/update) will be instantly reflected in your online web pages. For example, if you change your address on the BANK page and also have a FOLIO page, your new address will instantly appear on your FOLIO page. You'll need your User ID and Password to access this new FOLIO service, just as you do for BANK changes.

E-mail spam, that is, and now that you mention it, Uncle Sam does! The Federal Trade Commission is preparing for a crackdown on deceptive E-mail and is asking the public to forward any to them so the spam can be studied for violations of the law. Don't count on seeing any spam reduction soon, but it may help with future enforcement efforts. Forward your spam to uce@ftc.gov. And if you're wondering, they've received over eight million submissions already.

Readers of this great work ("just the facts, ma'am!"), currently in its fourth edition with over 110,000 copies sold, often ask where to get some of the books and reference material mentioned throughout the text, or simply would like to know a little more about a book or software we mentioned. Thus was born the S&RS Bookstore Web Page, where we list books that are referenced in Rohn Engh's Sell & Re-Sell Your Photos. You can read our review of these books (as previously published in PhotoStockNOTES), or click on the book's hyperlink to see what others have to say over at Amazon's (or Barnes and Noble's) online store. This is a work-in-progress, so we'll be adding (and occasionally removing) listings as we move along. www.photosourcefolio.com/BookStore-SRS.htm. Happy reading!

You know about the first two, but maybe not too much about the latter. Spyware is software, often disguised as "valuable freeware," that contains tools to send data about you and your surfing habits to advertisers, almost always without your consent (or it's buried in the pages of fine print extolling the virtues of the program and how they're concerned for your privacy, to which you agree in exchange for being allowed to install/download the program). Here are just a few spyware apps you may already have on your computer: Comet Cursor, Flyswat, NetZany, Alexa. This is not the same as the ubiquitous cookie, which is much easier to find and block. Nope, this is spy-vs-spy black ops kind of stuff. One solution is Ad-aware by Lavasoft, "a free multi-spyware removal utility, that scans your memory, registry, and hard drives for known spyware components and lets you remove them safely." Download it, or learn more, at www.lavasoft.nu.