Spam, Easy Share Camera, IBM First PC

Aug.13 -- In this week's Cybershake we explore how to stem the flow of junk e-mail, a new simple digital camera from Kodak, and the introduction of IBM's first PC.

Tips on Fighting Unwanted Junk E-mail

Up to your eyebrows in junk e-mail? Nathaniel Wice, an editor with ON magazine, has a few suggestions.

First, Wice suggests if you subscribe to commercial e-mail, “Do it with a separate e-mail account you can get free through Yahoo or Hotmail.” These e-mail services features filters to help determine which of e-mails are from friends and which are from electronic solicitors.

If you use Microsoft Outlook, “There’s a great little feature in there that you can set it to take all suspicious mail—mail that’s not directly addressed to you —- and put it in a separate folder that you can go through at your convenience,” says Wice.

Wice also doesn’t recommend responding to junk e-mailers. Instead, you may be able to take action through local state laws. Wice notes that there are several Web sites, such as suespammers.org, where consumers can find out other junk e-mail killing tips and facts.

One final thing: “The people who actually make Spam — Hormel — prefer people to use the term ‘bulk mail,’” says Wice.

— Clarissa Douglas, ABCNEWS

An Easy to Use Digital Camera

Eastman Kodak, a company long known for film-based cameras, my have created a digital camera for those who want it simple.

Called the Easy Share digital camera, “It is a one-button system for taking digital pictures and uploading them so that your can easily print or e-mail them and share them with your friends and family,” says Nancy Carr of Eastman Kodak.

Carr says only 5 percent of the nation uses digital cameras.”What the easy share system digital camera and dock is trying to do is to talk to those other 95 percent that have heard about digital cameras but just don’t want to get complicated.” In other words, a user-friendly digital camera.