Imagine sending letters, pictures and documents to people almost instantly and without ever touching paper. That’s E-mail and we’ll show you how to do it.

We’ll also show you how to find out about anything or anybody on the Internet’s World Wide Web. You’ll learn about Browsers, Road Runner, DSL and more.

See the Beginners SIG page for location, contacts, etc.

Attend to club business.

All members and visitors are welcome.

See the Board of Directors page for location and more.

AGENDA

o How to Revive your Computer after a Near Death Experience.
A feature built into Windows can be used to return your computer to an earlier state if you have a system failure or other major problem. This is called a Restore point.
We will look at:
How Restore Points work.
When and why you should use them.
When you should not use them.
A supplemental tool to use as well.

o Power Toys – Not just for kids.
Find out the reasons to use these Microsoft designed, but unsupported, items.

o Windows Q&A
If possible, please email questions before the meeting so we can schedule enough time for answers.

See the Windows SIG page for location, contacts, more.

AGENDA

o Excel
Demo of how to take an internet article and transform it into an automated quiz.
This will include:
How to Copy only part of an internet article.
How to properly Paste an internet article into a spreadsheet.
How to format the spreadsheet for maximum effect.
How to use formulas to transform the article.
How to protect the spreadsheet to avoid accidental erasures.

o Word and Excel
How to use the multiple Copy/Paste function of MS Office. Very powerful, but easy.

See the Beginners MS Office SIG page for location, contacts, etc

Featuring:

• Installing, Student Office 2010. Have Code! Will Office!
• Side by side comparison of Office 2010 and Office 2007 and 2003.
• Discussing File Compatability Version To Version.

See the Office SIG page for location, contacts, etc.

AGENDA

o How to determine the best time to start Social Security benefits.

o Are you living on the financial edge?
A simple test to see how close you are.

o Use a toll road?
New rules from TX Tag that could cost you money.

o The Ultimate Boot CD.
Every body should have one.
How you can get one for free.

o Mints on the Pillow

See the Grab Bag SIG page for location, contacts, more.

The topic is TBA

See the Mobile Wireless SIG page for location, contacts, etc.

If you haven’t yet abandoned your old film camera for a new Digital camera you’ll learn why you probably should. And getting the pictures out of the camera and onto paper has never been so easy or fast. You’ll learn how to take better pictures and how to crop, enlarge and print them. You’ll learn how to email pictures to your friends or put large collections of photos on CDs for cheap and easy distribution to others.

See the Beginners SIG page for location, contacts, etc.

This month will be kind of a grab bag. I KNOW I want to do some more with the Linux Partition Manager, GParted. I’m also going to, for once, live up to the “Beginner” in our name by doing a run-through on file systems, how Linux sets up its subdirectory tree, hard and soft links, $PATH and $CDPATH, fsck, mount and umount and /dev/fstab, and so on.

As usual, there will be coffee and calories on hand.

See you tomorrow.
John

See the Linux Beginners SIG page for location, contacts, etc

Let’s see….

• There is a new way to answer the old question “So what’s on TV tonight?” (Word of advice guys, don’t ever answer “dust”! [:)] )
• I bet you don’t pick up your voicemail the same way I do!
• How am I going to keep track of what I need to be doing…. sync’ed with my phone, of course?
• If only I could see what you’re seeing… without having to set up remote access

All these and perhaps a few more

See the Internet SIG page for location, contacts, etc