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COMING EVENTS

General Membership Meeting
	When:		Wednesday Evening, September 12, 2001
	Where:		Heritage Hall
	Time:		7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
	Topic:		Guest Speaker - Pete Verderosa will present : "Picture & Sound in the Digital World"

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CLASSES for Club Members
Register at Activities Desk

Doing Email with AOL	9:00 to 10:30 a.m.	August 20, 21 & 23    $10.00
There's more to email than just messages. If you are using, or considering using, AOL as your email program, learn how to compose, customize, forward, reply, save, and store your messages, including pictures sent within the message or as an attachment. Prerequisite: Students must have completed Computing Basic I or have equivalent working knowledge. They must have a computer with Windows 96, 98, or ME.
COMPUTER BASICS LECTURE SERIES	9:00 - 10:00 a.m.	August 22, 24, 29 & 31    No Fee
Attendance is limited. Requirements: You must be a member in good standing and own a computer. You will be given HANDOUTS and be assigned homework for EACH SESSION. Book: It is helpful to purchase "Teach yourself Windows 98" or "Teach Yourself Windows ME," published by IDG Books, which may be found at Staples, Walden Books, and the Book Review. this is an excellent Windows reference book and a good resource for all courses taught by the Computer Club. THIS IS NOT A DUPLICATION OF COMPUTER BASICS I
Sign up for these courses at the Front Desk in the Activities Building.

WARTIME CARTOONS

When we hear the name Dr. Seuss, we think of allthose wonderful children's books. But beyond green eggs and ham, Theodor Seuss Geisel, AKA Dr. Seuss, served during World War II as chief editorial cartoonist for a New York newspaper. Some 200 of his wartime cartoons, from historian Richard H. Minear's collection, "Dr. Seuss Goes to War," is brought to the Internet at: http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/ . If you click on the cartoons,they enlarge for readability.

from: Neat Net Tricks #91

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TIP FROM LOCKERGNOME.COM

"Netscape"does have one rather nice feature that can be invoked with slow loading pages to find out what's gumming up the works. Navigator has a habit of preventing the display of a page if JUST ONE image is broken, sometimes hanging up for up to 2 (or more) minutes. By hitting Control + Alt + T, Netscape will show you a list of pending items left to download and their full URL, giving you a good idea of what the problem may be. Banner servers are notorious for breaking completely or failing to respond in a timely manner, thus you may see ad links / images listed quite often. You'll also see your connection status, which tells you precisely how many connections are required to finish the page as well as the concurrent connection limit that your browser is currently configured to handle.

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FROM CNET SHOPPER NEWSLETTER:

MAC EDITION, download free software for your Mac: EUDORA (OS X)An alternative to the mail program in OS X; try Eudora. This popular Email program, now for OS X, features the Eudora Sharing Protocol to help you synchronize files with co-workers and family members. Check out the optional MoodWatch feature that warns you of potentially offensive outgoing messages. http://one.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin1/flo?y=eCB10CS4pT0Ps0tRw0Ad

NETSCAPE 6.1 PREVIEW RELEASE 1, Take a peek at the future of Netscape with this preview release of its popular browser. With performance and stability enhancements, an improved interface, and many other advances, this update of Netscape is definitely worth checking out.
http://one.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin1/flo?y=eCB10CS4pT0Ps0tRx0Ae

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KREMLIN KAM

http://www.kremlinkam.com/ "What do people in Russia do all day? ...Some of them have set up a Web cam that shows not only The Kremlin, but also panoramic views of other historical sites like Lenin's Tomb, The Armoury & Diamond Treasury, and the Historical Museum..." (AF)

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PLEASE READ THIS:

ALL MEMBERS, AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

Please submit a blank email to:

theweb@snet.net

No message or subject is necessary. The purpose is to acquire and update email addresses at The Web.

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WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS

Gene W. Bloxsom
Evelyn M Copeland
Magdeleine Dillon
Alicia Fryer
Gwenn E. Gurnack
Roeli Johansson
Matthew Luciani
Dick Mitchell
Norman & Joan Pierpont

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CHANNEL 3 HELPERS ARE WANTED!

A great opportunity! Help out with setting up the programming for the display of information on Channel 3. The only prerequisite is some knowledge of Windows. Training will be provided.
Call Nan Rubin at 264-7742 OR leave a note at the Activities Desk.

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VIRUS PROTECTION VIA THE WEB

http://housecall.antivirus.com/ "Think your computer might be coming down with a little something? Anti-virus software is good to have at your disposal. This is available free on the Web; sit back, let it scan, and hope your PC isn't infected. You don't have to register if you don't want to."

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VOCABULARY SITE MAP

-- A listing at a web site of what exactly is on that site. If a site has a site map, then finding what you need should be no problem. SMS -- "Short Message Service" is a way to send text messages of up to 160 characters to a mobile phone or other SMS-enabled de vice. It is NOT the same as paging. With SMS messages, a phone doesn't have to be active, nor does it have to be within range at the time the message is sent. The message is saved until the phone is within range (and active) and can be delivered. SMS messages can be sent to digital phones from other digital phones, through telephone interfaces or via websites. Sometimes this is a better alternative than paging . Note: "SMS" also stands for "System Management Server" from Microsoft.

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MACINTOSH USERS

I'd like to hear from you. Help me -- to help you! -Diana

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A Friendly Reminder
Membership renewals due in July 2001:

Eileen Bosley	Arthur Bosley	Eva Cassidy	Al Cassidy
Annette Charniak	Mary Danielson	Arnold Deutchman	Barbara Dixon
George Dixon	Matthew Elson	Raymond Fuchs	Thomas Glanfield
Harold Harris	Norma Harris	Roy W. Hill	Dolores Holland
Larry Holland	Ralph Leviton	George Maytrott	Eileen McCarney
Jim McCarney	Ann Newbauer	Henry J. Newbauer	John O'Grady
Gertrude Ribet	Phil Ribet	S.S. Bud Rice	Barbara F. Seller
F. Seller	Pearl Sherman	Frances Taub	Sam Taub
May F. Vallez	Edward W. Vitz	George Wolbeck

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HAVE YOU BEEN TO OPEN HOUSE AT THE WEB LATELY?

See the schedule on our Web Calendar Page in the Soundboard. Here is your chance to come down and meet club members; ask questions; try out software; offer to help out. Bob Greene could use some assistance with the Open House. Call him at 264-9747.

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HELPLINE - CALL LIST

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Officers

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Monthly Calendar

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SOS - HVCC Help Line

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For Help

Call Ken Pelletier 264-2310 or Bob Greene 264-9747.

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DO YOU HAVE VIRUS PROTECTION?
HAVE YOU UPDATED YOUR VIRUS PROTECTION?

Here are some types that you might like to look into if you are not protected: (The Soundboard does not verify the integrity of these sites. The sites are offered as a point of reference for you to make the final decision.)·

VIRUS PROTECTION FOR MAC USERS:

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Note:

A Classified Section has been added to the Club page, only computer club members may list - computers, hardware and software. Visit the club's page and select the menu item - Classified Section. Click here to go there now!

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Congratulations to the Winners of the door prize raffle at the Computer Club General Membership Meeting on Wednesday, August 08, 2001:

Nan Rubin, Ken Pelletier, Janet Mann

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Thank you, Jeannette Levy, for the following submissions:

My kids love going to the Web, and they keep track of their passwords by writing them on Post-it notes. I noticed their Disney password was "MickeyMinnieGoofyPluto" and asked why it was so long. "use," my son explained, "they say it has to have at least four characters." - contributed by Adriane Carroll to the Readers Digest Virtual Hilarity column

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When I signed up with an Internet provider, I was asked to select a password, but every word I picked had already been chosen by someone else. After nearly 30 minutes of frustration, I typed, "I give up." My provider's reply: "Password already in use."

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THE BRITISH LIBRARY

The British Library has put two Gutenberg bibles online. The library photographed two different editions of the Gutenberg Bible printed around 1454 AD to 1455 AD. The photographs do make for some very large downloads but the detail is incredible. We're big fans of old books but on our own would never get the chance to thumb through these beautiful volumes. But online we can flip through them to our hearts' content. Other neat items on the site include leaves from Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks. Courtesy of the following:

http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/324/tr.cgi?fsite

http://prodigi.bl.uk/gutenbg/background.asphttp://prodigi.bl.uk/gutenbg/items.asp

VERY SLOW LOADING OF THESE BEAUTIFUL PAGES

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A HUMOROUS PAUSE:

from www.cybercheeze.com--

".... now touch these wires to your tongue!

--Stack Error: Lost on a cluttered desk...

--Stack Overflow: Too many pancakes...

--Profanity: the universal programming language"

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TELEPHONE AREA CODE FINDER

Surf over to the Telephone Area Code Finder and just search for a given area code and you'll see not only what state it's in, but what major cities are covered, and what time zone it happens to fall into.
Courtesy: - http://www.TheNakedPC.com/t/408/tr.cgi?fsite
http://www.mmiworld.com/codelist.htm from this website: NEW: 959 CT Connecticut (Bristol, Hartford, and north and east Connecticut, overlays with 860)<Eastern Time Zone>When did this happen??? - Diana

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STRESS RELIEF AQUARIUM 3

Thewax.com in association with Amused.com presents T-Bone's Stress Relief Aquarium 3 -- You have control over the fish in the tank, push and hold the yellow buttons or push the red buttons. The red button Grenade was my favorite. They're all good.

http://www.amused.com/amusements/shockwavethings/fish3/index.php
FIND MORE:
http://www.amused.com/classics/index.php

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<grins>Computer analyst to programmer: "You start coding. I'll go find out what they want."

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