eBlue, Sacra Blue Online Magazine

May 2001 — Issue 226	*Sacra Blue* is available in Adobe's Acrobat PDF format. Right-click on this link: sb0501.pdf (1.3MB, 5Min@56K) and select "Save Target\|Link As...". Print these pages and read them whenever, and wherever, at your leisure.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION
eBlue Archives
Read past issues of eBlue

Credits & Information
The eBlue staff, disclaimer, and copyright information

E-mail the Editor
Ask the Editor your questions

Subscription Troubles?
Contact Circulation Manager Diana DeMuth

Advertising in Sacra Blue
Sacra Blue advertising rates and the 1999 Media Kit

Writing for Sacra Blue
The Sacra Blue Writer’s Kit details our style guidelines

Sacramento PC Users Group
SPCUG’s Web site

LOCAL MEDIA LINKS
California Computer News
Sacramento’s general- purpose computing magazine

Sacramento Stations
Links to Sacramento-area TV and radio stations

The Sacramento Bee
Sacramento’s daily newspaper

REGIONAL MEDIA LINKS
Computer Currents
The Bay Area general- purpose computing magazine

MicroTimes
The Bay Area high-tech mag

San Jose Mercury News
The Silicon Valley’s newspaper

The Gate
The San Francisco news site

MAGAZINE SITES
- BYTE.com
- InfoWorld
- PC Magazine
- PC Week
- PC World
- Windows Magazine
- ZDNet

eBlue is hosted by
CalWeb Internet Services.

April's Presentations
Gyration's gyroscopic mice and Techsmith's Snagit and Camtasia

SPCUG's Business
A review of the business portion of April's Main Meeting.

Feature Articles

On Digital Convergence
Do You Really Want Your Refrigerator To Have A Conversation With You?

—Timothy Everingham

Technology Charges Ahead
Seventeen Years of Remarkable Changes.

—Steve Bass

Little Man
A continuing cartoon series on the little man who makes the computer work.

—Monta Elkins

Fwd: Internet Humor
Employment Application

—Unknown

More Web Sites Worth a Look
Interesting Sites!

—Tom Anderson

Columns

Prez.Com
President's Thoughts
On CDs and Things

—Milt Hull

The Blue Pencil
Let's Hear It for the Volunteers
We now have an opening for someone to write a column reviewing games.

—Tom Anderson

The Volunteer Page
New Perspectives
Interview with SPCUG Volunteer Diana DeMuth

—Stan Morris

Solutions

Tech Talk
Data, Back It Up!

—Milt Hull

Reviews

Light Blue
Zeus: Master of Olympus
MechWarrior 4: Vengeance
Edited by Chris Seip

Chapter and SIG Reports
WordPerfect SIG

Et Cetera
Steering Committee Notes
Mentor List (Password Req'd)
Consultants' Corner

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Brian Smither