Sacramento PC Users Group

Sacramento PC Users Group
PO Box 162227, Sacramento, CA 95816-2227
916-984-9250

Computer Users Helping Computer Users

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Sacra Blue

March 2008
Issue 308

Features
-Bot-Nets
-Botnet?The Evil Network
-Year 2007 Tax Software
-Microsoft Office 2007
-Moving on to Vista
-New Gadgets for 2008
-The New, Best, and Worst
-Microsoft Patches
-64 Bit Computing--Pros and Cons
-E-Mail Responsibilities

Columns
-Product Reviews
--Painter X
--Photoshop Lightroom
--Soft Hardware from Otterbox!
-The Deals Guy

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November 2007
Issue 304

Features
-Care and Feeding of CD?s
-Retirement Planning Resources
-Tour the World with World Wind
-Countdown to the Digital Deadline
-The Garage
-Vista Vexes
-More Vista Vexes
-Accessories for the Christmas Computer
-Tales of the Ordinary User
-Free and Open Source Software

Columns
-Product Review
--Diskeeper 2007 Pro Premier
--Avery Design Pro
-Book Review
--Real Digital Forensics
-The Deals Guy

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	July General Meeting

Wednesday, July 21, 2010 7:00 p.m.

-- Y'all are Invited to Stop By! --

Program: (As of July 14, 2010)

We purchase an average of $200 per month for prizes to be given away at the monthly meetings.
You must be a member to get a ticket for the drawing.
Odds of winning a prize is about 1 in 30. Compare that with the odds on Lotto

1. July's meeting will have a demo of Virtual machines by Milt.
2. Ron Lambrert will talk about utilities Specifically C-Cleaner
3. July is also our birthday we will have a cake.

4. Your steering committee is making progress on a new website. We are still now sure when the new site will be available.

YOUR FAVORITE WEB SITE. Bring your favorite site so all can enjoy it.
Some of the websites we have visited in the past.
1. Worldstart.com
2. Crossloop.com
3. Costtodrive.com
4. http://www.anywho.com
5. http://www.bookfinder.com/
6. http://www.picanswers.com/
7. http://www.buureradio.com/
8. http://www.caedes.net/
9. http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/zcl_0_landing_error.jsp
10. http://www.geocities.com/ikind_babel/babel/babel.html (A Glossary of Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms)
11. http://www.processlibrary.com/directory/ (Find out what these things do.)
12. https://www.yousendit.com/cms/compareaccounts (Send large files)
13. http://domainhelp.search.com/search?q=i+i&d=i.i.com.com.com (A little bit of everything)
14. http://www.se.rit.edu/~jrv/research/ar/ (Augmented reality page)
15. http://gigapxl.org/ (Interesting but low priority)
16. http://www.radiosure.com/ (Radio Stations from the world)
17. http://processexplorer.com/ (This site has many parts to it. check it out)
18. http://www.processlibrary.com/ (This is another site that has many parts to it)
19. http://gigapxl.org/sitemap.htm (Check this one out)
20. http://defragger.com/ (Many parts to this one)
21. http://www.zoho.com/
22. http://wolfram.com/
23. http://www.sonicwall.com/us/
24. http://explainingcomputers.com/
25. http://www.privacychoice.org/site (Learn who is watching you)
26. http://eol.org/ (Encycopedia of life)
27. http://www.wisegeek.com/ (Clear answers for common questions)
28. http://www.audioreview.com/ (Review the more common devices)
29. http://gomez.com/ (Test your website)
30. http://allmisic.com/ (Free music downloads)
31. http://www.freeotrshows.com/ (Free Old Time Radio Shows)
32. http://gethuman.com/ (Some guide lines on how to get a human to answer the Phone)
33. http://www.phonemyphone.com/ (With this you can phone your own number)
34. http://www.newssift.com/ (This will help you catagorize and look at news storie)
35. http://healthmash.com/ (Search for information about anything relating to health)
36. http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/ (This site has a give away for each day)
37. http://livingstories.googlelabs.com/ (This site gives you late news stories)
38. http://pricefight.com/ (Compare prices on items you select)
39. http://priceproctr.com/ (Another site for you to check out)
40. http://pdfconvertor.com/ (convert files to another format)
41. http://video.dot.ca.gov/ (Various information about department of Transportation including live cameras)
42. http://www.kvmr.org/ (Music of the world 89.5 KVMR)
43. http://www.portablecomponents.com/ (Many various batteries you can purchase)
44. http://komando.com/ (Kim's club this is worth looking at)
45. http://www.yelp.com/sacramento (This is a site that has many parts you can search for)
46. http://www.badmouth.net/ (Many various parts to this site. Be selective what you bring up)
47. http://www.docuticker.com/ (Many news items from government agencys)
48. http://www.last.fm/ (Music online)
49. http://woot.com/ (Check out the electronic equipment here)
50. http://www.1saleaday.com/ (You might find something that interests you)
51. http://www.allvoices.com/ (This is a source for news you may not be able to get anywhere else.)
52. http://popscience.com/ (This is a site you can go to many other places you might be interested in.)
53. http://friendsofirony.com/ (Use this to get a little humor when you need it.)
54. http://clearstation.etrade.com/ (Free information about stocks.)
55. http://www.newmoney.gov/currency/interactive.htm (Apreview on what security the new money will have)
56. http://bit.ly/ (This is a way to shorten a long website name)
57. http://www.chocomize.com/ (You can use this site to design your own chocolate bar and have it shipped to you.
58. http://www.sactogasprices.com/ (You can search for gasoline prices in a given area)
59. http://www.jeffbridges.com/main.html (This is a bit unusual since in is done in hand writing)
60. http://www.howcast.com/ (This site has a bit of everything)
61. http://www.greatsunflower.org/ (This site is a trial site for tracking and studying bees)

Character may be manifested in the great moments but it is made in the small ones.
Phillips Brooks

And Other Stuff, Too!

And Dennis Duffy, who conducts the Beginner's Tutorials, has been choosing topics based on questions he receives during the prior month. Stay tuned for his next topic!
The Beginner's Tutorial session starts at 5:45pm.

Note: Door prizes are awarded only to Sacramento PC Users Group members. Become a member before the 7:00 pm meeting start for prize eligibility.

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2003 Howe Avenue, Sacramento, CA
(Between Alta Arden and Cottage, across from Home Depot)

Founded in July, 1982, the SPCUG is one of the largest PC user groups on the United States west coast. Our monthly General Meeting provides a unique forum (and 200-300 dedicated and interested computer users!) for presentations of the latest computer products and timely discussion by industry leaders.

The SPCUG is currently experimenting with providing real-time chat with the front office administration. We hope to expand this feature in the near future to include real-time chats with the SPCUG AnswerGuys and the Sacra Blue and eBlue Editors. To be honest, the likelyhood of an administrator being available for chat is not high. But try it anyway - there's nothing to lose. Real-time chat services are provided by InstantService.com.

Several SPCUG members took advantage of an offer by New Horizons on their popular Online Anytime packages. We would like to thank New Horizons for the educational rewards these members are now enjoying. We recommend that anyone who has a need for excellent courses of study in a wide range of computer technologies to give New Horizons a call.

As a benefit for SPCUG members, O'Reilly Publishing offers 20% discounts on orders placed through their Web site. Contact the WebMaster for the discount code to use during checkout.

One of the functions of the SPCUG is to publish reviews of recently released books. We do that through our Hard Copy column. Sacra Blue's Book Review Editor regularly requests books from O'Reilly and other publishers for review. SPCUG members are eligible to review books that may interest them. After making a small deposit, the member is given a month to write an acceptable article, after which the deposit is returned. So, if you have an interest, visit O'Reilly's Web site and make note of the Title, Author and ISBN number of any books you would to review and add to your library. Send that information to the Editor.

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