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Contents1) General Interest
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 | Demos of our Media Center. |
| Many of our SIG Leaders and Instructors are going to give short previews of what they teach and how they teach it. |
| Free refreshments throughout the day. Coffee & donuts in the morn. Hot dogs & burgers later on. |
The event is open to everyone. Please bring your friends and neighbors.
RAK: Random Acts of Kindness Computer
Clinic at the Open House
While all of the
above activities are taking place, our computer repair crew will be
slaving away fixing computers.
Since we provide free computer repair to our members on an ongoing basis, I am asking that TBCS members DO NOT register for this one. Please send the following to your friends and neighbors so that they may get a free sample of our repair services. Thank you.
You MUST register for the free Random Acts of Kindness Computer Clinic. Please email the following info to the Club Secretary.
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Yes, I would like to apply for the free Random Acts of Kindness Computer Clinic to be held at the TBCS Open House on Saturday, February 14th, 9am-2pm:
Name:
Phone:
Email:
Please give a brief description of your computer problem:
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You may forward this info to your friends and acquaintances so that they can register. Please do NOT bring in a computer if you haven't received a scheduled time from us.
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June Hollister adds an extra week free!
June will be at the Resource
Center again this Friday night 7-9pm
She will do Q&A session that covers all 4 weeks of her Online Business
class. Even if you missed the previous 4 weeks, you can still get
a feel for what June teaches. All are welcome to join us.
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Socrates Cafe becomes Doc's Cafe
This Wednesday night 7-9pm at the
Resource Center
Socrates Cafe became TBCS Cafe, and is now going
to become Doc's Cafe. I'm changing the name this time because I'm
going to pick the topics and I'm going to introduce the topic with a
short commentary. Also, we are going to start broadcasting this on
the web. I'm hoping that doesn't cause any of our regular
attendees to stay away, but I want to give these changes a try, and see
how they are received.
The topic for this month's meeting is: "What Would YOU Do To Improve Our World?"
If you would like to view the meeting, just go to:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/doc%27s-place-live
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Using Technology To Invest by Bob Young
Wed,
January 28, 1-3pm
Bob will show how to discover investing trends by calculating such things
as the Arms Index for groups of stocks. He will use a combination
of real-time data, MS Access database and MS Excel spreadsheet.
Whew! I'm going to take care of classes and SIGs next, but you'll find more info at the bottom.
Doc
2) TBCS Classes
Stan Ashbrook's Photoshop Elements 7
Three 4-hour classes on Saturdays
from 9am-1pm $60
Jan 31, Feb 7 & 21
This is NOT a hands-on class, but you must
register (see below)
Stan Ashbrook's ProShow Gold 4.0
Two 4-hour classes on Saturdays
from 9am-1pm $40
Feb 28 & Mar 7
This IS a hands-on class, and you must register
(see below)
Phil Sullivan's Hands-On Windows XP Beginner's
Classes
Four 2-hour
classes on Mondays 10am-noon $40 (NO make-up)
Since these are hands-on classes, they will be limited to only 6
people.
You MUST register for these (see below).
The next sessions will take place on:
Feb 2, 9, 16, & 23
Future sessions:
Mar 2, 9, 16, & 23
Phil Sullivan's Hands-On Windows Vista Beginner's
Classes
Four 2-hour
classes on Tuesdays 10am-noon $40 (NO make-up)
Since these are hands-on classes, they will be limited to only 6
people.
You MUST register for these (see below).
The next sessions will take place on:
Feb 3, 10, 17, & 24
Future sessions:
Mar 3, 10, 17, & 24
Mar 31, Apr 7, 14, & 21
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Classroom Registration
All of our classes meet at our Resource Center
in Clearwater. The full class fee is due at the first session (cash
or check please). All classes come with a money-back guarantee if
you're not happy with the instruction for any reason.
In order to register for any of the classes (or if you have questions), please send an email to the Club Secretary.
3) SIG Stuff
Our SIGs (Special
Interest Groups)
all meet at our Resource Center
(map:
http://www.tampa-bay.org/maps.htm).
All of our SIGs are free to our members.
SIGs are a great place to get more personalized attention, and get your questions answered. The following SIGs will meet this week:
Monday, January 26, 7-9pm
Publishing Software SIG. Led by Stacy Lloyd
After our usual question and answer period, I plan to discuss and
demonstrate the planning that went into my most recent project, which is
a magazine-like article created as a look-back at our September tour in
Bavaria and Austria. This was created with text written in
Microsoft Word and laid out in Adobe InDesign CS3 with photographs
managed in Adobe Photoshop CS3. Questions and/or comments are
welcomed by our group on any publishing type of software program.
Tuesday,
January 27, 1-3pm
Novice SIG. Led by
Bill De Lucia
Bring Bill your questions.
Tuesday,
January 27, 7-9pm
Microsoft Access SIG. Led by Howard Gray
Wednesday,
January 28, 1-3pm
Using Technology To Invest. Led by Bob Young
We will show how to discover investing trends by calculating such things
as the Arms Index for groups of stocks. We will use a combination
of real-time data, MS Access database and MS Excel spreadsheet.
Wednesday,
January 28, 7-9pm
Doc's Cafe. Led by
Dave Dockery
Thursday, January 29,
1-3pm
FOSS (Free & Open Source Software). Led by
Stew Bottorf Broadcast
Here's Stew's
website: http://foss.cypressweb.com/
Stew has a VERY diverse agenda. He's not only going to introduce
several free programs, but he's got several excellent gift items to give
away. Stop by his website for more info.
Friday, January 30, 10am-noon
Broadcast
Doc's Place. Led by Dave Dockery
"Vista From the Ground Up" (basic Vista) AND "7 Web 2.0 Technologies"
4) More, more, and still more
Dave
Gussow & John Torro
Thanks to Dave & John for speaking last Tuesday.
As always, they were entertaining and enlightening. Dave sent me
the following links that he spoke about:
| Fixya http://www.fixya.com/ |
| Gadgetwise http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/?ref=technology |
| Online farmers' market today: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/an-online-farmers-market/?ref=technology |
| Tekzilla (online tips, including videos): http://revision3.com/tekzilla/ |
| Harry McCracken's Technologizer http://technologizer.com/ |
| Ralph Bond http://ralphbondreporter.blogspot.com/ or www.ralphbond.com |
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WEDU Be
More Humble or People's Choice award
I am sorry to report that we did not win the WEDU
People's Choice award. This award was based entirely on how many
people voted for us on their website. When they prefaced the award
saying that the winner had over 50,000 votes, I knew we couldn't compete
with that. It was one by
www.bigcatrescue.com. They have a national network that they
were able to motivate. I certainly appreciate all of your efforts.
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You
better be aware of this new virus!
"Downadup
worm cited as the biggest cyber attack in years"
This worm has already spread to an estimated 15 million computers.
If you have not kept your Microsoft critical updates up to snuff, you
could be infected too. Here's a link that will help you figure out
what to do:
http://www.secureflorida.org/news/securityissues/2009/01/22/Downadup_worm_cited/
or
http://tinyurl.com/cwch78
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Free
seminar on security techniques to protect your computer
Dennis Schulman will demonstrate techniques for
keeping your hard drive humming along without collecting too much
Internet flotsam & jetsam in two 2-hour introductory classes. If
you are interested, please call Dennis at 727-251-7900 so he can get an
idea of how many are interested.