In this month's Bits 'n' Bytes, Dale Atchison updates his
Monthly Maintenance instructions, Stew Bottorf attempts to
breathe new life into an older laptop, and Ira Wilsker
describes how to set up that new computer you got for
Christmas.
February
Bits & Bytes is Online:
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1) General Interest
WEDU: Saturday, March 7th,
6:30-10:30pm
Upcoming FACUG & APCUG conference: March 13, 14, & 15
Doc's Café This Wednesday night 7-9pm at the
Resource Center
Monthly meeting at the Largo Cultural Center moved to
MONDAY night March 16th
2)
TBCS Classes
Stan Ashbrook's ProShow Gold 4.0
- STARTS THIS WEEK!
WEDU: Saturday, March 7th, 6:30-10:30pm
WEDU has asked us to
help them raise funds again on a Saturday evening in March. I only
have 4 volunteers so far. I need 10 more. C'mon and join us.
It's really a very pleasant outing. You'll have a good time.
The shows that will be airing
that night are:
7-9pm: "Welk Stars Through The Years" (Mary Loy Metzger will be live in
the studio), and
9-10:30pm: "Highland Heartbeat".
Please
send an email to the Club Secretary
if you'd like to join us. We'll arrange car pools for this junket.
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Upcoming FACUG & APCUG spring
conference: March 13, 14, & 15 in Zephyrhills
$65 at the door (for TBCS members)
This is going to be a great conference. About 130 are already
registered, but wait 'til you see some of what's going to happen this
time around. The educational sessions are far different this time
than what you are used to. I view it as a "boot camp" for social
networking. If you are interested, here's
a lot more info.
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Doc's Café This Wednesday night
7-9pm at the Resource Center
Socrates
Café
-->
Doc's
Café --> Doc's
Café. We keep evolving and changing. We still have the
flavor of Socrates Cafe, but I pick the topics and introduce them with a
short commentary or a movie. I'm not going to broadcast these for
now. It's not a suitable environment for it.
I found a very interesting and provocative movie for this month.
Does either "common sense" or "practical wisdom" exist? Our
society seems rampant with a bureaucracy where rules often fail us and
incentives often backfire. Failure to understand the links between
human psychology and economics can become enormous stumbling blocks as
we try to rebuild our economy.
Speaking of rebuilding our economy, here are 3 links you might want
to keep:
Recovery.gov: www.recovery.gov
The government's official tracking of the stimulus bill
What?! You don't trust your government? <grin>
Try Stimulus Watch:
www.stimuluswatch.org/
Here's the "Florida specific" page:
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/project/by_state/FL
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Our monthly meeting at the Largo Cultural Center will be on MONDAY
night March 16th instead of Tuesday night March 17th (St. Patty's Day).
Please mark your calendars!
Doc
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Stan Ashbrook's ProShow Gold 4.0 -
STARTS THIS WEEK!
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)
I just wanted you all to know that someone saw a comparable class on
ProShow Gold that was priced at $695. I assure you that our
classes are a great bargain.
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:
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:
Mar 3, 10, 17, & 24
Future sessions:
Mar 31, Apr 7, 14, & 21
Dennis
Schulman Classes on Computer Security & Spam (free!)
Two
2-hour classes on Tuesdays March 10 & 17, 10:30-12:30
Dennis will demonstrate techniques for keeping
your hard drive humming along without collecting too much Internet
flotsam & jetsam followed by tips on how to reduce your spam. No
registration is required for this class - just show up.
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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.
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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, February 23, 7-9pm
Publishing Software SIG. Led by Stacy Lloyd
We'll start the meeting with our usual Q & A session. Rudy said he
would bring his latest advertising circular creation for discussion.
His creation is done in Microsoft Publisher. If anyone else has a
publishing project, please bring it up for discussion. My African
Tour InDesign project that we demonstrated the layout for at our last
meeting has been finished. I plan to discuss that and will show
the finished copy.
Tuesday,
February 24, 1-3pm
Novice SIG. Led by
Bill De Lucia
Bring Bill your questions.
Tuesday,
February 24, 7-9pm
Microsoft Access SIG. Led by Howard Gray
Wednesday,
February 25, 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,
February 25, 7-9pm
Doc's Cafe. Led by
Dave Dockery
Thursday, February 26,
1-3pm
FOSS (Free & Open Source Software). Led by
Stew Bottorf Broadcast
Here's Stew's
website: http://foss.cypressweb.com/
Thursday, February 26, 7-9pm
Windows SIG. Led by Chris Walters
Chris is back. Bring your advanced Windows questions.
Friday, February 27, 10am-noon
Broadcast
Doc's Place. Led by Dave Dockery
"Vista From the Ground Up" (basic Vista) AND "7 Web 2.0 Technologies"
Doc will be back for some fast-paced larnin'.
Sunday, March 1, 1-3pm Broadcast
SBI SIG. Led by Rick Hart & Carl Hahn
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