April
SIG schedule
Thursday, April 21
Internet SIG
Monday, April 18
NO MS Office SIG
Thursday, April 28
Digital Camera SIG
Wednesday, May 4
Web SIG -- watch the web page
Monday, April 25
Board Meeting
General Meeting:
Thursday, May 12
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for April
Web Design SIG and MS Office
SIG will not meet in April
The Web Design SIG is on hiatus for the next couple
months. We're all looking forward to when Dewey will be
able to resume helping us get online. Feel free to email
him if you need specific assistance.
The MS Office SIG is on hiatus for the next couple
months. We promise it will be back in June.
Please watch our calendar for the next meetings.
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MS Office SIGThe MS Office SIG will not meet in
April. We will start over at the beginning in June.
Encourage your coworkers or friends who use MS Office
this is a chance to hone their skills.
Internet SIG The meeting will again feature Firefox,
the new browser on the scene. We will demonstrate the
tweaks that the experts recommend.
Digital Camera SIGThe topic will be a
continued open format I will answer all of
your digital camera questions and any digital editing
questions that you might have. Please bring your cameras
and images burned to CD ROM.
See if you can stump the chump.
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The SETI report
Go BOINCers
We've been telling you about Seti for years. Now's
the time to join us. The new BOINC client is more
customizable and friendlier to your processor. Plus, it
supports different and multiple clients.
Distributed computing is becoming a recognized and
valid means to use your extra CPU cycles (and you
probably have 50%-80% available, even when you're
writing a letter or surfing the web). Donate the time to
an increasing number of valid scientific projects.
Search for intelligence with Seti. Find new planets
with PlanetQuest. Surf the gravitational waves with
Einstein. Find out if you can take a picnic in 2020 with
climateprediction.net.
There are already PCCC teams at Seti and Einstein,
copy the links below to your browser to join us. If you
select another project, start a PCCC team (or send a
note to Paul Reiss to do so) and let us know.
http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/create_account_form.php?teamid=32615
http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/create_account_form.php?teamid=2049
Follow
or join the PCCC Distributed Computing discussion forum
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More information on the SIGs
Internet SIGThe Internet SIG will meet on the
third Thursday, 4-21-05 at the CompUSA on South Blvd.
The meeting will again feature Firefox, the new browser
on the scene. We will demonstrate the tweaks that the
experts recommend.
There are some great sources of information -- most
are free -- on the Internet. PC World of February 2005,
page 64, devoted a full article to the subject. For the
following notes, enter the address in your browser's
address bar formatted as follows: http://find.pcworld.com/xxxxx
where xxxxx is the 5-digit number associated with the
particular item.
- Firefox, if you don't have it yet; faster,
smaller. It has tabbed browsing, blocks pop-ups and
will auto log-in usernames and passwords. 45868.
- Tons of optional add-ons at 45708.
- Shells for Internet Explorer add tabs, pop-up
& active-X blocking, easy erasure of browsing
"tracks" and bookmarking of groups of
tabs.
- Avant browser; 45726.
- The virtually identical Maxthon; 45728.
- Netcaptor; 45730.
Local.yahoo.com searches up to 50 mile radius and
highlights the location on a map. Although a little out
of date, it worked fine around 28205. Chowhound.com will
help find a good eatery in most moderate to mega-sized
cities. Gasbuddy.com, well, best prices state by state
& Canada, too. Keyhole, now only $ 30/yr. has
overhead views of almost anyplace in the world, down to
15 meters is some cases. There is an investing resource
center at investingonline.org; a news clipping service
at 45744 and others.
Want to know the answer to an obscure question? surf
to asknow.org. You'll need the name and zip of a
California city -- how about Beverly Hills, 90210? There
are 5 shopping sites, a place to find WiFi hot spots
nation- and world-wide, other information sites and
scholar.Google.com where you can look up dissertations.
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