Upcoming Meetings

General Meeting 
Tues.June 04, 2013. @ 7:00pm
General Meeting and More
Board Meeting   
Tues., May 14, 2013 @ 3pm   
All members welcome.
Mac Users SIG
May 27, 2013

Upcoming Meetings - May & June, 2013

TVCUC General Meeting,The next scheduled meeting will be Tues., June 04, 2013,  7:00 p.m. at the Yacht Club.
 Following the Business Meeting, the program will be presented.  Watch this site for Subject and detalis.  As always there will be door prize drawings.  Hope to see all Members there.   Guests are always welcome. 

TVCUC Board Meetings,  Tues., May 14, 2013 @ 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., at the Chota Rec Cntr, Rm D.
The next Board Meeting will be June 11, 2013.  Members always welcome.

MacUser SIG, 
See you on Mon. May. 27, 2013.  

Photo SIG
The Photo SIG is not currently active.

TVCUC Flash NewsLetter

Submitted by Dean Miller on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 18:20

HELP WANTED!!
TAP needs someone (or two) to volunteer for 1 or 2 days to sort and box external power supplies from our storeroom. All you need to do is read the specs on the unit and put it in the proper box. We will only keep 12 of any given size and toss any excess. You certainly do not need to be a "geek" to do this job. We will even provide a magnifying glass to assist in reading the specs. The work can be done on your time schedule, but we would like to have it done in a short period of time, since we will have a table set up in the aisle for the job. If this is something that you would like to volunteer to do, please call us at 332-5313 and let us know.
Thank you. Warren Sanders TVCUC - TAP Co-Chair.  
Tellico Village Computer Users Club | 298 Village Square Drive | Suite #128 | Loudon | TN | 37774

TAP UPDATE 4/30/2012

Submitted by Warren Sanders on Wed, 05/01/2013 - 06:42

As of April 30, 2013 TAP has given away 232 systems this year to families and charitable organizations in East Tennessee.  That equates to slightly fewer than 2 systems per day.  This year TAP has provided 348 children with access to a computer in their homes, averaging just under 3 children per day.  Since its inception in June 2007, TAP has provided 2,189 systems and impacted over 3,600 children.  The number of children affected does not include those who enjoy the many systems we have given to organizations such as the Boys and Girls Club where the PCs are in ‘Club Rooms’ for use by a number of children.

So far in 2013, TAP volunteers have donated over 2,600 hours to accomplish these results and enjoyed every minute of that time (except last weekend when we gave the shop a badly-needed cleaning).  If you have not seen the shop but would like to, please do so soon while the floor is shiny. 

Since the United Way fell considerably short of their goal for 2013, our funding from them has been reduced about $3,000.  We will be working hard to cover that shortfall.
 

The most amazing project I ever worked on ...

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http://www.ted.com/talks/mick_ebeling_the_invention_that_unlocked_a_lock...

 

The Internet. The basis of everything

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Digital Public Library of America - Opens Today.

The Digital Public Library of America opens today, April 18, 2013. It's got a great web address: http://dp.la/  You can read about it here. It's an aggregator of information from some of America's best libraries. Lots of historic pictures.

Ray Kurzweil talks longevity

Ray Kurzweil, an inventor of many computer devices and techniques, has recently been appointed Director of Engineering at Google. Ray wants to live forever. He is 65 and thinks if he can make it another 15 years to 80, he will. Ray takes 150 pills a day.

Here's  a recent interview with Ray from the Wall Street Journal

Most of the comments seem to suggest that Ray has been smoking something. But it's something to think about. Your kids may live forever, even if you don't make it.

 

Learning Center Schedule

Submitted by Bob Mugge on Tue, 04/09/2013 - 09:39

Lack of attendance at classes and open houses the past few months has suggested to me that we are not reaching our members' education needs.  This could be a failure to have classes at a mutually agreeable time, or a lack of offerings meeting people's needs.  As I have said before, getting instructors to come forward has been difficult.

At the general meeting on April 2nd, I asked two questions:
(1) how many people are satisfied with having classes set up within the times and dates that are available per the reference list on this section of the club website? 
(2) how many people would rather schedule one-on-one classes at mutually agreeable times with the appropriate instructor, similar to first level support sessions?

Four times as many people opted for option (2) over option (1).

Therefore, for all classes that I teach (listed below) and open houses, I am not scheduling fixed times.  Please call or e-mail me with a request for a time, and we will set something up (458-2544 or eggumbob@chartertn.net).
Basic Excel (3 sessions, but open to adjustment based on needs)
Investment Tracking Using Excel (one session)
How Your Computer Works (a show and tell on the internal parts - one or two sessions)
Open houses (individual problems and questions)
Basic Word (fundamentals only; for advanced Word call Karen Brown)

Joe Solymossy will repeat his novice class (5 sessions) soon (dates and times TBD).

Jim Peterson will repeat a one session class on Windows 8 (date and time TBD). 

 Monthly reference times available for TVCUC use of Room D at Chota Rec Center:
Mondays (all except the third Monday of the month): 9 AM to noon (scanner training may be done here--Ken Wood to schedule)
Mondays (2nd): 1 to 5 PM
Mondays (4th): 3 to 5 PM (MAC users SIG-Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Sep, Oct only)
Tuesdays (2nd, 3rd and 4th of each month): 3 to 5 PM (2nd is TVCUC board meeting)
Tuesday evenings (2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th of each month): 6:30 to 8:30 PM
Wednesdays (2nd and 3rd each month): noon to 3 PM
Thursdays (2nd of each month): 3 to 5 PM (for Photo SIG)
Fridays (1st and 3rd each month): 9 AM to noon

Bob Mugge, Education Committee Chair
 

How far is it to Mars?

Click on the picture. Then click on the down arrows.

Good Advice from Bob Rankin

The Worst Place to Buy a Mobile Phone?

72 year-old Gerry Soubly went to a Verizon store with a friend to buy a new phone. Shortly after they entered, the place was invaded by three armed men who shot out the glass front door. 'I felt helpless,' Soubly said, despite having the presence of mind to shield his friend and dial 911. The suspects were quickly captured, and then the real robbery began...

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