Upcoming Meetings

Monthly Meeting 
Tues.June 05, 7pm -- Details
below.          All are Welcome.
Board Meeting   
Tues.June 12, 3pm   
All members welcome.
Mac Users SIG
Next  meeting Mon. May 21,  3pm

Learning Center Schedule

Submitted by Bob Mugge on Fri, 04/27/2012 - 08:41

The last session of Joe Solymossy's novice class is scheduled for Thursday 5/3 from 3-5 PM.

Bob Mugge will repeat his basic Excel class in May (spreadsheet applications) for all levels of students.  Those who use Works Spreadsheet may attend, but there may be a few functions discussed that are not compatible with Works. Complete class notes for the three session class will be made available at all of the times shown.  You may work at home from the notes as you desire as well as participating in class. Please bring a USB flash drive if you have one. Details follow:
Tuesday 5/15 from 3 to 5 PM
Wednesday 5/16 from 1-3 PM
Friday 5/18 from 10 AM to noon

Bob will also repeat his one session class on Investment Tracking on Tuesday 5/22 from 3-5 PM.

Call Bob at 458-2544 or e-mail him at eggumbob@chartertn.net to sign up for these sessions.  Bring your laptop if you have one.  Use one of ours if you don't.  Also bring a flash drive if you have one.

Internet Scam Could Affect You

Submitted by Dean Miller on Mon, 04/23/2012 - 15:22

VIRUS WARNING  --  DNS CHANGER

"Hundreds of thousands may lose Internet after hack scam."

"FBI shutting down servers of infected PCs."

From what I have been able to learn, it is valid. 

To read PC Mag. go to http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2401227,00.asp#disqus_thread
To read more about the scam go to http://www.dcwg.org.
To check your computer and whether it may be infected, go to http://www.dns-ok.us.

 

Upcoming Meetings - May-June, 2012

TVCUC General Meeting, Tues., June 05, 2012 @ 7:00pm - 8:30pm at the Yacht Club, fifth floor.    After current Club Activities & Announcements,  the program will be, "Giving or Obtaining Computer Problem Help Remotely -- and More!  The program will cover installation and use of "LogMeIn Free" software, plus "GodMode" and a few other Windows 7 features.  Speaker is Dick Schmeling.        As always, there will a drawing for door prizes for Member attendees.            Visitors are always welcome.

TVCUC Board Meetings,  Tues., June 12, 2012, @ 3:00pm - 5:00pm, at the Chota Rec Cntr, Rm D.
 Next Board Meeting, July 12, 2012.  Members always welcome.

MacUser SIG, 
Next Meeting, Monday May 21, 2012, @ 3:00 - 5:00 p.m., at the Chota Rec Cntr, Rm D

VW Plant Tour

VW Tour #3 is "SOLD OUT".   Contact Bob Kutschera to add your 
name to the waiting list for next tour.

The 3rd VW tour for TVCUC members is scheduled for early May. If you are interested
on taking this tour, please email Bob Kutschera at bkkutch@yahoo.com. We have only
nineteen spaces available for each tour.

This is an excellent tour (rave reviews from tour #1 & #2) and I think very informative for our
attending computer club members enthusiasts.

(Click on Read more for additional information)

Bob Mugge reports

This may have been reported before, but I send this as a reminder.  If you get an e-mail appearing to come from NACHA regarding an ACH bank transaction that was cancelled, do NOT click on the link to the transaction report!  Both NACHA and Snopes report these e-mails as bogus. This e-mail does not come from NACHA.  They do not send e-mails to individuals.  NACHA does have a website and requests that fradulent e-mails be forwarded to them.   I tried that, but the Charter postmaster won't send it.  Funny, when they let it come to me in the first place!

Bob Mugge
 

TVCUC Slide Scanner Program

Submitted by Dean Miller on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 09:07

YOU CAN CAPTURE THOSE MEMORIES AND SHARE THEM WITH FAMILY!

We currently have available for use by the club members a Pacific Image PowerSlide 3650
35mm slide scanner, a Nikon Coolscan negative scanner and a Minolta Dimage Scan Elite
for both 35mm slides and negatives.

In addition, the members have the use of the club’s Dell Inspiron 5150 laptop computer to
process the slide images using the installed software and save them on a CD for viewing.

TAP February Update

Submitted by Vince Alline on Fri, 02/24/2012 - 15:23

We now have completed the statistics for the year 2011. A total of 602 systems were given away, providing 978 children with access to computing power in their homes.  We were hoping to reach the milestone of 1,000 children but fell just a little short of that goal.  2012 has gotten off to a great start, with 107 systems going out already, impacting more than 150 children. 

RE-ARRANGING PHOTOS IN WINDOWS 7 "LIBRARY/PICTURES" FOLDERS

Submitted by Richard Schmeling on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 14:33

  

A TVCUC member told me recently that she could not re-arrange her pictures in the Windows 7 "Library/Pictures" folder, for re-numbering purposes, as can be done in the Windows XP "My Pictures" folders. Indeed, I checked and found that Windows 7 was designed to work that way, and is not user-changeable, as delivered. Upon checking further, I found that there is at least one way to get around that issue if it is a problem for you, by using a downloadable "Windows 7 - Explorer Auto Arrange - Disable" feature. The "Disable Auto-Arrange" feature can also be reset to re-enable "Explorer's Auto-Arrange" default, if and when you wish to do so.
  
The process involves the following major steps:
 

Hacking story

Great article  

All about how a gmail account was hacked and what could be done about it.

Basic Protection Information

This article says if you keep your firewall turned on and update all your software regularly, you will not get infected.  Unless, of course, you do something stupid.

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