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Dear Frank,
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The TVCUC March General Meeting will be held
Tuesday, March 2nd at 7 PM on the fifth floor
of the Yacht Club. Registration as usual will be on the Mezzanine
level - 4th floor.
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Our program speakers will be: Stan Gibert,
Mgr., Public Relations & Kevin Alfont, Mgr., Information
Technology from our POA. They will discuss IT (Information
Technology) Resources in Tellico Village.
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Board Meeting
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The
next board meeting will be held Tuesday, March 9th, at 3
PM at the Rec. Center. All interested members are invited
and welcome to attend. Visitors are welcome. |
Quick Links
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Your Web site has a new look!
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Membership
by Jim Autry |
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We have had 13 new memberships since last
month! Be sure to look for each of them at our meeting and
elsewhere in the village and welcome them to our club. They are:
Dick Bennett
Doug and Lin Carlson
Phil and Joyce Carnock
Andrea Colbert
Andre and Myra Germillhac
Paul Hilchey
Don Hill
Dick and EmmaJean Jones
Gail and Keith Lyman
Donald and Dorothy McCann
Mike and Sharon Rainey
Ray and Kathleen Stark
Ron and Carole Worrell
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MAILING OF CHECKS AND DUES
FRIENDLY NOTE!!! Club dues ($15) for 2010 must be paid by MARCH 31st!
If you have not paid by that date we must remove your name from
our rolls and you will no longer receive the newsletter, other
important club communications or use of First Level Support.
Instructions on how to pay dues are given below.
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Please mail checks FOR ANNUAL DUES AND CLASS FEES to a NEW ADDRESS which is located in the More Than Mail office in the village. That address is:
Tellico Village Computer Users Club
298 Village Square Drive, Suite #128
Loudon, TN 37774.
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| The Learning Center
by Bob Mugge |
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Here is the schedule for the month of March. These classes are held at the old Rec. Center on Ootsima Way.
The Basic Excel class is a sequence
of 3 sessions, for those who are new to spreadsheets. A single
$5.00 fee is charged for this sequence of sessions. People using Microsoft Works can be accommodated in session 1 and 2, but the restricted capability of Works may impair functionality beyond that. The other subjects are single sessions and stand alone with no prerequisites or fees. There is no fee for open houses.
Wed 3/3 - 9-11 AM - Basic Excel session 3 (for those who have completed sessions 1 and 2)
Thu 3/4 - 1-3 PM - Basic Excel session 1 (for those new to Excel)
Thu 3/4 - 3-5 PM Open House (bring in your problems or questions)
Mon 3/8 - 1-3 PM - Basic Excel session 2 (for those who have completed session 1)
Mon 3/8 - 3:30-4:30 - How Your Computer Works (a show and tell)
Tue 3/9 - 9-11 AM - Open House (bring in your problems or questions)
Mon 3/15 - 3-5 PM - Basic Excel session 3 (for those who have completed sessions 1 and 2)
Wed 3/17 - 1-4 PM - Open House (bring in your problems or questions)
Thu 3/18 - 9-11 AM - Basic Excel session 1 (for those new to Excel)
Tue 3/23 - 9-11 AM - Basic Excel session 2 (for those who have completed session 1)
Fri 3/26 - 9-11 AM - Basic Excel session 3 (for those who have completed sessions 1 and 2)
Fri 3/26 - 11:30-12:30 - Investment Tracking with Excel
Wed 3/31 - 9-10 - Investment Tracking with Excel
Wed 3/31 - 10:30-11:30 AM - How Your Computer Works (a show and tell)
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would appreciate it if people interested in these classes would contact
me directly (eggumbob@chartertn.net) with their intent, as it helps me
with scheduling and preparation.
Basic Spreadsheets Using Microsoft Excel (2003 or 2007)
Instructor - Bob Mugge
This course is intended for people who are
interested in learning about how to create spreadsheets using
Excel, but have no or very little experience with spreadsheets or with
Excel. Students will have hands-on experience with Microsoft
Excel (included in Microsoft Office) using the club laptop computers or
their own laptop with Excel if brought to class. This is a
multi-session course and requires a fee per the club class fee
guidelines.
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SIG's (Special Interest Groups)
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For
Mac computer users there is a new SIG, the Mac Users Group. Any
TVCUC member who uses a Mac computer, or would like to know more about
using a MAC, is welcome to become a member of the SIG and attend
meetings. The meetings for 2010 are: fourth Mondays of January through May, then September, and October at 3:00 PM at the Chota Rec Center.
Jan Miller is the contact for the SIG, and she can be reached at 458-0658 or TVjeMiller@aol.com for additional information.
One
way for new SIGs to be created is for persons who attend the TVCUC
classes or the one-on-one help sessions and want to continue the
learning experience to request organization of a SIG. Actually,
any member of the TVCUC who wants to consider having a SIG can express
that interest to a class instructor or to any member of the TVCUC board.
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do not have to be the expert to lead a SIG or to propose the
creation of a SIG. Just having an interest in the subject matter
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| FIRST LEVEL SUPPORT
by Joe Solymossy |
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An ounce of prevention...
Some
of our club members have experienced Malicious Ware that
tells them their computer is infected, "but for $79.99 it can be
fixed and your computer will be safe". Until you pay, the MalWare
will protect itself. No downloading, no restore, no
editing will get your computer back. You can still do
limited things, but... Once you pay, it clears up, but you
are now a "sucker" and they have one of your credit card numbers.
If
you experienced this problem, you know the frustration it has caused
you. Unfortunately, First Level Support can not fix this problem,
but you can. Here is how!
Today,
before you forget, download a program called MalWareBytes. Even
if you don't use it regularly (and you should), it has successfully
cleaned up this infection. However, it only works if you already
have it installed on your machine before the infection. If not,
then a second level support person (a paid professional) can clean it
up. Make sure your data is always backed up. Then you will
have to take your computer to the person fixing it.
To load MalWareBytes, go to the website http://www.malwarebytes.org
and follow the directions to download it to your computer and then to
install it. Install it with a short cut to the
desktop. Allow two hours to run your first scan.
After that, you should update the software frequently and then let it
do a quick scan every week or two unless you are on the Internet
surfing a lot, in which case you should scan weekly. The free
version of MalWareBytes is not a shield (real-time
protection). You must manually perform scans with the free
version. If you buy the Pro version, then it will provide a
shield.
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| ORNL Visit
by Bob Kutschera |
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Back By Popular Demand
ORNL Super Computer Center
A fourth tour for the Tellico Village Computer Users
Club of the ORNL Super Computer Center and Graphite Reactor Museum has
been scheduled for sometime in September, 2010. I am hoping that we can
lock in a date within the first two weeks of the month.
If
you would like to attend, please email me at bkkutch@yahoo.com and
include your full name, date of birth, and country of citizenship.
To date, over 100 club members have attended this extremely interesting and informative tour.
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| Back to Back Printer
by Dick Schmeling |
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Back-to-back printing of multi-page documents can save a lot of
paper! It also saves a lot of filing space. I have the
feature on my main printer and use it frequently. But in
assisting a few club members and friends with computer problems
recently, I found that a few of them had printers with
the back-to-back printing feature, but they didn't
know it. The fact is that many new printers have
back-to-back printing feature, especially the larger "All-In-One" types
that can be used to Fax, Copy and Scan documents, as well as
Print text and photos.
When you prepare to print a
multi-page document, here is a simple way to check for and use the
feature if it is on your printer:
1. On the menu bar, click "File", and on the drop-down menu, click "Print".
2. When the Print window opens, click the printer "Properties" or "Preferences" button, as the case may be.
3.
In the Properties or Preferences window, or on one of the tabs in the
window, check closely to see if one of the printer options permits
"Back-to-Back", "Two-Sided" or "Duplex" printing; if so, select it
and click "OK".
4. In the Printer window, click "Apply" (if required), then click "Print".
5.
A printer with this feature will print the first page, stop for
about 15 seconds to permit the ink to dry, pull the first sheet
back in, print the next page on the back side, and then expel the
finished sheet. The process is repeated for all
pages necessary to print the complete document.
That
is the "good" news. The "bad" news is that few printers allow you
to setup back-to-back printing as a continuing default, so it must
usually be setup (- or at least checked) for each multi-page
document that you want print that way. But for large
multi-page documents, the paper savings is well worth the few
extra setup steps.
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| Free Stuff, Cartoons & Photographs
by Frank Fritchman |
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If you are my age, you will be frequently advised to
use computer games to exercise your mind. Here is a site that
gives you some games to consider. Click on Games.
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The computer gives us many different and interesting
views of our world. Here is a note from Bob
Kutschera recommending a site you may enjoy.
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"This is absolutely amazing. I looked up
all the places I lived in the past and it works every time.
Amazing. When you enter an address, you will see a picture of
that place.
There's a little map with a little man on
it - you can move the little man up and down the block if you need
to. I just looked at my childhood home! Really fun
website! click on www.vpike.com. You might have to move the picture around some to get the correct view".
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This picture was forwarded to me by Ona Herndon and expresses just how many of us feel!
I was just wondering......
When will Spring arrive? |
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Time to get ready for Spring. In addition to getting your
gardening tools out and ready, get your camera out and get us some
Spring pictures!
See you at the March meeting! | |
