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June 2008- Vol 4 Issue 6
Newsletter
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Dear Member,
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The Tellico Village Computer Uses Club's monthly meeting
will be held on June 3rd at 7pm on the top floor of the
Yacht Club. Registration is on the Mezzanine level - 4th
floor.
Our
program for the June meeting will be a presentation by
Lindsay Albers on behalf of Sandhills Publishing who gives
us Smart Computing. The presentation, aiming to educate
attendees about Sandhills Publishing's magazines and the
Smart Computing User Group Program, will step members
through an issue of Smart Computing, convey the value
of SmartComputing.com through a live demonstration, and
introduce attendees to Smart Computing's sister
publications - PC Today, Computer Power User,
First Glimpse and the Reference Series.
The
presentation will also explain how members can receive free,
unlimited technical support. Each attendee will receive a
packet of Smart Computing goodies and be eligible to
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Board
Meeting
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The next board meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 10th,
at 3 pm at the Rec. Center. All interested members are
invited to attend. Visitors are also welcome.
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Quick Links
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Be sure to visit our web site at
www.tvcuc.org . There are lots of articles to assist you.
For example - If at the last meeting Howard motivated you to
become better at backing up your data, the notes from that
presentation are there to give you all the help you need.
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President's Notes
by Jim
Peterson
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Welcome to the Month of June ( How time flies)!
Work is continuing on our Learning Center and the laptop's
are almost ready for classes to start. The Education
Committee is really busy getting ready to show "Their
Stuff". They are putting a lot of time and effort into this
task and you will be proud of what they are doing. Sometime
during our general meeting I or someone will give you an
update on this project.
As noted in our meeting announcement, the program this month
will be updates on Smart
Computing. They have been with us before and their
speakers have been great and have given us lots of good
information to help us better use our computers. If you are
not already a subscriber of a PC magazine, I would recommend
Smart Computing as
it is very easy to read and very helpful.
See you at the meeting on Tuesday!
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Membership
by Bob Kutschera
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Please be
reminded that if you haven't paid your 2008 dues, please do
so by sending a check to Bob Kutschera, 203 Ootsima Way,
Loudon, TN 37774-2820 made out to TVCUC in the amount of
$15.00.
It is
preferred that you send a check so that congestion at the
monthly meeting registration table can be reduced if not
eliminated. Also, your check will serve as your receipt.If you are
not certain that you have paid the 2008 dues, please email
Bob at
bkkutch@yahoo.com.
Thank you
for your cooperation in this matter and for your
participation and support of the Tellico Village Computer
Users Club.
We
continue to grow! In May we had six new members.
Please look for them and make them welcome.
Richard Broyles
Iva Jinnette
Dennis Russell
Ron Smith
Judy Teeples
Gerald and Joan Zaar
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Special
Interest Groups
by Don Stieghan
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Three SIGs are now meeting each
month. The meetings last for about an hour and half.
Genealogy-
First Thursday at 3:00 PM at Chota Rec Center (contact
Don Stieghan at 458-2142)
Digital Photography-
Second Thursday at 3:00 PM at Chota Rec Center (contact Jim
Noonan at 458-9940)
Computer Hardware-
Third, contact Vince Alline at 824-3380
Do you want to be a part of these exciting programs or
just ask questions about SIGs? You can receive meeting
announcements and organization information. Just send your
e-mail address to me at tvdon@chartertn.net, or call at
458-2142 or see me at the TVCUC general meeting. Also, help
is available to start additional SIGs by expressing your
special interest. You do not have to be the expert
to lead a SIG to propose the organization of one, just have
an interest in the subject matter. In the future, new SIGs
will probably result from the classes being planned.
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Free Stuff,
Cartoons & Photographs
by Frank Fritchman
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AVG Virus Protection. If you are currently using AVG
to protect your computer, please look for an announcement
from them that the current 7.5 version of this program will
not work after 5/31/08. You will be required to upgrade to
the new 8.0 version. You can find version 8.0 at several
sites including their home site which is
www.free.grisoft.com When you install the upgrade, it
will detect a prior version, and delete it. If you are
using the free version, be careful which upgrade you are
accepting as they make the free version harder to find.
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If you like to try new things Vince Alline let
me know that Microsoft has a new email client
some of you may want to try. Go to
http://www.xobni.com/learnmore/ and see if
this is something you want to "play with".
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Also from Vince is news of an offer of a new
service (free at this time) which will help you
recover a stolen or lost laptop. If the
computer is stolen, you log-in your account,
mark the computer as stolen. As soon as the
machine connects to the Internet, the actions
you set up during setup will execute. The
LaptopLock will also try to find out as much as
possible about the connection to help in the
recovery of the machine. THE LAPTOPLOCK DOES
NOT MONITOR OR RECORD USER ACTIONS. THE
LAPTOPLOCK DOES NOT ALLOW ANYONE ACCESS TO YOUR
COMPUTER OR DATA. THE LAPTOPLOCK CAN ONLY
EXECUTE ACTIONS THE USER HAS PRE-PROGRAMMED.
Read about this offer at
http://www.thelaptoplock.com
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The picture below is not computer
related but I thought it represented
what has been on the minds of most of us
these past weeks. We all have our
opinion on the causes, but I want to
remember how blessed I am as an American
even in the face of this considerable
problem.
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I do not want to leave you
this month with our focus on the fuel cost issues, but I
want to leave you with a much more pleasant thought. So I
have inserted a picture of our own Bald River Falls area,
just a few miles up the road. It was sent to me by a good
friend who spends many hiking hours enjoying what is free to
us here in East Tennessee.
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May has been a great month for growing lawns and gardens
here Tellico Village. I hope you are wireless at your house
so that you can sit on the back porch or deck and enloy both
the great East Tennessee weather and your computer.
See you at the next meeting. Come learn and maybe even win
a magazine subscription.
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Frank Fritchman
Tellico Village Computer Users Club |
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