05-05-00

NUG: Topics: • Discussed the "Love" virus. • Email attachments containing viruses. • Differences between opening and activating a file and saving a file. • Discussed Windows Update Site. • Demonstration on how to change your Internet home page.

REGULAR MEETING: Club business, Q&A session topics: • CD re-writers. • Updating a partitioned hard drive. • Partition Magic. • How to make the window open full size when accessing the Internet. • Differences between Windows 98 and Windows SE.

PRESENTATION: Presented by RedRiverNet.

#1001
06-01-00

NUG: Discussion and demonstration on the program Winzip presented by Larry LaRue. Q&A session topics: • Discussed sending a web page via email as a link rather than the whole page itself. • How to set your email to not include the message in reply.

REGULAR MEETING: Club business, Q&A session topics: • Printing out a list of your email addresses. • Norton Utilities Speed disk. • Discussed IRQs.

PRESENTATION: Kerry Gray from My Favorite Computer Place discussed "Over-clocking" your computer CPU to enhance its performance.

07-07-00

PRESENTATION: Theresa Jacobs from Microsoft presented MSN high speed Internet services and MSN special features. The meeting took place at the Aquatic Center.

08-03-00

NUG: The three elements of communication, sending, receiving and transmitting. Demonstrates how your computer converts waves into binary.

REGULAR MEETING: Club business, Q&A session topics: • Deleting something you downloaded. • Switch boxes and LPT ports. • Computer cookies. • Transferring files from one computer to another. • Getting rid of echo when using Dialpad.

PRESENTATION: Napster music sharing program given by Larry LaRue.

#1002
11-03-00

NUG: Topics: • E-mail and script viruses, good and bad scripts. • Windows Update site. • Protecting your e-mail from viruses by taking off "auto preview". • Importance of updating anti-virus programs. • Changing your new mail notification sound using Sound Recorder. • Sending photos and sounds via e-mail.

REGULAR MEETING: Club business, Q&A session topics: • APCUG explained. • Discussed Callwave.

PRESENTATION: No presentation tonight.

#1003
01-05-01

PRESENTATION: Theresa Jacobs from Microsoft presented Microsoft Windows ME. Presentation was held at the London Bridge Resort.

#1004First meeting at Mohave County Library
01-22-01

NUG: Presentation: How your computer stores information.

REGULAR MEETING: Club business, Q&A topics: • Discussion on high speed ISP services available. • HaHaHa Snow White virus. • Differences between controllers and drivers.

PRESENTATION: No presentation tonight.

#1005
02-26-01

NUG: Topic: Scanners. Pixels and resolution explained.

REGULAR MEETING: Club business. Discussed differences in download speeds between ISP's. Q&A session topics: • Problems defragmenting. • Importing/exporting your e-mail address book. • "Default" explained.• Outlook Express 5.5. • Deleting temporary Internet files.

PRESENTATION: Personal Toolbar by Frank Kelly, and Bookmarklets by Joe Davia.

#1006
03-26-01

NUG: Q&A session topics: • Mouse and mouse drivers problem. • Discussed CDR's, CDRW's, internal versus external. • Discussion on Window Washer and deleting temporary Internet files. • E-mail virus called hybris/gen. • Backing up large files using Winzip.

REGULAR MEETING: Club business. Suggestions for features to be put on the club's website. Q&A session topics: • Further discussion on Window Washer. • DVD recorders and DVD ROM. • Question about taking music off an old album and recording it on a CDR.

PRESENTATION: C-YAA Wireless on wireless connections.

#1007
04-23-01

NUG: Demonstration on creating shortcuts. Q&A session topics: • Using display properties to change background, appearance, etc. • How to print selected text rather than the whole e-mail. • Discussed Notepad. • Explains cut, copy and paste.

REGULAR MEETING: Club business. Chaired by Rachel Stafford, Vice President.

PRESENTATION: Presented by Frank Kelly. Suggested improvements to the Club's website.

#1008
06-04-01

NUG: Customizing task bars. Proper ergonomics while computing. Special exercises demonstrated to help with stiffness, eye strain, fatigue, etc.

REGULAR MEETING: Club business. Chaired by Rachel Stafford, Vice President. Rachel tells about her experience with the Iomega Zip Drive's "Click of Death".

PRESENTATION: Joe Davia's presentation regarding the club's website. Rachel Stafford demonstrates how to insert pictures and animated graphics into an e-mail.

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#1009
06-25-01

NUG: Firewalls, Larry demonstrates Zone Alarm.

PRESENTATION: Detective Cheshire discusses Internet Fraud.

REGULAR MEETING: Introduction of Frank Kelly as the new webmaster. Frank shows his design layout for the club's website.

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#1010
07-23-01

NUG: Routine computer maintenance, using ScanDisk, defragmenting the hard drive, disabling screensaver and task scheduler.

REGULAR MEETING: Chaired by Frank Kelly. Frank demonstrated additions to the website including the club's library resources and the new London Bridge picture for the upper left corner. Bob Elgines talks about his trip to the Southwestern Regional Computer Conference.

PRESENTATION: Sally Marciano, realtor from Coldwell Banker and DeeDee Dufault from Arizona Imaging 360 Tours demonstrated virtual tours of homes available in our area.

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#1011
08-28-01

NUG: Larry discussed and demonstrated e-mail filters.

PRESENTATION: Lyle Dulac gave a wonderful presentation on Digital Cameras.

REGULAR MEETING:Chaired by Rachel Stafford.

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#1012
09-24-01

NUG: Larry demonstrated how to create folders to organize and clean up your desktop. At the end of the demonstration he presented a beautiful and very moving tribute to America.

REGULAR MEETING: Meeting opened with the Pledge of Allegiance as requested by a club member. Discussed the demise of the club’s laptop and voted on buying a new one as well as hand held microphones. Q&A session.

PRESENTATION: Customizing icons presented by Frank Kelly.

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#1013
10-22-01

NUG: Larry did an overview of organizing the desktop from last meeting and discussed the Blind Carbon Copy or “BCC:” feature in email.

REGULAR MEETING: Discussion and vote on opening each meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance.

PRESENTATION: Margaret Carroll discussed various Investment Club meeting in the Havasu area. Hal Schneikhart and Stormy Wade presented a Personal Portfolio Software program called NAIC Personal Record Keepers.

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#1014
11-26-01

NUG: Larry discussed and demonstrated backing up personal files, address book, etc.

PRESENTATION: Jean and Scotty Knox showed slides and pictures of their trip to Scotland and the way they used the Internet from the Scottish Highlands.

REGULAR MEETING: Club business, Q & A session.

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#1015
01-28-02

NUG: Larry discussed email filters.

PRESENTATION: Alex Boshoven discussed her computerized sewing machine.

REGULAR MEETING: Chaired by Frank Kelly. Frank showed changes and new additions to the web page including a new picture gallery area. Q & A session: Changing Internet options.

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#1016
02-25-02

NUG: Larry discussed cleaning up email before forwarding it. Reviewed the email options folder and changing the preview pane to protect against opening an email automatically.

REGULAR MEETING: New officer nominations. Q&A session: Are firewalls important to have on your computer? Question about printer cartridges.

PRESENTATION: Three Income Tax software reviews by Frank Kelly, Sharon Congrove, and Carole Coleman.

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#1017
03-25-02

NUG: Larry demonstrates the three elements of communication, sending, receiving and transmitting.

PRESENTATION: Refilling inkjet cartridges presented by A.J. Saferstein with Inkjet Southwest.

REGULAR MEETING: New officer elections. Passing the gavel to the new president, Lyle Dulac.

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#1018
04-22-02

NUG: Larry discussed Ad-aware and spyware.

PRESENTATION: Selena Dulac gave an excellent presentation on genealogy including research tips and various sites on the web that can be very helpful. She demonstrated some of the features of Family Tree Maker.

REGULAR MEETING: Very brief business meeting. Presented former president Joe Weber with a past presidents award for a job well done.

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#1019
06-24-02

NUG: Larry discussed how to protect yourself from e-mail viruses, scandisk and what programs to close before running it and a brief discussion on using CDR/CDRW's for backing up files.

PRESENTATION: Bill "Ace" Koster gave a demonstration on aerial combat with an online adversary.

REGULAR MEETING: Brief business meeting. Q & A session: How to make your Internet favorites sort alphabetically.

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#1020
07-22-02

NUG: Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition System Restore and how to create checkpoints.

PRESENTATION: Networking computers presented by Bob Elgines.

REGULAR MEETING: Brief business meeting. Q & A session.

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#1021
08-26-02

NUG: Larry discussed email options, email security, adding email accounts/identities, inserting a signature in your email, adding address book to the bottom of the screen by changing email layout, changing the way your screen looks by using view-layout.

PRESENTATION: Lyle and Selena Dulac showed how to create a slide show presentation using Kai's Power Show.

REGULAR MEETING: Brief business meeting. Q & A session.

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#1022
09-23-02

NUG: Larry discussed hardware and software errors as well as steps to take before calling tech support when you can't get online with a dial-up connection.

PRESENTATION: Frank Kelly discussed satellite TV and his personal experiences with his set up.

REGULAR MEETING: Brief business meeting. Q & A session.

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#1023
10/28/02

NUG:Larry discussed email headers, how to get to them and what to look for. How to view an email without actually opening it. How to block and unblock sender. Brief overview of email filters again.

PRESENTATION: Frank Kelly discussed Universal Remote Controls. He brought in his wide variety of gadgets.

REGULAR MEETING: Brief business meeting. Q & A session.

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#1024
11/25/02

NUG:Larry discussed how and where to find what internet version you are running, reviewed the tool bar features in Internet Explorer and customizing your search feature.

PRESENTATION: Presentation on Desktop Publishing do's and don'ts.

REGULAR MEETING: Brief business meeting. Q & A session.

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#1025
1/27/03

NUG: Larry discussed proper ergonomic position in front of the computer, demonstrated exercises to ward off fatigue. Discussed how to close pop up windows using ALT F4.

PRESENTATION: Ed Dyer presented information on the Xandros Linux operating system, an alternative to Windows.

REGULAR MEETING: Brief business meeting. Q & A session.

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#1026
02-24-03

NUG: Larry discussed the task bar.

REGULAR MEETING: Brief business meeting. Q & A session. One member asked about enabling java script, which was discussed.

PRESENTATION: Larry LaRue presented information on audio in your computer from the basics to downloading and burning your own audio CD's with MP3.

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#1027
03-24-03

NUG: Q&A session. Discussed firewalls; window layout properties in your email; saving a work in progress email to the draft folder to work on later; jumping inside an email through Message Source; looking for common features in junk emails before creating filters; cleaning up emails before you forward them; ScanDisk maintenance.

PRESENTATION: Raymond Coogan, owner of The Computer Guy spoke about viruses.

REGULAR MEETING: Brief business meeting. Welcomed new officers. Q & A session.

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#1027
04-28-03

NUG: TBD

REGULAR MEETING: Brief business meeting. Q & A session.

PRESENTATION: Bob Elgines described his CD.

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#1027
06-23-03

NUG: Showed website for info on exploding CD-ROMs (see article in this month's newsletter)

PRESENTATION: Lyle Dulac demonstrated Adobe Photodeluxe, 4.0.

REGULAR MEETING: Brief business meeting. Q & A session. Someone had a question about a problem with their XP task bar.

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#1030
07-28-03

NUG: E-commerce. Discussed the padlock at the bottom of secure sites. Security over the internet.

REGULAR MEETING: Brief business meeting. Q & A session.

PRESENTATION: Joe Davia demonstrated his Karaoke machine.

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#LB100

Bill Gates Keynote Address - Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2001. Discusses Microsoft's future direction. Demonstrations on Windows Prototype PC Whistler, Digital picture frames and alarm clock, Pocket PC with voice recognition, New wireless devices, the future of set top boxes, Extreme entertainment demonstration, DVR technology. Running Time: 58:45.

#LB101

A woman named Olive shows you how she organizes her work and home life using Microsoft products and software. Running Time: 4:21.

#LB102

Microsoft Hardware Product Trailers on MS Works Suite 2001, MS Money Standard 2001, MS Money Deluxe 2001 and games MS Golf 2001, Age of Empires II, The Conquerors Expansion, NFL Fever 2000, NBA Inside Drive 2000. *There is a lot of blank space you will need to fast forward through between trailers. Running Time: 11:30.

#LB103

Windows Millennium Edition (ME) Demonstration. Demonstrates Digital camera interface using Windows Image Acquisition Wizard, Windows Media Player features, Windows Movie Maker, System File Protection, System restore, MSN Messenger through Outlook Express, Advanced Home Networking features and Preview. Running Time: 31:34

#LB104

Extreme 6: Demonstration of Pocket PC, note taking etc., Front Page that helps you create your own website, MS Photo Draw 2000 and Windows ME. *A bit out of date but still very interesting information. Running Time: 2:04.

#LB105

Extreme 7: Demonstrations on accessing the Internet using a Pocket PC, Stinger Phone, Encarta Reference Suite 2001, Encarta Language Learning, Encarta.com, What's new with MSN Explorer and Game Voice. Running Time: 1:45

• #LB115 CD-ROM with all newsletters from 1999 to September 2002 created by Bob Elgines. Also included on the disc: CRCC Membership program written by Bob Elgines, Atom Clock Program, Acrobat Reader, E-Clean Program that cleans emails, graphic pictures, sounds wav files and WinZip.
• #LB114 Microsoft Office XP Professional (30-day trial CD-ROM)
• #LB106 Microsoft Streets & Trips 2001 (Promotional Sample Only)
• #LB107 Microsoft Money 2001 Deluxe
• #LB108 Microsoft Casino
• #LB109 Microsoft Encarta Language Learning Spanish (Trial Version Only)
• #LB110 Modem Booster 2.1 and Stay Connected! 3.0 CD-ROM.
• #LB111 Adobe Acrobat 4.0
• #LB112 Adobe Photo Deluxe 4.0
• #LB113 Adobe Page Maker Plus 6.5
• #LB116 Top Gun - Fire at Will from Spectrum HoloByte. You saw the movie. Now play it!
• #LB117 Tom Clancy - SSN, 3D submarine combat game.