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September 13, 2007
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| September 4th Meeting Recap |
KILANfest
Brian Miller announced the upcoming KILANfest, a computer gaming event being sponsored by Hostaroo and KIPCUG for 30 hours beginning October 20th at 10:00am thru October 21st, 4pm. KIPCUG has offered to man the concession stand for the 30 hours. Volunteers are needed to man 2-hour, 2-person time slots covering the full 30 hours. If you can help out at the concession stand, please email Brian at brian@hoostaroo.com .
Calling all Gamers!
Hostaroo and KIPCUG are hosting the first ever PC gaming weekend. Kentucky Indiana LAN Fest is now taking online registration for seating. Get yours while they last at http://www.kilanfest.com
- October 20 and 21 - 112 seats for BYOC
- 30 hours of nonstop gaming
- Tournaments for Halo3, Battlefield 2, Counter-Strike:Source, Trackmania and more ....
- All registered attendees qualify for door prizes
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Corel Announces 40% Off Entire Product Line: Corel, JASC, Ulead, InterVideo, WinZip!
 Evelyn Watts of Corel Corporation presented a wonderful and informative presentation of Corel DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus during our September meeting. She demonstrated the easy-to-use capabilities of this disc authoring and burning software, including its ability to burn to HD and Blu-Ray discs. More information can be gotten at http://www.ulead.com/dmf/runme.htm. With this software, anyone can create studio-quality presentations of videos and slideshows to present to friends and family.
 At the meeting, Evelyn also unveiled Corel's newest product which came out on September 5th. The new product is Corel's Paint Shop Pro® Photo X2, a new product release featuring enhanced digital photography editing software. Their press release states that viewing, sorting and processing downloaded photos is faster with the new Express Lab, and even new users can produce results quickly, learning as they go. Professional quality editing is available within this product.
Evelyn also offered members of KIPCUG an outstanding offer for the month of September. All KIPCUG members can go online to www.Corel.com/estore and get 40% their total order by entering the following code: UG40OFFSEP in the promo box.
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| Upcoming Meetings |
Check out the following presenters. We hope to see you out there.
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Topic: Photographic History of Louisville, KY: Tips on how to preserve your photographic records
Presenter: Bill Carner of Louisville Photography Archives, University of Louisville Library
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Topic: TBA (National Announcement to be made at Our Meeting)
Presenter: Sun Microsystems |
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Topic: Christmas Wish List
Presenter: CompUSA |
Additional Meeting Information- KIPCUG Homepage
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| SIG News |
We have 8 Special Interest Groups meeting in the next 2 weeks.
Please check out our SIG calendar for directions and times. If you have any questions or would like to see us host a new or different SIG, please contact Charley May at sig@win.net
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Monday |
September 17 |
Genealogy SIG |
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Thursday |
September 20 |
New Users South and Webmasters SIGs |
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Friday |
September 21 |
Advanced SIG |
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Saturday |
September 22 |
Hands On SIG |
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Monday |
September 24 |
Intermediate Users SIG |
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Tuesday |
September 25 |
Digital Photography and Technical Market Analysis SIGs |
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Thursday |
September 27 |
Utilities SIG |
Highlights of upcoming SIG meetings :
Access Basics SIG - "10/13/2007 Introduction to Databases" - Tom Ball
What is a database and what is it good for? Understanding fields, records and tables. A flat database compared with a relational database like Access. Learn some of the features in Access and build your first simple database.
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| Article - Set Up Outlook Express YOUR Way |
By Dick Maybach, a Member of the Brookdale Computer User Group, New Jersey http://www.bcug.com/ N2nd(at)att.net. Obtained from APCUG with the author's permission for publication by APCUG member groups.
You can greatly improve your e-mail experience by properly configuring Outlook Express, which is the default Windows e-mail client. Outlook, which is included with MS Office, is a completely different program, but it has a similar user interface for e-mail. The two programs are similar enough that you should be able to adapt these procedures to your version..... click here to read more
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| From APCUG Members |
Isn't technology wonderful!
Special thanks to Brookdale Computer Users Group, Lincroft New Jersey (www.bcug.com).
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| About KIPCUG |
| The Kentucky-Indiana Personal Computer User's Group, from its beginning in the spring of 1983, has grown into a dynamic non-profit corporation, focused on educating and encouraging newcomers to computing as well as sharing technical information.
KIPCUG is viewed as one of the leading groups in the nation by industry giants such as Microsoft, Novell, IBM, and others. KIPCUG is a charter member of APCUG, the Association of Personal Computer User Groups, linking us with similar groups all over the United States.
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