 Photographic History of Louisville:
How to Preserve Your Photos
Bill Carner, of the University of Louisville
Photographic Archives Department, will be our presenter during the October
2nd meeting. Bill will cover the scanning procedures
used in the archives, along with information on digital
photography, and on photo preservation. Bill will also include a few words on the book he worked on,
Louisville Then and Now.
Bill has worked for the University of Louisville Photographic
Archives since 1978 when there were no computers in his department. As Bill
wrote in his bio, "Within a year or two we had a steam-powered
Flintstone model dumb terminal behind a lead shield in our
workroom that
was used to create databases." He went on to say he
finally received his first PC in the late 1980's with a whopping
128mb of storage. Although Bill says he did not
expect to deal with digital photography, as it was "...still the
stuff of science fiction movies." He was bitten by the
bug, and now thanks to a savvy work-study student who got him up
to speed on Photoshop and digital imaging, Bill is scanning and
"Photoshopping" like a kid.
Come and invite a friend to attend the
meeting... just forward this email!
Meeting
Location: CCUM Assembly Hall,
4614 Brownsboro Rd, Louisville, KY
Corner of Brownsboro & Blankenbaker
Directions
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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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KIPCUG is still looking for volunteers to help
with this event. Click
here to read more on how you can help!
TIME IS RUNNING OUT!
During our past meeting, all KIPCUG members were
offered a 40% discount for the month of September on ALL
COREL products, including upgrades. Visit this
site
, and
cut & paste this code:
UG40OFFSEP , into the promo box on the checkout page.
This is a Super deal!
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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 |
October 1 |
Hardware SIG |
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Tuesday |
October 2 |
KIPCUG General Meeting |
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Thursday |
October 4 |
Visual Basic SIG |
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Monday |
October 8 |
New Users SIG |
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Tuesday |
October 9 |
Board of Directors Meeting |
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Thursday |
October 11 |
Genealogy II and Investing SIGs |
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Friday |
October 12 |
Windows OS SIG |
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Saturday |
October 13 |
Basic Access SIG (see below) |
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.
SIG Leaders - Please contact the editor
Sue Foulks if you would like to post highlights of your
upcoming meetings or highlights of past meetings here.
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Article 1 - Vista
and the Reliability & Performance Monitor |
By Vinny LaBash, a member and regular columnist
of the Sarasota Personal Computer Users Group, Inc., Florida
http://www.spcug.com/ vlabash(at)comcast.net. Obtained from APCUG with the author's
permission for publication by APCUG member groups.
Anyone who has spent time trying to
understand the Windows XP Performance Monitor is going to love
Vista’s Reliability & Performance Monitor. No more will you have to
figure out what the various performance procedures are really
measuring. All the confusion has been eliminated and a well designed
screen utility makes everything vastly simplified. Every time you
run a program on your system, performance is affected in some way.
The new Vista Performance Monitor allows you to track these
operations on a real-time basis or to collect data for analysis at a
later time. The utility does this by taking configuration
information, performance counters, data specific to program events,
and then merging everything into Data Collection sets. Microsoft has
prefigured all the important details into a completely revised
utility that is not only easy to use, but easy to understand. This
new utility provides you with a set of preconfigured elements that
you can use to monitor the reliability of your system. This article
will give you a detailed overview of the Reliability Monitor, and
show how to use its System Stability Chart to track how your system
behaves.....
more
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Article 2 -
Help! My Vinyl is Melting...REALLY! |
By Lou Torraca, President MOAA Computer User Group, HI
www.the-tug.org; Af06hi(at)gmail.com
To paraphrase a recent TV
commercial, we all do dumb things, but doing them with your computer
doesn't have to be one of them.
 If
you have the same problem as I do, read on, a solution is available.
I have hundreds, yup, hundreds of vinyl records, 78s, 33s, and even
a few 45s stashed in my garage which is a pretty hot spot (no, not a
WI-FI hotspot) a really hot spot. I’ve thought about converting them
to cassettes (yes, I know, that was a long time ago), then to CDs
and now to DVDs. I just attended a techie conference and one of the
many presentations was on this very subject, so I paid lots of
attention and took notes. The presenter also talked about how to
convert other media, e.g. VHS tapes, but I’ll save that for another
column......
more
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From APCUG Members
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Don't you just hate it when this
happens...
Special thanks to Brookdale Computer Users Group, Lincroft New
Jersey (www.bcug.com).
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About
KIPCUG |
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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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