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You are invited to the Annual Conference:  Jan. 3 - 6, 2008

KIPCUG is a member of APCUG, Association of PC User Groups, the International Association that provides support, training, and information for user groups. Each year you, as a member of KIPCUG, are invited. Your costs are the registration fee, transportation and hotel cost. Most, or all, of your meals are covered by the vendors. Note: If you register before 11/1/07, you save $50.

Links:  The APCUG Convention Information    The Consumer Electronics Show (Separate Registration)

If you are interested please contact Bill Buzan or John Henderson  We can put you in touch will previous attendees, past APCUG Officers, perhaps a "roommate" to share hotel costs, coordinate your trip with other KIPCUG Members or general information. The rooms will sell out; the airline tickets will go up; the registration fee will rise as the convention approaches.
 

Corel Corporation Special Users Group Pricing!

Remember the great discount given by Corel Corporation to us during our September meeting. Well, we received an email from Evelyn Watts, who was our September Presenter.  In it, she exuberantly told us that KIPCUG members could get a terrific discount on all full and upgrade software, a 40% discount with no expiration date!  However, we were informed that Corel Corporation would be monitoring the use of the discount to ensure it was not being misused by non-members.  So, you can log into the Members Only page, and find the new coupon code to use on www.Corel.com/estore.  If you are not a member, the savings alone could pay for your membership!

Photographic History of Louisville: How to Preserve Your Photos

Bill Carner, of the University of Louisville Photographic Archives Department, presented us with a very enlightening slideshow and commentary during our October 2nd meeting, including many "then and now" photographs not used in the book, Louisville Then and Now.  Bill and his department played a major role in the photographic content of the book, which is currently available in book stores.   Bill also covered the scanning procedures used by the Archival Department. They scan and classify not only photographs but documents as well, which are available to look and get copies of, by the general public.  One of the scanning methods in use is a digital scanning camera secured to a movable stand, which is able to scan very large documents or photographs.

Information about the University of Louisville Photographic Archival Department and its consumer services can be found at http://library.louisville.edu/ekstrom/special/ pa_index.html .  As stated on that page, under Services, "The Photographic Archives has a fully staffed reference desk offering service during all operating hours. The Photographic Archives Print Service is capable of producing prints and slides of items from our collections as needed by researchers. A full service darkroom can produce prints, slides and photocopies for research or publication." A price list is also available on the site. 

The October meeting also included our "Back to Basics" segment, featuring  Webmaster, Brian Miller, who covered the topic of Disk Management.

Announcements made during the meeting included the following:

• Brian Miller requested help from KIPCUG members to assist in managing the concessions room at the KILANfest, which is scheduled for this weekend.  Come out for a couple of hours, and also take the time to see what a gaming festival is like.  Please contact Brian at 502-817-2834 if you can donate a couple of hours to this event.

• The Digital Photography SIG announced that they would be discussing Video Editing at this month's meeting, Tuesday, October 23, 2007.  Members and non-members are invited to attend.  Meetings are held at the Bonair Branch of the Louisville Library.  More details can be found by visiting the SIG page (see SIG segment below for link).

• Tom Scanlan reported that there is a new virus out there that works by spoofing the DNS server.  If you click on a favorite and the page doesn't look right or a "pop-up" appears, do not click open, or "close" or the "x" or use the "back arrow".  Just CLOSE YOUR BROWSER! 

• President Bill Buzan put out a request to all of us, who like to forward jokes or stories to friends, to forward the next e-newsletter with an invitation to join us at our next meeting.  "Guests are always welcome here!"

Publicity Director, Robbie Gibson, handled the User-to-User segment, fielding such questions as whether to use Insightbb for its virus protection, and what to do to increase the speed of a laptop.  Answers to these questions and more can be found on KIPCUG's forum page.  Questions from this segment are posted to the forum along with the answers if available.  Hopefully, you will find an answer to a question or problem you are having, or possibly you will be able to help another user with the knowledge or experience you possess.  Please visit our forum, and help it to grow!

Take a peak at what we have in store for the upcoming meetings.  We hope to see you out there.

Come and invite a friend to join you at the next meeting...
 just forward this email with a personal invitation from you!

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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

Highlights of upcoming SIG meetings :

Digital Photography SIG:  10/23/07 - "Introduction to Editing Digital Video Recordings" - Bill Edwards

We will be demonstrating how to import a digital video from a camcorder into video editing software, how to edit it, and how to save it on DVD.  If we get enough interest, we may be able to form a "Video SIG".

Access Basics SIG:  11/10/2007  - "Normalization" - Alan Birch

This does not require removal of hair dye, piercings or wild clothing. Normalization is how you decide what data goes in which table in Access. If done right, this significantly reduces entering duplicate information. It can also reduce the chance of entering the wrong information, and make it easier to put data in.

It is common sense more than anything else, but it does require a little thought. Doing this before you start building your tables can save a lot of pain later. It is sort of like figuring out a route on a map. If you know where you’re going, you’ll get there.

SIG Leaders - Post highlights of your upcoming meetings or highlights of past meetings here.  Please contact the editor.

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By Judy Lococo, a KIPCUG Director at Large, and past APCUG President.
Obtained from author with the author's permission for publication by APCUG member groups.

The KISS [ Keep It Simple Stupid ] Principle is one I wholeheartedly agree with.  And do I have a deal for you!  While I was at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last January, I discovered a small booth nestled among some of the giants that didn’t have bimbos, or comedians, or the hard-sell barkers accosting people as they wandered by.  But what they offered was well worth the price of admission.  With more laptops everywhere now, with mobile users proliferating exponentially, with all the wireless hot spots following this same pattern, this is one deal you could hardly disagree with..... more

By Ira Wilsker,  iwilsker@apcug.net
Obtained from APCUG with the author's permission for publication by APCUG member groups.

We just learned a valuable lesson from the hit we took recently from Hurricane Humberto.  At 8am on a Wednesday, a local TV weatherman was saying that the clouds in the Gulf would not amount to anything.  At 10am, the National Hurricane Center (www.nhc.noaa.gov) announced that it was Tropical Depression 9, and we were put under a tropical storm warning.  At 1pm, the National Hurricane Center announced that it was Tropical Storm Humberto.  When it came ashore here in the wee hours of Thursday morning, it was a hurricane.  According to Senior Hurricane Specialist James Franklin, of the National Hurricane Center, "To put this development in perspective — no tropical cyclone in the historical record has ever reached this intensity at a faster rate near landfall. It would be nice to know, someday, why this happened.".... more

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An important message...Windows XP Update Prevents XP Repair

Contributed by Sue Foulks with special thanks to Linda Gonse, editor/webmaster for the Orange County IBM PC Users' Group (www.orcopug.org)

     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.

Radio Tech Talk

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Special thanks to our recent Presenters:

October Presenter - Bill Carner, of the University of Louisville Photographic Archives  Department

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September Presenter - Evelyn Watts of the Corel Corporation