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2008

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Convention Highlights

Presenter:  Wayne Perkey
Date:  Tuesday, February 5, 2008

 It's that time again and we have a ton of technology to report on from APCUG and CES.  Come check it out at KIPCUG's February's General meeting where Wayne Perkey will update you on the latest and newest technology to be released in 2008. For more information on the convention, you can go to this month's article "New Gadgets for 2008" or read "New and Improved Technology Shown in Las Vegas" which was highlighted in the January 18th newsletter.  You can also click on APCUG and CES logos above to view their respective convention highlights for 2008.

Back-To-Basics: "How-To Send Photographs without Overloading Mailboxes" - John Henderson will instruct us on how to resize pictures we want to send in our emails.

Meeting Location:  CCUM Assembly Hall, 4614 Brownsboro Rd, KY
                                    Corner of Brownsboro & Blankenbaker

Directions

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As a reminder to those who could not join us for our January General meeting, the new meeting agenda is again being displayed.  Please come and visit the SIG table.  Every month there will be alternating SIG groups present to discuss the various functions of their SIG's.  Make a resolution to learn something new this year!
	January General Meeting
Start Time Topic   6:15 pm Doors Open   6:30 pm Networking: SIGs - located at the back tables User-To-User Forum - located at the back table with one or more of our in-house experts Newsletter - sign-up or feedback Converse with fellow members 7:00 pm Introduction & Announcements Back-to-Basics User-to-User   7:30 pm Main Presentation 8:30 pm Question & Answer 8:40 pm Prize Drawings 9:00 pm PIG SIG (January's was held at Fridays, all are welcome)

Please come early to mingle, enjoy the refreshments sponsored by the church, listen to our presenters, and don't forget about the membership drawing and raffles - the winner could be you! Finally, end the evening by joining us afterwards at the PIG SIG, for good food and good conversation.

Come and bring a friend ...
   just forward this email with a personal invitation from you!
 

Membership Drawing

Just a reminder to all that there was no winner for our membership drawing at the January meeting.  Thus, the prize is now up to $60.  To be eligible, a member must be a paid-up member, who is present at the time of the drawing.  We look forward to you being with us, and good luck!

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

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Listed below is a glance at the upcoming SIG's in February. 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 :

NEW Security SIG:  2/04/2008 - Get your computer cleaned up and guarded! Discussion on relative merits of various malware and virus programs available to us. First meeting was in December, 2007. See current article on Bot-Nets below.

Access Basic SIG - 2/09/2008  - Creating Reports and Mailing Labels
Reports are the way to convert data to information. For example the data could be a list of names of the people running the Derby Half-Marathon and the time they finished. It is probably sorted by the number on the tag that they wore. If you want to find out how you or your friend did, a printout of that list doesn’t help much unless you have the tag number.  With a query and a report this raw data can be converted to a list sorted by last name with the calculated time elapsed for the race and what place the person got. Now it is useful information.

Learn to create a report and also create and print mailing labels from a membership database.
[note from editor:  Last month's meeting was actually on creating a database and not creating reports and mailing labels as was listed in the January newsletter]

C'MON SIG LEADERS

Here's your opportunity to help us help you promote your SIG meetings.  Post announcements of upcoming topics.  Highlight and recap past meetings here.  Send your submissions to Sue Foulks, editor.

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by Brian K. Lewis, Ph.D.
bwsail at yahoo.com
www.spcug.org

Obtained from APCUG with the author's permission for publication by APCUG member groups.
 [Editor's Note: If interested, there is a new "Security" SIG, which meets the first Monday of the month at 6:30pm]

Keeping your computer safe while connected to the Internet is becoming more and more difficult. The "attackers" are becoming more sophisticated and are sharing more ways to get their software into your computer. Business Week recently ran an article on the major security problems expected in 2008. Unfortunately, most of them arrived long before the new year started. We have been warned for years that it was possible to recruit unprotected computers into networks that could be controlled by an external source. This recruitment network problem has gotten much worse over the past few years. It is estimated that 7% of the computers connected to the Internet have been infected with a Botnet program. So what is a "Botnet"? more

By Sandy Berger, CompuKISS.com
www.compukiss.com 
sberger(at)compukiss.com

Obtained from APCUG with the author's permission for publication by APCUG member groups.

Every year my husband and I attend the Consumer Electronic (CES) in Las Vegas to see the latest and greatest high tech gadgets. This year didn't disappoint. We found everything from a Leggett & Platt's $20,000 Starry Night bed with an HDTV projector, pop-up speakers, snoring sensors, iPod dock, automatic lighting system, and breathing pattern monitor to a General Motors Chevy Tahoe prototype car that drove itself. While I don't expect this GM prototype to make it to market anytime soon, some of the technology that it is built in will evolve and is sure to find its way into our future automobiles... more

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Special thanks to Brookdale Computer Users Group, Lincroft New Jersey (www.bcug.com).

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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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Special thanks to our recent Presenters:

December Presenter - Randy and Jeremy from Computers Plus, Hurstborne Lane

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January Presenters - Steve Pennington, CPA, for Intuit's Turbo Tax and Chris Jackman for H&R Block's TaxCut software