The Intent of this Page is to provide Links which may be of interest to the club. Please forward your favorites to sunvistacomputerclub@yahoo.com.
The latest Upgrade to Microsoft Internet Explorer(I.E. Version 7) and Windows Media Player (Version 11) includes security enhancements and also the ability to play High Definition Video files. Here is a link to some sample files.
Here are several links to free Audio sites, first the Air Force Band. Here is a link to "Doc's Jukebox" some oldies. Another music site is "freeplay music" Another "really" good site for 50's & 60's music is right here. Astrid found another great site for 50's+ music -- click here. And for another really great music site click here and it's free, just left click to play the music and right click to download it. Click here for Another Royalty Free Music site. Here is a link to some great Short Video's some patriotic and others very scenic Here is another site that Don found with all kinds of good music. Here is another juke box music site which is really good.
There is a Free program called Audacity which can be used to capture audio as well as edit audio - They have an excellent website complete with tutorials
The Sun Vista TV Listing is available on line - click here
Bonnie demostrated a "picture massage" program called Picasa2 it can be downloaded here
Darel presented a demo of Studio 11, which is a program to make Video's, Slide Shows, etc. which will play on a DVD Player (attached to your TV). Click here for the Pinnacle web site and then go to Studio 11 plus
Click here for Betty Ebsen's (Nebraska Betty's) Cookie Thing
Click here for link to the PC Magazine Short Cuts and Maintenance Guide
Click here for a link to Kim Komando's Downloads (freebies) go to bottom of the page on the left
Click here for the link to the Sony 101 courses
Click here to download a users manual for elements 6
Click here for the latest on-line courses from HP
Larry Finger presented a program on Wi-Fi Security - click here to view his Power Point Presentation
Click here for the link to the abeltronica internet speed indicator - be sure to select USA west coast - Jerry found another internet speed indicator here.
Click here for Larry Finger's power point presentation on Networking. Larry also uses an "automatic defrag" program called magical defrag 2 which runs in the background - click here to review the program (it is the second item under system utilities)
Jim Bainter has a writeup on eliminating spurious Email addresses when forwarding Email, he also has a link to worldwide internet traffic here and click here for his Power Point presentation on Google stuff, including Gmail.
For Louisa's Power Point Presentation on Genology click here.
You will be unable to receive "off the air" analog TV in about a year. Your choice is to buy a new HD TV or to purchase a converter that will convert the new digital broadcasts to your current Analog TV. The U.S. Government is proving a limited number of certificates which will provide a $40 credit (up to two) to offset the cost of these converters - here is the link to apply for the certificates.
Jim Bainter found this
procedure to clear print jobs that are stock in the cue. But Jim qualified
the procedure with this: found that the print jobs are in
c:/windows/system32/spool/printers
not ....../spool as per the web site instructions.
Darel presented this Power Point Presentation on Home Finance Tracking with Quicken.
Here is a link to Larry's Presentation on Open Source Software and Linux. Here is a link to the Virtual PC Program that allows you to load another operating system on the PC - We have loaded Vista as a virtual System on the Club XP machine. I have loaded Linux on my laptop and here is the link to download Linux. (This is a 695 mb download, which takes a while).
PC Magazine recently published a list (plus short explanation) of 157 FREE Downloads - it is really an interesting list and you will note several of those we have talked about in the club meetings. Click here for the link
Lee attended the Pomona Rally of the FMCA including a computer seminar given by Steve Bass of Pcworld Magazine - Steve was kind enough to email the Seminar notes to Lee and you can see them here P.S. I used Snagit to capture all the Email, including the links and paste them into a blank page to reference here - isn't snagit a great tool.
Here is a
link to a great Video showing scenic spots in the U.S.