Basically an instant blog.  Totally Free.  Really simple to add.

They will print in a weblog the text of your message, plus any attachment you put on it.
And you can moderate the additions.
 (Sounds about the same as  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/epcc/ but this is in Blog format.)

You can add to your blog from your blackberry, cell phone.
You can attach any type of file and it will post along with the text of your email.
Handles photos, MP3's, documents and video (both links AND files)

Some programming teams are making instant blog pages for their projects
 using Posterous. http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2009/05/28/985/

You can try sending to my test site, and then we can see what it is like.  Just email   mailto:post@...

And then we can see how these were added and the cumulative effect at http://jvoris.posterous.com/

        http://www.posterous.com/
        http://posterous.com/faq

http://office-watch.com Office Watch this month had a couple of
interesting links :

The Classic look of Office (Free Download)
http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?articleid=799&zoneid=12

Simple monitor rotation utility  = An easy way to rotate your display to
portrait mode.
http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?articleid=889&zoneid=12

How to copy a picture from an Outlook email  = Like an image in an
email? Here's how to save it.
(When the picture is embedded and not an attachment)
http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?articleid=878&zoneid=12

SharePoint Designer now free!  = You can now download Microsoft's
SharePoint Designer (the successor of FrontPage) free. (but Web
Expression is the higher end product)
http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?articleid=816&zoneid=12

Print a booklet from a Word document - free!  = A clever option to print
a foldable booklet that won't cost you anything.
http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?articleid=803&zoneid=12

Cross Referencing in Word  = Cross-referencing is an imposing name for
something we're all familiar with in books, especially reference books.
Microsoft Word makes it much easier to do.
http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?articleid=797&zoneid=12

Fitting a Word or Excel doc to your printer  = How to print a document
when the paper sizes are different.
http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?articleid=796&zoneid=12

How to Twitter from Excel = Tweeting directly from Excel
http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?articleid=899&zoneid=12

PDF conversion utility for pay, when some are free downloads (but not as
powerful)
http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?articleid=880&zoneid=10

Saturday, May 16, 2009 9am-3pm
Owen J. Roberts Middle School Parking Lot
981 Ridge Road, Pottstown, PA 19465-8401
NO COMPUTERS ACCEPTED

Friday, June 19, 2009 9am-3pm
CAT Brandywine Campus
1635 East Lincoln Highway, Coatesville, PA 19320-2459
Computers accepted

Saturday, September 19, 2009 9am-3pm
New Garden Maintenance Building
8934 Gap Newport Road
Landenberg, PA 19350
NO COMPUTERS ACCEPTED

Saturday, October 10, 2009 9am-3pm
Government Services Center
601 Westtown Road, West Chester, PA 19380
Computers Accepted

http://palwv.org/chesco/

Bob LeVitus , considered to be one of the world's leading authors on the
Macintosh computer, will discuss the iPhone, iPod, and all things Mac.

MLMUG (www.mlmug.org) is hosting Bob LeVitus this Saturday in Paoli at the
Conference Center of the Church of the Good Samaritan. Meeting starts at 9;
Mr. LeVitus will begin his presentation around 10:15.

Please come as my guest.

refer to the attached pdf file

Tony DiPiano

I understand the meeting on Wednesday night was excellent, the presenter did not
make it and Michael saved the meeting, from what I hear.

Linux is something I need to get more involved with, and coming from that system
Ubuntu is what I really want to learn.  Sorry to have missed the meeting, even
from the hospital I hear Wednesday night was a good meeting, active with some
good participation.

Thank you Michael for making it a good night with your clear explanations and
examples of what Ubuntu is and what it can do.  Sounds like you need to get
ready for part two.

Where did Nate go?


Bob

Someone asked me what is a "Lightning Talk" ?

Lightning Talks represent a much smaller investment of time than a full presentation, and offer you the chance to share your "neato" thing without the heavy commitment of a real presentation.  Lightning Talks should emphasize your single biggest bang-for-the buck idea quickly.

Use this as an opportunity to give a talk for the first time, or the first time on a new topic. For a Lightning Talk, slides or documentation are not required, but if you do decide to make slides you only need a few.

Lightning Talks may just be interesting or useful websites that others should know about.

In honor of Emil Volcheck, who was active with Exton PC as well as other organizations including the West Chester Area Senior Center:

A luncheon will be held on Thursday, April 23^rd at 12:00 PM at the West Chester Area Senior  Center (530 East Union Street, West Chester, PA 19382) which will be followed by testimonials by any of the attendees regarding Emil's impact on their computer knowledge, and the hanging of a plaque in his honor in the computer room.  Emil's wife and son will be in attendance.

The luncheon will be held in a partitioned area of the main activity room. It will consist of either a hot or cold lunch of the day augmented by appetizers and desserts utilizing the donations remaining after purchasing the plaque.  There is no cost to attend this event.

Please contact me by email (tkircher@...) if you will be attending including your choice of a hot or cold lunch.  Reservations need to be firm by Wednesday, April 15 in order to make the necessary arrangements at the Center.

If you have any questions please contact Ted Kircher.  Thank you,

Ted Kircher

WCASC Board Member

tkircher@...

I received this from someone I don't know, but have met. He seems to be true
to his word. I can help if you want to donate. His email originally came
from www.freecycle.ort - we had a presentation on that a few years ago.

Here goes ....

I am a business and computer science teacher at a West Philadelphia High
School.  I am starting an effort to get used computer equipment in the hands
of my students. Any equipment, Macintosh, Pentium II Windows or newer will
be cleaned, refurbished, and redistributed to a family that needs it.
Monitors, printers, keyboards, mice, and other equipment is also requested.
Please contact me if you want to donate to this worthy cause.  I am also
interested in partnering with local business owners to get used equipment.
Eventually I would like to establish, or work with, a non-profit or charity
to offer receipts for tax purposes, but that is not available right now. My
email is hescribner@....   I will return all emails that I get.  Anyone
wishing to donate time to help refurbish equipment can also help.  If you
are called to give financially, please do not offer cash,  gift certificates
or gift cards to PC Warehouse, Best Buy or any other equipment source would
be great.  I do not want to handle any cash or be responsible for taking
monetary donations until I am affiliated with a charity.  I want to make
sure that 100% of all donations are turned around to people that actually
need them.  I will take no salary for this as well.  Any equipment not
readily usable will be used for parts.  My effort is for basic office
functions for each family, but I am also trying to secure a source for free
or cheap access to the internet eventually.

Thanks for your help.  I realize there are other groups that may have
similar missions in the area, but as I have some contacts in Philadelphia,
and I am trying to help my school's community specifically,  I am keeping
this effort small and controlled for now.  Hopefully some other agencies
will help too.  Any advice is also welcome!!

Harvey Scribner

Many of the EPCC members may remember  'Computer Corner'. It used to
broadcast on a local AM radio station until the station was sold. The show
is now broadcast on Internet radio and is 90 minutes long. The host 'Gene
Mitchel is the area's experienced computer repair guy. He has a long history
doing computer repair and he's presented for EPCC in the past.

Check out www.5Dradio.com. The show is broadcast on Saturday mornings at 8
AM Eastern Time on Internet radio. Archived podcasts are available on the
site. Tell Gene (gene@...) that I sent you.

Call him or send him an email with your question or comments. The phone
number is 610-590-0451 - that's in the southeast Pennsylvania area and may
be a toll call for some EXCEPT if you have free weekend minutes on your cell
phone the call is free.

Also - let me and Gene know what you think about the show. I think most of
the folks here will enjoy it.

- Tony

cc: Gene Mitchel @ 5d Radio

I renewed my membership for  09 but am not getting the news letter or
information on the groups activities. Inquiring minds want to know how to
correct this? Also is anyone using the newer Picasa? I had a problem with the
download and now I can not get at my pictures and I am afraid to mess with it.
Many thanks

Definitions: POP = Post Office Protocol = a connection from the client on your PC (Outlook or Outlook Express)
SMTP = Simple Mail Transport Protocol = the format of messages.

The bottom line is that regardless of your ISP provider, you can use the popular GMAIL as a repository for email, and manage it from a web interface or from your PC client software.  (My ISP also has this functionality, but there are a few ISP's that do not have this capability, and only provide one or the other.)  The other feature for an ISP is access from outside your area code, which was to be the subject of Monday's meeting.

Another "for instance", Yahoo mail is an additional charge to merge your yahoo mail with other POP servers.
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Gmail outage - but not for Outlook users
Saul Hansell at the New York Times is reporting on an outage on the popular Gmail service.
The Gmail breakdown happened at the start of the working day in Europe and lasted until about lunchtime. Early risers in the USA might have noticed the problem too.

What’s interesting to us is that the problem seemed to be with the Gmail web interface – the underlying email technologies were reportedly working fine.

That means Outlook users who connect to Gmail via IMAP or POP/SMTP could continue using their email, bypassing or even unaware of the problems Google was having.

You can receive/send email from Gmail into many email clients including Outlook using POP/SMTP. Google has instructions for Outlook 2007, Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2002 (XP) – the latter can be applied to earlier versions of Outlook too.

For a full synchronization of Gmail folders with Outlook, choose the IMAP option. Google has instructions for Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2003.

Another choice is to forward Gmail messages to another account which can then be imported into Outlook.
It’s not clear what happened to Gmail users using a browser with the new offline service option. At worst there browsers where ‘offline’ – no new messages arrived and outgoing messages where held until a connection could be established.

We like Gmail a lot but it’s best not to rely on it alone – this event has highlighted the wisdom of having alternative methods of accessing your email, whomever hosts it.

See a version of this article on the Office-Watch.com web site click here for more or mobile edition

I am trying to test an HP Deskjet 3820 to see if it still works.
But I need to load both the B+W cartridge and the Color Cartridge in it.

So I am looking to borrow either a HP Tri-color cartrige model C6578A
or C6578D cartridge.  It is fine if it is dried out and doesn't work
anymore!  I just need it to test the printer.

I am trying to test an HP Deskjet 3820 to see if it still works.
But I need to load both the B+W cartridge and the Color Cartridge in it.

So I am looking to borrow either a HP Tri-color cartrige model C6578A
or C6578D cartridge.  It is fine if it is dried out and doesn't work
anymore!  I just need it to test the printer.

This Saturday, the MLMUG will host Dave Marra. Dave gave a presentation to
EPCC several months ago.

This presentation will focus on the applications in the

1) iLife suite ($79)
  - iPhoto
  - iMovie
  - iDVD
  - iWeb
  - Garage Band

2) iWork, Apple's productivity suite ($79)
  - Pages - a word processor
  - Numbers - a spreadsheet
  - Keynote - a presentation app

It'll be a great time to learn what the 'other' platform has to offer.

The feature presentation will start around 10 AM. Come earlier for coffee
and conversation.

Contact me if you have questions:
ExtonPC@...

- Tony DiPiano

And some more info I found out

http://www.clickykeyboards.com/index.cfm/fa/items.main/parentcat/11298/subcatid/0/id/179740

There are passive adapters (costs pennies and may not work) vs. a signal converter ($ 20-30).  The new keyboards are $10-20 at Staples, as I recall.

And they have a page about the PC AT keyboards etc. at their site too.  http://www.clickykeyboards.com/index.cfm

And a catalog of old keyboards still in use. http://www.clickykeyboards.com/index.cfm/fa/pages.main/pageID/3

In fact, I have about a dozen of these GOOD OLE' BOYS (PS2 keyboards) in
the basement.

My problem is that the newer PC's (laptops) require USB for everything,
including keyboards, and I hate trashing something that still works and
never goes out of style.

So here is an off the wall question?  I just googled up connectors that
goes from PS2 Keyboard to USB , but has anyone ever tried these?
http://www.b2cshop24.com/en/usb-male-to-ps-2-female-adapter-converter-ad
aptor.html?language=en&currency=USD )

And to really show my age, how about them fat 9 pin connector that
predates PS2 keyboard connecters?  They go back to the PC XT (DOS) days.
I have one that I used until the PC died last year, and it even has a
keyboard extension cord for that plug!



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If you remember the old school IBM keyboards, click on this link:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100076874

Yes, you can still buy one of these from the company mentioned in the
story. A "standard" keyboard is $69.00 plus shipping.

I owned a clone version of one of these and paid over $100 for it in
1988. The thing lasted for at least 10 years, I believe.

Nate

Anyone using Live Mesh from Microsoft to store documents on-line in " the cloud " ??

http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?articleid=704&zoneid=9&paginate=false

Would that be a good topic for a general meeting ?

Sometimes the feature list on a new UPS are worth the extra bucks.
In November, Staples had $30 rebates on old equipment exchanged with a new purchase,
and I got a $30 rebate for my old UPS.  I thought the new features and my time to install batteries
outweighed the added cost.   You may want to consider waiting/looking for similar
discounts.  But you are weighing the risk of a winter storm shutting off or spiking power vs. a
summer storm doing it.  ( I assume the bigger risk is always the summertime.)

> A new battery should cost about $30. My guess would be that
> it would cost a lot more to replace the UPS. It's your call.

>> I have a Back-UPS 350 that tells me that it needs a new
>> battery. The unit is over 5 years old. Should I just buy a
>> new UPS or try to find a replacement battery?

I have a Back-UPS 350 that tells me that it needs a new battery. The
unit is over 5 years old. Should I just buy a new UPS or try to find a
replacement battery?
Charles Kimber

HOW AND WHY XP USERS SHOULD CONSIDER A VISTA OR WINDOWS 7 MIGRATION

Many companies have a death grip on Windows XP, refusing to consider
a Vista migration and possibly even a move its successor, Windows 7.
This may not be the best path to take for such reasons as the end of
mainstream Windows XP support is this April, and the end of security
fixes is in 2014.
http://go.techtarget.com/r/5623070/219024

Windows 7 will have the often hated "ribbon" in Wordpad and Paint
http://news.office-watch.com/t/n.aspx?articleid=753&zoneid=12

This is a pretty cool little product if, like most programmers, you have too much stuff on your screen during the day.
It has a clipboard function for moving snippets to the other PC/Laptop that seems like a real help
http://www.maxivista.com

The original Dual Monitor setup using Windows OS is just that - more real estate for your eyeballs
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/moredone/twomonitors.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/hwandprograms/monitors.mspx

Reply:

DVI stands for Digital Visual Interface (go to Webopedia.com and enter DVI for an explanation)

Newer Computers Use DVI Connectors instead of VGA connectors.  You don't have to buy new projectors.  You can buy an adapter or a cord with DVI one end and VGA on the othere.

DVI does have some advantages which are explained on the Webopedia.com site

--- In epcc@yahoogroups.com, "Voris, John" <john.voris@...> wrote:
>
>
> What is a DVI connector for a projector ? Is a DVI port on a laptop
> fairly common, or is it time to upgrade conference room projectors for
> them yet?
>

On further checking it turns out what I thought was real is a hoax.  At
least that's something not be concerned about, wish I could claim April fools
but it's the wrong month.

At Staples, for $15 - a voice recorder the size of a USB Thumb Drive  -
that is an MP3 player.  (2 gig of storage I believe).

It's main function is to play 8 hours of songs, or store 8 hours of
voice recordings in WAV format.  It has a pinhole microphone on it, and
it is standard USB interface.  Not exactly what you are looking for, but
the portable voice recorder is what I need.
I am going to be playing with it a little in the next couple of weeks,
and can let you know how it works.

Also, I could not resist getting the San Disk 8 Gig USB thumb drive at
$27 down from $50.


> I am looking for something that will allow me to record voice on my
pc.
> Need one that records about an hour or more.

Looking for something that will allow me to record voice on my pc.
Need one that records about an hour or more.

Have looked at some that only record 60 seconds, tried Audacity but
can't get it to recognize a usb microphone, a tutorial would help.

Any suggestions?

Bob

I have a 19" Samsung 955DF Sync Master CRT Computer Monitor which works
great.  Includes SyncMast Monitor software disk.
Free to the person who can give me the earliest pick up date.
Available at 1001 Elmwood Ave., West Chester, PA.
Call Doug Fairchild @ 610-696-8223

Hi, Tony, your message did not indicate any course of action for Firefox
users - nor did your link.  How does one get protected?

Emil...


> http://tinyurl.com/5pf7q9
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> Quote:
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> Researchers at BitDefender have discovered a new type of malicious
> software that collects passwords for banking sites but targets only
> Firefox users. The malware, which BitDefender dubbed
> "Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.A" sits in Firefox's add-ons folder, said
> Viorel Canja, the head of BitDefender's lab. The malware runs when
> Firefox is started.
>
> The malware uses JavaScript to identify more than 100 financial and
> money transfer Web sites, including Barclays, Wachovia, Bank of
> America, and PayPal along with two dozen or so Italian and Spanish
> banks. When it recognizes a Web site, it will collect logins and
> passwords, forwarding that information to a server in Russia....
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