= Upcoming Local Sustainability Events = Reminder =

Saturday Oct 3rd is a paper shred event from 9-1 in Phoenixville at Natl Penn
Bank

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

        This is a pretty good idea, and who knows why someone didn't think of it sooner. . . .

- You have a bunch of links to send to someone, say in a Tweet that only allows 140 characters.
- Even using TinyURL, if there are several, you are soon bumping up against that artificial limit of 240 characters .
- So you need a way to bundle (zip-up) the list of Web links

        http://bundl.it/

I've been getting good computer advice at www.kickenhardware.net.   This is
a Philly-based group. I'm mentioning this because things have been a bit
slow at the site and we're chomping at the bit to help computer users.

If you decide to join, tell them that Tony sent you. You're sure to receive
a warm welcome.

Of course there's help available right here from your own EPCC Discussion
group on Yahoo. Try us out.

- Tony

I am working with a group that wants to be able to have several webcams on while
playing multiplayer games or while watching a video.  Free ones if possible.

Tried Skype, and a few others, they seem to cut off webcams when a third one is
used.  That eliminates the multiple webcams.  Haven't found any that allow use
of games along with chat (video or typing).

Any suggestions?

Bob

The launch of Windows 7 will be at the AMC Theater at the Franklin Mills Mall in Northeast Philly (kind of near the PA Turnpike Philly exit)

http://www.microsoft.com/business/thenewefficiency/Philadelphia/default.aspx

Another upcoming shredding event


The Germantown branch of the Philadelphia Federal Credit Union is having
a shredding day this Saturday, August 15th from 11 AM to 1 PM.  The
credit union is located at 6707 Germantown Avenue

All the shredded paper will be recycled.
They're asking people to limit their contributions to 3 boxes in order
to keep things running smoothly.

RE: Off Topic Recycling

I just found out that National Penn Bank has paper shredding events
http://www.natpennbank.com/2009ShredEvents.htm
for those who don't have a home shredder or just have too much volume to shred
at home.

These are on Saturday (one is on Weds for Businesses)
From 9AM to 3PM - 4 boxes per person

         September

12th at King of Prussia Community Office - National Penn
16th at Sunnybrook Community Office - National Penn (Business Event)
19th at Shavertown Community Office - KNBT
19th at Jennersville Community Office - National Penn
26th at Northampton Crossing Community Office - KNBT
26th at Berkshire Blvd. Community Office - National Penn

            October

3rd at Phoenixville Community Office - National Penn
3rd at Richland Marketplace Community Office - National Penn
10th at Royersford Community Office - National Penn
17th at Chestnut Hill Community Office - National Penn
24th in Reading at St. Peter the Apostle Church, 322 S 5th Street

This Saturday, August 8th, from 9am to 3pm, is the Montgomery County, PA
area scheduled recycling day for computer equipment and electronics. It
will take place in the parking lot at Abington High School - 970
Highland Ave. More information on this can be found here:

http://www.wsaemc.org/Recycling/Hazardous%20Waste.htm#Montco Sites

And this is interesting

http://greendisk.com/

Details here; highly recommended for any work place, and zero cost:

https://blogs.wharton.upenn.edu/brainstorm/2008/09/the-greening-of-wharton-compu\
t-3.html


Also:

Hotline Phone: 610-278-3618

Fax: 610-278-3713

Email: recycling@...

Waste System Authority

1430 DeKalb Rd. 5th Floor

Norritown,[sic] PA 19401

When is the next meeting and subject matter?. I am not getting notices although
I have paid my dues for 09
Lois Felldin

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.
-====================================-
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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