January 2009Future Meeting DatesFebruary 21March 21 Membership Annual membership is $20 for indivduals: $5 for each additional family members. Fo
congurations starting at $1,449 MSRP. Toshiba Satellite E105-S1402: Built with the consumer in mind, this thin and light laptop is less than ve poun
understand the illness iLIVE – portable DVD players IOGEAR – USB display extender, KVM switches, SATA cards, USB charging hubs, digital pen, hubs Iome
CES 2009 StorageBy Terry Currier Advanced Media (RITEK USA) www.ritekusa.com Its RIDATA USB Drive with Micro SD slot is now available in 8GB capacity
LaCie www.lacie.com High capacity storage system for users who want advanced RAID features with consumer-level ease of use and style LaCie announced
application is onboard the drive. It’s activated by pressing a button, so it doesn’t need to be installed on a PC. The ash drive has capacities up to
The Ridata eSATA SSD ash drive supports multiple operating systems. No driver is needed in Windows ME®, Windows 2000®, Windows XP®, Windows VISTA®, M
Smart Computing TipsHow To Allow Email Attachments – A fairly •common problem people run into is the inability to save attached les to their PCs. Th
your hard drive, but transferring music from analog cassettes and LPs to your PC is a slightly trickier (you can’t exactly create an LP drive you can
and dragged to select recording portions we wanted to export, and then we clicked File, Export Selection As MP3, and Save. We had to listen to our rec
U-tube with a single click of your mouse, if desired. The next button # 4 is the View button, here you can adjust the size of your thumbnails or add a
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Another benet of TightVNC is the built-in 128 bit encrypted security. When you begin a communications session, the program generates a new 12 digit a
Your California Legislators Need Your HelpWith the extended California budget crisis word has come out that the legislators themselves might not get p
The Crabby Ofce LadyBoost your efciency with Crabby’s suggestions Get the Crabby Ofce Lady’s book Read all the Crabby Ofce Lady columns Get Crab
spend all that time reinventing the wheel like your cohorts do every time you need to create a presentation, a document, or a brochure? Ofce can help
Ofce Fluent user interface. I wrote about the Ribbon when the 2007 Ofce release rst came out, and some of you already love it (while others, well,
images (stills.) You can resize, crop, rotate, remove red eye, adjust color, brightness and more. They show you the original and new image side by sid
PlumChoiceBy Terry CurrierI must admit I never heard of PlumChoice before I met with them at CES. PlumChoice provides 24/7 PC support services for hom
Are you ready for Southwest 2009? This year’s event will be held on May 29, 30 & 31 at the beautiful Town and Country Resort & Convention Cent
Digital Photo Contest 2009Artistry through TechnologyELIGIBILITYAll conference attendees are invited to enter •the Digital Photo contest.A user group
ultrathin notebook, which measures less than one-inch thick and weighs less than four pounds. The HP Pavilion dv2 also comes equipped with a 12.1-inch
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integrated Garmin Mobile® GPS navigation combines computing power with a fun fashion statement. It is WiMAX, designed to make computing easier for se
drive up to 500 gigabytes (GB.) In addition it supports optional built-in WWAN for wireless connectivity and includes an HP Webcam and microphone. An
interact with vendors and each other. Customers can have a hand in, for example, placing orders with a retailer, conducting virtual video service call
Intel www.intel.com Intel featured their newest processors. The Core i7 processor is the rst member of a new family of Nehalem processor designs and
Estimated Battery Life: 1.5-4.0 hours (standard •capacity battery). Up to 2.5-6.0 hours with large capacity batteryEpxressCard® 3/4 slot•Biometric F
ConnectivityFast Ethernet (RJ-45) Protocol•10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-T•Integrated WWAN using optional Sprint® •Mobile Broadband ServiceWireless
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