COMPUTER CLUB
WEEKLY BULLETIN
October 9, 2008
Greetings Computer Club Members:
Thank you, to everyone who attended the meeting Tuesday night, we had a lot of competition for your attention and we appreciate the fact that you chose to attend our meeting.
Of course Don provided us with the Jib Jab version of the Presidential Debate
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Friday Workshop
Computer Lab
And the Music Room
1 to 4 pm
Steve Holst and his team of
Technical advisors will be looking forward to greeting you in the lab
every Friday from 1 to 4 pm. In the
They welcome all of the challenges you bring to them along with whatever goodies you wish to share.
Please follow the guidelines which can be found on the club website.
Everyone is welcome to the workshop, but Claremont Senior Computer Club members always have priority. Please be sure to sign in with one of our friendly greeters who serve to direct you for service. Remember, membership is free, and you are invited to attend our weekly meetings.
Tutors are available to assist members who need to sharpen their computer skills.
Joy Huguley is available to help in the Music Room if you wish to convert music from a record to a CD or other format
If you are new to the Computer Club, be sure and drop in at the lab on Fridays, Check in with the greeter and she will be happy to give you a tour.
BOARD MEETING
October 14, 2008
6:00 pm
Padua Room
Please note the change of date to next Tuesday night at 6: pm, I hope this is not an inconvenience to anyone.
According to the Bylaws established by the CSCC all board meetings are open to the entire membership so this notice will serve to fulfill the rule directed in the Bylaws.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
CLASS SCHEDULES
Windows Basic XP October 13, 15, 17, 20, 22 & 24th 9 to 12
Introduction to Digital Photography November 18 9 AM - 3:30 PM $15 Lunch included
Introduction to Computers November 19 10 AM - 3 PM $15 Lunch included
Windows Basic XP December 1 – 12
Space is still available in all classes
Though classes are paced for seniors, all adults are invited to participate.
All classes are held in the Bob Binder Classroom of the annex at Joslyn Senior Center 660 N. Mountain Ave. Claremont
You can sign up for classes at
the reception desk of the
SPECIAL INTEREST
GROUPS
Open Source Group
Tom Deno
October 13th The Open Source Group well be meeting at 4pm If your curiosity is aroused at tonight’s meeting about other operating systems that are available, this is the Special Interest Group for you.
Genealogy Group
Walter Dunderman
October 20th The Genealogy Group will be meeting at 3PM
All groups meet in the Bob Binder Classroom at the Joslyn Senior Center Annex unless otherwise announced
If you don’t know where to start looking for your ancestors, this is where you want to start looking, Walter is a great asset to our club.
Our club formed the Special Interest Groups last spring at the request of our members who wanted to learn more about certain subjects. Everyone who has an interest in these subjects is welcome to attend any of these meetings. No experience or expertise is needed; this is where you can learn more about a subject you may be curious about.
SITE OF THE WEEK
Dennis Taylor
Have Gun will travel
Starring
Richard Boone
You did read that correctly and it is in Black and White, these are the original 30 minute tapes, and you can find a lot more on this great site for anyone who is fed up with the current offering on television. Do you remember the Twilight Zone?
These are truly classics; there are also a lot of other television programs that were originally broadcast on CBS
to be found on this versatile site at http://tinyurl.com/3qe3da
Quick Tips
by Don Brown
Use Automatic Logon
50/50
DRAWING WINNER
Robert Wright
“CONGRATULATIONS ROBERT”
You don’t want to be left out of the drawing next week and a chance at being the winner, purchase your ticket when you arrive at the meeting and check in at the front desk. Look for Pat Jones who will be selling the tickets in the Padua Room.
The winner must be present to collect.
Be sure to sign in each time you attend. If you have not attended at least three meetings per quarter your name may be removed from our roster.
If for some reason you find you will be absent for awhile, please let the ladies at the front sign-in desk know, and we will keep you on the roster.
CLUB WEBSITE
Remember this is where you will find everything of importance concerning our Club activities.
Program Presentations and Tips & tricks from the past week can be found usually on a Power Point program, just as they were presented at the meetings, enabling you to print the information if you wish.
The upcoming program schedules for our meetings are also listed here, so you know what is coming and when.
This is where you can find the latest issue of the Weekly Bulletin which is usually updated by Thursday or Friday each week.
Ed O’Donnell, our Web Master does a wonderful job of putting all of the information together and keeps several months
Active as space permits.
LINKS
Click on the links below to visit some sites of interest to our members
Claremont Senior Bicycle Group
Claremont Senior Walking Group
FALL INFORMATION FAIR
&
FLU SHOT CLINIC
November 13 2008
9AM – 1 PM
TAYLOR HALL
PROGRAM PRESENTATION
Tom Deno
Open Source Software
Tom and his assistants Lloyd Gastineau, Harland Anderson and Duke Leong demonstrated how to download install and use some of the alternative Open Source programs that are available for free. If you wish to know more about these programs be sure and attend the Open Source SIG meeting on Monday October 13th at 4pm in the annex at Joslyn Senior Center 660 N. Mountain Ave. Claremont
Tom’s PowerPoint presentation which was originally presented almost one year ago can be found on the Club Website under Presentations scroll to Ubuntu and you can view it.
To download the latest version you may also go to http://www.ubuntu.com/
The hit of the night
was the truly portable notebook Tom demonstrated called an ASUS Eee PC
2G Surf (7-Inch Display, Intel Mobile Processor, 512 MB RAM,
I am sure we will see more of this laptop.
COMING ATTRACTIONS
October 14
Tips & Tricks
Barbara Marino, Download Picasa (free digital image editing program);
Don Brown,
Chaim Rinde, Import Pictures into Word Documents.
Padua Room
Social Hour
7:00 pm
Meeting starts promptly at
7:30 pm
Barbara Marino
Computer Club