Minutes for March 5 2009

We will NOT be meeting next Thursday 12 Mar 2009; but will meet again the following Thursday, 19 March at 1:30 PM at our Village Clubhouse. Our subject will be “Communication via SKYPE, using Webcam and microphones”. Bring your own laptop to participate.

Members present were: Jim Albach, Marianne Benttine, Jim Broschat, Nancy Curtis, Jim Erickson, Arlene Frolick, Bill Joynt, Bill Kautt, Sharlene Langdale, Peter, Clare Manz, Claire Morris, Stanton Rickey, Rich Russo, and Chic Wray.

SAVE $130 ! Peter reiterated his warnings about bogus messages with seemingly authentic titles that warn about a virus infection. Recipients are invited to CLICK HERE TO REMOVE VIRUS. If you do so, this action actually installs a virus. These bogus messages carry names like Antivirus 360, Antivirus2009,etc. If you mistakenly click, try to negate the scam and get out ASAP by holding down your power button for 10 seconds to turn OFF your machine.

SAVE $400 We recommend that we ignore even bonafide messages to install or renew Norton or Mc Afee online. Your credit card is automatically charged and it is extremely difficult to get a refund or avoid payment. Best procedure is to download AVG FREE VERSION. Go to:

www.mesasos.com for a link to start this process, however be careful to only get the FREE VERSION and avoid any ancillary promotional features.

2 Village computers fried their motherboards recently. Watch for thunderstorms and voltage surges. Shut off the power bar for surge protection. Unplug during storms.

Peter demonstrated use of a SCANNER. Actually it is a superb high quality camera. He placed a photo in the scanner and transferred it to the Adobe Photo Deluxe program by clicking on GET PHOTO. Any photo handling program you have already installed has a scanner access feature. Once acquired the photo can be manipulated for contrast clarity, cropped, sized, printed out, and/or E-mailed as an attachment.

For most printing purposes select 600 Dots Per Inch (DPI); 1200 DPI for archival purposes; 75 DPI and .JPG format is okay for most E-Mail attachments.
We will NOT be meeting next Thursday 12 Mar 2009; but will meet again the following Thursday, 19 March at 1:30 PM at our Village Clubhouse. Our subject will be “Communication via SKYPE, using Webcam and microphones”. Bring your own laptop to participate.
See you there,
STANTON RICKEY, Club President
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