Minutes of the May 1, 2009 meeting of the Sioux Falls Seniors Computer Club:
The meeting was called to order in room 204 by President Norm Knox. The secretary read the business parts of the minutes of the April meeting, which were approved. Norm expressed thanks to the club for the get-well card signed by members at the April meeting. He was absent in April because of a medical procedure, which had a successful outcome. There was no old business to be considered by the club.
New business the May meeting consisted of the annual election of officers.Nominees for president were Bob Black and Norm Knox, but Bob withdrew, leaving Norm to be re-elected. Vice President Bill Goebel nominated Bob Black for the office of vice president. Bob accepted this nomination and was elected as the new vice president. Bill will continue as the club's technical advisor.The club re-elected Secretary Garth Peterson to his previous position.
Norm reminded club members of the availability of the club's laptop computer. (Interested members can call him at 370-3957.)
The club members then moved to the computer classroom for the technical part of the meeting. Bill Goebel began the classroom session by reviewing various points about using e-mail in Outlook Express. Outlook Express can also be used for participating in newsgroups, but not many computer users are involved in newsgroups lately, so Bill skipped over that part. When making changes in e-mail options, it is important to click on the Apply button in each window where changes are made to make sure the changes actually take effect. Changes in font sizes and font faces affect outgoing e-mail. Incoming e-mail is affected by the options chosen by the sender. If users want a spell checker to help compose e-mail messages, there are several possibilities available. Microsoft Word provides spell checking, but is charged software. Open Office has similar capabilities but is free. There are also spell checkers available for e-mail only that are not complete word processing packages. These can be found by searching for "freespell checker", but some sites that offer free software make the free software difficult to find, while making paid software very visible. When downloading software, it is important to right-click on the link to the software and choose the "save" option rather than the"run" option. Bill usually puts new downloaded software in a folder by itself before executing the downloaded installation program. New software that does not work well can usually be uninstalled, but in case this does not work, it is very desirable to make a restore point before installing it so that System Restore can back it out if uninstalling it does not work. Having an icon on the desktop for System Restore makes it easier to create restore points. Midco offers a combination of cable modem and router for under $100. Club members discussed whether this would be a good deal or whether separate components would be better. If a toolbar from MSN has gone missing, it can be obtained again from the MSN web site. MSN as a homepage can be set under Tools and Internet Options." Fact or Fiction" is a WWW site that is an alternative to Snopes.com. (Its complete address is http://www.factorfictionblog.com/ .) The "Computer GIG" meets on the second Friday of each month in the computer classroom from 10:00 to 11:30. See also http://siouxvalleygenealogicalsociety.org/Tips.html . Bill is using VodaHost (www.vodahost.com) to maintain this page. VodaHost charges, but the cost is modest, and it works well. Norton Anti-Virus should be uninstalled if it is not in use anymore. More memory is usually a cheap way to improve computer performance.The need for more memory can be checked by running msinfo32 in the Run box.
Bob Black reminded the members of the SeniorNet Conference coming on June 25. (See www.cfag.org/seniornet.htm for a list of topics of the break-out sessions.)
The June meeting will be about Facebook and Twitter. At this point it appears that club members have limited familiarity with Facebook, but those who have tried it like it.
Respectfully submitted by Garth Peterson, Secretary
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
Minutes - 11 July 2008
Minutes of the July 11, 2008 meeting of the Sioux Falls Seniors Computer Club:
President Norm Knox called the meeting to order in room 204, and expressed pleasure at the number of members attending. The minutes of the June meeting were read and approved with one revision: The coming ECHO Symposium at the Center will be held on September 30. Actions by the club in connection with the ECHO Symposium are presently pending. There was no old business. Under new business, Vice President Bill Goebel announced the topic of the next meeting will be "off-site Internet storage".
Following the business part of the meeting, the club members moved to the Sertoma B room. In Sertoma B, Garth Peterson ran a demonstration of wireless access from the club's notebook computer to the Center's wireless router. Sertoma B is close enough to the router for successful wireless access while the computer classroom and room 204 are not. Following this demonstration, the meeting continued in the same room. Club members discussed security concerns and various technical problems, led by Bill Goebel. Bill mentioned that while flash drives are very useful, they are not immune to failure. Also,the program msinfo32 which can be run from the run box available on the Start Menu, can give information about memory usage or overloading Windows.
Respectfully submitted by Garth Peterson, Secretary.
NOTES OF INTEREST
Computer Learning Center Open House Tuesday, July 29 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm. Bring a friend! Spread the news! The Center will host a Computer Learning Center Open House. This is an opportunity for current students to expand their knowledge and learn more about our new end-of-summer and fall class schedules. Current Computer Learning Center students who bring a friend to this open house will receive a $5 coupon for their next computer class. Free Seminars include: MS Office Programs 9 Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher), New Computer Classes in Spanish, Photo Shop Elements, and Q & A. Computer instructors will be available to answer questions and help guide you on your learning process through the computer world. For more information, contact Lisa Howard at 333-3307.
Free Computer Seminar Wednesday, July 30th. The Sioux Falls Computer Learning Center has another free computer seminar scheduled for Wednesday, July 30th, at 12:00 noon. This is an opportunity to learn more about the VISTA operating system, Word(2003), Internet surfing and e-mail. Bring your questions for our very knowledgable instructors. Class schedules will be available for August through October. Seats are limited; call 336-6722.
Membership Listing: A listing of members as of July 11, 2008, can be seen by clicking "membership" in the Label section on your right.
The email that was sent out with the minutes had two attachments that showed the club's membership list in July. E-mail addresses are not included. The first attachment (DOC file) can be opened with Word, and the second (TXT file) can be opened with Notepad. The second attachment can be opened and then copied and pasted into a spreadsheet, or it can be opened and searched for a house number or phone number if necessary. Refer to those documents in your email if you so desire.
President Norm Knox called the meeting to order in room 204, and expressed pleasure at the number of members attending. The minutes of the June meeting were read and approved with one revision: The coming ECHO Symposium at the Center will be held on September 30. Actions by the club in connection with the ECHO Symposium are presently pending. There was no old business. Under new business, Vice President Bill Goebel announced the topic of the next meeting will be "off-site Internet storage".
Following the business part of the meeting, the club members moved to the Sertoma B room. In Sertoma B, Garth Peterson ran a demonstration of wireless access from the club's notebook computer to the Center's wireless router. Sertoma B is close enough to the router for successful wireless access while the computer classroom and room 204 are not. Following this demonstration, the meeting continued in the same room. Club members discussed security concerns and various technical problems, led by Bill Goebel. Bill mentioned that while flash drives are very useful, they are not immune to failure. Also,the program msinfo32 which can be run from the run box available on the Start Menu, can give information about memory usage or overloading Windows.
Respectfully submitted by Garth Peterson, Secretary.
NOTES OF INTEREST
Computer Learning Center Open House Tuesday, July 29 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm. Bring a friend! Spread the news! The Center will host a Computer Learning Center Open House. This is an opportunity for current students to expand their knowledge and learn more about our new end-of-summer and fall class schedules. Current Computer Learning Center students who bring a friend to this open house will receive a $5 coupon for their next computer class. Free Seminars include: MS Office Programs 9 Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher), New Computer Classes in Spanish, Photo Shop Elements, and Q & A. Computer instructors will be available to answer questions and help guide you on your learning process through the computer world. For more information, contact Lisa Howard at 333-3307.
Free Computer Seminar Wednesday, July 30th. The Sioux Falls Computer Learning Center has another free computer seminar scheduled for Wednesday, July 30th, at 12:00 noon. This is an opportunity to learn more about the VISTA operating system, Word(2003), Internet surfing and e-mail. Bring your questions for our very knowledgable instructors. Class schedules will be available for August through October. Seats are limited; call 336-6722.
Membership Listing: A listing of members as of July 11, 2008, can be seen by clicking "membership" in the Label section on your right.
The email that was sent out with the minutes had two attachments that showed the club's membership list in July. E-mail addresses are not included. The first attachment (DOC file) can be opened with Word, and the second (TXT file) can be opened with Notepad. The second attachment can be opened and then copied and pasted into a spreadsheet, or it can be opened and searched for a house number or phone number if necessary. Refer to those documents in your email if you so desire.
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