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AWARD WINNING MONTHLY NEWSLETTER FOR ORCOPUG MEMBERS

Tuesday, April 13, 6:30 p.m. at Sunny Hills Racquet Club, Fullerton — Bring a friend!

PROGRAM POSTPONED FROM MARCH

April 2004

INSIDE…

Notepad • 2

Letters to the editor • 2

Raffle winners • 3

Member information • 3

What’s new… • 4

Contax, VPN, PhotoShop CS,

DVD upgrade • 4

User group deals • 5

Reviews • 6–9

SnagIt • 6

Actiontec • 7

USB switch • 8

Shure earphones • 9

Siles: Goodbye • 10

APCUG benefits • 10

Enable WinXP’s firewall • 10

AutoPlay options • 10

Peripherals • 11

Internet Humor • 11

World spam • 11

Meeting info • Back cover

Volume 22 - Number 4

NeuDesk Productivity Suite to be presented

by Linda Gonse

“The NeuDesk Productivity Suite consists of nine modules that cover most of what

we do on the computer,” said Rich Blumenthal of Voice

Factor, who will demonstrate the program at our April 13

meeting.

Rich’s talk will cover file management, the Windows

search feature, other desktop search methods, and

housekeeping tips,

but the focus will be on NeuDesk and what

it can do in these areas. The nine modules that are incorporated into NeuDesk Suite are:

NeuIP, NeuORGANIZER, NeuVIEWER, NeuPLAYER, NeuHOME, NeuEMAIL,

NeuBACKUP, NeuSELF, and NeuASSISTANT. The Internet special price is $60 but

the User Group price is $45, and upgrades are free for two years.

NeuDesk Productivity Suite makes life easier for everyday computer users by giving

them the power to locate and manage files anywhere in Windows-based applications. Designed to reduce the number of

keystrokes and mouseclicks a PC user normally needs to retrieve information from his/her system, NeuDesk’s artificial

intelligence-based technology understands “Natural Language Commands” to trigger databases, contact information,

the Internet and more.

NeuDesk is available at the

company’s site, www.nt4me.com, as a

free trial download .

Our members praised Rich’s

October presentation of Dragon

Naturally Speaking and eagerly look

forward to having him back. If you

didn’t see his October program, don’t

miss him this time! Please come, and

bring a friend.

Rich Blumenthal

Do your reviews online!

Now you can do your reviews

online! Just fill in the blanks and

submit your reviews automatically.

Here’s how: Go to www.orcopug.org

and click Review.

Then, click on the Online Form link,

type in your answers, and press the

Submit button!

Summer regional event

planned in Ohio

If you are going to be in the

Midwest for a

vacation this

summer, you

might want to

check out this

event in Ohio.

On the

weekend of July

30, 2004, Greater

Cleveland PC Users Group,

www.gcpcug.org, will be holding an

Association of PC User Groups

(APCUG) Regional Event in coordina-

tion with the International Children’s

Games Competition — to be held for

the first time in the United States!

Summary of content (12 pages)

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AWARD WINNING MONTHLY NEWSLETTER FOR ORCOPUG MEMBERS April 2004 Tuesday, April 13, 6:30 p.m. at Sunny Hills Racquet Club, Fullerton — Bring a friend! PROGRAM POSTPONED FROM MARCH NeuDesk Productivity Suite to be presented by Linda Gonse “The NeuDesk Productivity Suite consists of nine modules that cover most of what we do on the computer,” said Rich Blumenthal of Voice Factor, who will demonstrate the program at our April 13 meeting.
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Letters Notepad I t seems like user groups say good-bye to a lot of people who have been very involved in providing them with essentials such as programs, articles, prizes, and more. In order of recent losses, they are: Ken Fermoyle, Steve Bass, and now Siles Bazerman. Siles is not leaving our group, thank goodness. Or, his post of APCUG Rep. But, he is setting aside his monthly column of witty, informed opinion and advice so many have come to rely on.
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Members’ email Balazs, Frank fbalazs@netzero.net Bazerman, Siles siles.bazerman@gte.net Boutwell, Lloyd LloydB8@aol.com Bullis, Art bullis@worldnet.att.net Brubaker, Jim info@1homeseller.com Covington III, Gary garyiii@hotmail.com Emigh, Glenn glenne@linkline.com Francis, Joe joefran1@earthlink.net Frank, Mervin mfrank3@juno.com Gonse, Linda editor@orcopug.org Gorham, Milton m4gorham@home.com Graham, Sharon shgraham@earthlink.net Jackson, Walter wvjaxn@charter.net Kaump, LeRoy leroy_kaump@hotmail.
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What’s new… Letters… Contax SL300R T*: Beginning of the End of Shutter Lag? Kyocera’s RTUNE technology provides amazing performance in a digital camera that fits easily in your shirt pocket. Is this the beginning of the end for shutter lag? Derrick Story examines the Contax SL300R T* and shows you how the bar has been raised for pocket digicams. http://tinyurl.com/ywvr6 The Contax SL300R T* with SanDisk Ultra II high speed SD memory card.
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User group deals What do you get from a membership in our group? by Linda Gonse User groups represent the spirit of the frontier, a community getting together to do things that no individual ought to have to do alone. The pioneers of the American west got together for barn raisings, cattle roundups, and the occasional party. The pioneers of new technology get together for installfests, new user training and support, and just plain fun.
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Reviews… by Gary Covington, III That’s a funny name for a program, but that’s exactly what this program from TechSmith does. SnagIt is a utility program that runs in Windows 98, ME, NT-40 SP6a, 2000, and/or XP that “snags” what’s on the computer screen. It can snag the screen as you see it, OR only a portion of the screen, OR in some cases more than what’s visible on the screen. The venerable PRNT SCRN has been around almost since the dawn of the personal computer age.
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instantly energized from inside these programs. In this example, I have used SnagIts “Annotate” feature to add the black arrow to highlight the SnagIt Icon in the Microsoft Word Toolbar. There is also the option to have SnagIt running in the background from your computer start-up if you so desire. A Screen Video Capture mode is included for times when a static screen shot just won’t do.
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Wireless PC Card both being 802.11b I transferred 51Mb (megabytes), it (Continued from page 7) took 91 seconds. With the Actiontec connection to the Access Point and 802.11g Wireless Access Point and thus your computer. Not that it is PC Card it took 29 seconds. needed, it just helps. In fact I did not The wireless speed can not even install the software at first, and compare to Ethernet.
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Shure E2c Earphones by Bruce Pechman, Vice President, Atlanta PC Users’ Group www.mrbicep.com You Should Hear What You’re Missing hat I’m about to describe to you may fundamentally change the manner in which you listen to audio. The source of the audio is irrelevant—MP3 players, normal radios, computers, etc. Here is the message: “Any raw means of listening to audio can be greatly enhanced beyond conviction” by using a twist on conventional headphone technology called Earphones.
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good-bye by Siles Bazerman T his is a column I have known was coming for quite a while. Yet, I hate to write it. This will be my last for now. I have found it increasingly harder and harder to find topics that interest both me, to write about, and to you, to read about. I am running out of things to say. This has been a long run, starting in October 1995. That first article was a review of a Windows 95 uninstaller. Bits and Bytes and Windows xx started in January 1996 and has been published ever since.
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AutoPlay… Peripherals (Continued from page 10) Internet Humor Now, if you could just figure out which program sent you this message…! • You can also click the box “Always do the selected action every time I insert a CD,” but this is not cool because you won't always choose the same action. If you’ve inadvertently clicked that box, you can undo it by right clicking on your CD drive from within My Computer.
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