President’s Message
March 2008
Would you say, we have had enough winter this year? Personally, I think we are ready for Spring and Summer. We had a great presentation by Jaime Link from Smart Computing at our February 12th meeting. This was followed by Jim Applebury’s presentation on Routers. We all learned about our routers and how to secure them so other people could not access our computers. These were two great presentations.
Our February meeting was held at the Village Yogurt Express/Bear Coffee & More in the Village; it was well attended. This will be our alternate meeting place when the Discovery Center is not available.
Now, we are ready to start our in house computer training!!! At our March 11th general meeting, we will have our first training. You ask, “What training are you having?” That will be up to you who attend. We will have a list of training subjects that were submitted by the membership, you will then get to select what training you want for the evening. We hope to have three groups, a beginner, intermediate and advance training. We will break into 3 groups with a facilitator in each group.
SEE YOU AT THE MARCH MEETING!!
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One of the big advantages to using standard label stock with Word is that it includes label definitions for dozens of different label types. You can often select the type of label you want to use, by number, from the Label Options dialog box.
Mailwasher Pro stats indicate that since I started using it to control my spam problem years and years ago, I’ve received almost 40,000 email messages and 31,000 of them have been spam. Before Mailwasher, I would have to delete a hundred or so spam messages daily. What a pain in the arse. Now the only spam messages I see are the few Mailwasher Pro isn’t certain about, and I can batch delete worthless mails all at once with a single click. All the rest of the spam, 78% of the emails I receive, I never see. Mailwasher deals with them quietly and efficiently. 
Instead of listing a few review programs that are available, I would like to inform you that any program you are interested in and would like to install on your computer is probably available for review. All you have to do is ask for it and review it. The program could be on landscaping, any kind of crafts, digital photos, video, any kind of home decorating, games, office or accounting programs, gift cards, label, and printshop programs, any program you are interested in having. All you have to do is let me know which program you would like to review. I will then contact the vendor and it takes about 10 days to receive the program. Sometimes the vendor will grant the reviewer a license online and all the reviewer has to do is download the program. Reviews are not hard to write; in fact they are quite easy. You are given instructions on how to write a review plus I have many samples you can look at. Also if you need any help all you have to do is e-mail or call me. Writing a review is like telling someone about the new program you just received. You tell them what you like about the program, what you don’t like, and how the program could be better, that’s it. There’s your review. And you can review books, also.
