We will review Google Docs & your\someone’s business.

We’ll also attempt a ‘Dual Boot\’ of Windows8 and Windows7.

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AGENDA (Some of the topics to be covered)
Word
More Ribbon secrets revealed
Excel
Spreadsheet error checking

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The topic is TBA.

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The topic is TBA

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Attend to club business.

All members and visitors are welcome.

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Our Mobile Wireless SIG Meeting May 15th, always the 3rd Tuesday of each month, will share our experiences, questions and recent
searches for the Perfect Touch Tablet for the 1st Time Tablet Purchase.
Jim’s latest research has uncovered 2 extraordinary Options in those looking primarily at the inexpensive Android Tablet form-factor.
The 7 inch Size offers both convenience handy size, and amazing Price at same time. And lucky for you 1st Time buyers, 2 NEW models of
interest have just been released in Stores, primarily at Fry’s Electronics.
*1st recommended Choice is the $249 “Samsung Galaxy Tab 2″, which is a 7″ Android Tablet, and even comes with 4.0 ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich)
OS we have been hearing so much about these last several Months.
*2nd recommended Choice is the $199 “Dell Steak 7″, this 7 inch form-factor is very Nice and Best Price for a Good NEW Tablet of quality. It comes
with Android Honeycomb 3.2 OS, but will NOT be available for Upgrade to 4.0 ICS OS. Even without 4.0 ICS is extraordinary device and Honeycomb
3.2 is an AWESOME mobile operating system itself!
More Money of course is the NEW iPad running the High Res Retina Display, twice the resolution of the previous iPad 2, just ask Don Jones and Penny
what they think…..my guess is that they Love it.
Jim

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AGENDA

o How to find the value of a coin, stamp, etc., collection
If you have some old coins or stamps, they may be valuable.
Don’t discard until you know.

o Understanding all the functions on your laptop keyboard.
If you have a laptop, you have features that may not be obvious.
An extensive review of your laptop keys.
TIP: Bring your laptop.

o How to keep your programs and applications up to date.
Most software will have free upgrades.
We will look at the easy way to find which are outdated and how to upgrade.

o The latest tax scam.
How it works, and how to protect yourself.

o The best event of the year is coming in June.
You don’t want to miss it. We will explain.

o Mints on the Pillow

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If you haven’t yet abandoned your old film camera for a new Digital camera you’ll learn why you probably should. We’ll explain the differences between digital and film cameras and how to exploit the various features. And getting the pictures out of the camera and onto paper has never been so easy or fast. You’ll learn how to take better pictures and how to crop, enlarge and print them. You’ll learn how to email pictures to your friends or put large collections of photos on CDs for cheap and easy distribution to others.

See the Beginners SIG page for location, contacts, etc.

Word Processing: We’ll demonstrate how to use a Microsoft Word 2010 to create memos, letters, envelopes, flyers, signs and even business cards. You’ll donate your clunky, old typewriter to a charity once you’ve used a word processor.

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I’ll be demonstrating Ubuntu/Kubuntu 12.04, of course, and handing out CDs. I mentioned in my previous message that the upgrade went pretty smoothly for me on both desktop and laptop. I have since found another minor glitch, namely that by default the upgrade turned off my sound card! Five minutes of googling produced the cure — one setting had to be toggled.

By the way, I got curious and checked how badly my hard drive was fragmented, considering that it was installed three years ago and had never been defragged. HAH! There were FOUR — count them, four — files which had two or more extents, and three of them were log files that have been constantly added to for the entire time. Anybody who thinks that EXT4 drives ever need to be defragged is blowing smoke. (I will concede that if you’re running a server handling a thousand transactions a second, then things might be different, but for home use, forget the entire concept.)

I also did some speed checks, and as far as I can tell, EXT3 on a 7200rpm drive is about the same speed as EXT4 on a 5400rpm drive — that is, EXT4 is inherently a third faster.

Poor Ubuntu — there are not many adjectives and animals starting with /Q/ for the 12.10 release. For the record, it will be “Quantal Quetzal”. The problem with the quagga (a species of zebra) is that it’s extinct, which probably wouldn’t send the right message, and the quahog is stationary, being a clam. I’m sure that Canonical’s marketing department would say that queer, querulous, queasy, quaint, and quarrelsome would not be suitable descriptions of their brand, either. Quick would be good for oxymorons — quick quahog?.

See you Tuesday.

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