ALG

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Good Evening and Welcome to
Technology Users Group Meeting October 15, 2003
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• Thank you for coming!
• Please get comfortable.
• Feel free to ask questions contribute.
• Want you to getreal value from these meetings.

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Real Value!

• Content
• Door Prizes
• Networking

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Introductions

• Meet ALG staff your hosts tonight
• Part of the value you will get from this meeting
  comes from networking with each other. We
  encourage you to do that during breaks and after
  the meeting

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Tonights Amenities

• Fresh-popped popcorn.
• Hot coffee tea, plus wide assortment of soft
  drinks in the refrigerator.
• Please make yourself at home!

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Agenda

• Technology News
• This evenings topics
• How to use the new breed of useful and
  inexpensive online photo services!
• One of the best PC maintenance utilities there
  is, and how to get it for FREE!
• Create custom t-shirts, jackets other wearables
• How to make free phone calls all over the world
  with better sound quality than your regular
  phone!
• Break around 730pm
• User questions discussion
• Door prize drawing
• Summary conclusion adjourn by 8pm

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Technology News Electronic Books Hit the Skids

• At the height of the Internet boom, e-books were
  hailed as the shining new tomorrow for publishers
  and paper books were heading for the scrap heap.
• Three years later, the bubble has burst.
• Top U.S. bookseller Barnes Noble announced it
  was halting e-book sales last month
• A British publisher, Penguin, said that if they
  if they sold 40,000 copies of a printed book, it
  would typically shift 4,000 audio books of the
  same title and 400 e-books.

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Technology NewsSpy programs threaten data on PCs

• WASHINGTON, Oct. 11
• Hackers develop own spyware to steal sensitive
  information such as passwords and credit card
  numbers
• The Securities and Exchange Commission arrested a
  college student Thursday on charges that he
  hacked into someone elses computer, logged onto
  his brokerage account, and left the victim with
  an investment loss of over 40,000.
• Used The Beast - an extension of legitimate
  computer software that some people call
  spyware.

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Topic 1New breed of online photo services

• Way back in the early days of digital
  photography, five years ago, getting prints from
  your digital camera was difficult.
• That has all changed now. There are now dozens
  of online printing outfits.
• All offer free membership and a basic set of now
  familiar services.
• Via your Web browser, you upload your digital
  pictures to a site's server.

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Topic 1New breed of online photo services

• Your photos are then organized into online
  albums.
• You can invite friends and family to view them.
• You and your guests can order true photographic
  prints from those albums.
• The service will mail them to any address.

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Topic 1New breed of online photo services

• Here are some of the best ones
• Shutterfly.com
• Ofoto.com
• Fujifilm.net
• DotPhoto.com
• SnapFish.com
• Walmart.com

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Topic 1New breed of online photo services

• Lets look at one of the best

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Topic 1New breed of online photo services
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Topic 1New breed of online photo services
Lets use it now!
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Topic 1New breed of online photo services

• Questions

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Topic 2
One of the best PC maintenance utilities there
is, and how to get it for FREE!
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Topic 2One of Best PC Maintenance Utilities

• Last month we briefly looked at a utility called
  Spybot Search Destroy
• It is a free program that can identify and remove
  programs from your computer that
• Slow it down
• Cause ads to pop up (adware)
• Let people spy on you (spyware)

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Topic 2One of Best PC Maintenance Utilities

• It turns out that Spybot has a lot of other nice
  features to help you manage your computer
• Secure shredder
• System startup manager
• Variety of technical tools for the advanced user
• Process list
• Browser helper objects (BHO)
• Tech report

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Topic 2One of Best PC Maintenance Utilities

• The trick to getting these extra features is to
  start up the program in advanced mode

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Topic 2One of Best PC Maintenance Utilities

• Lets use Spybot now and check it out

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Topic 2One of Best PC Maintenance Utilities

• You can download your free copy of Spybot Search
  Destroy at
• http//www.answersthatwork.com/Downright_pages/do
  wnright.htm

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Topic 2One of Best PC Maintenance Utilities

• Questions

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Topic 3Create custom t-shirts, jackets other
wearables
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Topic 3Create custom t-shirts, jackets other
wearables

• With the holiday season coming up quickly, its
  time top start thinking about gifts
• Several web sites that let you create your own,
  personalized items
• Many are relatively inexpensive
• Lets look at a few of these sites

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Topic 3Create custom t-shirts, jackets other
wearables

• T-shirts.com

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Topic 3Create custom t-shirts, jackets other
wearables

• Zazzle.com

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Topic 3Create custom t-shirts, jackets other
wearables

• Walmart.com (Photo Center)

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Topic 3Create custom t-shirts, jackets other
wearables

• PersonalCreations.com

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Topic 3Create custom t-shirts, jackets other
wearables

• In addition to using one of these services to
  print your custom gifts, you can also
  do-it-yourself!
• Use any PC program that prints to create your
  graphics
• Drawing programs like CorelDraw, PhotoShop,
  PaintShop Pro
• Word processing programs like MS Word
• Even programs you wouldnt normally think of
  using like PowerPoint and Publisher

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Topic 3Create custom t-shirts, jackets other
wearables

• Buy any style, color and size of t-shirts,
  sweatshirts, shorts, aprons, tablecloths,
  napkins, placemats, canvas tote bags, scarves and
  mouse pads
• Purchase Hewlett-Packard t-shirt transfer paper
  at your local Office Max, or at OfficeMax.com
• 10 for approximately 15 HP part no. C6049A
• Print your design on any color DeskJet printer
• Iron it on

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Topic 3Create custom t-shirts, jackets other
wearables

• Questions

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Lets Take a Break!
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Topic 4

• How to make free phone calls all over the world
  with better sound quality than your regular phone!

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Topic 4Free, high quality phone calls

• Skype is from the people who brought you KaZaA
• Just like KaZaA, Skype uses P2P (peer-to-peer)
  technology to connect you to other users not to
  share files this time, but to talk and chat with
  your friends

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Topic 4Free, high quality phone calls

• Free unlimited worldwide phone calls to other
  Skype users
• Superior sound quality - better than your regular
  phone
• Works with all firewall, NAT and routers
  nothing to configure!
• Friends list shows you when your Skype friends
  are online and ready to talk or chat
• Super-simple and easy to use
• Your calls are encrypted end-to-end for
  superior privacy

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Topic 4Free, high quality phone calls
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Topic 4Free, high quality phone calls

• Free download from www.skype.net
• Requirements
• Computer
• Sound card
• Internet connection (high speed preferred)
• Headset or handset or speakers and microphone
• Skype software

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Topic 4Free, high quality phone calls

• Lets look at it now!

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Topic 4Free, high quality phone calls

• Questions

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Any Other Questions or Discussion?
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Next Months Topics
November 20, 2003 (3rd Thursday of Month)

• The best free email services!
• The 9 top web sites to download over 100 million
  shareware programs!
• Free online holiday recipes and cookbooks!

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Conclusion

• Thank you for being our guests at ALG this
  evening!
• If you got value from tonights meeting, please
  tell others about these meetings and about ALG.
  Even bring a guest to the next one.
• When you need any kind of computer help or
  training please give us a call.

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Conclusion

• Meetings are the 3rd Thursday of each month
• If you didnt receive an email invitation, leave
  us a business card or register online at ALG.cc
• Remember to take your handouts
• Feel free to stay awhile and network
• And now lets go to the door prizes!

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Door prizes!

• Must be present to win.
• Four identical door prizes - each is a set of two
  computer internet handsets for use with the free
  phone service being covered in tonight's meeting!
  
• Full-day computer workshop valued at 189!
• Borders Book Store gift certificate!
• Panera Bread gift certificate!

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Door prize 1

• Panera
• gift certificate!

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Door prize 2

• Borders gift certificate

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Door prize 3

• 189 computer workshop of your choice!
• Select from 24-page catalog at front desk

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Door prizes 4, 5, 6, 7

• Four identical door prizes - each is a set of two
  
• computer internet handsets for use with skype!

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Good Night!

• Thank you for coming and please drive safely!