FREE Computer Help 24/7

Please Note: This article will appear in the December issue of First Monday magazine.
No Strings Attached …

“Computer Problems Solved FREE OF CHARGE”
24/7 Service for the Public
http://tinyurl.com/ask-pamela
by Gregory West
prospector16(at)gmail.com
The title of this article is true. Just ask members of the Sarnia Computer Group: SCUG (www.scug.ca), as they know first-hand how fast and efficient this free service [...]

FREE VIDEO ADVICE

TIP OF THE WEEK: BUTTERSCOTCH
www.butterscotch.com/tutorials.html
Almost everyone likes butterscotch, right? Well if you do you will like it even better now. Butterscotch is now online, you cannot taste it, however you can use this website to get free video training on hordes of subjects, programs and more.
How about free tutorials on MS Word 2007, Blackberry [...]

eHow To Do It EASY

Here is a website that shows you HOW TO in many areas.
GREAT HOW TO DO THINGS WEBSITE

I find this site http://www.ehow.com/guide_5-computers.html very useful in the latest computer tips in PLAIN ENGLISH.
If you like video tutorials this site has them too:
http://www.ehow.com/videos.html – scroll down where it says: More Featured Videos and use the slide bar on [...]

Windows 7 Upgrade or Stay With VISTA?

A recent report in the Globe and Mail warns: Stay with VISTA unless…
“Unfortunately, upgrading an existing PC from XP to 7 is not easy.

After upgrading, users will have to reinstall all their programs and find their files in the folder where Windows 7 tucks them away.

However, if you bought a Vista-based computer after June [...]

Google Calendar on Cell Phones

If you use Google’s live calendar (if you don’t you are missing out big time), you can now connect to that calendar via your cell phone.
Here’s how: (I use it and it only took a few minutes to set up)
Just go to http://www.google.com/calendar in your phone’s web browser to access Calendar
(Google Apps users can go [...]

NEW: YouTube – How to Use It

YouTube has made a major change in that you can now have your own channel and watch what you pick without all the other junk.
Getting ready for when TV goes online and away from the old way of viewing a show via TV set. Imagine the landfill sites with old TVs?

Problems Playing Some Video?

NO MORE PROBLEMS on your Mac or PC while wanting to view a video…
Join the over 52 million other people who have downloaded the FREE video player called: VLC
When I was trying to play one of my hundreds of videos on my Windows machine I came across several that Windows Media Player and Quicktime would [...]

Mac How-To Videos FREE

New to a Mac? Want to learn more about your Mac?
Maybe, just maybe, you want to “tap into your potential” with your Mac…
Look no further – CLICK HERE for the FREE VIDEOS

FREE STUFF – Over 3000 Sites

Not much to say about this website other than check it out for yourself. They offer over 3000 sites giving away free software such as:
Busines and Office – Address books, Calendars & Schedulers, …
Desktop enhancements – Notes, Screen savers, Tray tools,…
Development tools – Editors, Tutotrials and Reference,…
Education and Science – Languages, Unit conversion, …
Games and [...]

What’s New at Google Laboratory?

Google Labs is an exciting place to see what is happening in the future…

Get All Your Local News FREE

Did you know that “Google News has 5 to 10 times the reach of MSNBC, the Guardian UK, the New York Times and Digg“
BUT NOW YOU CAN GET LOCAL NEWS FROM WITHIN YOUR HOME TOWN WITHOUT BUYING THE NEWSPAPER (that offers news that is well over 12 hours old) OR HAVING TO WAIT FOR THE [...]

VISTA TIP: Photos onto DVD

How To: Make DVDs in VISTA

MacSpeech – It types as you talk and FAST

This software allows you to talk into a microphone and the computer does the typing for you. Hands free and way faster typing than you can ever perform.

Sarnia Computer Group Newsletter

For some good tips and reviews please have a look at my final edition of SCUG Report magazine. I have resigned as Editor of the Sarnia Computer Group. I was spending too many hours each month whereas now I can use to explore new avenues in Cyberspace.
(CLICK HERE for a copy)

This move will allow [...]

“Oh no, I didn’t send that e-mail, did I?”

Reprint from First Monday magazine (Nov. 08 Issue)
“Oh no, I didn’t send that e-mail, did I?”
by Gregory West
Are you terrified of waking up Sunday morning wondering whether or not you SENT that terrible, demeaning e-mail to your boss or ex-girlfriend?
Most of us have sent out an e-mail wishing we hadn’t. Albeit, some e-mails are fired [...]

Thank you Sponsors!!! – APCUG Convention 2008

A Reiteration of Thanks from the Sarnia Computer Users’ Group in Ontario, Canada
APCUG wants to thank all of the vendor sponsors that made the event the success it was:

Gold Sponsors

AMD Corporation
Corel Corporation
Microsoft Corporation

Vendor Fair

Acoustica Software, Inc.
Ai Squared, Inc.
Alpha Software, Inc.
Andy Marken Communications
Pinnacle Systems
Raxco Software, Inc.
Reallusion
Roxio
Smart Computing, Inc.
TechSmith, Inc.
Trend Micro
User Group Relations

Welcome Bag, Tech Session, Other

Culminis, [...]