Digital Camera Workshop: Lee's's Rule of 3's

Digital cameras are all about immediacy and fun. Learn to emphasize the fun by joining Lee Otsubo, The Digital Photo Guy™, for this informative and entertaining digital camera workshop.

During the workshop, you will learn "Lee's Rule of 3's" for setting up your digital camera to get optimal results and enhance your digital photography experience.

Each year The Digital Photo Guy™ presents his Digital Camera Workshop series to over 9,000 enthusiasts, aged 13 to 93, in computer clubs, community college courses, and scrapbook show classes. He has been an invited guest speaker at regional and international computer group conferences, and has been interviewed on radio talk shows about digital camera technology. Visit www.thedigitalphotoguy.com to listen to Computer Outlook and Computer America radio interviews, watch tutorials about various software tools for digital photography, or view his latest photography work in the Photo Gallery.

Lee's company, Digital Photo Guy, Inc., publishes multi-media learning CDs, and DigiCue© Card products--"the CliffNotes® of digital photography: clear, concise, and enlightening." Products will be available for sale at a special organizational discount.

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System Information and MSINFO32

Windows 2000/XP includes a useful and built-in GUI tool named "MSINFO32" to deliver to the user critical system information.

To launch MSINFO32, go to Start -> Run -> MSINFO32. Once in the tool, you will immediately see central information such as your system's name and manufacturer as well as memory availability and page file information. On the left is a tree-based menu with many useful sub-categories that you can use to investigate system problems or determine potential issues - for example, using MSINFO32, you can view all connected USB devices (including hubs), which is sometimes critical to solving USB issues. Overall, MSINFO32 is a very useful tool for any seasoned user.

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Google Tip: Filetype Modifier

Have you ever wanted to search for a particular filetype, such as a PDF file, and spent much time sifting through results to find PDF's?

Google's "filetype" modifier allows you to search for one specific filetype in results. Simply type in the query as you normally would and add the phrase "filetype:XXX" where "XXX" is the filetype that you wish to search for. For example, to find the Marbury v. Madison decision in PDF format, search for "Marbury Madison filetype:pdf."

Stop PDF docs from loading in the browser

One of the more annoying facets of Acrobat is that Acrobat documents, by default, open in the browser when sought as a "link." To change this behavior, go to Acrobat and go to Edit -> Preference -> Internet; disable "Display PDF in browser" and "Allow Fast Web View." Now, when you click on a PDF link in IE or Firefox, the Acrobat program will actually open in a new Acrobat window rather than the browser.

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Backup File Checklist

We have constantly pounded home the need for a backup strategy for your computer. It doesn't hit home to some people until their PC goes down and they can't get to their data. But, in setting up your backup strategy, you need to concentrate on backing up certain things which are harder to replace. Here is a reference list:

1. Office documents. This includes any spreadsheets, Word documents, PDFs, etc.
2. Emails
3. Digital photos and artwork.
4. Movie files that you wish to keep.
5. Music files such as MP3s.
6. Bookmarks/Favorites.
7. All downloaded programs that you might have a hard time finding again on the internet.
8. Any saved games you may have.
9. Your passwords and security codes.
10. Activation codes for software that you purchased online.
11. Internet chat logs and contact lists.
12. You may have other items, too, depending on how you use your PC.

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• We were disappointed that our Linspire demonstration was canceled last month at the last minute, but Bill Myers filled in for the evening with a demonstration on Microsoft Defender.
• We were happy to welcome Patrick May, Chad Godfirnon, and Drew Baker, members from The Fresno Open Source Users' Group (FOSUG) that paid a visit to Fresno PC Users' Group for our May Meeting. Each member contributed helpful information during our regularly scheduled
  Q & A session.

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BGEye 1.32

Author: OptionalReaction.
Date: 2006-02-11
Size: 467 Kb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win All

BGEye displays system information on the desktop. The information is rendered to a bitmap that is temporarily set as the system wallpaper.

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CPU-Z 1.32.1

Author: Frank Delattre
Date: 2006-03-04
Size: 378 Kb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win All

CPU-Z is a freeware utility that provides some information on your CPU :

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Desktop Sidebar 1.05 Build 110 Beta

Author: Sidebar
Date: 2006-02-20
Size: 11.1 Mb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win XP/2K

You don't have to wait for Longhorn to use sidebar. Try Desktop Sidebar!

Aim of Desktop Sidebar is provide the user with instant access to some of their most important daily information. Desktop Sidebar is tightly integrated with Outlook XP, Windows Messenger and Windows Media Player. Following panels are available: Clock Panel, Calendar Panel, Task Panel, Inbox Panel, Notes Panel, Messenger Panel, Newsroom Panel (RSS/RDF Newsfeed viewer), Performance Panel, Disk Monitor Panel, Media Player Panel, Toolbar Panel, Weather Panel and Search Bar Panel.

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Dial-a-fix Full 0.57.2

Author: DjLizard
Date: 2006-02-20
Size: 13.4 Mb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win All

Dial-a-fix is a collection of 'known fixes' that have been compiled over the past year that really knock out some serious Windows problems, all with one or two clicks. "When in doubt, check 'em all".

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Driver Cleaner Professional 1.5

Author: DriverHeaven.net
Date: 2006-03-05
Size: 2.7 Mb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win All

Driver Cleaner is a program which helps you to remove parts of drivers that are left after uninstalling the old drivers. The program is for ATI and nVidia drivers. First you need to uninstall the drivers from the control panel than reboot and after that run the program. If you really want a good description of what steps you should do than you really need to read the readme file included in the zip file and installation as it contains a detailed description step by step.

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Evonsoft Win Mechanic 0.15

Author: Evonsoft
Date: 2006-02-19
Size: 1.2 Mb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win All

Win Mechanic is powerful software that offers two modes for both the beginner and advanced user. The system scan feature is designed for the beginner, it scans the computer registry for general issues and fixes them, and it has the ability to fix some general system problems.

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ExtractNow 4.09

Author: Nathan Moinvaziri
Date: 2006-03-04
Size: 834 Kb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win All

ExtractNow lets you extract multiple archives with the ease of a singular button. Supports ZIP, RAR, ACE, & JAR file formats.

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Intel® Processor Identification Utility Windows Version 2.6

Author: Intel
Date: 2006-02-20
Size: 812 Kb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win All

The Intel® Processor Identification Utility was developed by Intel Corporation to identify the processor inside a system, assuring the processor contains intended technologies and is operating at the tested and rated frequency intended by Intel Corporation.

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KatMouse 1.03

Author: Eduard Hiti
Date: 2006-03-05
Size: 332 Kb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win XP/2K

The prime purpose of the KatMouse utility is to enhance the functionality of mice with a scroll wheel, offering 'universal' scrolling: moving the mouse wheel will scroll the window directly beneath the mouse cursor (not the one with the keyboard focus, which is default on Windows OSes). IMO this is a major increase in the usefullness of the mouse wheel.

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Look2Me Remover 1.2.0

Author: SimplyTech
Date: 2006-02-12
Size: 438 Kb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win All

The Look2Me Remover (aka L2MRemover) is very easy to use being very similar to ETRemover (aka EliteToolbar Remover) which is the SimplyTech.it generic anti-malware solution.

Look2Me Remover runs in Windows 2000/Windows XP only and it could be perfectly used in Normal Mode and needs two imputs by you to work:

• Firstly: press the "Scan" button and let it searching any occurrences in your System, Memory and Registry. If it will found a known variant of the malware it will detect it, make it innocue by injecting our code in the malware while it is running, then it will list the Registry keys wich load the malware at each restart of the System.
• The second thing to do is pressing the "Delete Keys" button to cleaning the Registry from the keys wich cause the infestations to run on the reboot.

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MediaMonkey 2.5.2 Beta 2

Author: Ventis Media, Inc.
Date: 2006-02-12
Size: 4.6 Mb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win All

MediaMonkey is the music organizer for the serious collector.

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Online Radio Tuner 1.1.4 Beta

Author: Bassic Technologies
Date: 2006-03-11
Size: 883 Kb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win All

The Online Radio Tuner is a program for listening to radio stations on the Internet. It is compatible with Shoutcast broadcasts.

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Main Features:

• Playlist support: PLS, M3U, ASX, WPL, WAX, WMX
• Audio format support: MP3, WMA, OGG and AAC(+)
• Arrange the layout of the application
• Save your favorite radio stations and manage them easily.
• Minimize to the System Tray.
• Notify song changes by balloon tip or MSN-like notifier.
• Show others what you are listening to in MSN Messenger.
• Record what you hear as MP3's.
• Each user has its own favorites/settings.
• Many more new exiting features. . .

Requires: Microsoft .NET Framework v2.0 and its on the CD also

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PC Wizard

Since 1996 PC Wizard is among the most advanced system information programs on the market. PC Wizard 2006 is a powerful utility designed especially for detection of hardware, but also some more analysis. It's able to identify a large scale of system components and supports the latest technologies and standards. This tool is periodically updated (usually once per month) in order to provide most accurate results.

PC Wizard 2006 is also an utility designed to analyze and benchmark your computer system. It can analyze and benchmark many kinds of hardware, such as CPU performance, Cache performance, RAM performance, Hard Disk performance, CD/DVD-ROM performance, Removable/FLASH Media performance, Video performance, MP3 compression performance.

PC Wizard 2006 can be distributed freely (ftp, archives, CD-ROMs...).

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Pdf995 7.6s

Author: Software995
Date: 2006-02-11
Size: 1.3 Mb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win All

Pdf995 is a printer driver that works with any Postscript to PDF converter.

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Reaper 0.80

Author: Cockos Incorporated
Date: 2006-02-23
Size: 965 Kb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win XP/2K/2003

Reaper is a powerful but sensible Windows application that lets you record, arrange, edit, and render multi-track waveform audio.

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RVM Integrator 1.1

Author: Ryan VanderMeulen.
Date: 2006-03-05
Size: 620 Kb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win XP/2K/2003

Graphical application made for slipstreaming Windows updates into your Windows Installation disks.

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SilentNight Micro CD/DVD/ISO/Audio Burner 5.0.11

Author: Positive Software Corporation
Date: 2006-02-20
Size: 1.1 Mb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win All

This is a standalone CD/DVD/ISO/AUDIO burner, and ISO creator that is quite easy to use, is small, no installation is needed, just one single file, and it has its own ASPI layer build in. It also has a powerful search tool. This burner is under constant developement and all users are invited to join in with suggestions, corrections and translations to new languages.

Use this to burn the Ultimate Boot CD's also on this disk.

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SpamPal 1.73g Beta

Author: SpamPal
Date: 2006-02-20
Size: 760 Kb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win All

What Is SpamPal?

SpamPal is a mail classification program that can help separate your spam from the mail you really want to read.

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SysJewel 2.1.110

Author: SysJewel
Date: 2006-02-15
Size: 1.7 Mb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win All

SysJewel is a cute little tool for System Administrators which can be used to gather the complete information about your system. It can be used to gather information of a local system or of a remote system.

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Ultimate Boot CD (Basic) 3.4

Author: UltimateBootCD.Com
Date: 2006-02-14
Size: 85.3 Mb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win All

You need the Ultimate Boot CD if you want to:

Run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives. More and more PCs are shipped without floppy drives these days, and it is such a royal pain when you need to run diagnostic tools on them.

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Ultimate Boot CD (Full) 3.4

Author: UltimateBootCD.Com
Date: 2006-02-14
Size: 151 Mb
License: Freeware
Requires: Win All

You need the Ultimate Boot CD if you want to:

Run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives. More and more PCs are shipped without floppy drives these days, and it is such a royal pain when you need to run diagnostic tools on them.

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Virtual CloneDrive

Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD/DVD drive, however it exists only virtually. Image files generated with CloneDVD or CloneCD can be mounted onto a virtual drive from your hard-disk or from a network drive and used in the same manner as inserting them into a normal CD/DVD drive.

System Requirements:

• An IBM-compatible personal computer with a minimum 500 MHz Pentium-class microprocessor (1 GHz recommended) and 128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended)
• Windows 98/98SE/ME/NT 4.0 (SP4)/2000/XP
• If you use Windows NT, Windows 2000 or Windows XP you must be an administrator to install Virtual CloneDrive

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APCUG Corner

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Software Review: Ad-Aware SE Personal

One of the more popular spyware detection and removal freeware programs is Lavasoft's Ad-Aware SE Personal. Ad-Aware was developed by a Swedish programmer and is available from a U. S. company over the Internet by doing a Google search for Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE Personal. There are

several versions of Ad-Aware, but only SE Personal version is free. The SE Plus costs $22.90 and SE Professional costs $33.95. Freeware is a computer program that the developer and/or company does not charge for in contrast to shareware programs.

After you download the 2,789 KB (K = kilo or 1,000, and B = byte, a unit of measure of data) file, install and launch Ad-Aware, a Status window displays the current version of the Definition File, the date and time of the Last Scan, the total Objects removed, the Total scans, the Objects in the Ignore list and the Objects Quarantined.

A few more definitions: A definition file contains profiles of programs that have been previously identified as a firus or spyware, and the list of definitions needs to be very frequently updated - at least once a month if not weekly - in order to catch the latest ones; an object is a spyware program;

an ignore list is a list of identified objects where the user has decided not to take any action, such as to quarantine or delete the objects; and to quarantine is to totally isolate the objects - to place them into "solitary confinement."

Previously, the first step after you installed the program was to configure it to set its numerous options, which needed to be done only once. The program's current version 1.06 now has all of the options properly set, and there is no longer a need to set the options.

Before beginning any scan, always download the current definition file. After the current file is downloaded and installed, the first scan that you should run is the Full Scan, which will take several minutes and does a complete scan of all of your hard drives, external storage devicies, RAM, and the registry.

Later, scans may be done using the Smart Scan option, which is faster.

At the end of the scan, you will hear the completion sound. I personally find the sound annoying and have replaced it with a more pleasant sound - one from the numerous wave files that come with Microsoft Office. Just go to the Lavasoft subfolder under the Program Files folder on your hard drive and change the name of the sound file from alert.wav to alert.vaw. Next copy the desired wave file to a working location where you can change its name to

alert.wav and move the file into the folder where the original alert.wav file was located.

Upon completion of a scan, the Ad-Aware window displays with the usage statistics, including the quantity of quarantined objects.

Click the underlined Open quarantine list option to show a line entry of the quarantined objects found for each scan if you hadn't removed the objects previously.

These found objects should be removed. Just Highlight the line and either click on the Delete box at the bottom of the window or depress your computer's Delete key and those unwanted objects are history.

I found that this program, while doing a good job in indentifying spyware is lacking in several other areas.

First, the program does not have a scheduler to automatically run it. Nor can Windows's Scheduled Tasks control it.

Next, it doesn't provide any real time protection; spyware is identified only when you perform a manual scan.

It places too many unwanted desktop icons on your computer.

It should have a fuel gauge-like display to keep you informed of its progress in scanning.

It also doesn't have the option to automatically all detected spyware; you must manually delete the spyware found in each scan.

I do like the option during installation that lets you direct where to install the program on your hard drive - either under All Users, your name, etc. I like to have all programs grouped together in one locatoin on my hard drive. In the shareware versions of this program, many of these limitations are overcome.

An interesting measurement of a product is in comparing the size of the Help file - Ad-Aware's manual is 995kb, which is the largest of all programs reviewed. Another measurement is how many users have downloaded the program from the PC World Web site - The figure for Ad-Aware is 11.7 million - the most popular.

Some computer radio program hosts suggest that you should run Ad-Aware followed by another similar antispyware program. My experience is when I run the other program after Ad-Aware, nothing is found.

Ad-Aware runs on Windows 98, Me, NT, 2000, and XP operating systems.

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Do I Have to Overwrite My Hard Drive Multiple Times?

There are multiple standards for wiping drives, and each one recommends a certain number of hard-drive overwrites. How many times do you really need to overwrite your drive in order to keep your personal information from falling into the wrong hands?

Computer forensics expert Stephen Elderkin explains below how overwriting drives makes data unusable and how many times you need to overwrite your drive in order to prevent identity theft.

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How Many Times Do You Need to Overwrite Your Data Before It Is Truly Erased?

Many people have asked questions such as "Why do programs like WipeDrive have so many options for overwriting the hard drive of a computer?" "Why is there not just one way of wiping the data?" and "Which option is right for my circumstances?"

Unfortunately, a quick search of the Internet on these topics will only make you more confused because very few people have written about them correctly. Many of the articles you would find say to destroy your hard drive with a hammer because there is no safe way to completely erase the information stored on it. This myth is absolutely false.

Why Are There Multiple Overwriting Standards?

The main reason there are so many overwriting standards is because computers change at a rapid pace. Almost all of the standards were written by government agencies as a means of sanitizing unclassified drives. However, what most people forget to take into account is that old standards were written based on the specifications of old hardware. A 10 megabyte drive from the early 1980s has a very different architecture than a modern 120 gigabyte drive.

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How Have Hard Drives Changed Over the Years?

One of the reasons hard drives had such small capacities several years ago is that the write and read heads of those drives were not very accurate. You could say they wobbled. The read and write heads are similar to the needle of a record player. A hard drive is composed of platters or disks, and each disk has a head that can read and write to the disk. As you can guess, the more the disk head wobbles, the less exact it will be. Modern drives have less wobble and can more accurately access the disk. This allows modern drives to have a much larger capacity than older drives by fitting more data into the same amount of space.

A Close-up View of a Hard Drive

Drives store data on disks using magnetic imprints that represent 1s and 0s. Figure 1 shows what a bit would look like under an electron microscope. Notice that we can see three imprints of three different bits written to the disk in this example. Two bits were from a previous write while the large square represents the most recent bit written to this location. You can see that it is possible to read the data from a previous file stored on the drive by looking at the small amounts of magnetic charge left around the edges from previous writes.

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How Would Someone Access Old Data from My Hard Drive?

Some people believe that with an electron microscope, advanced statistics, and special programming skills, you would be able to recover old data that have been overwritten. Even with these specialized and powerful tools, however, data recovery is so difficult that it can be called impossible; remember, we are looking at bits. There are millions and billions of them on a disk. It would take years to recover enough bits to begin looking for data, and even then you would not know which old bit imprints go with other old imprints. Looking at each of the possible combinations for billions of bits is a task so difficult that it can be called impossible.

The newer the drive, the less wobble there is in the disk heads and the less chance there is of having any residual bit data to look at. This means the chances of recovering previously overwritten data on a newer drive are even lower.

How Do I Prevent People from Looking at My Old Data?

To erase data on a drive, programs like WipeDrive overwrite each bit on the drive with junk data. The junk data bit replaces the magnetic imprint of the previous bit, thus erasing it. Because drive heads wobble, it makes sense to overwrite the data on the drive more than one time because the drive head is going to track differently for different writes. The older the drive, the more writes are needed to ensure that the old data has been replaced by junk data. The newer the drive, the fewer passes are needed.

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How Many Overwrites Do I Need?

So how many overwrite passes do you need? One. Data is so incredibly difficult to recover after being overwritten that even people with electron microscopes, advanced statistical tools, and specialized programming skills are not going to be able to recover data from your drive. It just isn't going to happen. You can search the Internet for examples where overwritten data were recovered and you will not find even one event where a person recovered more than a couple of bits of a byte.

So the paranoid can rest easy. They can follow the Department of Defense standards to help them sleep better at night, but one overwrite is enough to protect your data from being recovered.

Can you safely donate or sell an old computer without the risk of having your data stolen? The answer is yes if you use a program like WipeDrive to completely erase the computer before you let it leave your possession.

There is no restriction against any non-profit group using this article as long as it is kept in context with proper credit given the author. The Editorial Committee of the Association of Personal Computer User Groups (APCUG), an international organization of which this group is a member, brings this article to you.

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The following items were discussed or decided upon:

• It was suggested to the board by Wilda Moller that we may want to consider having a universal renewal date for all members as a way to reduce the amount of work spent on membership renewals. July 1 was suggested as a possible renewal date.
• Board was pleasantly surprised that the raffle of the Sony Vaio computer brought in $350 to the group.
• The Board is actively seeking new and interesting speakers and demonstrators for our general meetings. If you know of someone willing to give a computer related demo, please bring it to the attention of Bill Myers or Gary Gipson.

Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

If you are a PC Users Group member, join a Special Interest group--a great way to share information with others having similar interests. Special Interest Groups are subgroups within Fresno PC Users Group that meet on their schedules to discuss specific topics. Bring items to share, programs, hints and blank disks. Email SIG leaders ahead to verify meeting times and locations.

Digital Photo SIG:

The Digital Photo SIG is held on the first Saturday of the month at CompUSA on N. Blackstone at 10:30am and is hosted by Nancy Mason and Jo Townley. At last month's meeting, Susy Ball came from Napa to show the group more tips on using Adobe Elements, and the advantages of using Snag-it in conjunction with Elements.

Stock Trading SIG:

 A Stock Trading SIG will be held by Walt Pinkerton. Saturday June 10, 2006 10:30 A.M. at CompUSA

The Stock Trading SIG’s primary mission will be to help Fresno PC User Group members gain greater knowledge and understanding regarding the use of their computer and a greater knowledge and understanding regarding stock trading online should they desire to trade equities for their own account. In attempting to accomplish the two above objectives it will be mandatory for all to have a little fun.

The first meeting will be an introduction to trading online using your computer and what you need to do. The class will start as a “how to” and will evolve into what the majority of the attendees would like to see or learn about. From time to time, I will try to get speakers in for part of the class. The first class will consist mostly of a virtual tour of my trading room and how I day trade.

We will also cover:

• Mission Statement for Fresno PC User Group Stock SIG
• My Background
• Setting Up Your Trading Room
• My Trading Room Tour
• Types of Trading Style
• Market Psychology
• High probability Trading
• Using Technical Analysis To Trade
• Timing Your Trade for Maximum Returns
• The Trading Day and its Characteristics
• Types of Trades
• My Trading Rules
• My Trading Technical Indicators
• Mistakes to Avoid
• Rules for Trading
• Look At Some Charts and Apply Technical Indicators

A good portion of the end of the class will be putting stock symbol up on the big screen and taking a look at that specific stock using all of my charting criteria. That would include volume, 5, 10, 20, 40, and 50 day moving averages, The RSI, Stochastic, and a simple buy/sell indicator. All that should be fun and the attendees are invited to bring some symbols with them so I can put them up on the screen to look at.

If there is enough interest in this class, maybe some new member that are more experienced that I can give parts of the presentation as well down the road. It will depend on the members coming and participating in the class. Saturday the 13 th was the day for the class but it was canceled by Comp USA.

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Sanity Savers

Sanity Savers are members who have volunteered to help other members with their computing problems. SIG Leaders are also a valuable information resource.

Do not expect long term counseling, house calls, or to get pirated copies of software recommended to you. Also do not expect any of the volunteers to help you if you are not the legitimate owner of a software package.

If you have any experience in an area of computing, feel free to add your name to the Sanity Saver's list. You do not need to be an expert to be listed as a Sanity Saver--patience and willingness to help count for a lot.

DOS	Dean Mason & Krikor Geyoghlian
Desktop Publishing, Graphics, Adobe Acrobat	Susy Ball
Excel	Krikor Geyoghlian
General Computing	Bill Myers
Internet Help	Dean Mason
Audio Help	Robert Caraway
Linux	Ben Lutes
Lotus 1-2-3	Krikor Geyoghlian
Medical	Cecil Bullard
MS Word	Krikor Geyoghlian
Office 97/2000/XP	Krikor Geyoghlian & Laura Barnard
Windows 3.x	Krikor Geyoghlian

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The Fresno PC User's Group (FPCUG) is a non-profit organization run by and for users of IBM compatible computers. The only membership eligibility requirement is an interest in computers.

FPCUG meetings are generally held the first Monday of the month at:

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FPCUG Officers:

President	Bill Myers
1st VP	Dean Mason
2nd VP	Jo Townley
Secretary	David Smith
Treasurer	Wilda Moller

Dirctors At Large:

1.	Regles Bellamy
2.	Gary Gipson
3.	Monica Braun
4.	Brian Fulk

This newsletter was prepared using Macromedia HomeSite 5.5.

Contributions.While there's no guarantee that submitted material will be used, contributions to the FPCUG Newsletter are appreciated. Articles of 200-500 words should be submitted in MS Word doc or rtf format. Contributions can be in the form of an article written by a member or an article found on the internet with permission to reprint. Any screenshots or photos should be sharp and high resolution, and sent as jpgs, bmp, or tiff files, preferably not gifs. Files submitted as pdfs are likely to have their text and graphics extracted as separate entities so that they can be converted to html format. Graphics might be cropped or reduced to fit into available space. Contact Ronnie Ugulano for further information.

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