Friday, December 29, 2006

Minutes for meeting

Vice President Janee Aronoff introduced herself and President Mike Aronoff and asked that we all wear our nametags to the meetings so she can learn our names.

The minutes were read from the December 13th meeting. Treasurer Jean LaVoie read the treasurer's report showing a balance of $1155.29.

It was reported that our park should be connected to WiFi by next Friday and at that time we will be notified as to the yearly charge.

Edwina Dale’s class on computer basics that meets Wed. mornings at 9:00 a.m. in room AB is going well.

Janee had those present divide into three groups according to the interest shown on the survey she handed out. Those groups are--financial management, personal networking, and computer phone. We will research our topic and bring the info along with a print out to a future meeting.

Free programs that we should all install on our computers are: anti virus, firewall, ad aware, and anti spy ware-(spybot search and destroy). These are all free programs, some through AVG which can be accessed by typing into Google "AVG free" and checking version 7.5

Discussion followed on getting rid of spam and the answer is get a new E mail address and use a “throw away” address if need to order something on line.

Also discussed was how to transfer your address book, and never sending to multiple addresses without using “blind copy”.

Ann Iverson will check on purchasing Office software for our club computer.

Submitted by Ardell Easterday, Recorder

(Note from Janee: More how-to notes will be posted soon!)

Agenda for Friday, 29 December 2006

Introductions - Name Tags

Reports - Sec, Tr

Business

Computer Club dinner set for January 28
Computer Club blog
fhtv.blogspot.com
WiFi
Beginner classes
Set up first 3 Interest Groups
Group will
> Research software, present to club
> Upon approval, buy or download software for club computers
> Put together a program or two for club .. including handouts

Today's Program: Question/Answer
(notes on these will appear in the next blog posting)

Editing Start Menu for quicker startup
Transferring email address books to another email host
Putting IE 7 onto the demo computer

Friday, December 15, 2006

Minutes of meeting

FAR HORIZONS
COMPUTER CLUB MEETING
December 15, 2006

The meeting was called to order by President Mike Aronoff in the Fiesta Room with 25 members present. The treasury has a balance of $2,224.58. The minutes and treasury report can now be read on our blog which is FHTV.blogspot.com. and will not be read at the meeting. Next week's meeting will be cancelled due to Christmas events.

Bob Rogers announced that the Pedersens will not be here by Jan. 28th,the scheduled date for the Computer Club Dinner and he will contact them to get the recipe for the meat loaf and we’ll try to carry on without them.

Pres. Mike pointed out the new Dell laptop purchased for the club and selected by Al, Bob, and Edwina. It will be in the possession of the club program chair. With it we were able to enjoy a presentation of many sites related to Christmas from cards, to games, to crafts put on our blog by program chair, Janee Aronoff.

Al Mendenhall nominated Phyllis Randall for board member-at-large and motion passed unanimously. This is a one-year term.

A question was asked about automatic updates and some let them take place automatically and some screen them for content and convenient time.

Meeting adjourned at 9:45.

Submitted by Ardell Easterday, Recorder

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Meeting Agenda for Friday, 15 December

Introductions

Officer Reports

Program Notes:
We still need Computer Topics surveys to be returned, so we can come up with program ideas for the New Year.

Program for Friday 15 December

Christmas Web Resources


There's LOTS of great information and entertainment on the web! And I've put together a listing of fun, enlightening, and useful Christmas resources for you. I'll present these at today's meeting, and, after the meeting, you can come back here to this blog and get this clickable listing of sites!

Saturday, December 9, 2006

Minutes for meeting of December 8, 2006

FAR HORIZONS

COMPUTER CLUB MEETING

December 8, 2006

Twenty five members were in attendance at the meeting presided over by President Mike Aronoff. The treasury has a balance of $2,204.90.

Program chair Janee Aronoff handed out the survey she had put on our blog for those who had not completed it.

An impromptu board meeting was held due to a time element to discuss the purchase of a laptop to be used for programs.. Al Mendenhall, Bob Rogers and Edwina Dale will be a committee of three to purchase said item.

Software for Photoshop was suggested at $49.95 and our club computer will be checked to see if that purchase is feasible.

The subject of today’s program was “changing file associations” and those with laptops went through some of the exercises. Janee handed out a printout on File Association after her presentation. It is recommended that those with laptops bring them to each meeting. The subject for each week’s program will be on our club “blog”

The minutes can be read on the blog.

Meeting was adjourned at 9:50, moved by Bob Rogers and seconded by Phyllis Randall.

Submitted by Ardell Easterday, Recorder

Thursday, December 7, 2006

File Association

Hi, everyone!
The notes for the 12/08/06 meeting are here:

Changing File Association

Please feel free to make comments in this blog! Click comments at the bottom of this posting.

Thursday, November 16, 2006

The Far Horizons Computer Club Blog!

Hi there!
This is the blog that we're going to use to put our computer club news out there. Bookmark this page!

This week, we have a survey for you to fill out.
The file is here.

You can print this out and bring it to Janee at #620 Maricopa. Or you can fill it out on your computer, and email it to me at this email address:

Notice the links over to the right? -->

If you have an idea for a favorite link to include here, please send it to me for consideration. These should be personal sites of club members, or informational sites of general interest to the club members.