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January 2009

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Inside

CES Overview of Computers ........1

Video of CES ...............................11

CES Storage ................................12

Smart Computing Tips .................16

How To Allow Email Attachments

After You’ve Have Been Scammed

Recover A Word Document

Connect Your PC To A Stereo

Media Show 4 from CyberLink....18

Using CrossLoop to Troubleshoot

and Control Remote Machines.....19

Your California Legislators Need

Your Help ....................................20

Boost your efciency with Crabby’s

suggestions ...........................22

CyberLink DVD Suite 7...............24

PlumChoice .........26

Southwest Conference ................27

CES 2009 Computers

By Terry Currier

CES even with the economy cut

backs was still interesting. There

were many companies that cut back

on the oor space from what they

have had in the past. Some did not

even have oor space. Companies

have been renting space in other

hotels and having mini-exhibits

there. Others take a suite in the

Hilton or other hotels and invite

selected guest to come see them.

ActionTec began that almost 10

years ago with Comdex. They

said they could do that and send a

limo for guest cheaper than getting

space on the oor. Viewsonic has

been off in a suite for two years.

Belkin this year, look for more

to start doing this. The number

of people attending the show this

year was so reduced that the hotels

lowered their normal convention

overpriced rates. I could walk

around the convention oor, not

squeeze around.

Netbooks was denitely the hot

item vendors were showing.

Asus www.asus.com

The Eee PC S101 has a Fast

Bootup Time and intuitive point-

and-click user interface that even

rst-time PC users will nd

extremely easy to use. Fast startup,

get onto the Internet in mere

seconds from the time you press

the power button. The Super

Hybrid EngineSuper Hybrid

Engine (SHE) provides you with

more power per charge: up to 5.4

hours of mobile usage.

High-performance Solid •

State Drive (SSD) of up to

64 GB

30 GB free online Eee •

Storage

Longer battery life with •

ASUS Exclusive Super

Hybrid Engine

10.2 inch widescreen matrix •

LED backlight display.

1024 x 600 resolution

allows you to view a single

A4-sized page without the

need to scroll left or right.

4-in-1 card reader for •

MMC, SD, Memory Stick

and MS-PRO

Just 1.8 cm thin and •

weighing a mere 1 kg

Summary of content (30 pages)

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January 2009 Inside CES Overview of Computers ........1 Video of CES ...............................11 CES Storage ................................12 Smart Computing Tips .................16 How To Allow Email Attachments After You’ve Have Been Scammed Recover A Word Document Connect Your PC To A Stereo Media Show 4 from CyberLink....18 Using CrossLoop to Troubleshoot and Control Remote Machines.....19 Your California Legislators Need Your Help ....................................
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Board of Directors President Steve Dela stevede(at)aol.com Vice-President Terry Currier winnersug(at)aol.com Secretary Gerry Bretts gbretts(at)juno.com Treasurer Max Lockie mlockie(at)pobox.com Board Members Ethel Kamber ethel(at)kamber.fastmail.fm Ken Kamber kenkamber(at)mail.com Louise McCain LMcEnterprises(at)ol.com Ed Koran edk246(at)aol.com Charles Schreiber cschreib(at)csulb.edu Robin Theron rtheron(at)gmail.com Editor editor(at)windowsusers.
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ultrathin notebook, which measures less than oneinch thick and weighs less than four pounds. The HP Pavilion dv2 also comes equipped with a 12.1-inch diagonal LED BrightView display, nearly full-size keyboard, and optional external optical disc drive with Blu-ray capability. The AMD platform for ultrathin notebooks allows consumers to enjoy true HD entertainment with available smooth 1080p HD playback, sharp images and vibrant colors.
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integrated Garmin Mobile® GPS navigation combines computing power with a fun fashion statement. It is WiMAX, designed to make computing easier for seniors with little prior computing experience. A novel approach to cooling notebooks is showcased with the LifeBook N7010 notebook, the industry’s first water-cooled portable. The limited-edition LifeBook U820 tokidoki-branded mini notebook, priced starting at $ $1,124 for a base configuration.
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drive up to 500 gigabytes (GB.) In addition it supports optional built-in WWAN for wireless connectivity and includes an HP Webcam and microphone. An optional lightweight, external optical disc drive with Blu-ray capability also is available. The notebook is powered by a specially designed new AMD Athlon™ Neo Processor-based platform and features a sturdy magnesium casing, 12.1-inch diagonal LED BrightView display and a nearly full-size keyboard.
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interact with vendors and each other. Customers can have a hand in, for example, placing orders with a retailer, conducting virtual video service calls, using touch to teach or utilizing social networking for business.
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Intel www.intel.com Intel featured their newest processors. The Core i7 processor is the first member of a new family of Nehalem processor designs and is the most sophisticated ever built, with new technologies that boost performance on demand and maximize data throughput. The Core i7 processor speeds video editing, immersive games and other popular Internet and computer activities by up to 40 percent without increasing power consumption.
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Estimated Battery Life: 1.5-4.0 hours (standard capacity battery). Up to 2.5-6.0 hours with large capacity battery • EpxressCard® 3/4 slot • Biometric Fingerprint Sensor Trusted Platform Module(TPM) TCG Ver 1.2 compliant • Media reader • Built-in CD-RW/DVD-RW drive or Blu-ray Disc® (Read only) drive • Built-in MOTION EYE® webcam and microphone Connectivity • Wireless LAN: Intel® WiFi Link 5100AGN (802.11a/b/g/n) • Integrated Stereo A2DP Bluetooth® • Ethernet (RJ-45) Protocol T/100Base-TX • Integrated V.
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hook up your PLAYSTATION®3 system or settop box via the HDMI™ input. Designed for media enthusiasts, it has a built-in DVR with a 1 terabyte hard drive stores up to 100 hours of HDTV. Tackle virtually any graphics requirement with a NVIDIA® GeForce® 9300M GS graphics card and 256MB of dedicated video RAM. TT series An 11.1” notebook weighing just 2.87 pounds with Blu-ray.
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configurations starting at $1,449 MSRP. Toshiba Satellite E105-S1402: Built with the consumer in mind, this thin and light laptop is less than five pounds versus an industry average of six pounds and features a built-in Webcam with face recognition for a unique and secure way to log on. But it still offers heavy-duty capabilities, starting with a longer battery life that runs up to four and a half hours on a single charge. Available now exclusively at Best Buy and bestbuy.com.
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CES 2009 Video of different booths By Terry Currier To see the videos go to http://www.windowsusers.org/ces2009_video.
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CES 2009 Storage • Advanced Media (RITEK USA) www.ritekusa.com Its RIDATA USB Drive with Micro SD slot is now available in 8GB capacity. The drive allows users to securely store and transfer data from a cell phone or other MicroSD or MicroSDHC enabled device. A key concern with any flash storage device is security.
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LaCie www.lacie.com High capacity storage system for users who want advanced RAID features with consumer-level ease of use and style LaCie announced its Hard Disk MAX. It delivers 2 TB (terabytes) of storage capacity in a package that will satisfy high-performance requirements for the discriminating user. It includes two large-capacity disk drives that can be set in either a RAID 0 or RAID 1 configuration with the simple flick of a switch on the back panel.
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application is onboard the drive. It’s activated by pressing a button, so it doesn’t need to be installed on a PC. The flash drive has capacities up to 64 gigabytes (GB). No software installation is needed. The drive protects onboard digital content with a dual layer of security, including password-protected access control and ultra-secure AES hardware-based encryption. When plugged in to a host device, a glowing, amber-colored LED light alerts users that the drives are ready for reading or writing data.
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The Ridata eSATA SSD flash drive supports multiple operating systems. No driver is needed in Windows ME®, Windows 2000®, Windows XP®, Windows VISTA®, Mac 9.x or later, Linux Kernel 2.4 or later. It also supports 1-port 1.5/3.0Gbps SATA I/II interface. It is shock resistant and noise-free, and offers longtime data retention. It may also be used as a bootable device while in Fix mode. Available in 16GB and 32GB capacities, it measures 3.5”x1”x0.3” (lwd) and weighs 0.6 ounces. Kingston www.kingston.
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Smart Computing Tips • • • How To Allow Email Attachments – A fairly common problem people run into is the inability to save attached files to their PCs. This may happen to you if your email client is configured—for security reasons—to prevent you from opening file attachments of a certain size, content, or type. You can disable this setting in Outlook Express by opening the Tools menu and selecting Options.
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your hard drive, but transferring music from analog cassettes and LPs to your PC is a slightly trickier (you can’t exactly create an LP drive you can cram into your PC) task. So, you’ll have to make an additional purchase to build a pipeline from your stereo to your PC, but all you need is an inexpensive cable or adapter, about 10 minutes to set up a connection, and a little time to download and install recording software.
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and dragged to select recording portions we wanted to export, and then we clicked File, Export Selection As MP3, and Save. We had to listen to our recording to know where to break it up, but doing this let us record an album and split the tracks up at our convenience. Media Show 4 by Cyberlink Although we were able to record tracks by connecting the turntable to our PC, we recommend that you first pass the turntable through a phono pre-amplifier or a receiver with a phono input for a far better signal.
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U-tube with a single click of your mouse, if desired. The next button # 4 is the View button, here you can adjust the size of your thumbnails or add any captions to your pictures. You can also change the color of the skin of the program (appearance). The last button or # 5 is the Folder Tools button. Here you edit, sort, locate, delete or hide some pictures if you like. This Media Show 4 is one of the top programs when it comes to ease of operation, not to mention what the finished product will look like.
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internet, is reduced to a process hardly more complex than turning on your TV. Those concerned about security can relax. CrossLoop uses something called TightVNC which safeguards data with 128 bit encryption. Crossloop is useful for people who want to train or support others remotely.
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Your California Legislators Need Your Help With the extended California budget crisis word has come out that the legislators themselves might not get paid. We need to show we care. It’s just not right, and we all can help. Your commitment of: • One hundred dollars will help them afford the gas for the Lexus SUV which we are already making lease payments on. • Two hundred dollars will enable our legislators to be able to afford that lunch at the Ritz.
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The Crabby Office Lady Boost your efficiency with Crabby’s suggestions Get the Crabby Office Lady’s book Read all the Crabby Office Lady columns Get Crabby’s columns via RSS View Crabby’s videos “Efficiency” is a big buzzword around my office, and I imagine it’s being bandied about in your world, too. But what does it mean to be efficient? Is it about speed or is it about competence? Perhaps it’s a little of both.
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spend all that time reinventing the wheel like your cohorts do every time you need to create a presentation, a document, or a brochure? Office can help by … Here at Office Online, we have little template elves whose main job is to crank out helpful, inventive, and useful templates that you can use as a starting point for all your Office needs. These helpful creatures take care of the formatting, measuring, element combining, and so on.
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Office Fluent user interface. I wrote about the Ribbon when the 2007 Office release first came out, and some of you already love it (while others, well, not so much). Hopefully, those of you who’ve been working in the 2007 release for a while now love the Ribbon and can’t imagine ever going back to the old way. The main purpose of the Ribbon is to make the commands you need the most, available at your fingertips.
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1. Select Source – choose from files to folders 2. Select Destination – disc, or another hard drive (much faster). What I like is that you can include a restore tool (executable file) with the backup. 3. Select Method – full, differential, or incremental 4. Back Up Files images (stills.) You can resize, crop, rotate, remove red eye, adjust color, brightness and more. They show you the original and new image side by side so you can decide how it compares. Magic Motion will add a motion effect to the photos.
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PlumChoice By Terry Currier I must admit I never heard of PlumChoice before I met with them at CES. PlumChoice provides 24/7 PC support services for home, home office and small business customers. Just as you’d expect, their people are all trained and ready to help you fix problems with your computer. They can help you with anything from printer problems to getting onto the Internet. If need be they are able (only with your permission) to log onto your computer. They see what you see.
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Are you ready for Southwest 2009? This year’s event will be held on May 29, 30 & 31 at the beautiful Town and Country Resort & Convention Center in San Diego. In this time of economic decline the registration and hotel room rates remain the same. Registration is $75.00, however if you register by May 1, the Early Bird special is $60. (Many people have already registered.) You will find the registration form at: http://theswcc.org/registration/registration.
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Digital Photo Contest 2009 Artistry through Technology ELIGIBILITY • All conference attendees are invited to enter the Digital Photo contest. • A user group with at least one member in attendance at the conference may also enter their club’s Digital Photo Contest 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners. CATEGORIES • People • Nature & Landscape (These pictures include flowers, landscapes, outdoor scenes, nature images, sunsets, urban landscapes, seascapes, cityscapes - to name a few.
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