New link for Windows users: How to Safely Disable Startup Items Using Msconfig: Click here Slides for John Fitzpatrick's 2/12/11 Computer Club presentation "Computerized Personal Health Record" are here. Slides for John Fitzpatrick's presentation 3/10/12 "Never too Old to Help" are here. Slides for John Fitzpatrick's presentation on Linux 12/10/2011 are here. Slides for Mary Ellin Eisele's presentation on Identity theft of 11/12/2011 are here. Slides for John Fitzpatrick's presentation 'HealthVault Personal Health Record' are here Slides for John Fitzpatrick's "Never too old to learn" presentation 10/8/11 are here. Slides for Richard Loats presentation about the iPad2 are here. Slides for John Fitzpatrick's Google Update presentation 6/11/11 are here. Slides for Dick English's presentation on the Kindle 5/14/11 are here. Slides for John Fitzpatrick's presentation 5/14/2011 on eBooks are here. Slides for Tom Hadley's presentation 3/12/2011 on ISP choices in Cary are here. Slides for John Fitzpatrick and Robert Winch's Google Earth class Feb. 28 & March 2, 2011 are here. Slides for John Fitzpatrick's 10/18/10 class "Buying a Computer" are here. Slides for John Fitzpatrick's 9/11/10 Computer Club presentation "GMail Update" are here. Slides for John Fitzpatrick's 9/23/10 Senior Center presentation "Let's Google" are here. Slides for John Fitzpatrick's 9/17/10 Senior Center presentation "Managing Medicare" are here. Slides for John Fitzpatrick's 1/9/10 presentation on Google' new browser Chrome are here Slides for John Fitzpatrick's 12/12/09 presentation in Google Docs on "Vinyl to Digital Via Ion" are here. A slide presentation playable in PowerPoint or Open Office is available via the attachments link at the bottom of this web page. Links of General Interest Remembering Steve Jobs Charlie Rose - Remembering Steve Jobs: Click here Charlie Rose - A conversation with co-founder of Apple Inc. Steve Wozniak: Click here Cary SeniorNet Cary SeniorNet Home page with links to the Class Schedule: http://www.caryseniornet.org/ Links to some sources for buying computers: New: Amazon.com Lenovo HP Store Dell Store Apple Store Manufacturer refurbs: Apple Special Deals Dell Consumer refurbished Dell Business & Education refurbished Used: Dell Off-lease Tiger Direct J&R New Egg Computer Geeks Web site links to FREE anti-malware for Windows users NOTE: These sites change often so you may have to do a Google search for the free product. Almost all of these suppliers also sell products and it is sometimes difficult to get the free versions. Reviews of a large number of antimalware programs can be found at http://www.av-comparatives.org/ Microsoft Security Essentials: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/ (A review of Microsoft Security Essentials can be found here: http://windowssecrets.com/comp/100506 ) The Malwarebytes (free edition): http://www.malwarebytes.org/mbam.php Avast free antivirus: http://www.avast.com/free-antivirus-download AVG Free (Choose it from the list to download): http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/ ZoneAlarm Free (for Windows 2000 and XP only): http://www.zonealarm.com/security/en-us/zonealarm-pc-security-free-firewall.htm Ad-Aware Free: It takes a couple of clicks to get to the Ad-Aware Free download. First go to: http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ . Then click on "Home" (for home-use products), then click on Ad-Aware 2007 Free and on that page click on the DownLoad button. Spybot: http://www.download.com/Spybot-Search-Destroy/3000-8022_4-10122137.html Spyware blaster: http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html SuperAntiSpyware: http://www.superantispyware.com/ Web site links to software of interest Links to Windows freeware utilities: http://www.econsultant.com/i-want-freeware-utilities/ Open Source software links are here: http://downloadpedia.org/Open_Source_Alternative_to_Commercial_Software Open Source software for the Mac: http://www.opensourcemac.org/ New Windows software to make a bootable external drive like what has been possible to this point in time only with the Mac is here. A website with links to a number of categories of useful Windows software is ninite.com. Check it out! Revo Uninstaller 1.90 for Windows (freeware). It is generally considered to be more effective at removing programs, and their additional files, than is Windows Add/Remove. http://majorgeeks.com/Revo_Uninstaller_d5706.html Windows Registry cleaners: CCleaner (free): http://majorgeeks.com/download4191.html Glary Utilities (free) http://majorgeeks.com/Glary_Utilities_Slim_d6236.html Audacity, a free, cross platform sound editor: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Legacy Family Tree on-line seminars: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/seminars.asp Site with introduction to use of Google Sites: http://sites.google.com/site/seniorclubandsites/ Site for file and media conversions (free): http://www.zamzar.com/ The Major Geeks site provides links to all kinds of software, especially for Windows. They claim to check all links to ensure they are virus-free: http://www.majorgeeks.com/ Free Books online: http://www.bibliomania.com/ http://www.bartleby.com/ http://www.ibiblio.org/ http://www.gutenberg.org/ http://www.opentextbook.org/ http://www.wikibooks.org/ NC scam alert site: http://www.noscamnc.gov/ The government site to get discount coupons for digital to analog converters that will be necessary to watch over-the-air programs on your old TV starting Feb. 2009: https://www.dtv2009.gov/ApplyCoupon.aspx Password strength tester: http://www.passwordmeter.com/ Using earlier versions of MS Office with 2007 Office file formats: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924074 PortableApps - Portable Windows software for USB drives: http://portableapps.com/ CutePDF - A free program for Windows to print any file to PDF: http://www.cutepdf.com/products/CutePDF/writer.asp A free program for Windwos to combine or split PDFs: http://www.paologios.com/ Remove 4.0 - A Windows program to delete all the files of any program ($ - shareware): http://www.majorgeeks.com/Remove_d3998.html Ratings of email providers at Rate it All: http://www.rateitall.com/t-2202-email-providers.aspx Initializing and formating an external hard drive in Windows XP: http://seagate.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/seagate.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=3361 |