Just a note to let you know the Ashland Meeting will be held at the Rivergate in Ashland at the Sanctuary. The Meeting place is in the back near the Fireplace. 

Visit our Ashland Web Site Developed by Mike is at http://sites.google.com/site/senioraces/ they have a link to us so please visit often.

We have a Beginner's meeting in Ashland at the Rivergate Church on the 3rd Thursday of the Month at 1:00pm to 1:45pm Advanced at 2:00 to 4:00pm. For the Regular Mac Meeting's location use the map in the Meetings Page its a google maps link. 

 .:  03/21/13 The Presentation this Month :   

This week in Ashland our MAC meeting will take place on Thursday May 16, the third Thursday of the month, beginning at 1 pm with the Beginning Mac class, led by Joyce Tonkin. 

At 2 pm we will have the usual question and answer period. After questions and answers, we will have a discussion about pictures and photos. We will look at working with photos that are not stored within your iPhoto collection. iPhoto is a great photo organizer but there are situations where managing your photos outside of iPhoto can have some advantages. We will look at easy ways to organize and store large quantities of photos and lots of other photo tips.

Thanks to everyone who responded so far to the questionnaire I emailed a couple of days ago. There have been a lot of responses. All five of the possible meeting locations have their fans and critics and all five scored somewhat similarly with no substantial difference between the first choice and last. Phoenix and Central Point are slightly preferable to the other locations, but not by much. 

Joyce Tonkin, instructor of the "Beginning Mac" class at our Ashland meetings, has an email address where she will answer beginner Macintosh questions. The address is beginmac@gmail.com  Send your questions there. Thank you Joyce, for providing this great service.

Let me know if you have any criticisms or input about this email. Please come and enjoy the beginners class. As always, bring your questions and Mac topics for discussion. I hope to see you there. Mike

  Thanks to all who volunteer to host a teaching session and also for those who came to demonstrate new products, we appreciate your participation.

 .: 05/09/13 Windows 8 help done by Bud. Windows 7 Done by George.

 George will be doing his regular question and answer session's. He has a screen so everyone can see what he is doing enlarged. We are trying to make more stuff to see and get answers to. Don't be afraid to ask questions. Thanks go to Sharon May for the suggestion as to what George is teaching I got my wires crossed last week he does not teach Facebook. He has been doing sessions about just anything you can think of... what a setup he goes through each meeting. He has been really an asset to the ACES for years. He makes sure the Computers are up and running he has a set hard disks for different programs so he can just turn the computer from MAC or a Windows versions just ask him or come and see what is on his agenda for the session, he uses 4 monitors plus the Projector so he can see what is going on with his computers... problems he can fix it so it is back working. 

I have been using Linux for awhile but still a work in progress for me. I can replace a hard drive for a different program like Linux Ubuntu or Linux Mint for starters. I am still having problems with my wireless though. I will be using Ethernet ( Cat 5 )hookup instead of trying to get the wireless working anyway the wireless is always slower than the Ethernet anyway.

At the First Church of the Nazarene 1974 Mc Andrews just east of the Providence Medical Center go to the Map on the Meetings page and bring up the new map there it's not a pdf file either. It is a link to google maps great access there can see all the neighborhood there birds eye view.                                                 
Contact : Doris Chicano @ (541) 773-4226 

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  I can help out with your e-mails if time allows. I am a stickler when it comes to e-mails and security of addresses in your outgoing mail from Outlook and Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Sea Monkey etc., e-mail clients as they are called. There is a way to keep the addresses of your friends and your e-mails more secure. I will show how to you clean up your outgoing e-mails so that others e-mail addresses are more secure you really have no permission to ADVERTISE those e-mails ( because you are lazy ), all over the world if you are leaving their addresses in your outgoing e-mails. Sometimes I screw up and send out addresses by mistake so you really have to watch your outgoing e-mail box before you decide to send them on and ( you just "DONT just click FORWARD" ) and leave all those addresses in your ( outgoing e-mail box ), then you are asking for it ( and so are your down-line recipients ).

 
 There are unscrupulous people out there who want to take yours and others "ACTIVE" e-mail addresses and make money from  them and send you and your friends garbage e-mails over and over so they can make easy money from you and them. 
They also would and could send a Virus, Trojan or Adware and also of course garbage e-mails with it. Then all your friends may have to take their computers to a computer guru to have them removed if you are not up to date with your Anti-Virus program. You need to scan your computer every time you get an update do you ever do that usually most people don't, that makes you vulnerable to new Viruses, Trojans or Ad Ware also garbage e-mails too, especially if you have heard that there is a virus going around.     

 You should do a FULL scan of your computer at least once a month if there are viruses going around then even sooner maybe even weekly or daily. 

 To clean my computer before I shut it down I use ccleaner it's a download from http://www.download.com there should be a shortcut to it on your desktop it should be used anytime you shut it down, I also have another program it's called disk cleanup a very useful program. My old Win XP Computer really need's it so I use it all the time. I use the windows XP Computer to do my web page right now.
This does keep my old computer working much better, it will keep it from slowing up. Also it should also be on a schedule for defragment monthly. If you have a very large Hard Drive then it could take hours, if it has not been defragmented for a long time. 

 I always store my data files on a thumb drive instead of storing it on the internal hard drive leaves you space on it. Data should always be sent to a external Hard Drive or thumb drive 2 or more for safekeeping easier than using a CD-RW but really won't hurt to have more backup. Lots safer to have them there in case of a crash. You have all your important stuff there instead. You could even use a Cloud Drive or other safe place to store those very important hard to replace pictures. You should have more than one place to store your irreplaceable pictures on a CD, with a friend, etc. My Windows computer is a really OLD one but still does the job for now. I am really working it too it has a Scanner also hooked to it and it works great. I tried it with my wireless setup and also worked with it but my wireless is very slow 3 megabit download so I use my Ethernet instead and that's lots better in speed.   It runs at 20 megabit download then of now 30. 

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  Thanks for your participation here at the ACES. There is always something to learn here or you can try your hand at teaching also. Visitors are always welcome, for a couple of free trials.  Then you need to pay if you want to come to the meetings. The price its very reasonable $25 bucks for single or 30 bucks for couple that includes a years worth of help.

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  My thanks go to Paul Johnson for bringing in his clearwire modem where we can then hook it up to the wireless router then everyone can use the internet if they have a wireless laptop etc., Computer. We even could even have a Ethernet connection     for 4 others to use if need be. Bring your CAT 5 cables if you want to use our Ethernet connection. 

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  Some of the clickers for like shutting it down are on the top right side instead of lower left side. I just upgraded to a newer version Version 12.10 again it is FREE to download and the clickers are different now they are in the left upper part of the desktop I am running like their word processor etc., Lots more clickers are on top like the sounds and the video clickers are there if you want them there. I like it first because its so easy to install it finds all of the drivers for cards you have physically plugged in. 

  If you want to try it out only you can do a Dual-Boot in other words you can try it out first running it in "RAM" only, not on the Hard Drive and if you want to install it later you can if you want at anytime, also you can run both systems on your drive and not have to put it on a separate drive. You also can run it from a thumb drive too or even a memory card used for a camera. Linux has a program that is only 128 megs total in size called Linux Puppy not like the Windows XP at about 600megs in size before putting any programs in. 

  Mind you it's really not for rank Amateurs though it's really quite different from Windows. I just tried it first from RAM and ran it there for several months before I installed it totally on a dedicated drive in the computer I have now. I have another OLD computer with a dual-boot setup and it is really running fairly well with it's "OLD" 900 Megahertz Microprocessor with only 500 megabytes of "RAM" the most it can run in ram with that computer, although it can also use the space within your hard drive temporarily a temp space that can be changed too.