APCUG Editorial Committee Articles




December 2001

(general) - Return to Vendor by Bruce Pechman A good article about returning computer related items to various stores.

Ask Dr. DOS by Steve Bass (General Humor) A cute article regarding questions and answers.

(What were they thinking)Weird Products by Steve Bass (General)

November 2001

To XP or Not to XP (If you’re going to upgrade, get ready now, by Steve Bass. (Wintel) Of course this is regard to Microsoft’s new Windows upgrade.

Rolling Your Own Subhead: Building your own PC is Easy. Sometimes. Byline: by Rich "Doc" Colley, Pasadena IBM Users Group

DSL Saga by Judy Lococo, email President@apcug.org (General)

October 2001

Giving VS Taking by Don Singleton (General) An article that asks your members to volunteer some time to help with your Group.

My Amateur Computer Upgrade Adventure by Harry Kelsey (Wintel) a cheap easy way to speed up your computer.

Start Here to Transform the Windows Start Menu by Steve Bass. (wintel) Customizing the start menu is a snap.

Connecting Your PC to Your Stereo by Bruce Fries (General) more on mp3s and internet Audio.

Breaking and entering by Wally Want, author of steal this Computer. Book 2. (general) Anything you type on a computer can come back to haunt you.

September 2001

I_music.rtf by Bruce Fries This one has been uploaded directly to many editors (general)

Computer Terminology Explained from the I/O port Newsletter. Send Don Singleton a message if you use this one don@apcug.org (General)

The Internet I can't live without it by Steve Bass. (General)

USB-Hooray by Ken Fermoyle showing his perspective on USB's. (General)

Who_Dat by Steve Bass is an article regarding email and attachments with the .dat format.

August, 2001

Spam.txt by Brian Backman of the Danbury Computer Society. An article regarding spam on the internet. (General)

Portal.doc Give your Portal some Pizzaz by Steve Bass, Pasadena IBM UG. An article about blocking ads. (General)

Digital_Cameras.rtf by Larry Horn of the User Group of South Jersey, sent an article about buying a digital camera. (General)

Skala.txt The new Professional Crimals by Micheal Skala from Big Blue & Cousins. an article regarding Digital research and criminal charges (General)

July, 2001

EBay-Cash to Trash.txt Two articles on trading on EBay from the IBM Pasadena Club (General)

Luck of the Irish.txt by Judy Lococco - an article relating what can be a happier ending when you accidently download and open a virus file. (General)

Random Access.txt - April 2001 by Bruce Preston, Moderator. A question and answer column (Wintel)

Wife Operating System.txt - This comes from the internet author unknown but another of those cute articles I thought you might enjoy sharing with your members. (General)

Milam0105.jpg - a cartoon that came from our friends at Pasadena and I'm sure you will enjoy sharing this one. (General)

June, 2001

Email_Rules.rtf by Steve Bass. Steve reveals the best way to catch his eye with an email message.

Building a website.txt by Robert Sanborn. Bob goes into detail about building your website and what you need to know before you plunk down a bunch of cash. (General)

Do you really want your Refrigerator to have a conversation with you.rtf by Tim Everingham A different view on Digital convergence (General)

Here Today.rtf by Steve Bass. In a year or two more dot coms will be gone. (General)

Virus.txt by Ira Wilsker. An article relating to the latest virus alerts that have come out. (General)



May, 2001

Did you know.zip by Bob Elgine. An article covering questions on Audio, CD's and the Task Bar. zip file contains text & Word file + graphics. (General)

Win98 CD Worn out.rtf by Rod Ream. Rod always writes an interesting article and is pleased when you let him know you enjoyed it. (Wintel)

Technolgy Charges Ahead.rtf by Steve Bass. While Steve writes primarily for the PC I think this might be of interest to others as well.

My Tale of Woe.rtf by Richard Robusto. What can happen when your hard drives decide to act up. (General)



April,2001

11_2001.rtf Fight for Your Online Privacy by Steve Bass

Renaissance.rtf Comparing the printed Word to the internet by Cliff Milford

Spellcheck.rtf by Coco Johnson shortcut to typing phases you use over and over.

Frame-up.zip by Grant Fuller. Getting the most out yur fancy graphics program.

Parent-Letter.rtf by Steve Bass called "We get Letters"



March, 2001

zipfiles.txt Those Zip & PDF files by Bob Elgins. An article describing how to open and read these files.

VB_Defeat.txt by Rod Ream. Have you gotten a virus lately. With the one about the tennis star being prevelant this is a good article to include.

story01.txt A humerous story that Chris Sarson found on the internet and I thought it was good enough to include for you.

history_of_internet.txt A short history of how the internet came to be by Coco Johnson.



February, 2001

GOVFORM.txt Challenges and Mysteries by Judy Lococo, located a form needed on one of our states internet sites, but everytime I tried to print it, my printer would stop dead in it's tracks with the "no paper" message. (General)

mwsf2001.txt Macworld San Francisco 2001 by Schoun Regan "Macworld is the Comdex of the PC world" A report on Macworld

ping2.txt Crystal clear on PING by Kevin Wood. "We all know the protocol for the internet (and currently most networks as well) is TCP/IP (General)

usegps.txt User Groups Defined by Dick Bromley. A short article defining the meaning of User Groups.



January, 2001

buying_cmptr.pdf by Ken Hopkins sacpucg Mainly for first time computer buyers showing features to look for. (Wintel)

TV_commercials.txt by Ken Fermoyle a general article on getting rid of TV commercials.

Office_settings.gif by Altair Ego a digital cartoon for print or web site.

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