Yesterday, I taught a 2 hour workshop on <i>Preventing Adware and Spyware</i> at the Cajun Clickers Computer Club.<br /> <br /> It was a <b>beautiful fall day</b>, breeze about 10mph, temperature 72°F, sunny and clear. I still had about 10 people attend the session.<br /> <br /> This small group was interested in the topic [...]
Preventing Spyware and Adware
Tomorrow, I am teaching a workshop titled <i>Preventing Spyware and Adware</i> at the Cajun Clickers Computer Club (www.clickers.org). Yes, this is the same Cajun Clickers Computer Club that did a lot of volunteer work for the State in our <a href="http://www.thenextwindow.com/exit.php?url_id=781&entry_id=154" title="http://www.thenextwindow.com/categories/14-Hurricane-Katrina" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.thenextwindow.com/categories/14-Hurricane-Katrina';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">Katrina Pet Rescue Project</a>.<br /> <br /> Free applications that [...]
New Microsoft Excel Tutorial
I've just updated <a href="http://www.thenextwindow.com/exit.php?url_id=750&entry_id=151" title="http://www.terryscomputertips.com" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.terryscomputertips.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">TerrysComputerTips.com</a>, my computer tips, articles and free newsletter site, with a <a href="http://www.thenextwindow.com/exit.php?url_id=751&entry_id=151" title="http://www.terryscomputertips.com/ms-office/hands-on-excel.php" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.terryscomputertips.com/ms-office/hands-on-excel.php';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">Hands-On Excel</a> tutorial for Excel beginners.<br /> <br /> The tutorial starts with an intro that discusses what Excel is and why you might want to use it. The [...]
LangaList meets Terry’s Computer Tips!
<b>WOW!</b><br /> Fred Langa's <a href="http://www.thenextwindow.com/exit.php?url_id=699&entry_id=147" title="http://www.langa.com" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.langa.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">LangaList and LangaList Plus!</a> newsletters mentioned my <a href="http://www.thenextwindow.com/exit.php?url_id=700&entry_id=147" title="http://www.terryscomputertips.com" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.terryscomputertips.com';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">Terry's Computer Tips website</a> in last Sunday afternoon's issue.<br /> <br /> My visitor count for Sunday was about <em>5 times normal</em>. My visitor count for Monday was about <em>12 times normal</em>.<br [...]
Web Design & Home Theater PC sessions tomorrow
Saturday is going to be a busy day for me at the Cajun Clickers Computer Club.<br /> <br /> At 9am, I'm leading the Web Design Special Interest Group. We focus on web design issue as well as creating web pages with FrontPage and/or HTML/CSS. Tomorrow, I plan to show the free open-source web design [...]
Zotob Worm spreading massively
In Sunday's entry, I wrote about the latest worm — I also wrote about it in my <a href="http://www.thenextwindow.com/exit.php?url_id=556&entry_id=122" title="http://www.terryscomputertips.com/archives/newsletter_20050815.php" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.terryscomputertips.com/archives/newsletter_20050815.php';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">newsletter</a>, which was published on Monday, warning readers to get patched before it was too late.<br /> <br /> It looks like way, way too many folks aren't doing their Windows updates [...]
Teaching and Volunteering
Yesterday, I had lunch at one of my favorite Chinese restaurants in Baton Rouge, King Buffet (http://www.kingbuffet.biz). At the end of a lunch consisting primarily of sushi rolls, fried shrimp, shrimp & broccoli and shanghai shrimp, I had the traditional fortune cookie.<br /> <br /> My fortune was not a "fortune" per se, but it [...]
Ask the Experts today
Today, I planned to attend the <a href="http://www.thenextwindow.com/exit.php?url_id=407&entry_id=89" title="http://www.clickers.org" onmouseover="window.status='http://www.clickers.org';return true;" onmouseout="window.status='';return true;">Cajun Clickers Computer Club</a>'s Digital Video Special Interest Group. A volunteer group from the DV SIG, the "Clickers Video Rangers," is planning to digitally record some of the Clickers' four-part education programs, edit them and then prepare DVDs for sale to our members. [...]
Why join a computer user group?
In three words, "help and education."<br /> <br /> If a few more words, a computer user group is a group of computer users, ranging from new users to advanced users. They have two main things in common: they are running the same general type of computer operating system — a Windows-based computer or an [...]