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
October 7, 2005 By Leave a Comment
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
September 30, 2005 By Leave a Comment
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!
September 27, 2005 By Leave a Comment
<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
August 19, 2005 By Leave a Comment
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
August 16, 2005 By Leave a Comment
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
July 27, 2005 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Volunteering – PC Tuneup Day at Cajun Clickers Computer Club
July 9, 2005 By Leave a Comment
Today is a full day of volunteering for me at the Cajun Clickers Computer Club. <br /> <br /> We have a "PC Tuneup Day" for our members every two months. In this event, we have about 25 volunteers involved in doing tuneups of our members computers. Some of the volunteers sign in the people [...]
Ask the Experts today
June 25, 2005 By Leave a Comment
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?
June 22, 2005 By Leave a Comment
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 [...]