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1. Rob Limbaugh dacsprez dacs org New Members Jogeph Annono This ts Your Last Newsletter lf the membership date on your mailing label reads EXP 2 3 2008 or earlier You need to renew your DACS membership NOW Do you have a burning computer question but can t make it to the meeting or just never seem to get your hand up in time Email your inquiry to Jim Scheef the answer guy at askdacs dacs org and your question will be taken up at Ask DACS at the next meeting DACS Membership Information dacs doc ISSN 1084 6573 is published monthly by the Danbury Area Computer Soci ety 4 Gregory Street Danbury CT 06810 4430 Annual subscription rates 45 to regular members 30 electronic access included in dues Postmaster Send address changes to Danbury Area Com puter Society Inc 4 Gregory Street Danbury CT 06810 4430 Editorial Committee Patrick Libert Allan Ostergren Marc Cohen Patrick Libert Managing Editor Associate Editor Production Editor Copy Editor Contributors Charles Bovaird Richard Corzo Sean Henderson Mike Kaltschnee John Lansdale Jim Scheef Jeff Setaro Annette van Ommeren DACS its officers and directors assume no liability for damages arising out of the publi cation or non publication of any article ad vertisement or other item in this newsletter The editors welcome submissions from DACS members Contact Patrick Libert at 860 567 9586 dacsedito2. Macintosh 700 PM Richar d Corzo macsig dacs org 7 00 PM Board of Directors Wednesday Thursday 4 PM ASP Net 7 PM C VB Net Chuck Fizer 203 796 9996 7 00 PM Server Jim Scheef 860 355 0034 Friday Saturday DACS DOC Deadline Opensource Web Program 7 00 PM John Lansdale 914 533 2002 http www dacs org Web Design Annette van Ommeren 914 232 0149 7 30 PM Linux Drew Kwashnak 203 910 6477 at 7 00 PM Digital Imaging Ken Graff 203 775 6667 May 2009 9 Tips amp Tricks DesktopZoom A Review by Bonnie Snyder NEEVENING WHILE surfing the Web I stumbled across a freescreen magnifier called DesktopZoom I downloaded it and put it through its paces And I was quite impressed with it There are those freeware programs that you get what you pay for and then there are those that give you a whole lot more value DesktopZoom is defi nitely in the latter cat egory When you first load DesktopZoom it comes up with a settings screen with two tab areas in the top area the default is 3 Entire desktop and in the bottom tab area the Mouse is the default tab You can type in a numeri cal size for the mouse pointer and then select a shape and color for the mouse pointer The Big Mouse option is se lected by default 1f you unselect it you don t get a mouse pointer at all not good Other options on the Mouse tab include selecting a Crosshair selecting a thin red Recta
3. month and what the DACS site needs to reflect Concern rose that the bylaws be revised to reflect day of the week change The 2009 General Meetings are first Mon days 1 5 2 2 3 2 4 6 5 4 6 1 7 6 8 3 9 7 10 5 11 2 12 7 Rob discussed possible vendor spon sorship They would provide refreshments and would want to be mentioned as vendor sponsors on the Website Jeff found cor porate sponsorship is stated on the Website Any advertiser who commits to 2 9 of a page or larger ad in dacs doc for a period of no less than six consecutive months qualifies Sean indicated that the bylaws state there is only one type of mem bership and should be changed The board meeting will reconvene on Wednesday April 22 Thursday 23 tenta tive for follow up of this meeting To be discussed at next meeting scheduling handouts glossy printed item look at 8 1 2 trifold need to check pricing The meeting was adjourned Rob mo tioned Patrick seconded all unanimous Mary Tobin May 2009 15 dacs doc Danbury Area Computer Society 4 Gregory Street Danbury CT 06811 4430 High Quality Single and Multicolor Process Printing High speed Digital Copies Black White or Color From your hard copy or direct from disk Complete in house Bindery services Laminating All Prepress Graphics and Typesetting services available Raised Printing and Engraving Wedding Invitations Letterheads J
4. C and SQL Server pro gramming tools Starts with a random access session followed by Object Oriented discussions and programming with examples Contact Chuck Fizer 203 798 9996 cfizer snet net or Greg Austin 845 494 5095 greg austin ryebrookpba org Meets 1st Wednesday 7 p m at the DACS Resource Cen ter preceded 1 hour with a shared cost pizza snack Next Meeting May 6 Virtual Computing This SIG will explore virtual computing tech nologies and how to leverage them as additional system re sources Our main focus will be on the free VMWare products but we will also look at other technologies and tools Meets 4th Tuesday 7 p m at the DACS Resource Center Contact Rob Limbaugh relimbaugh dacs org 203 648 9176 Next Meeting Suspended Web Design Applications for designing and creating Web sites Contact Annette van Ommeren avanommeren dacs org Meets 3rd Tuesday 7 9 p m at the DACS Resource Center Next Meeting May 19 Windows This SIG will discuss ways to get the most out of your system and applications how to do new things ans other options in terms of hardware and softwareto help male life easier All skill levels are welcomed and encouraged to attend Contact Rob Limbaugh relimbaugh dacs org 203 648 9176 Next Meeting On hiatus ASP Net amp C VB Net We fear not randomness and we con trol it Our initial random question concerned annotations in code to reveal the coding strategy embedded in developed
5. Rob Joe DACS already has a YouTube account audio ed iting video Sean Audacity maybe even some vintage technology and consumer DACS Disclaimer Ask DACS questions come from members by email or from the audience attending the general meeting Answers are suggestions of fered by meeting attendees and rep resent a consensus of those respond ing DACS offers no warrantee as to the correctness of the answers and anyone following these suggestions or answers does so at their own risk In other words we could be totally wrong software Adobe Premier Elements A thought was made that PhotoStory 3 free from Microsoft could be used It takes a collection of images then makes a movie similar to iMovie Sean will contact Mark Weiss for constructive ideas Howard created Join DACS Magic and catch the Magic where M meeting A articles G groups I interactive C com puter Another option is video testimoni als from members Sean felt that this would have a huge impact if done correctly Brochure start to think what we want it to look like Rob will check with Allan or Annette for graphic design ideas Allan may have some photos for a poster size mon tage of past DACS meetings Movie size poster set up with DACS covers from news letters and some Website images JPEG Rob will email Lesa for possibility General Meeting Topics Issue was raised about General Meet ings occurring on the first Monday of the
6. Smart advertisers can reach over 220 active computer Users and software buyers by taking advantage of the attractive advertising rates DACS DOC Are you up to your nose with computer ques tions DACS Special Interest Q Groups may have the answers If not let us know and we ll try to create anew SIG that helps and our Website has been temporarily shut down 1 so me ey aoe a a g P m P r T a gap apa while security searches for a glitch in our server DACS May 2009 5 Personal Security My PayPal Account s Been Hacked By Steve Bass HE E MAIL FROM PayPal said I d sent 400 to a gaming firm in Germany It s a dopey phishing ex pedition I thought and authentic look ing for sure but nothing to worry about The trouble was that when I logged on to PayPal I really did have a 400 with drawal It was clear that someone had my password Quick Password Tips Here are the three essential things you need to know about password security e Use a password generator a pro gram that will create a long complicated password e Don t ever use dictionary words even if you stick in symbols like bill gate They re very easy to break using simple hacker programs LOL Thanks Rod e Use a different password for every important site Using the same password on every site especially critical ones such as banking is risky Imagine using your one pass
7. U S I suspect this debate will abate for the next year while the economy and the job market remain depressed My question is why are we allowing any H 1B visas at all while we are in this recession The New York Times published a series of about immigration and one of the articles offers positions on H 1Bs from six people including several academics As you would expect the opinions range to both extremes Where everyone agrees is that the program is broken and must be revised One of the essays is entitled Training Your Own Re placement and could be taken from the experiences of several DACS members I urge you to read the article and another at eWeek Careers hitp tinyurl com cluac4 The current H 1B program is bad for U S workers and even worse for the for http www dacs org eign born guest workers who want to be come permanent U S residents Who wins Well the employers of course in many ways the program amounts to in dentured servitude against which U S workers cannot compete Healthcare and Medical Records Systems If there is one initiative of the Obama Administration started during the campaign that has always made sense to me it is the reform of the healthcare industry How ever those five words are so all encompass ing that few can even agree on what they mean Besides that topic is way beyond the scope of this column even when I stretch things a bit What does fit is a men tion of medic
8. and after par ties all week long Charlie has banners name tags and plaques for display Wearing DACS Polo shirts is also an option There could be money in the budget but we Il need to check with Charlie Jeff uses a company which charges 29 99 plus 8 00 charge for set up of logo it was felt that members could as sist financially for some of the cost Rich ard thought the purpose of DACS being there is to see film creativity music art and entertainment done with technology The thought was that we needed to communi cate that DACS 1s a variety of cutting edge technologies The general feeling was that there should be an interactive component to our booth There was much discussion about the need for audio video or multimedia copies of meetings demo slideshow varying tech nology PD device a form of infomercial preferably on a projector Rob will send an e mail to membership to see if someone will volunteer to create Sean can produce a music piece It should clearly state all tools that are used to create the presentation and that this piece was created by DACS mem bers DACS can be a resource to learn how to use the tools to make their productions We can make a collection of items that we feel is interesting in Pandora to demonstrate that it can be customized to your own taste Some thoughts Collection of URL face book twitter Pinnacle Software AVID sys tems ADOBE Sony Vegas NEWTEK Light Ware YouTubers
9. code This topic has a protean appearance but we recall a strategy advanced by Microsoft Place notations within triple slashes to have it pulled into the help system later JavaScript has charmed Chuck to develop a calendar control that in its code has some advantages over C His goal is to construct a control that can be dropped on a Web page as this page is created Chuck begins with a sample applica tion JSCalendar that gives him a running start for adaptation to his uses We tugged at details to expand our discussion to include culture Culture in this context means the format 8 May 2009 DACS for dates and telephone numbers as it varies from one coun try to another We find complex variations in choice of sym bols and order of presentation of them We progressed to a fascinating detail to learn that a Solution knows about its source files Happily Chuck clarified this apocryphal obser vation by showing us how a Solution in the IDE pulls in source files as if in a composition to do the needed work Much refreshed by our break we came to grips again with randomness Breaking up is hard to do and so is back ing up To preserve one s precious files can be done in many ways We counted the many ways but were inclined to put a backup device in the same location as the server to promote fast performance SIG News Cont on page 12 http www dacs org May 2009 Danbury Area Computer Society Monday Tuesday
10. it is best to determine what your system needs from the user manual for the system board or an online resource like Kingston Ah for the days when RAM was either PC 66 PC 100 or PC 133 and that was it Kingston Technology http kingston com and http Crucial com are major sellers of brand name RAM modules and offers tools on their websites to determine the exact specification used by your system These are good resources New Egg Attp newegg com and others were also mentioned Sources mentioned for buying RAM included Tiger Direct New Egg and others Once you have determined the exact specification needed for your system you are ready to comparison shop The next question was also sent in my email but it was sent to Rob Limbaugh DACS President The questioner wants to know if open ing Network Neighborhood or My Network Places in the Win DACS dows Start Menu exposes their com puter to the Internet In other words is browsing the network risky be havior The situation is a single computer connected to a hardware router and then to a DSL or cable modem connection to the Internet A The simple answer to this question is no This assumes that the router is properly configured to create a private network using a non routable network address like 192 168 x y with a netmask of 255 255 255 0 Any values of x and y will be non routable on the Internet which means that someo
11. lanzdale yahoo com plibert dacs org relimbaugh dacs org jscheef yahoo com jasetaro yahoo com Josephdacs gmail com avanommeren dacs org Patrick Libert 860 567 9586 Rob Limbaugh 203 648 9176 Jim Scheef 860 355 0034 Jeff Setaro 203 748 6748 Joseph Tobin Annette van Ommeren 914 232 0149 Committees NEWSLETTER Patrick Libert dacseditor dacs org 860 567 9586 PROGRAM Position open VPprograms dacs org WEB MASTERS Richard Corzo rcorzo dacs org 203 797 1518 Annette van Ommeren annagraphics earthlink net 914 232 0149 MARKETING AND PR Sean Henderson pr dacs org APCUG LIAISON Patrick Libert olibert dacs org RESOURCE CENTER 203 748 4330 WEB SITE htto www dacs org HelpLine Volunteers have offered to field member questions by phone Please limit calls to the hours indicated below Days means 9 a m to 5 p m evening means 6 to 9 30 p m Please be considerate of the volunteer you are Calling HelpLine is a free service If you are asked to pay for help or are solicited for sales please contact the dacs doc editor the person requesting payment will be deleted from the listing Can we add your name to the volunteer listing d day e evening Program APL ASP Net C VB Electronics Interface Instrumentation Andrew Woodruff PhotoShop Dreamweaver Annette van Ommeren SAS Statistics Data Analysis SQL SQL Server MySQL 5 Malware VB Net Visual Basic http www dacs org Name Charles Bova
12. photography class trainers at Ritz so the second part of his presentation will be to share with us some of his top tips on how to take better photos Even if our cameras allow for some manual settings many of us are reluctant to get off the automatic setting on the cam era There are usually settings for special situations like portraits night shooting and bright backgrounds such as a beach or snow For even more control advanced cameras will allow you to set the aperture and shutter speed http www dacs org This would be a great time to invite your friends colleagues and neighbors and join us Monday May 4 for our next general meeting DACS meetings are held at the Danbury Hospital auditorium Activities begin at 6 30 p m with registration and ca sual networking The meeting starts at 7 00 p m with a question and answer period Ask DACS and then announcements The main presentation be gins approximately at 8 00 p m with the meeting scheduled to adjourn at 9 30 p m DACS General Meetings are free and open to the public Members and prior at tendees are encouraged to extend invita tions to anyone interested in this topic Danbury Area Computer Society DACS is a registered nonprofit and has been serving the region since 1990 Mem bers receive an award winning newslet ter members only workshops and events and access to volunteer phone support ao oS CN a gt Ee G 5 aa
13. t mentioned your favorite But as far as I m concerned RoboForm is the best one around and I ve used it since it was first introduced http www dacs org a RoboForm The Master at Passwords RoboForm is a 30 program with more features for password management pri vacy and password identification than any other program I know You provide Click a Web site from the RoboForm Passcard screen and RoboForm trans ports your Web browser to the site log ging you in if necessary below Need an industrial strength password RoboForm will generate one for you And don t worry about security RoboForm is itself pass word protected The pro t Bill Williams Identity Editor Identity Edt Wew Action Tools Help X Save Close i Protected Flog Al G NewPerson A prire gram will also safely send an encrypted password through e mail to another RoboForm user I was re Summan Person Business Addiess redt Card Bank Account Authentication 4 he gt Title amp Mr w Name amp Bill Wiliams E Firge Mi Gi Lage Job Tithe amp Designer Phone 614 444 4444 321 Home Tel 614 222 7777 888 Work Tel amp 614 444 4444 2321 Cell Tel amp 888 777 6666 Fax 614 335 5555 Email amp bill wins msn com Yahoo 10 a bill jw AOL Name 4 billaol Protected AES My Identity Pager 4 Enter data into RoboForm s Identity card and fill in online forms RoboForm with all the vitals you might need
14. 203 910 6477 Cell Meets 3rd Wednesday 7 30 p m at the DACS Resource Center Next Meeting May 20 Macintosh Focuses on all aspects of the Mac operating system Contact Richard Corzo macsig dacs org Meets 1st Thursday at DACS Resource Center at 7 p m Next Meeting May 5 Open Source Web Programming Focuses on open source tools for Windows and Linux Contact John Lansdale 914 533 2002 Meets 3rd Monday 7 p m at the DACS Resource Center Next Meeting On hiatus PC Maintenance Review of PC hardware and OpSys main tenance and use Contact Charles Bovaird 203 792 7881 aam mags net Meets irregularly at the DACS Resource Center announced by e mail Server Explores Back Office server and client applications including Win NT Servers and MS Outlook SIG News amp Events Contact Jim Scheef scheef telemarksys com Meets 2nd Thursday 7 p m at the DACS Resource Center Next meeting May 14 Tech Projects This SIG Will work on DACS Online Community projects as well as other areas from practical application solu tions to brainstorming and to tweeking Commercial products All skill levels and backgrounds are welcome The goal is to mix match and customize technology to fit our needs Meets 1st Wednesday 7 p m at the DACS resource center Contact Rob Limbaugh at 203 648 9176 relimbaugh dacs org Next meeting Cancelled VB Net Focuses on Smart Client Windows application de velopment using Visual Studio VB
15. DACS doc A Computer amp Technology Newsletter WWW de dics Org Volume 20 Issue 5 l 2 00 PERFECT PICTURES REQUIRE MORE THAN SNAP JUDGEMENT Ar our next meetinc May 4 Gary Sprine oF Ritz CAMERA WILL TELL YOU HOW TO CHOOSE AND USE A DIGITAL CAMERA SO YOU CAN IMPROVE YOUR IMAGE AND CREATE LASTING MEMORIES INSIDE e Review Linux ON 4 Your Desktop e Preview Dicitar PHOTOGRAPHY e Manacine Your PassworDs e Desxtop Zoom e Plus more SIG news COMMENTARY AND ANSWERS TO YOUR COMPUTING QUESTIONS President s File he April General Meeting was chock full of information Drew Kwashnak and Jim Ritterbush gave a spec tacular presentation about where Linux is to day The entire presenta tion was done on Linux machines Never did they need to drop to the Linux command line to show how to do any of the tasks we come to expect as point and click simple from Windows and Mac OS Great job guys Sandra Rankin gave us a synopsis of what the Greater Danbury Non Profit Re source Center GDNRC has been up to By the time you read this their pilot project should be underway The GDNRC is helping non profits with technology solutions so they can focus on their mis sion goals Many of these non profits do not have IT budgets resources or skills to give appropriate attention to their IT needs The GDNRC pilot program provides an end to end solution from client desktop t
16. HTML code In our next meeting we shall continue with Cascading Style Sheets CSS to map our calendar in color code to mark holidays and other days of fun and frolic At the end of this day we reveled in the scope of our learning that was more than a walk in the park Linux The Linux SIG meetings for 2009 contain something old and something new and a few things in between Jim Ritterobusch was able to give everybody a sneak peek at the presentation material performed at the April DACS General meeting and provided an opportunity for collaborating and asked for suggestions from Linux SIG attendees Ed Shaw introduced us to the fascinating world of the APL programming language APL uses many symbols and has a very different syntax to the familiar object orien tated programming languages yet looks very capable Ed also showed us the principles of calculations and the matrix involved in a life game For the past few months David Mawdsley has been teaching himself the Python programming language htto www python org in pursuit of 100 days of Python and we have enjoyed finding out what he s learned He started out demonstrating Python with a basic mortgage calculator At his second demonstration he moved into visual objects and performing the calculations for gener ating graphical objects David drew on his time as a math teacher to utilize some fairly interesting calculations Sprinkled in between these demonstrations was th
17. PLEASED TO have N j local camera expert Gary Spring from Ritz Camera http www ritzcamera com in the Plumtrees Plaza in Danbury return to DACS this time as the headliner for May Last July he was the warm up act for Lesa Snider King in a well received session on digital photography Lesa will be coming back in July to show us her tips and tricks on using Photoshop But first things first we need to talk about the tools and techniques for shooting photos This month Gary will have the full session to devote to the subject of digital cameras and how to take great pictures There are many choices when looking for digital cameras Gary will explain how cameras seem to fall into three broad cat egories point and shoot then bridge cam eras which have more manual settings and full bore digital SLRs with removable lenses Find out which one is the right camera for you He ll explain how many megapixels we need and what we should know about things like aspect ratio vi bration reduction optical versus digital zoom and the view finder I ll also be interested to hear what new features are being added to digital cam eras For instance I think built in GPS would be interesting with photo sites like Flickr http www flickr com that allow you to organize and search for photos by location And about the new Places fea ture of Apple s iPhoto 09 http www apple com ilife iphoto Gary is one of the
18. ache org docs 1 3 howto htaccess html can be used to set a variety of directions on a server such as password protect files or folders redirects prevent hot linking block IP soam bots and more Experimenting and seeing how it works in live applications may be the sub ject of another SIG meeting in the future Thank you Jim and Frank for sharing your knowledge with the group Visit www design annagraphics com for more information http www dacs org Commentary Circuit Writer Version 6 9 by Jim Scheef HIS IS ANOTHER month where l there is just too much stuff to write about and not nearly enough time to do it justice The Economy Immigration and H 1B Visas As you may recall H 1B visas are awarded from a pool of applicants who ap ply thru the U S Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services website Last year when the lottery system was started the entire allotment of 65 000 applicants with undergraduate degrees was filled the first day eWeek reports tinyurl com cqvu4m that this year only half of that allotment has been requested more than a week after the process opened on April 1 Demand for the 20 000 slots for people with advanced de grees is faster with almost all of those filled by the date of the article The drop in de mand is attributed to the economy Gosh ya think Regardless of the numbers do such guest workers depress salaries for engineering and computer science gradu ates in the
19. al records systems President Obama s budget and proposed programs count on large savings from new and ex panded information technology in the healthcare industry The first article to read is Dossia Ver sus the Healthcare Monster from CIO In sight Magazine http tinyurl com de6qjf Dossia is a nonprofit consortium organized by a group of large companies that intends to provide electronic records to the employ ees of the member companies Whether you think having your health records in the cloud is a good idea or not the system is already available to some Walmart employ ees Other companies will follow if the pilot is successful I think the concept of having access to my medical records on the Web is a great idea If the Dossia article leaves your thirsting for more take a look at Interoperability Comes to Healthcare http tinyurl com dmnfvh and Sun Soft ware Key to Electronic Medical Records Network http tinyurl com dSasr7 both from eWeek DACS The Dossia system sounds like com petition for the Microsoft Health Vault Launched in October 2007 to some fan fare I signed up for HealthVault as soon as I learned about it dacs org archive 0806 feature2 htm Unfortunately I still have nothing in my vault maybe some day To learn about Microsoft HealthVault I suggest that you use your favorite search engine and follow what looks interesting from there There is much inf
20. art using Leopard there DACS As he proceeded with the upgrade in place we dis cussed the other options which are an Archive and In Stall htto support apple com kb HT1710 and Erase and Install Another member indicated he had used Archive and Install which creates a folder under Previ ous Systems that holds the previous installation while alongside a new installation is created After a few months of successful usage of Leopard he was able to delete the Previous Systems folder Meanwhile Bill finished his Leopard installation and then restarted the machine when prompted The first boot takes longer than normal so be patient suggested he try out various applications starting with Mail Although he also had bought iLife 09 as part of a promotional bundle from Apple recommended that he hold off on installing that for a while until he verified that all his ex isting applications worked under Leopard tend to favor an Erase and Install on a new parti tion or machine and reinstall all my applications but many find this to be too much work find for one thing that it gives me an opportunity to find updated versions of applications and problems don t have a chance to sur face due to leftover preferences or other remnants of a previous installation We had a new SIG member ask about an original Mac Mini with a failing hard drive and recommended trying DiskWarrior to see if he could recover its data We also d
21. ce May 2009 13 Ask DACS March 2009 by Jim Scheef Meetings In addition members who are not able to attend the General W gt WELCOME QUESTIONS FROM the floor at the start of our General meeting may submit questions to askdacs dacs org We will ask the ques tion for you and post the reply in dacs doc and on dacs org Please provide as much information as possible since we can t probe during the session AskDACS is the regular Question and Answer session before the main presen tation at the monthly General Meeting We solicit questions from the floor and then answers from other audience mem bers My role as moderator is to try to guide the discussion to a likely solution to the problem The recording this month was quite garbled so much of this article is from memory and some specifics will be missing We had one question submitted by email Q My computer runs Windows XP Home Edition with 256 MB RAM System scans with AVG or Ad Aware or Spybot often bring up the warning Windows Virtual memory minimum too low Your system is low on vir tual memory Windows is increasing the size of your virtual memory pag ing file During this process memory requests for some applications may be denied For more information see Help Does this mean that my com puter is or is not dealing with the load Does see Help refer to that which is on the Start menu Restart warm boot does not appear to
22. companies and updated frequently to take advantage of new technologies There are various ways to try Linux download and burn a live CD buy a CD from a vendor put Linux on a USB memory card and most recently buy a computer with Linux pre installed There are many ways to get help from more experienced users Forums exist for specific distributions i e DACS Ubuntu or general Linux questions speaking with people all over the world There is also a mailing list that will re ply to your questions Questions go to the inbox and are answered by more experienced users There is also IRC instant messaging during certain times which leads to difficulties because many people are often talking at the same time about different topics Next Jim demonstrated many popu lar applications for Linux and how they are similar to common applications on the market today He believes that the computer should work for the user not the other way around That is why he uses Linux Programs such as Open Of fice can look and work similarly to pro grams such as Microsoft Office with the added feature that you can switch between the programs without having to open another program GnuCash is an accounting package and small business manager resembling a checkbook register There is also a very useful digital photo man ager called Digicam which has many features such as the ability to export images to your Flickr account and dif ferent ima
23. e XFCE desktop http www xfce org and Back In Time backup software http backintime le web org The lat ter did not quite work as we had hoped but does show promise and would be seen as very useful if it was ca pable of doing incremental backups along the line of Apple s Time Machine htto Atinyurl com 2035xf Looking forward the Linux SIG will be doing a seg ment on setting up a home server and each meeting will focus On one aspect or service to configure the server for such as file sharing permissions web serving network manager purpose of the directories possibly email server and more We hope to make this into a 6 month segment de pending on interest focus on details and available knowl edge Macintosh In April one of our members brought in his PowerBook to perform an upgrade to Leopard He brought an external drive on which he had created two backup partitions using Carbon Copy Cloner http www bombich com software ccc html and created a third partition with the leftover space for a future Time Machine drive Bill wanted to take a conservative approach and up grade one of the cloned partitions rather than his laptop hard drive He planned to do an upgrade in place on the cloned partition which would preserve all his installed applications and their preferences along with his data Once he was satisfied that everything was working he planned to then clone the upgraded partition back to his laptop to st
24. e you to approve any connection to a new network Also select the Access point http www dacs org om ___ infrastructure networks only radio button This will help prevent accidental connections to another computer when in a coffee shop or other public place Close that dialog Next find your network in the list of Preferred networks and move it to the top This will give priority to your network Next scroll thru the list a remove any network you cannot identify Last find your neighbor s network and select it click the Properties button On the Properties dialog click the Connect tab and uncheck the box Connect when this network is in range Click OK and OK to close all dialogs This will prevent an automatic connection to your neighbor s network when that is the stronger signal Finally your wireless AP should be secured using the best encryption supported by both your AP and your computer WPA is far better than WEP Another layer of security is MAC filtering Enabling this requires registering your computer s wireless card in your router s firmware by it s unique MAC address This seemingly redundant security procedure prevents your neighbor from accidentally connecting to your network by allowing your router to connect only to known computers The MAC address is a number printed on the card or your computer that looks like 00 A0 BC 0A B5 69 One last point not covered at the meeting There a
25. ead your computer monitor Just Google DesktopZoom and you ll be taken to a site for download BONNIE SNYDER is a member of P PCompAS Pikes Peak Computer Application Society CO http ppcompas apcug org Bonniels21 gmail com This article has been obtained from APCUG with the author s permission for publication by APCUG member groups all other uses require the permission of the author see e mail address above 1 Around mouse 2 Fixed Window gt gt 3 Entire desktop lt Arrows Without Key C None Settings fers tele http www dacs org Pizza Party amp Magic Show Voice for Joanie Bringing a Voice to the Voiceless When Saturday May 16 2009 6 00 p m to 10 00 p m Where Holiday Restaurant Veteran s Plaza Big Y Center New Milford CT Magic by Music Dancing by Maaic Mart RNM DJ Entertainment 9 20 00 Adults Charles Murad 10 00 Children over 10 DJ ILS Raffle Silent Auction For more information call Shirley or Frank 860 350 9034 Voice for Joanie Inc a 501 c 3 organization loans free of charge assistive communication equipment to those who are unable to communicate due to ALS Lou Gehrig s Disease and other debilitating conditions http www dacs org DACE May 2009 11 12 May 2009 SIG Notes CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 JavaScript for a calendar was our work in progress in which we resumed to make further progress JavaScript can easily manage
26. ge effects GIMP Gnu Image Manipulation Program is a Photoshop like image editor with features for feath ering repairing and many other photo editing utilities Amarok is a very popu lar music manager and fully featured media application Kaffien is another popular media application except geared toward watching videos Hydro gen is a drum machine used by many people including semipro drummers who have found this to be a very pro fessional and useful application Eclipse is a great IDE with tons of fea tures which can use popular program ming languages such as Java script and HTML Filezilla is an FTP application with support for many FTP protocols Kopete is an Instant Messenger that allows you to have different IM services open at the same time while it remains open in your notification tray even when closed K3B is a popular application for burning CDs and DVDs just drag and drop the files into the window and then burn All of these programs are free and some are also available for windows If you are fascinated by these capa bilities and want to learn more the Linux SIG meets the third Wednesday of the month in the Resource Center at 7 30 p m Joseph Tobin is an eighth grader who learned to program at age 12 He has been active in the Linux SIG and has recently become a member of the DACS board http www dacs org Meeting Preview Gary Spring Ritz Camera Digital Cameras by Richard Corzo E ARE
27. hy For example on PayPal I used four numbers a symbol and three letters According to Microsoft s Pass word Checker my standard password pat tern 1600 wtf is strong But it could be better Microsoft says that the most effec tive passwords are 14 characters and have a combination of upper and lower case letters numbers and a symbol or two For example z24x680uBS4 44 is strong enough for them to call it best Test your passwords on Microsoft s site and see how well they stand up Then Password checker Your online accounts computer files and personal informaton are more secure when you wee etrong saceworde to halp protect them Test the strength of your passwords Erter password in the t xt boy to have Pagemord Checker help determine its strength as you type Password Pret reerat Strength M A a ea Note Password Checker can hep you to gauge the strength of your oassword It is for persona reference only Passeurd Checker does nul guarantee the security of the password itself DACS browse Microsoft s excellent Strong pass words How to create and use them I prom ise yov ll learn something http tinyurl com 2e7tmw Use Microsoft s Password checker to test your password s strength You might be surprised http tinyurl com ypc3dc Generating Strong Passwords Creating a strong password is easy provided you don t try to think one up on your own There are dozen
28. in the bottom right area of DACS Desktop oom v3 4 Zoom Keys Mouse Colors Tracking Speech Change Zoom with Mouse Wheel with Cirhkey gt P Alt Keys zoom in E Works on Windows 2000 SF Vela only when Aeto i3 disabled the screen Finally there is a combo box for choosing View The options in this combo box include Follow the mouse Static changes when hitting the bor der and Static Jump to mouse The de fault is Static changes when hitting the border You ll just have to check these out yourself to see which works best for you For the present I am us ing the default And then the final lower tab is for Speech I have noticed that people with low vision will experience visual fatigue with long documents to read The addition of speech in DesktopZoom is an excellent option when the eyes are ready to give out or put you to sleep The Speech option picks up on any SAPI5 0 voices you might already have on your computer as well as any premium voices you have acquired You can turn the speech on only when you want it and you can con trol volume and speed in this tab There is more but I really ought to leave some of the mystery so you can enjoy setting the program up DesktopZoom has many really good features My biggest complaint is that it does slow down movement on the screen Ah well nothing is perfect Give DesktopZoom a try if you feel the need for some screen enlargement to help you r
29. ird Chuck Fizer Chuck Fizer Andrew Woodruff Lewis Westfall Charles Bovaird Lewis Westfall Chuck Fizer Jeff Setaro Chuck Fizer Phone 203 792 7881 203 798 9996 203 798 9996 203 798 2000 203 798 2000 914 232 0149 203 790 0229 203 792 7881 203 790 0229 203 798 9996 203 748 6748 203 798 9996 DACS Directors Notes regular meeting of your Board of Directors was held at the Resource Center on Tuesday April 14 2009 at 7 00 p m Present were Howard Berger Richard Corzo Sean Henderson Patrick Libert Rob Limbaugh Jeff Setaro and Joseph Tobin President Rob Limbaugh presided via phone conference and Secretary Mary Tobin kept the record Minutes of the last meeting held March 9 2009 were presented and approved Treasurer s Report There was no Treasurer report due to Charlie being on vacation New Business General meeting review for April will be sent by Joseph to Patrick by Sunday May review to be done by Richard General meet ing preview for May has already been sent by Richard to Patrick 2009 General Meeting Topics Richard proposed a new topic for a Gen eral Meeting to be backups offsite backup and backup to hard drive This could replace the home server general meeting for October or November Also discussed was John Patrick s December presentation to be some thing other then the State of the Internet Sean will check to see if he has another topic t
30. is 4 May 2009 that there is most likely a distro out there that will fit your needs Another great feature is the pack age manager It allows you to install programs with ease without the depen dency hell of other Operating systems It handles depen dencies download ing and installing the program you want In Windows the graphical user inter face GUI is tightly weaved into the OS while in Linux you can even choose which desk top environment you want The choices of desktop en vironments include Gnome KDE and XFCE Each is built with different tech nology You can completely control the look and feel of the desktop The desk top environment holds back drops icons and the entire themes which can be made to match your personality Up to 16 virtual desktops can be open at the same time and can be switched be tween using 3D Cube KDE has been accused of looking like Windows but recently Windows 7 has been accused of trying to copy KDE GNOME is the most used in distros like Red Hat Ubuntu Fedora and openSUSE XFCE is a lightweight easy to use desktop environment KDE GNOME and XFCE application can all work no matter which one you choose Because it is open source many people are always fixing and creating updates which make it very hard for viruses to have any effect It can be customized to suit your own individual needs it is not one size fits all Linux is used in large
31. iscussed whether it would be worthwhile to replace the drive and perhaps upgrade the memory but sug gested it might be better to consider a new Mac Mini which will have a faster Intel processor and now has much improved onboard graphics from Nvidia Next month won t be able to hold the meeting at the regular first Thursday of the month Instead we will meet on Tuesday May 5 Web Design The April meeting was a collaborative event between Frank Scott Jim Scheef and yours truly First up was Frank who showed us some SEO Search Engine Optimization techniques He explained the benefit and use of a sitemap xml for Google amp MSN and the urllist txt for Yahoo These small text files place in the root of a site help the search engines find and correctly index a web site s pages He also showed the benefits and correct use of the no follow tags when ap plied to links Next up was Jim Scheef who demonstrated a poten tial problem when using iframes A situation can occur where a secondary page meant to only appear inside an iframe in the main page can also open as a single page in the browser when returned by a search By inserting a small piece of JavaScript code in both the main and sec Ondary pages any request for the secondary page will force it to appear within the main page as intended A short discussion about htaccess files closed out the meeting This small but powerful file http httpd ap
32. letter and read Bass s blog at www snurl com techbiteblog Contents copyright 2009 TechBite LLC This article has been obtained from APCUG with the author s permission for publication by APCUG member groups all other uses require the permission of the au thor see e mail address above Volunteers Business Volunteerism Board Member Recruitment Workshops and Networking Board Member Opportunities o iprofits About Us Voluffteer Center Ever tS Donate Jin si Us Change Yourself Change Your World Volunteer http www volunteerdanbury org May 2009 7 Special Interest Groups SIG NOTES April 2009 ASP Net Focuses on Web site server application develop ment using Microsoft Visual Studio C VB Javascript and SQL Server programming tools Starts with Random Access followed by a programming discussion with examples Contact Chuck Fizer cfizer snet net Meets 1st Wednesday 4 6 p m at the DACS Resource Center Next Meeting May 6 Digital Imaging Digital cameras retouching and printing Contact Ken Graff at 203 775 6667 graffic bigfoot com Meets last Wednesday 7 p m at the DACS Resource Center Next Meeting May 27 Jobs Networking and jobs search Contact Charles Bovaird 203 792 7881 aam mags net Meets by e mail Next meeting TBA Linux Provides Help in installing and maintaining the Linux operating system Also of interest to Apple owners using OS X Contact Drew Kwashnak
33. nd your password files reside on a USB key so you can take them from one computer to another The tool costs 40 but if you buy it at the same time you get RoboForm the price drops to 20 If you dig around you ll s3login gyGoril g3 Goto login amp Gill wlhms hotmail com passwd a billpass loaginoptions amp 2 http login passport net ulogin sf le 1 Os Shid 2 Protected AES http www dacs org 10 10 2005 DACS occasionally find discounts Google RoboForm discount Siber Systems offers a 30 day trial of both products They work in all versions of Windows and support IE and Firefox but not Google Chrome Opera or a few other browsers Take a look at the com patibility list http www roboform com browsers html There s lots more to say about pass word management but I m almost out of space So while you re hot on the topic read Bitmill s smart series of Password Se curity 101 articles They re less basic than you might imagine http www thebitmill com articles STEVE Bass is a former Contributing Editor with PC World a 23 year veteran of PIBMUG and a founding member of APCUG He s also the author of PC Annoyances How to Fix the Most Annoying Things about Your Personal Computer O Reilly Press It s available on Amazon at dirt cheap prices http snipurl com annoy2 This column originally appeared in Bass s TechBite newsletter Subscribe to Bass s free weekly news
34. ne out afar cannot enter an address like 192 169 1 88 and open a connection to your computer Naturally there are exceptions to this The biggest exception is when you have a wireless Wi Fi network Anyone connecting to your wireless network including your neighbors is inside the firewall created by your router and or access point AP This means that your computers are exposed to their whims This is why it is best to run a personal firewall on your computer even the firewall included with XP when you have a wireless network and a hardware firewall in your router Q A follow up question Why does my computer sometimes connect to your neighbor s wireless network rather than my own Shouldn t the signal from my access point be the stronger signal A Among the possibilities mentioned by members in the audience interference for walls furniture or appliances in your house between your computer and your AP access point The possibilities for a misconnection are greatest when both of the access points involved are not secured in any way If you are using Windows to configure your wireless connection rather than a utility from the Wi Fi card manufacturer then it should be easy to prevent a connection to your neighbor s network Open the properties dialog for your wireless connection Click the Advanced button and make sure the Automatically connect to non preferred networks is unchecked This will forc
35. ngle which helps you focus on the working area of your application don t use the Crosshair and the Rectangle together because the Rectangle won t move if you do and another default se lection Hide real mouse recommended Moving from left to right on the tabs the first tab is for Zoom The Zoom selec tion area has two input boxes for the size of the magnification Default is 3000 1000 You ll have to fiddle around with the num bers to find the best for you There are three checkboxes the first is to hide the configu ration screen when the program is running it is not checked but I would recommend that you check it The second is for No screen changes when not zoomed it is not checked but I would recommend that you check it The third is Stop zoom if mouse in right bottom corner I checked it because I find it a convenient option The next lower tab is for Keys These key combinations are for increasing or decreasing the magnification on the fly By default the Mouse Wheel option a radio button With Ctrl key in a combo box is checked There are three other key combinations you can select from If you 10 May 2009 prefer to use the arrow keys instead of the mouse you can select the Arrows radio button with Without Key selected in the combo box there are three other key com binations to select from in the combo box Fi nally the Alt Keys are selected by default in a checkbox with six possible settings f
36. o discuss Public Event Venues Volunteer Center will be Sunday April 19 Danbury Fair Mall lower level by the fountain from 1 2 p m Attp www volunteerdanbury org Betty Batista This is to be billed as event to get support board members Participants so far Charlie Bovaird and Sean Henderson CT Film Interactive Festival Whole Fes tival is June 2 7 Interactive held at arena June 4 6 Thursday Saturday from 11 a m to 8 p m Attp www ctfilmfest com The ques tion of the location of the Film Festival was discussed Ken Graff will be leading a work shop about using open source image tools Lesa Snider King will host a workshop on using Adobe Photoshop This was seen as a major opportunity for exposure of DACS A thought was to hand something out that has information about us an item to take away such as a pencil or something that will be seen down the road to remember DACS Our area will be 10x10 Directors Notes Cont on page 15 May 2009 3 Meeting Review Linux Not just the Command Line By Joseph Tobin N APRIL 6 2009 Drew Kwashnak Or Jim Ritterbush gave us an interesting glimpse of computing with Linux and how it can work in ways similar to other popu lar operating systems Drew began by ex plaining that Linux is a complete operating system with tools and programs similar to others Linux is the kernel which allows the hardware and soft ware to communicate Linux is open
37. o server resources in a package that is easy to manage deploy and budget They are currently the ONLY group piloting the program they have created Please contact me or Howard Berger to find out how you can partici pate in this excellent and groundbreaking community endeavor We also had a surprise visit from Dave Bonan Director of Interactive Programming of the Connecticut Film Festival DACS has become a nonprofit cosponsor of the event and will have a table at the event The CT IN THIS ISSUE PRESIDENT S FILE Directors NOTES HELP LINE REVIEW LINUX ON THE DESKTOP PREVIEW DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY Bucky MILAM CARTOON My PayPat Account Was HACKED Sic News amp NOTES A ann ek U UDN CALENDAR pom DESKTOP ZOOM jo 1a CIRCUIT WRITER Ask DACS FUTURE EVENTS p fem wm A 2 May 2009 Film Festival takes place June 2 7 and will include over 130 films 100 work shops 50 bands and industry events networking and after work parties The interactive portion where we will have our table will be from June 4 6 DACS members who would like to volunteer should contact me ASAP Those who participate will receive free passes to the entire film festival We have limited spots available We need some members to assist with posting flyers related to these and other DACS sponsored events Please contact any Board member to let us know you can help Thanks and see you at the next meeting
38. oanie i Business Cards and more For All Your Printing Graphics and Copying Needs Help give the gift of speech ALLE G RA Call Shirley Fredlund PRINT amp IMAGING at 203 770 6203 formerly Rapid Repro of Danbury and become a 41A Eagle Road Danbury Connecticut 06810 Voice for Joanie Phone 203 792 5045 Fax 203 792 5064 mail allegradanbury com www allegradanbury com volunteer Future Events May 4 June 1 Gary Spring Ritz NYPD Where Camera Digital Technology Can cameras Mean Life or Death July 6 August 3 Lesa Snider King Tips and Tricks from Photoshop CS4 TBA The Missing Manual
39. or on the fly changes Zoom in and out Zoom on or off track ing and crosshair each option has a character to press with the Alt Key to accomplish its task The Mouse tab comes next we ve already covered that then comes the Color tab There are three checkboxes the firstis for Grey shades it has a combo box edit box with seven choices of shades of grey in cluding an option to type in a number of your preference the second is for Invert Col ors and the third checked by default is for Smoothing You can have all three boxes checked if you wish Finally it has an edit box for Show original screen you can type in a numeric percentage Ois the default This one makes me crazy what it does is show the original screen as a kind of back ground of the magnified screen But it was probably included because somebody needed that feature Then we move on to the Tracking tab The first Tracking option has a combo box from which you can choose three tracking items None Caret Caret Menu the de fault being Caret Menu Next addresses specifi gm cally Track MsWord Caret checkbox checked by default Then you get to select the Tracking delay time by typing a number in an edit box 30 is the default Another check box comes next for allowing display of a Thumbnail with your choice of ratio in an edit box The Thumbnail is similar to a histogram in an art program it displays the entire screen in miniature
40. ormation that explains the concept but nothing about the actual implementation Windows Desktop Search and Office 2007 Last a short note about my personal computing I finally upgraded to Office 2007 First I tried Outlook 2007 on another machine and it is great I like integration with OneNote 2007 so I decided to install them on my main computer During the install I misunderstood the installation program and installed the rest of Office Enterprise by mistake Don t laugh it isn t funny Well I m starting to get used to the user interface in Word and Excel al though the consumption of screen real estate is egregious and unnecessary That ribbon menu makes Office 2007 impossible to use on a machine with restricted screen size like a netbook Once I started using Outlook 2007 regularly it kept telling me to install Windows Search 4 0 hAttp tinyurl com yod25k I have resisted any global search products out of fear of re duced performance but I left my machine running overnite so the indexing process could complete at full speed Now I wonder why I waited so long It is amazing how quickly I can find things like that column with the reference to HealthVault I would have clicked and poked for some time to find that article but Desktop Search found it as quickly as I could type which is less than lightning but way faster than poking This new search well new to me may be the best part of my Office Experien
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42. re only three channels that should be used for all wireless networks channels 1 6or 11 Using any other channel will result in radio interference between neighboring networks Make sure you and your neighbors do not use the same channel It can be difficult in an apartment building to ensure that each AP is set to one of these three channels yet with no adjacent AP s on the same channel This can be a way to get to know your neighbors QO I want to partition my hard drive but can t because there is data spread across the drive The defragmenter utility in Vista does not move the data to one end of the drive Has anyone solved this http www dacs org problem or found a utility that works A The recording was too garbled for me to report the suggestions made at the meeting however both Symantec Partition Magic and Acronis Disk Director Suite will move the data as part of the partitioning process There is a user group deal on Acronis products are available in the member s only section of the DACS Community Forum Directors Notes Cont from page 3 We need to man the table from 11 a m to 8 p m for 3 days Participants so far at the table Richard Corzo Rob Limbaugh Charles Bovaird Sean Henderson Joseph Tobin and Jim Scheef Workshop leaders Lesa Snider King and Ken Graff Table volun teers will receive access passes to 130 films 100 workshops 50 bands and Industry events networking parties
43. reset the memory A There are two questions here The answer to the first question is Sort of Your system needs more memory space and is trying to adapt by creating more Now that new computers routinely come with 1G 2G or even 4G the maximum for the 32 bit version of XP of system RAM a system with 256M seems under equipped but the truth is that XP will run with as little as 64M of RAM It will run slowly but it will boot and run The message indicates that the system is under stress in that the programs running both the ones you can see and the background processes want more RAM than is currently available Windows is increasing the size of the virtual 14 May 2009 memory paging file aka the swap file to create more fake RAM The answer to the second question 1s ves the message refers to the Windows Help file Good luck finding anything really useful For a discussion of how virtual memory works see Wikipedia http en wikipedia org wiki Virtual_memory Beyond the original questions the discussion continued on how to buy additional RAM To distill the discussion first find the type of RAM required All current machines use RAM chips mounting on a dual inline memory module DIMM The specifications for RAM include the memory bus speed and esoteric timing requirements RAM can be buffered or unbuffered ECC error correcting code or not and have varying voltage requirements So
44. s of Web sites that Il create passwords but I don t use any of them The last thing IIl do is trust someone online watching me create new passwords Instead download Password Generator http tinyurl com 4j8e8 a free bie and crank out all sorts of 14 character passwords Password Generator XP Capriiale DMN BEA Whe Swe hee Awa ecur potem Densa braad F Specral wba Kl E S l L Aihe your sybils Fl Upper cape leter A el be iwe rase letera far F Huara 0 F kinclice dubios embok C Formi 7 A j_n ack i ae zie lea Lis Cop JL save Abo TA fis Wedgie fl chy kRHMt taal T 2e2 Sal EL TA LI tA cob ibe ff Me e2aq QL HHTS Keeping Track of Your Passwords just looked and counted roughly 220 sites I use that require a password Some site passwords however are immaterial For instance I use a simple to remember word for spots I rarely visit places such as newspapers that force you to register and log in just to read articles or tech sites with forum messages However ever since the PayPal fiasco I ve changed every significant password on my system to a 14 digit gorilla Remembering all those passwords is a PITA so you ought to consider using a password management tool There are lots available Many people like KeePass a freebie others swear by LargeSoft s 30 Password Manager I anticipate easily 100 e mails no make that 200 kvetching that I haven
45. source and licensed under the Gnu Gen eral Public License Gnu GPL which means it is both free as in Free speech or Freedom and free as in Free Beer Money can be made from services such as accesso ries ordering live CDs live service etc There needs to be good support or your customers will just switch Services Linux is also one of the biggest open source projects with potentially thou sands of people working on it and im proving it People can also create their own distributions of the code and even base it off one another as long as you allow others to base theirs off yours This shared effort is great because you don t have to reinvent the wheel This leads to a collaborative environment instead of a competitive one Updates are made with the user in mind not profit While Linux is only the kernel a distribution is a complete operating sys tem Most distros are made to focus on a certain set of features such as graphics There is not just one distro to rule them all There are many distros to use and they can be as technical or as user friendly as you would like Fedora Gentoo and Arch Linux are all distros There are complaints of too many dis tributions out there but each one serves a different purpose and fits a certain set of needs IPCOP for example is a router firewall and is an easy to set up user friendly content filter The advan tage of having many distributions
46. to complete a site s form name address phone numbers and even credit card numbers When you click the Fill Forms button the program does just that I ve created multiple identities each with different info For instance I have one with MasterCard info another with VISA accounts I have another identify I call anonymous that I use to fill in forms on sites that Il never visit again Hotmail Bill Passcard Editor Passcard Edit X Save amp Close la ae Bu cog g CDRomShop az Citymarket i CNN a aa Download y az Hotmail Bill W Hotmail Jenny oe Lycos a Microsoft aie ee im tl ea View Action Tools Country Code 4 National Prefix 1 MSN ID a bill w 31 10 2005 14 44 Help Protected P Logoff cently discussing with my wife the fact that neither of us can function without it BTW RoboForm foils keyloggers programs that watch keystrokes because instead of typing RoboForm inserts characters into form fields Here s a summary of RoboForm s features http www roboform com features html acompre hensive FAQ http www roboform com fag html with answers to your most tech nical RoboForm questions and a way to compare the free and Pro versions http www roboform com why pro html If you need portability RoboForm2Go gives you the same protection when you carry your passwords on a flash drive and use it outside the office Both the RoboForm program a
47. word on an unsavory and pos sibly unscrupulous site With that golden password and a few guesses on your login name stevebass steve_bass sbass and they re in like Flynn Who s Got My Password I contacted PayPal 888 221 1161 supplied the details and they opened up a case My account is frozen and I don t doubt PayPal will credit me for the loss As I started editing this newsletter PayPay reversed the charges PayPal is investigating but I don t think they Il ever find out how someone got into my ac count though it was clear the person had my password The rep said I probably fell for a well crafted e mail spoof That s a blow to my ego I see myself as suspicious verging on paranoid when it comes to phishing e mails What better prize than bragging rights to hack ing a PC World guy right So I m as vigi lant as my dog is when I try to get her to take a pill wrapped in peanut butter Hey 6 May 2009 you can t fool me pal she probably thinks If an e mail sus picious or not re fers to any of my im portant accounts and provides a link to click I ignore the offer It s safer to manually type the URL into my browser s address field And yes l Il cover phishing hassles and ways to guard against it in a future newsletter Password z24x680uBS4 44 I m also careful with my passwords and at least until now thought they were super stealt
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