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Meeting Archive -2005-December - Special MeetingNovember 16thAt our November 20th meeting we baked... No we didn't bake cookies. We baked BartPE CD's. What is a BartPE CD? Well it's a bootable Windows XP emergency CD. With this CD if you operating system crashes, you will still be able to access your files. BartPE was created by someone named Bart, the PE is for Preinstalled Environment. It's something that you can actually do from Microsoft. Some of the things you can install with BartPE are Nero, Norton Ghost, web browsers. There are actually sites dedicated to this operating system: Classic TechTV Video On Bootable Xp Video October20thAt our October 20th meeting we created our page on the Wikipedia. We also showed off the new Adobe Acrobat reader version 7. In version 7 the reader will actually READ text in the pdf file to you. You can also capture pictures from the pdf file to be used in different applications. If you use alot of pdf files we really do recommend that you get this upgrade to an excellent program. On to our Wikipedia page. I demonstrated how to use the Wiki markup language. In doing so, on the page I left it.. Well not completely done, this didn't sit well with the people from Wikipedia. They had actually maked our page for deletion. After some debating and excellent rebuttles to their arguments as to why we should be taken down. They helps us with the page and now we are part of the Wikipedia. Our page is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPCUG If you are interested in helping with this page you can find all editing information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing One thing that has happened recently with Wikipedia they will be requiring people to sign up for accounts to edit pages. I have a WPCUG account that if anyone would like to use to contribute to the page, they can email me for the password and username. Mike September 15th, 2005First off, I would like to welcome everyone back for the start of another great year of fun at WPCUG. WE HAVE HIGHSPEED INTERNET FOR THE MEETINGS NOW!!!!! Our meeting started off with Larry going around and asking everyone what their favourite shareware was. We did this so that we can update our downloads section on our site. If you have any suggestions that arn't on our list please email them to us. Next I showed off a password management tool called Keepass with this program you can keep all of your passwor and usernames safe and secure. One of the best features of this program is that you can use your USB Flash Drive as an acutal key to open you Password Database. This program will also generate passwords for you and it will also tell you the level on encryption of your current password Next Bob showed off a nice utility for making PDF files. This program PDFCreator is from the sourceforge.net website. When you install this program, what it does is adds a virtual printer to your system. When you want to create a pdf file, you tell the computer to print to the PDF creator and your all set. It saves allthe formating in your files. Th great thing about this program is that it is completely free. You could get the Adobe Acrobot PDF Creator, which retails for $449.99US. But why when this program will do the exact same. Larry next showed off GoogleEarth. With this application, you can fly all over the world thanks to Google. What this program does, is takes images from space and plots them on a virtual globe. With a highspeed internet connection, you can travel to any part of the world that Google has mapped. One cool feature of this program is that you can turn on buildings, so when you go to a city with the buildings turned on you get a sense of depth. Also you can change the angle of your viewing so that you can lookat objects. One thing that really stands out with this is the Grand Canyon. It feels like you are flying in the Grand Canyon with this program. If you are running Windows XP and a highspeed cable/DSL connection this program is a must to try out. A few website I spoke of at the meeting were: I also spoke about the Opera web browser. This program was a paid program with you wanted the banner ads removed. As of today (Sept 20th, 2005) they have taken the banner ads out and made the program free for everyone. I encourage you to check out Opera as an alternative to Internet Explorer. Mike June 16th, 2005At our last meeting Larry started off the meeting by showing off
our newly redesigned website. We went into some of the new points
of the site such as the real-time virus updating on the home page.
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