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    • Kawartha Internet Users Group
    Minutes of the Meeting
    March 8, 2005
    Recommended sites
    Next Meeting
      Thursday, April 14, 2005, 7:00 pm
      Henderson House, Settlers' Village, Bobcaygeon
    • Meetings: 2nd week of each month, 7:00 pm
      odd months: 2nd Tuesday Fenelon Falls:
      Compu-Dynamix       (Colborne St.)
      even months: 2nd Thursday, Bobcaygeon:
      Settlers' Village      (Dunn St.): Henderson House
    • To receive minutes, sign up to "kawartha online" Click here and follow the directions


    1. Attendance:
          Don Jardine, Anne Panter, Norm Bailey, Paul MacCauley, Larry Muter, Chris Greaves

    2. Minutes of last meeting:
      online

    3. Financial report
      (not included in online minutes)
        Anne, Garth & Bill have updated the group's account signature card at the Bobcaygeon Bank of Montreal.

    4. New Business:
      1. Internet News:
           Thanks again to Don Jardine for providing copies of the Internet NewsAnne will take remaining copies to Bobcaygeon & Fenelon Falls libraries.


    5. 'Round the Table
      1. Norton Antivirus

        (a) Pop-up message keeps appearing saying Norton is out of date, but the programme then can't access the internet.

           Solution (Paul): The problem could be spyware, or spyware blockers: eg. Spybot.

           Suggest downloading Microsoft Anti-spyware programme (about 6MB, requires regular data updates)

        (b) Message "Norton AntiVirus is inactive" appears.

           Solution (Paul): ensure that Norton is activated in the Start menu: Run MSCONFIG (from Start / Run) and check the list on the Startup tag.

      2. Voice Over Internet

           Using skype.com Chris "phoned" another Skype user (Keith in BC). Skype is a new voice-over-internet service. You can register and contact other Skype users for free (ie. computer-to-computer same as other IRC programmes, such as MSN, Yahoo or Trillian). For a low fee, you can use the programme to "phone" any telephone from your computer (ie. computer-to-telephone).

      3. Blogging

           Has anyone created a "blog" site?


    6. Presentation
         Chris demonstrated several Macintosh applications

      (a) "Pod casting"

         Create your own radio station on a web site. Visitors can download the programming onto their iPods. (Sample at www.cbc.ca/nerd/halifax_podcasting.mp3)

      (b) iMovie

         Can be used to combine audio, video, still photos into movies, with special effects and transitions.

      (c) Garage Band

         A sound mixer. You can lay down multiple tracks from different sources (eg. line input, synthesizer or guitar, microphone, ...) and adjust tone, volume, etc. on each.

      (d) iTunes

         Download music for 99 cents per track.


    Next Meeting
      Tuesday, March 8, 2005, 7:00 pm
      Compu-Dynamix, Fenelon Falls


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