Computer
Info
This Weeks Meeting
Well,
John Watkins is finally here. His
subject will be to FILES what they are where they are how to find them
what to do when saving themwhere is my C drive.
Looking for books ????
Alibris
Here
is a good web site that specializes in hard-to-find books, including
out-of-print and foreign-language titles.
They also tell you the condition that the book is in.
Advanced Book Exchange
This
is another great way to access independent dealers of used, secondhand, rare,
and out-of-prints books. You can search
by geographic location and therefore locate a second hand bookstore in your
area.
Amazon.Com
Amazon
is one of the largest online book store. You can order books, videos, music and also
other products from them.
Barnes and Noble
Barnes
and Noble also has a great web site for locating books
that you wish to purchase. Of course,
they also sell movies, videos and other products. They even have a section for used rare
out-of-print books.
Make Panoramic Pictures
ADG Panorama Tools 4.0 this program allows you to turn
a series of digital photographs into a 360-degree panorama. The program is free for noncommercial use and
will align your images automatically and warp them for the 360-degree format.
ADG
Panorama can be viewed through ADG Java Viewer 4.0 that eliminates any plug-in installation
and gives a platform independent use on the Internet.
This
program sounds interesting if anyone tries it, please let the group know
about it. We have added this to the
handout, because a member brought it to our attention and wondered if anyone
had tried it.
http://www.albatrossdesign.com/products/panorama/
Create Hyperlink in Word
To
create a hyperlink (or the ability to click on some words in your Word document
and have it take you to a web page) try this.
Type
your article or document. Select (or
highlight) the word or words that you would like to be used to take the person
to a particular webpage right click on the highlighted area and choose
HYPERLINK from the menu. This will allow
you to type in the web address that is to be associated with the words.
Web Site Demonstrated
Larry
Kebel demonstrated his website at the meeting last
week. He has created a website dealing
with genealogy on the Kebel name. He has done all of it by using Notepad to
write the HTML code which he says is easy to learn (or at least as easy as
trying to learn to use a large software program like FrontPage in order to
create his webpage).
He
has also created a webpage for stamp trading.
This he is proud to announce makes use of a database that is run in PC
File (a DOS program).
http://www.stamps4trade.com
Notice
that his genealogy web address ends in one of the new extensions --
INFO
Larry
has registered his web address and his site is being hosted by Netfirms which allows free webhosting
for any business. With the free webhosting, comes those advertisements
at the top of your site. For as little
as $5.00 a month, they will host your web site without advertisements.