Donating to NOPCC

Please consider making a donation today. Just click on the donation button above to make a secure donation through PayPal and save your receipt for tax purposes.

To get your copy, see Tom Ford at a Membership Meeting or the New Users SIG or drop him a note at secretary@nopc.org.

Don't forget to bring your spent inkjet & laser jet printer cartridges, and even cell-phones to the next meeting.

IMPORTANT NOTICES:

eSurgery, iSurgery, Robotic Surgery, Microsurgery, and the advantages of minimally invasive surgery Wednesday, July 1, 2009, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Dr. George Chimento (Orthopedics) and Dr. Ryan Glass (Urology) of Ochsner Hospital Systems Location: Harahan Senior Center 100 Elodie St., Harahan, LA 70123 The meeting is open to everyone. Guests are invited to participate free of charge. Computer Programming Special Interest Group Tuesday, July 14, 2009, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Location: New Horizons New Orleans 2800 Veterans Blvd. Suite 330, Metaire, LA 70002 New/Intermediate User Special Interest Group Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Location: Harahan Senior Center 100 Elodie St., Harahan, LA 70123 Expanded Board of Directors Monday, June 29, 2009, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Location: Chateau Coffee Café 3501 Chateau Blvd., Kenner, LA 70065 Jerry Seregni reports that his technology section on the Fox 8 website is now up and running! For articles accompanying his segments and answers to viewer email questions, please add the following link to your favorites: http://www.fox8live.com/content/news/seregni/default.aspx. You can follow him on Twitter at Twitter.com/TechGuru8   He now appears on Wednesdays. First, at 6:20 a.m., covering the latest PC hardware/software, cool gadgets and useful web sites. Then again at 7:20 a.m., answering email questions sent in by viewers. Hurricane Season Preparations for your Computer Wednesday, August 5, 2009 Jerry Seregni Location: Harahan Senior Center 100 Elodie St., Harahan, LA 70123 Computer Disaster Recovery "Lock Box" Wednesday, September 2, 2009 Tim Gagliano, CIO Services Location: Harahan Senior Center 100 Elodie St., Harahan, LA 70123

SNEAK PEEK AHEAD! Computer Virtualization Tour of Cox Cable Facility Computer Gaming Using Computers to Predict Weather Computer Hardware Computer Software Computer Operating Systems Webinars

» Donating to the NOPCC:
Did you know that the New Orleans Personal Computer Club (NOPCC) is a 501(c)(3) organization? This means that it is a non-profit organization and donations to the club are tax deductible.

There is a need in the Greater New Orleans area for working computer equipment and software to help in rebuilding after Katrina. The NOPCC has been trying to assist in this rebuilding by identifying sources for suitable equipment and locations in need of this equipment. If you know of any individuals, or companies that have equipment to be donated, we need to know about them. If you know of any Community Rebuilding efforts that need this equipment, let us know.

Some of the Community Rebuilding efforts identified so far include local schools, Battered Women’s Clinics, and Social Rehabilitation programs. Each site has specific needs and levels of acceptance.

To facilitate this program within the NOPCC Carl Henderson has been asked to act as coordinator. He can best be contacted via his eMail address: nomocsmaj@netzero.net.

If you know of a source for equipment, or an organization in need, please let Carl know the Name of the Company/Need; Address; Telephone number; eMail address; Contact Person, and anything you know about the equipment.

Please DO NOT BRING equipment to the NOPCC General Meeting. The club has limited storage space. Let the program coordinator know what you are offering, and he will match it with a suitable recipient before accepting the equipment.

The more places that can be identified as needing this equipment, the quicker we can get it to them. Donating this equipment through the NOPCC, helps your club by getting its name out into the community. Just as the club helps you with your computer problems, it will help the community with theirs. By showing its community involvement, others may wish to join to further the NOPCC programs.

» Special Interest Groups:
Those interested should check the SIG page. It is constantly being updated with progress reports and locations.

» NOPC “Grab Bag” Table
At General Membership Meetings for the New Orleans Personal Computer Club (NOPCC), our club will have a “Grab Bag” table available for members that want to help the club by passing on any computer related items they no longer want or need that they feel may benefit other members of the club. Read the guidelines.

» NOPC Yahoo! Group
NOPC Help is the forum for the New Orleans PC Club to discuss PC related issues. Questions and answers can be anything related to hardware, software, peripherals, networking, etc.

» NOPC on Twitter
Follow NOPCC on Twitter for up to the minute updates on club happenings.

»  Review
The Symantec Guide to Home Internet Security by Andrew Conry-Murray and Vincent Weafer

Software Reviews!
NOPCC receives numerous offers for us to try new software products. If you are interested in participating, please see the Reviews section of our website.

Job Openings!
We need you to chair a committee! Find out more on our Committees Page.

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Page Updated:
June 21, 2009

Thanks!

To - CoffeeCup Software For their extremely generous donation of software to our club. Coffeee Cup has been serving up fairly priced, but fully loaded software since 1996 and this webmaster has been using it since 1997. We used their HTML Editor in our Web Design SIG. "Fresh software, warm people" is their motto and they have lived up to it! To - Wiley Publishing For their donation of books for our SIGs! Their kindness extends to the entire membership with a donation of books and a generous discount to the entire club membership.  Ask an officer for your discount code at the next club meeting. To - Roxio For their donation of Roxio Creater 9. To - Small Pleasantries For their door prize donations. Boutique shopping at an affordable price! To - Trend Micro For their donation of PC-Cillin Internet Security 2007. They have long been a supporter of NOPCC and still have the best functioning anti-virus and Internet security software on the market today! To - John Souvestre For the boost in server resources. John owns & operates Southern Star,our host server which is gracioualy provvided free of charge. To - Foxit Software For their donation of software. They are new supporters of NOPCC and have been very generous with their donations of Foxit PDF Creator and Foxit Reader Pro. If you need a PDF file maker, contact a club officer for your free copy for review! To - Gary Walker For site scripts. Gary is the developer of NXL Cart.

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