New Orleans Personal Computer Club
P.O. Box 8364
Metairie, Louisiana 70011
Club Hotline: (504) 454-6050

The New Orleans Personal Computer Club was founded in 1981 as a Louisiana non-profit organization. It is composed of individual personal computer users who help each other learn more about their personal computers and their wide variety of applications.

If you own, use, or are considering the purchase of a personal computer, you will find the NOPCC learning experience and the opportunity to exchange information invaluable.

Monthly meetings highlight topics of current interest and the latest developments in the micro-computer industry, focusing on how new technology will affect you. Members discuss common problems and participate in a beneficial exchange of information.

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Donating to NOPCC

The NOPCC is a 501(c)(3) organization. Donations to the club are tax deductible.

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.


The Secret Guide
To Computers
If you haven't gotten your copy of "The Secret Guide To Computers" yet, it's not too late. We are continuing to make them available at the same low price of $15.00 each. Many of our members who have taken advantage of these books are repeatedly echoing the ratings.

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



Recycling Program
The NOPCC is now set up to participate in the recycling of printer consumables. This accomplishes two goals:
1) helping to keep spent cartridges out of the waste stream, and
2) having another source of funds coming in to the club

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

Sponsors

McCann Electronics
Rick's Coins
Southern Star Internet
Mardi Gras Design 

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IMPORTANT NOTICES:

February 2012 General Membership Meeting


Alternatives to Pay Television

This month former cable company insider Ray Paternostro and futurist Greg Wilde will review free and subscription offerings from established and upstart purveyors of digital content that is beginning to rival that from traditional television carriers. ... more

Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location: Harahan Senior Center
100 Elodie St., Harahan, LA 70123
Guests are welcomed and encouraged to attend.

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Computer Programming Special Interest Group


Brian Sullivan - Evolutionary Database Design with fluent Manager

Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 6:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Location: New Horizons New Orleans

2800 Veterans Blvd. Suite 330, Metairie, LA 70002

New/Intermediate User Special Interest Group


Wednesday, February 8, 2012 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Location: Harahan Senior Center

100 Elodie St., Harahan, LA 70123

NOPCC is Now on Meetup


NOPC (New Orleans Personal Computer Club)

The New Orleans Personal Computer Club is now on Meetup. Click on the Meetup badge to rsvp for the upcoming meeting or start a discussion on the forum.

Meetup helps people find others who share their interest or cause, and form lasting, influential, local community groups that regularly meet face-to-face...more.


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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., answering email questions sent in by viewers. Then again at 7:20 a.m., covering the latest PC hardware/software, cool gadgets and useful web sites.

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
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» 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.

» HANDY PRODUCT!   Move It On Over
PC-to-PC data transfer device operates at USB 2.0 speeds with no software to install!

2011 at NOPCC Recommend NOPCC Membership to a Friend
January 2011
Lydia Lourbacos, Cyber Ruggedize You and Your Computer
February 2011
Allen Square, Informational Tour of the Advances in the City's Technology Infrastructure
March 2011
Greg Czmbor, Technology Tours - Extraordinary Uses for Everyday Technology
April 2011
Newell Normand, Jefferson Parish Sheriff -- How the Sheriff's Office Uses Computers
May 2011
Digital Photography -- A Comparison of Free Picasa and Fee Adobe Photo Elements
June 2011
Hurricane Prep -- How to protect your family, your property and your computers
July 2011
Electronic Pickpockets Are Right Behind You
August 2011
New Technology in the Jefferson Parish Crime Labs
September 2011
Adobe® Acrobat® Is Not A Circus Performer
October 2011
Mobile Phones, Tablets, 4G and 4G LTE, Apps, and Xmas Goodies
November 2011
The Eyes Have It - Dr. Ginny Kullman
December 2011
60 Tips in 60+ Minutes
Your Name
Your Email
Friend's Name
Friend's Email
A Quick Note

Privacy Info: We DO NOT store your name, your email, your friends name, or your friends email in any form. It is ONLY used to generate an email message.

2010 at NOPCC 2009 at NOPCC
January 2010
Joe Brown -
February 2010
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other Social Media
March 2010
Windows 7 - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
April 2010
Unlocking Hidden Internet Treasure with a Library Card
May 2010
Solving Common Computer Problems
June 2010
Photography 101 - What to do after you click the shutter
July 2010
Hurricane Prep Using the Latest Technology
August 2010
60 Sites in 60 Minutes
September 2010
Advances in Regional Information Technology and You
October 2010
Google, Google, Google
A look at the hidden treasures in Google's palace
November 2010
Unlocking Hidden Internet Treasures with a Library Card
December 2010
Publicly Available Information That Can Be Learned About You
January 2009
Cyber Sleuthing
February 2009
Media Convergence in Home Practice
March 2009
Control of Digital Medical Records
April 2009
Live Webinars, Back Ups, and Disk Partitioning
May 2009
Cine and Still Digital Photography and Computers
June 2009
Smart Computing Magazine
July 2009
Robotic Surgery
August 2009
Hurricane Preparations
September 2009
Computer Disaster Recovery
October 2009
Medical Information on the Web
November 2009
History of the Internet
December 2009
Hidden Stuff on My Harddrive

Page Updated:
February 1, 2012



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 - 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.



Special Announcements

Once in a while,
FREE actually means FREE!

As ordered by the FTC, you can get one free copy of your credit report per year at AnnualCreditReport.com

FREE BOOKS!

Free Computer Books
A free collection from all over the world

FREE SOFTWARE!

Keeping Internet
Genealogy Free


MyHeritage Ltd. offers a full featured Family Tree Builder. It's everything you would expect from high priced software!


And you can start your research here.
The LAGenWeb Project is freely available to all.


Free File Home
Free Federal Online Filing

If you earned $54,000 or less in 2007, you can use Free File to prepare your taxes online beginning in mid-January 2008 at the IRS website.

With Free File, you can get a fast refund, often in 10 days or less with Direct Deposit.

Use OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice
OpenOffice.org is a complete Microsoft Office compatible office suite, and is the leading open-source office suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more.

PrintFolder
Handy utility to print or save a list of files located in any folder. Right-click any folder in Windows Explorer and select "PrintFolder" in the popup menu.

PC Decrapifier.
A program designed to remove or uninstall a specific list unwanted software in an unattended fashion. It can be used to clean off most of the annoying software that is typically shipped with newer PCs.

 


Tips from the Webmaster!

When are Passwords too secure?
When there is an emergency and no one knows them! Be sure to give someone you trust a list of your User Id's and Passwords in case of emergency.

Did You Know?
If you registered your domains with Network Solutions, they are prepared to honor last wills and testaments. Your executor will have no problems transfering domain names into your heirs names, so be sure to include them in your will.

Assoc of PC User Groups

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NOPCC
P.O. Box 8364
Metairie, Louisiana 70011
Club Hotline: (504) 454-6050

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