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October 2008 NVMUG Meeting The meeting started with Wiki by Richard Smith. Through much of the meeting Richard and Neil Raphel helped Jane Fuller with questions related to CNBC, continuous streaming, and RSS. Neil Raphel presented Flip, a neat video camera. And, we discussed other things ending with the subject everyone is concerned about, the economy. WIKI
According to it is the simplest online database that could possibly work. Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly. Richard using the projector.
RSS and CNBC Streaming Jane Fuller uses Safari. Harold Turner uses another Web browser, Camino, on the same computer. Jane wanted to get information from CNBC and wanted to know if and how she could get continuous streaming, like watching TV, on her computer. They want to maintain their separate bookmarks. Midge Lubot suggested that she go to System Preferences > Accounts to set up separate accounts to keep what they do separated, practically like having different computers. Ron Lay-Sleeper said he and his wife use the same computer with Yahoo, but they log into separate accounts. Richard says he prefers to keep his emails on his computer because he has tens of thousands of addresses. They all know his name. When someone writes him, he often has to look up the past correspondence and he can do it without going online.
Neil Raphel, and Richard Smith helping Jane Fuller
Through much of the rest of the meeting, Richard Smith and Neil Raphel helped Jane set up her email system.
Flip Video Camera
Midge Lubot, Ron Lay-Sleeper, Neil Raphel, Jane Fuller, and Richard Smith.
Neil shooting with Midge Lubot watching
Flip video camera connected to USB port on his laptop.
Jane's video on Neil's laptop.
David Pogue reviewed the Flip, and apologized because he was so late.Iit has been out for a year and already had 13% of the video camera market.
The Flip Mino uses a rechargeable lithium ion battery and is the top of the line for about $180. The Flip Ultra uses 2 AA batteries, is a little larger and costs about $150. For more information go to The Raffle and Other Topics I won the Layers book from Peachpit Press in the raffle and loaned it to Neil for awhile since i had already done many of the tutorials in it and Neil had also wanted to win it. We received two copies of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X from InformIT. Midge will give one to the Atheneum and Jane will give one to the Regional Library. Jane and Harold are planning to get an iPhone when sales and the telephone service comes to Vermont, so we gave her the book, My iPhone from InformIT. Scott Pelok had emailed, “ ff nothing else, someone should show how the iTunes works so well with the GENIUS bar to "sell" new music. For audiophiles like myself, it is a CURSE! OH..OH, just one more song..” I forgot to mention it, It is a fun feature that sets up an interesting mix of your songs, can be expensive because you learn about related songs that you are going to want to buy. Richard Smith said that a Fairpoint DSL connection without a phone costs $39, but that he telephoned them and learned that he could get a DSL connection for either $18.95 or $19.95 for six months as an introductory offer, after that it would bump up ot $19.95 but he had to agree to a contract which I believe was binding for a year. Richard said that DSL stands fro Digital Subscriber Line. Midge has a Sovernet DSL connection over the phone line without a wired telephone. On the economy we talked about there being no consequences for poor performance by the CEO’s and no long term considerations - only quarterly profits and greed. The so called smartest guys could not figure it out. They fought against the welfare state for ordinary people. Now we do not want a new welfare state for billionaires. Or, at least it was something like that. |
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Richard Smith asked if we had heard about Wicki.It is where anyone can post items for others to read. The owner, manager, of the web site can organize the content.
Jane asked if she needed a news reader. Richard Smith connected his laptop to the NVMUG video facility to put a Safari page on the screen and show where to click to get an RSS display of the contents of CNBC.
Neil Raphel presented a show and tell of the new Flip video camera that he received as a gift. 
He flipped out the Flip, and took videos of Jane and I.
Neil slid a USB connector out of the Flip and connected it to his laptop
Then Neil showed us the results.