Articles - Table of Contents

Special Articles

Home Networking Slides with Notes - PowerPoint presentation in PDF format. 8/23/07. Note: This is about 1.7MB in size.

Home Network Notes - Includes a small glossary and some home network tips. 8/23/07.

PayPal Phishing Example - How can you tell a real PayPal email from a fake one? This is an PowerPoint HTML presentation.

Instructions:

• Click on the link above to open the presentation.
• Use the navigation buttons at the bottom to go through the slides
• -or- click the Slide Show button at the bottom right. Then, click with the mouse to go forward, use [Backspace] to go back, or right-click for other options.

Also available as a regular PowerPoint file to download.

Plasma and LCD Flat Panel Display Information - Our newsletter publisher, Eli Spater, found some interesting information about plasma and LCD flat panel displays. He has put it all together in this article.

Medical Internet - by Dr. Gary Sexton - At our March 27, 2003 meeting, Gary's presentation showed us how we can use the Internet to assist us in obtaining medical information. This article contains a long list of URLs.

Understanding CD-R & CD-RW Technology - by John C. Lee, June 9, 2002. Another fine article by John that goes into detail about CD-R and CD-RW technology. This article is available in both PDF and HTML format.

Understanding Color (in PDF format) - by John C. Lee, 12/3/2001. This is a very comprehensive article with lots of great examples in color. It includes such topics as "Additive vs. Subtractive Color Model", "Color Depth", various color models, and brightness, contrast, hue, and saturation. You'll need Adobe Reader to view the article.

Virus Information - This was a topic during the Q&A session of our May 23, 2002 meeting. It has several examples of some common comuter viruses.

Computer Jokes

Here's a small collection of jokes having to do with computers and technology.

Old Articles I was going to remove these from the web site, but I thought some people might get a kick out of what times were like on the '90s. A Short History of the Internet (written in 1995) How to Buy CD-Recordable Drives (written in 1997) The History of the Microprocessor (up through 1995) How to Buy a Personal Computer (written in 1996) Computer Monitors (written in 1998)

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