CyberCoyote - May, 2006

NEWS

Carol needs "door prize elves" to handle three months next season -- November, February and March. Your job would be to select door prizes for one meeting during your month. Here's your chance to spend some club funds on some *cool* technology. The only downside is that someone else is likely to win the prizes. Send Carol an email message if you'd like to help. --

NOTES and NOTICES

The latest "Mr.-Modem!" column is now online.
http://cybercoyote.org/articles/modem.shtml

I hope that you weren't unduly alarmed when this issue of CyberCoyote did not appear ontime. :-) I have been away on an unexpected trip. I'm back now, so here it is.

TIPS and TOPICS

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http://cybercoyote.org/news/news.shtml -- also found at the bottom of each issue

SECURITY

[Updated]: The new "Microsoft Update" does everything that Windows Update does and more. In addition to updating Windows, it also patches other common Microsoft software. It's time to make the switch. Microsoft Update requires IE6 or IE7 (running in Administrator mode).
http://cybercoyote.org/url/182.html -- instructions
http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/

INTERNET

You're probably too young to have ever gone to a speakeasy, but there's a new Speakeasy in town. Visit them now, and measure the speed of your broadband connection while you're there.
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

Some of you may want to create a personal web site. The basics are simple, but there are so many details that most people get lost trying to create their own. Google Page Creator uses a basic what-you-see-is-what-you-get style of interface, designed to allow anyone to create and publish web sites, regardless of skill or knowledge level. They also provide free site hosting.
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3586916 -- description
http://pages.google.com/ -- Google Page Creator

DIVERSION

Watch the sun rise and set all over the world on this real-time, computer-generated illustration of the earth's patterns of sunlight, darkness, and cloud cover based on current weather satellite data.
http://www.die.net/earth/hemisphere.html

Talk about taking your life in your own hands. Watch this cable car ride down Market Street to the San Francisco Ferry Building (no, not that kind). It was filmed shortly before the 1906 earthquake. (Be sure to click the "down-arrow" at the right end of the controls just below the screen and set the display to "original size".)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6486650610391534812
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfZX-4iQOgQ -- alternative

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