Tuesday, April 20, 2004:
The Indiana PC Users Group held its monthly meeting at the Indiana County Technology Center, Hamill Road, Indiana, Pa. Publicity Chairman Chauncey Ross welcomed those in attendance and opened the meeting at 7:15 p.m. in the absence of President Larry Rodack and Vice President Lloyd Onyett.

Minutes:
The minutes of the March 16 meeting were approved as presented.

 Treasurer’s Report:
Treasurer Larry Stadtmiller reported the club checking account balance is $754.64. His report was approved as presented.

 Program:
Program Chairman Steve Higgins introduced the group to several Web sites and addressed various issues in the course of the discussion.  Steve discussed the Novell security system in place to limit access to certain sites by students at Indiana County Technology Center.  He mentioned Border Manager and Cyber Patrol, other web-restrictive software products.  Steve downloaded the newest version of WinZip (www.winzip.com) and used it to decompress files of drivers downloaded earlier from the FujiFilm site. The drivers were downloaded for use in the SCM Microsystems USB reader.

 In a follow-up to a discussion at a previous meeting, Steve demonstrated how to edit tags on music files, especially those made from vinyl records and other analog sources.  Steve advised group members to carefully record locations of installed files, particularly drivers.

In a discussion of popular search engines, those available at Google, Dogpile, HotBot, InfoSeek, Mamma.com and Teoma were mentioned and visited online.  Steve described MSG TAG as a fancy receipt program used for attaching tags to email messages. MSG TAG sends notification to a sender when a message is received and viewed.  Steve also discussed Share Outlook, from 4team.biz, a program that enables sharing and synchronizing of Outlook folders among multiple users.  Web sites www.thescreensavers.com and techtv.com were visited to find information about The Geek Show (dark tips, program recaps) and Sarah’s Downloads for registry-editing software.

 Steve also discussed transferring data between computers using Windows’ Neighborhood Network.  While ICPCUG members sometimes share their e-mail addresses with others on an individual basis, they have no established means of reaching the membership at large to ask questions or discuss issues of general interest.

 Old  / New Business:
No matters of old or new business were discussed.

 Open Forum:
In a combination of the Program discussion and Open Forum question-and-answer period, Steve discussed sharing data on PDAs using laser; solicited someone with expertise on eBay to present a program at a future meeting; and demonstrated Proxomitron, a software program that halts pop-ups, bouncing ads, and banner ads. He also said Microsoft Network (www.msn.net) has a pop-up blocker program available for download.  Steve said users may restore original settings to “hijacked” browsers using Restore and Adobe’s GoBack.  In conclusion, Steve mentioned drudgereport.com.

 The next meeting will be held Tuesday, May 18, 2004.  There being no other business, the meeting was adjourned at 8:54 p.m.

 Respectfully submitted,

Robert Dalecki / Chauncey Ross
Secretary / Publicity Chairman