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December 2004

  • 10 Commandments for Happy Windows Computer Owning
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  • Bad News for the Bad Boys
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  • Benefits To Be Gained From Using OpenOffice.org
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  • Beware of SCUMWARE Pretending to be Anti-Spyware
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  • Calendar December 2004
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  • Calendar January 2005
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  • Can You Email Your Doctor? Should You?
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  • Cool Web Sites
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  • Do It Now
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  • Do You Know How Safe Your Credit Card Number Is?
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  • Don't Pay a Lot for That PDF Software
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  • From the Dealsguy
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  • General Meeting
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  • Help! My Computer Is Down and I Can't Get It Up
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  • HelpingTulsa
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  • Identity Theft
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  • Is There a Legal Remedy for Software Bugs and Other Things That Go Bump in the Night?
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  • Making a PDF With OpenOffice.org
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  • Measuring Type
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  • PC Help Is -- Sometimes -- Just a Mouseclick Away
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  • Remove Spyware and Get Free Utilities
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  • Tech News
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  • Tips and Tricks
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  • Understanding USB
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  • What Time Is It? Set Your PC Clock
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  • Will Santa Clause Bring Orcs and Aliens to Your Door?
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    November 2004

  • CPSC Announces Recalls of Computer Equipment
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  • Calendar December 2004
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  • Calendar November 2004
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  • Cool Web Sites
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  • Creating an Animation in Illustrator CS using 3D Effects and the Blending Tool
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  • From Muppets To Mayhem: The SIGGRAPH 2004 Conference
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  • From the Dealsguy
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  • GPS and Mapping Software
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  • General Meeting
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  • Help! My Computer Is Down and I Can’t Get It Up
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  • HelpingTulsa
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  • High Tech Resolutions
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  • Hoaxes, Chain Letters, Sob Stories -- Check Them Out, Don't Forward
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  • Making Spheres with Illustrator CS
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  • Online Footprints Bring Coincidences and Lasting Trails
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  • Problems With Windows XP Service Pack 2
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  • Review of Adobe Illustrator CS
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  • Smart Tags: What they are, how to use them
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  • Still in Doubt - Windows XP Service Pack 2
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  • Tech News
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  • The New, the Best, and the Worst
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    October 2004

  • An Introduction to TCP/IP
  • Bits and Bytes and XP SP2
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  • Browser Power
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  • Bruce Carson
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  • Calendar November 2004
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  • Calendar October 2004
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  • Cool Web Sites
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  • Cyber Security Challenge to Media and Civic Groups
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  • From the Dealsguy
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  • GPS Units
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  • Gadgets for Geeks
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  • General Meeting
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  • Help! I've been hijacked...
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  • HelpingTulsa
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  • How To Use Copy/Cut and Paste
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  • It Depends On What You Mean By “Free”...
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  • Keep Your Cool - Your PC Cool That Is ...
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  • Tech News
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  • The Other Antivirus Software
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  • When All Appears Lost
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  • Where Did the Floppy Go?
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  • Which Office Suite Should You Be Using?
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    September 2004

  • Another Helpful PC Utility
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  • Calendar October 2004
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  • Calendar September 2004
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  • Can you really buy popular "software at rock bottom prices" online?
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  • Computers Expanding the Use of Robots
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  • Cool Web Sites
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  • Cyber Terrorism A Portend of Things to Come?
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  • Cybercrime How Bad Is It?
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  • From the Dealsguy
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  • General Meeting
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  • Get Rid of Spyware and Popups
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  • Global Positioning System -- Where Exactly Are You?
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  • Going Wireless - For the bookshelf
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  • HelpingTulsa
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  • Hints and Tips For Beginners
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  • How Does One Track The Origin of Spam?
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  • Keep Your Cool – Your PC Cool That Is …
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  • Speed Your Computing With Keyboard Shortcuts
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  • The Internet
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  • Trial Linux the Easy Way
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  • Understanding Font Substitution in Word: Part 2
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  • Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Install it or Not? - PART 1
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  • Windows XP Service Pack 2 - Install it or Not? - PART 2
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    August 2004

  • America the Beautiful - Online
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  • Calendar August 2004
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  • Calendar September 2004
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  • Comdex is History
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  • Confessions Of an ex-Computer Trainer
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  • Cool Web Sites
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  • Downsize
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  • Easy Browsing with Mozilla
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  • From the Dealsguy
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  • General Meeting
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  • Great Little Program That May Fix Your PC
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  • HP Recalls Memory in 900,000 Compaq and HP Notebook Computers
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  • HelpingTulsa
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  • How and when to enable Windows XP's firewall
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  • Identity Theft
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  • Online and In Person
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  • Route Mapping on your PC, PDA, or GPS
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  • Software Gratis — An Arbitrary Top Twenty
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  • Tech News
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  • Transfer Hand
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  • Understanding Font Substitution in Word: Part 1
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  • Viruses, Worms & Other Security Issues
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    July 2004

  • Anniversary of Computer Virus No Cause for Celebration
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  • Calendar August 2004
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  • Calendar July 2004
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  • Clone Son
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  • Computer Power Protection
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  • Computer Problems
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  • Cool Web Sites
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  • Digital Photography And Printing
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  • Don't Be a Victim of Health Scare Stories
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  • From the Dealsguy
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  • General Meeting
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  • HelpingTulsa
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  • Identity Theft
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  • Internet Annoyances
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  • More on Spyware
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  • Own World
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  • PestPatrol
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  • PhotoImpact XL
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  • Photoshop Restoration & Retouching
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  • Spam
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  • Tech News
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  • UPS Uninterruptible Power Supplies and Your Computer
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  • Use Run commands for fast access to almost everything
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  • Weather and Tropical Information on the Net
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    June 2004

  • Attack of the Sasser Worm Portend of More to Come
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  • Buying From Ebay
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  • Calendar July 2004
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  • Calendar June 2004
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  • Cool Web Sites
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  • Down Sizing
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  • DVD Rot A Possible Urban Legend in the Making
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  • For beginners only -- Using Internet to increase buying power
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  • From the Dealsguy
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  • General Meeting
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  • Get Rid of Spyware and Popups
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  • Getting to Know Google
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  • HelpingTulsa
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  • Identity Theft Scams Keep Coming
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  • Own Programmers
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  • Shure E2c Earphones
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  • The Intel PC User Group Website
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  • The Music Wars
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  • Tidbits
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  • Whither the Yellow Box?
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  • Windows XP Unwired
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  • Wireless Networking Not as Secure as You May Think!
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  • You're not paranoid if they're really out to get you
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  • Your eBay Account Must Be Confirmed
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    May 2004

  • Actiontec 54 Mbps Wireless Access Point and 54 Mbps Wireless PC Card
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  • Beware of Old Internet Scam - Now Much More Common
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  • Building a Web Page
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  • Calendar June 2004
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  • Calendar May 2004
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  • Computer Rage
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  • Computers --- From the Very Beginning for New Users
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  • Cool Web Sites
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  • Do you use one space or two spaces at the end of a sentence?
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  • Dymo LabelWriter 330
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  • E-mail is 32 years old
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  • Firegraphic
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  • From the Dealsguy
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  • General Meeting
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  • HelpingTulsa
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  • How To Find Drivers
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  • How to safely troubleshoot your system
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  • Logitech Pocket Digital Camera
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  • PayPal Access Account Limited
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  • Read Now! Important Message From Citibank
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  • Reflections on the Mac at 20
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  • Spy Sweeper
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  • Still Frustrated by SPAM Email?
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  • Toaster
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  • Transfer
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  • Undeliverable Mail
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  • Update Your eBay Account
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  • Virus Attacks Continue at Record Rate
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  • Web Site Was Down
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    April 2004

  • Accessibility for Everyone
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  • Calendar April 2004
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  • Calendar May 2004
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  • Computer Memory
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  • Confirm Your Information
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  • Cool Web Sites
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  • Ergonomic Gizmos
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  • Find Riches on the Internet? Maybe!
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  • From the Dealsguy
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  • General Meeting
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  • HelpingTulsa
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  • Important notify about your e-mail account
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  • IROFFER.EXE
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  • Is Your Computer Infested With RATS?
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  • Mail Delivery (failure don@donsingleton.com)
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  • Moose Benefit Car Show
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  • National Cyber Security Day Now More Important than Ever!
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  • NewsWatcher
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  • PCI Express: Say Goodbye to AGP and PCI Slots
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  • Please Dont Fall for HOAXES and URBAN LEGENDS
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  • Privacy on the Net? NYET!
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  • Scopeware
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  • Spam Inspector
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  • Under Attack by Cyber Worms
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  • UNIX for New Users
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  • Verify your E-mail with Citibank
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  • Virus Protection
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  • Visa
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  • What Is APCUG?
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  • Your credit card has been successfully charged for $69.95
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    March 2004

  • Calendar April 2004
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  • Calendar March 2004
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  • Cheap Phone Calls?
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  • Choosing a Surge Suppressor
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  • Cool Web Sites
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  • EBay Scam
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  • From the Dealsguy
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  • General Meeting
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  • HelpingTulsa
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  • Hi! I'm from the Government and I'm Here to Help Your Computer
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  • IRS Again Offers Free Online Filing Services
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  • Is That a PC in Your Pocket/Purse?
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  • Legal Bytes: Cyber Privacy … Or Is That A Virtual Eyeball in My Computer?
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  • PayPal Scam
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  • Picture and Video Files: Size Matters
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  • Review of Adobe Photoshop CS
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  • Still Annoyed with Your PC? Keep Fighting Back!
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  • Still MORE Scams Proliferate on the Net
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  • What Is Your Resolution
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    February 2004

  • Accessories for that New Digital Camera
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  • Animate Your PowerPoint with VoxProxy
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  • Calendar February 2004
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  • Calendar March 2004
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  • Computer Viruses and Spam Ruled in 2003 - Be Prepared!
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  • Computers from the Very Beginning
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  • Cool Web Sites
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  • Cyberfraud - Dont Take the Pfishing Bait
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  • From the Dealsguy
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  • General Meeting
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  • HelpingTulsa
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  • How to Move Files to Your New PC
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  • Inhuman Computers
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  • Installing Cox
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  • National Cyber Alert System
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  • Online Information for the Elderly & the Disabled
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  • Take Rest Breaks, Exercise To Prevent Computer Ailments
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  • The Healthy PC
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  • To Upgrade or Not to Upgrade!
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  • Tricky 'MyDoom' e-mail worm spreading quickly
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  • What's News in Space
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    January 2004

  • Battle of the Browsers – IE May Lose
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  • Calendar February 2004
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  • Calendar January 2004
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  • Computers --- From the Very Beginning for New Users
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  • Cooking on the Web
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  • Cool Web Sites
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  • Digital Cameras for the Holiday Season
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  • Essentials for that New Computer
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  • From the Dealsguy
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  • General Meeting
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  • HelpingTulsa
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  • Horse Virus
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  • Internet Comparison Shopping
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  • May Your Holidays Be Filled With Polygons
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  • More New and Interesting Computing Technology
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  • New and Interesting Computing Technology from Las Vegas
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  • New Years Computing Resolutions
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  • The Healthy PC
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  • Users still need to know more about popular, new DVD technology
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