Which Branch Of Your Family Tree Are You On?
Find out at the July meeting of the computer club.

Are you a budding genealogist?  Join us this month for our main presentation from Terry Leverette, long time member of the South Carolina Genealogy Society.  He will be on hand to show you how to find lost relatives or broken twigs, and to answer any questions you may have.

He will be demonstrating three programs that will help with locating lost relatives: Legacy 7.0, GenSmart, and Family Atlas.

If you are a new or experienced genealogist, you will not want to miss this meeting.  Be sure to mark your calendar for this informative meeting.  Join us and bring your questions and a friend.  Meetings are open to the public: 6:00 - 8:30 pm.

Join us at the 

Capital Senior Center

at Maxcy Gregg Park 1650 Park Circle, Columbia, SC. 

If you would like to get directions from an embeded Google map in the Palmetto PC webpage. Click Here!!

Related Links:

Legacy 7.0 | GenSmart | Family Atlas | Capital Senior Center

Microsoft has announced a new search engine.  Can they compete with Google and Yahoo?  Everyone has their favorite search engine.  Mine's Google.  Give bing a try and let us know whay you like or dislike.  You can start using bing here.  You can also go here to learn more about bing. 

Microsoft will be unleashing Windows 7 to the world sooner than later according to most of the recent media coverage.  Release Candidate 1 is available now for download for anyone interested in participating in the final testing phase.

For our June 11 club meeting we will have a hands on demonstration of Windows 7.  We encourage our members and guests to attend. Anyone anticipating purchasing a new computer this year will also need to decide to stick with Windows Vista or upgrade to Windows 7.  Later in the year, most computers sold in retail locations will have Windows 7 as an operating system.  Be sure to mark your calendar for this informative meeting.

Related Links:

MS Windows 7

At our March club meeting, Doug Fisher, Executive Editor of The Convergence Newsletter, spoke to the club about how easy it is to start a blog.  He demonstrated some great online resources that can make setting up a blog both simple and free.  After the meeting I was motivated to start blogging, but I had to overcome the hardest part – what would I blog about?  Once I made it over this hurdle, the rest was a breeze.  Read on to find out just how easy it is! 

By now you have heard of the conficker worm.  There was a great deal of media coverage about this April Fool's worm wreaking havoc on computers around the world.  But things didn't seem that bad at the end of the day on April 1...or so we thought.

Conficker just won't go away.  Apparently it is updating itself to do more malicious activity on computers that still have the worm.  If you are having trouble connecting to Microsoft's website as well as most antivirus companies' websites, you just might have this pesky worm on your computer.

If you have been keeping up with your Windows updates, you're OK.  We suggest you leave Automatic Updates on to protect your computer from these kinds of problems. 

For more information and help visit Microsoft's website.

The new version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer is available now for download.  Give it a try and let us know what you like or dislike about it.

Go here to download.