Newletter # 54

GREATER BOSTON SENIOR COMPUTER GROUP NEWSLETTER
Issue No. 54, February 11, 2004
CHAIRPERSON:: Arline Ekman, AVE@alumni.unh.edu
EDITOR: Harriet Mandell, harrietd@rcn.com
WEB PAGE: Garry Ziffer, http://users.rcn.com/gbscg
LIAISON: Eve Welts, ewelts@rcn.com
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SERIOUS DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHERS...and the rest of us too. be inspired to view great photos at http://www.digitalphotocontest.com you can join for a membership fee and submit your pix or participate in DigitalPhotoCritique for feedback on improving your digital photographs. The photographers there prefer Canon and Nikon cameras. Probably the two best low price photoshop editors (under $100.) are (1) Paint Shop Pro 8, a big 270 MB program with an excellent learning center and step-by-step projects to go with its manual. Info on PSP8 can be found at http://www.jasc.com/ The book How to Do Everything with Paint Shop Pro 8. by Dave Huss can be ordered at the Newton's NE Mobile Book Fair for $20. (2) Photoshop Elements is said to be able to do over 90% of the work of the parent Photoshop http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopel/main. Read the latest digital photo news and reviews and participate in camera forums http://www.dpreview.com /A useful information site is http://www.steves-digicams.com/ This information from George Martins gmartins@gis.net .
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A SALUTE TO OUR MARKET PLACE ON THE WEB PAGE from Matt Slate who writes: "Don't be too hasty throwing away a legacy device." A friend of his showed him an old Zoom external modem that he had used with a Commodore. After submitting it for sale on the web site, Matt got an e-mail asking about it. A company in New Jersey had a testing facility in Maine which had used that Zoom modem in their set-up. Because it had gone bad, they needed to find a replacement or make major changes. Finding it on our site, they offered Matt $100 for it. After they set it up and it worked, they sent him the money for his friend. Try your luck at our marketplace on the web page. http://users.rcn.com/gbscg/marketplace.htm
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CONTROL WHAT'S ON PRINTED WEB PAGES To change what gets printed on the bottom of the Web pages that you print using Internet Explorer, from within Internet Explorer, select File and then, Page Setup. You just need to enter special codes into the Header (what gets printed at the top of the page) and the Footer (what gets printed at the bottom of the page) boxes. For example, to have the Web page's address printed, you would enter "&u" without the quotes. You can combine codes, too. To see a list of codes, click on the question mark in the upper right corner in the Page Setup menu and then, click on either the Header or Footer box.
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WINDOWS 98, WINDOWS 98 SECOND Edition, and Windows Millennium Support Extended (Bulletin dated January 16,2004) Key Dates:

Paid incident support for Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows Millennium Edition (Me) is available through June 30, 2006.
Customers can request security fixes for Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Me, and the most current version of their components until June 30, 2006 through normal assisted-support channels.
Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows Me downloads for existing security issues will continue to be available through regular assisted-support channels at no charge until June 30, 2006.
No-charge incident support and extended hotfix support for Windows 98 and Windows 98 Second Edition ended on June 30, 2003.
No-charge incident support and extended hotfix support for Windows Me ended on December 31, 2003.

Online self-help support will be available until at least June 30, 2007.
Details:
Windows 98 and Windows 98 Second Edition support was scheduled to end on January 16, 2004. However, continual evaluation of the Support Lifecycle policy revealed that customers in the smaller and the emerging markets needed additional time to upgrade their product. Therefore, Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows Me will continue to be supported after January 16, 2004.

Internet Explorer support on Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows Me

Microsoft will provide the following level of support for Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 (or current version) from Jan 17, 2004 through June 30, 2006:
Paid incident support.

Customers can request security fixes for Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Me, and the most current version of their components until June 30, 2006 through normal assisted-support channels.
Extended hotfix support for Windows 98 and Windows 98 Second Edition ended June 30, 2003.
Extended hotfix support for Windows Millennium ended December 31, 2003.

Windows Media Player and other Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows Me Components
Microsoft will provide the following level of support on the most current versions of components for Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, and Windows Me (such as Windows Media Player 9) from January 17, 2004 through June 30, 2006:
Paid incident support

Customers can request security fixes for Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Me, and the most current version of their components until June 30, 2006 through normal assisted-support channels.
Extended hotfix support for components of Windows 98 and Windows 98 Second Edition ended June 30, 2003.

Extended hotfix support for components of Windows Millennium ended December 31, 2003. For specific support dates on Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Me, Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, and other components, visit the Microsoft Support Lifecycle Web site. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];lifecycle
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