Norton Utilities

WinFax 7.5
Monthly Publication
Of The
Kentucky Indiana
PC Users Group
February
1997
Volume 16, No. 2
In this issue
From The Editor . . . . . . . .2
Symantec products . . . . . . .4
WinFax 7.5 . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Announcements 5.0 . . . . . .8
Junior Stationery . . . . . . .10
February calendar . . . . . .11
March calendar . . . . . . . .12
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
The Sig Scene . . . . . . . . . .14
Free software . . . . . . . . . .15
SigWise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Meeting review . . . . . . . . .17
NetMeeting 2 beta 2 . . . . .20
New Horizons . . . . . . . . . .22
Mentors . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Norton Utilities
Membership app. . . . . . . .23
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From The Editor
then you are sitting
ou have an
pretty when the drawexcellent
ing comes along.
opportunity
We have had some
to win some excellent
remarkably
good
prizes
and
help
prizes offered in past
KIPCUG financially at
raffles,
and
this
the February meeting
month’s drawing is in
when we will again be
same category.
hosting another aucJOHN L. GILKEY the Charlie
Johnson
tion.
deserves
a
sound
pat
on the
If you are like me and tend not
to win prizes at meetings, :-( back for his efforts in making
then possibly coming from this program work, and work
another tack is just what you well.
If you see him at the February
need.
The proceeds go into the gen- meeting, or any meeting for
eral fund and help finance that matter, you might want to
give him a word of thanks.
KIPCUG projects.
Keep in mind that this is a
The best thing about the raffle
is that you apply your tickets to volunteer organization, and all
the items you want. It’s not like of the labor that goes into maktaking a blind shot at any prize. ing the auction a success comes
If you happen to want that gratuitously from Charlie and
obscure prize that no one else those who lend him a hand with
has tossed their tickets toward, the project.
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Contributing staff writers
Judy Lococo, Libby Thurman, Fred Soward,
Sharon Kinney-Romeo, Michael Romeo,
Robert Myers, Steve Goldberg,
Debbie Bulleit
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xpanding its 15-year history of
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is tired of trying to solve recurring computer problems, Symantec offers a solution.”
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Inexperienced PC users now have a
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hardware and valuable data, such as
financial records and important documents. Healthy PC combines the benefits of two of Symantec’s best-selling
problem-solving programs: Norton
AntiVirus and Speed Disk. With one
mouse click, Healthy PC launches a
complete maintenance routine in less
than five minutes — finding and removing viruses and tuning up the hard drive
by arranging files for faster access. The
program detects and fixes small problems before they become big ones.
The program’s graphic oval-shaped
interface is easy-to-understand for new
users who may be unfamiliar with pulldown menus and check-boxes. Virus
scanning and the hard disk optimizing
process is literally as simple as clicking
the “Start” button. The program lists the
areas it is checking and provides a quick
summary report on the “health” of the
PC. For problems that Healthy PC
detects but cannot repair, the program
points users to the correct resources that
will resolve them. Healthy PC also
includes the LIVE UPDATE feature.
With an estimated retail price (ERP)
of $29.95, Healthy PC is available at
mass market outlets, consumer electronics chains and computer stores
nationwide, including Best Buy,
CompUSA, Computer City, Fry’s,
Microcenter, Staples and Egghead
Software among others.
NORTON UTILITIES 2.0
FOR WINDOWS 95
Since the first version was introduced
in 1982, Norton Utilities has been widely recognized as the best software to
optimize and protect PC hard drives,
and fix small problems before they
become critical to PC performance and
productivity. With version 2.0, Norton
Utilities continues to provide incomparable utilities that increase PC produc-
tivity.
Norton Utilities 2.0 includes many
advanced features for Windows 95based PCs. Searching for potential
problems and fixing them before they
cause a system failure, the program’s
exclusive System Doctor technology
constantly monitors the PC. While the
user works, this feature also protects
underlying resources on which user
files rely, such as memory and disk
space. System Doctor also gives a warning if the hard drive is about to fail,
checks the system for viruses and notifies users when the virus definitions
need to be updated. Finally, this technology also monitors the Internet and
alerts users of optimal times to log onto
their favorite sites.
Through a graphical “point-andclick” interface, the new Norton System
Genie provides numerous ways for
users to easily customize Windows 95
to fit individual requirements and tastes.
Norton Utilities’ Speed Disk program
keeps hard drives running optimally,
while Space Wizard allows users to
safely remove unneeded files.
Norton Utilities 2.0 for Windows 95,
is available at an estimated retail price
(ERP) of $79. Previously registered
users of Norton Utilities can upgrade
for $49. Norton Utilities is available at
computer stores nationwide, including
including Best Buy, CompUSA,
Computer City, Fry’s, Microcenter,
Staples and Egghead Software among
others.
INTERNET FASTFIND
The only product to seamlessly combine all seven top Internet search
engines, Internet FastFind is the quickest and easiest way for users to find
what they are looking for online. The
program finds specific files on the
Internet, and notifies the user of
changes on important Web pages, FTP
sites and network files and folders.
Internet FastFind easily zips and unzips
files, and let users get to their favorite
Web pages directly from the Windows
95/NT taskbar.
The program includes many features
that make navigating the Internet simple. Eliminating the long and tedious
process of finding information on the
Internet, WebFind checks Yahoo, Lycos,
Alta Vista, Infoseek, Magellan and
WebCrawler separately. It then combines each engine’s returned results,
eliminates duplication, prioritizes the
list and presents the final results in one
easy-to-understand Web page.
Other features include NetFileFind,
which enables users to “drag and drop”
files from the Internet directly onto their
PCs. Through Notify, users can track
specific Web sites and automatically be
updated or alerted of changes at preprogrammed intervals. Simplifying the
task of updating the PC, PatchConnect
automatically creates links to Internet
sites where updates to hardware and
software on a user’s PC are typically
posted.
Internet FastFind is available for an
estimated retail price (ERP) of $49.95
at computer stores nationwide, including including Best Buy, CompUSA,
Computer City, Fry’s, Microcenter,
Staples and Egghead Software among
others.
CRASHGUARD
AND
ANTI-FREEZE
PC Handyman and Norton Utilities
2.0 for Windows 95 include Norton
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retail value) at no additional cost.
CrashGuard is the only product available that can protect the user from losing important files as a result of both
application “crashes” and “freezes”. If
the user experiences a crash or an application freeze, CrashGuard will usually
fix the problem and let the user continue.
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W
inFax 7.5 could
be your solution
to world-wide
Internet faxing
Symantec Upgrades WinFax
PRO 7.5 To Embrace Internet
Fax. Version 7.5 Also Includes
TalkWorks Telephony.
W
inFax
PRO
7.5
delivers all the
traditional
productivity
benefits of
computer based
faxing, plus the
ability to send
faxes through
the Internet for
delivery to fax
machines world
wide that exist
off the Internet.
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S
ymantec Corporation, a worldwide leader in communications
software, has announced
WinFax PRO 7.5, the latest version of
its award-winning fax software for
Windows 95. WinFax PRO 7.5 delivers
all the traditional productivity benefits
of computer based faxing, plus the ability to send faxes through the Internet for
delivery to fax machines world wide
that exist off the Internet. WinFax PRO
7.5 becomes the
first major computer fax application to embrace
the
emerging
technology
of
Internet
fax.
TalkWorks, the
WinFax telephony option, is now
included
with
WinFax PRO 7.5,
giving users with
supported voice
modems, voice
answering
and
telephony capabilities,
along
with a full-featured fax program in one
box.
“The best way for us to keep in touch
with our clients is by fax and this contributes substantially to our long distance telephone bills,” said Thilo T.
Newman, President of Newman & Lord
Enterprises Inc., “The ability to fax over
the Internet is the kind of cost saving
technology we have been looking for.
All our employees have direct access to
the Internet through our computer network, which means they can now start
faxing right from their desktop’s without incurring additional hardware
expenses such as installing dedicated
telephone lines and purchasing
modems. It is great to finally be given
an opportunity to lower our overheads.”
Newman & Lord has 1,000 employees
worldwide, and is involved in T.V., Film
and Television Production, as well as
Medical and Real Estate products and
services.
How Fax Embraces The Net
“WinFax PRO 7.5 takes advantage of
the Internet infrastructure and gives
users a low-cost
alternative to the
traditional telephone network for
long distance faxing,” commented
Marc
Camm,
General Manager
for
Symantec
D e s k t o p
Communications
Business Unit. “It
uses the Internet as
a medium to transport faxes to traditional
fax
machines or computers equipped with a
fax modem that are not directly connected to the Internet. We fax through
the Internet with the same level of reliability, security, immediacy and point-topoint connectivity that users get when
faxing over a telephone line.”
Together with NetCentric, the leading
provider of software for the Internet
Infrastructure, WinFax PRO 7.5 delivers point-to-point faxing from the user’s
desktop to any fax machine or device
worldwide. This is done through an
Internet connection, thus eliminating
the need for a separate, dedicated fax
line or fax machine. Internet fax is
secure, with RSA’s encryption engine
employed. Faxes can also be sent
through the Internet, even if a corporation uses fire wall technology.
How Internet Fax Works
To the user, the process of sending a
fax through the Internet is the same as
sending a fax through the telephone network. Once the user has enabled the
Internet fax service through the setup
wizard, sending a fax over the Internet
is easy. After preparing their document
for faxing, the user is given a choice in
which method of delivery—
through a normal phone
line or through the
Internet—they
would prefer to
use. To the
user, transmitting a fax
appears to be
the same for
either method, however, behind the scenes the
process differs. Once a user has selected to send a fax over the Internet,
WinFax PRO 7.5 compresses and
encrypts the fax and sends it through a
NetCentric server, which then uses
intelligent routing algorithms to route
the fax over the Internet, at the lowest
cost possible, to the recipient.
Throughout the entire process, WinFax
PRO 7.5 provides real-time status to the
user.
Internet Fax Service Pricing
The cost of sending an Internet fax
from anywhere in the world to a destination within the United States is 15
cents per minute. A user can also submit
a fax from anywhere in the world and
have the U.S. based server fax it to any
fax machine or device outside of the
U.S. for substantially less than a direct
phone call. For faxes sent to destinations outside the United States, the price
varies depending on the actual destination, with a discount up to 80% off standard long distance telephone rates being
offered. A comprehensive rate list will
be posted on the Internet to help users
determine their savings when using
Internet fax.
TalkWorks
TalkWorks, the WinFax telephony
option, is now included in the box with
WinFax PRO 7.5. TalkWorks offers
users a number of enhanced features
and capabilities, including enabling a
computer equipped with a voice-capable fax modem to answer the telephone,
and record and store voice messages.
TalkWorks automatically discriminates
between fax and voice calls so that users
are also able to share a single analog
phone line for both fax and voice.
TalkWorks also includes telephony features such as speed dialing, conference
calling, and hands-free operation through a full
duplex speakerphone. In
addition,
Ta l k Wo r k s
supports multimedia PCs
by
enabling
users to record
greetings or play back
messages through their
.WAV-based sound boards.
WinFax PRO 7.5 has an estimated
street price of US$99 (Cdn $139) and
includes a 60-day money back guarantee. WinFax PRO 7.0 users can upgrade
to version 7.5 for US$19.95 (Cdn
$29.95), however, users who purchased
or upgraded to WinFax PRO 7.0 on or
after August 1, 1996 can call Symantec
to get a free upgrade. Users of WinFax
PRO 4.0 or earlier versions can upgrade
for US$49.95 (Cdn $69.95). Users of
WinFax LITE and any other Symantec
product can upgrade/crossgrade for a
cost of US$59.95 (Cdn $79.95).
Upgrade prices do not include shipping
and handling fees.
The product requires a minimum 486based PC running Microsoft Windows
95, a Class 1 or Class 2 fax modem, 16
MB RAM recommended (8 MB minimum), and 28 MB hard disk space for a
full install. A voice-enabled fax modem
is required to use the functionality of
TalkWorks.
T
alkWorks,
the WinFax
telephony
option, is now
included in the
box with WinFax
PRO 7.5.
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Announcements 5.0
Everything from cards to calendars the easy way
By John L. Gilkey
Kentucky Indiana PC Users Group
A
nnouncements
can generate
cards,
brochures,
mailers,
banners,
envelopes,
cut and fold
envelopes,
postcards,
business cards,
letterheads,
calendars,
posters and
certificates
Parson’s Technology appears to have
a winner on their hands with the release
of Announcements 5.0, a program that
can make a wide variety of documents
for you ranging from cards to calendars.
In fact, Announcements can generate
cards, brochures, mailers, banners,
envelopes, cut and fold envelopes, postcards, business cards, letterheads, calendars, posters and certificates, complete with an extensive supply of clip art
to make your work look professional.
The nice thing about Announcements
is its interface. It makes the job of creating complex documents so simple that
my seven-year-old son Christopher can
master the program without my help
(although I like to think that he would
rather have me on hand just because I’m
dad.)
The program presents a point and
click environment that allows you to
move through the process of creating
your document. There is nothing technical about it, and you are always provided with sufficient guidance to get you
where you want to go.
There are a number of programs out
on the market that can generate some of
the documents that Announcements
creates. However, I think you would be
hard-pressed to come up with one that
meets or exceeds this program’s capabilities.
Many people have used a card-making
program to create a personalized greeting card. Well Announcements carries
the concept one step further by generating a “Cut-N-Fold” envelope designed
to fit the card, or any other document
you create for that matter.
Trust me, it’s great! You select an
option to print a “Quick Envelope” and
seconds later, out comes a sheet of
paper with the envelope template
imprinted. You cut, glue and mail. It’s
that simple.
If you want to get even fancier, you
can even generate envelopes using a
mail merge function and have the
addresses printed on your custom
envelopes.
It’s great. I never seemed to have an
envelope that would fit the cards I printed with other software. Now it’s just too
easy.
Ever try generating a tri-fold docu-
Announcements 5.0 menus are point-and-click technology. There’s nothing
complicated here.
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ment? It can be a pain! You have to measure, plot, plan and then hope you get it
right. Which fold is on top? Where’s the
back? It can be a real hassle.
Announcements does it with ease. You
select the panel you want on work on
from an easy-to-use dialog box. Again,
it’s point and click technology.
Clip art is available in abundance from
the program’s CD-ROM for just about
any project you can get involved in generating.
There is a video tutorial that explains
the program and how to generate documents and even gives you a few tips.
If you want to get a little fancy, a companion program that can be used independently or called from within
Announcements, allows you to generate
specialized text effects. Called Text FX,
it can take plain text and shape it just
about any way you choose.
I have found the product beneficial not
only while using Announcements, but in
many other applications as well!
Announcements offers direct on-line
connections to the Parsons web site
where you can get tips and tricks, free
graphics or even make an electronic
card to e-mail to a friend.
If you purchase the Standard version,
you will receive 200 images and 50
ready-made documents to help get you
started. The Deluxe version contains
125 fonts, 1000 images, and over 400
ready-made documents. No matter
which version you purchase, you can
jump right in and start creating documents.
The CD will operate on a PC or a
Mac. On the PC platform, both
Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 are supported.
Installation is simple and tech support
seems more than capable or dealing
with simple to complex questions.
The company can be reached at:
Parsons Technology, Inc., One Parsons
Drive, P.O. Box 100, Hiawatha, Iowa
52233-0100. Parson’s customer assistance department can be reached at 319395-0115 or you can fax them at 319395-0466. Technical service can be
reached at 319-395-7314.
Need an envelope to fit that card you just created for a friend?
Announcements can generate a “Cut-N-Fold” envelope for just about any
document it can create.
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J
unior Stationery
DogByte Development’s
solution to just about all
your child’s stationery
needs
by Winnie Miller
Kentucky Indiana PC Users Group
Fun for a child and fun for you!
T
here are
letters to
Santa and
certificate
templates as
well as many
choices of
holidays, pets,
robots, and
dinosaur
pictures.
This program is for children eight
years old and up. It is also for adults that
want to have some simple fun. With
some help from my six and almost eight
years old grandchildren, I had a ball.
The software is easy to use and can be
installed on your hard drive or used
from the CD. The program lets you
make cards, stationery and envelopes
using templates or pictures of your own
choice. It also has empty dialogue boxes
that you can use to create your own stories.
There are letters to Santa and certificate templates as well as many choices
of holidays, pets, robots, and dinosaur
pictures. Some of the pictures were so
intriguing that I made some stationery
with just a picture to send to my friends
for their personal use. I found more
fonts than Carter has little pills even
though it says in the directions that you
can use only one font per item but the
selection of the fonts’ size and color is
your choice.
It is helpful if you print out the first
card and stationery with the directions
printed on the page to use as a reminder.
But be careful, you could end up with
pictures as well as the directions on
your final printing. To eliminate this
problem you highlight the directions
and hit delete or backspace. A print
password that can be turned on and off
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is included in the program and when the
password is on you are asked each time
if you wish to print. After I saw my
stack of practicing papers I understood
the asking each time if you really want
to print what you just created. Also you
get another question before you print
asking if you want to cut off or squash
on your printer. I did both and did not
see any noticeable difference.
Using regular paper, a child can create
their own envelopes reminiscent of halcyon days of making valentines and trying to cut an envelope of your own. The
print out of the two sizes of envelopes
tells you where to cut and paste with a
glue stick. This works so well that I
could not resist sending a friend one
with a dachshund on the front. Also
helpful when you run out of envelopes
and you have a bill that must be paid
yesterday. Of course you would not do
that!!!!
An address book, that gives you
enough space to include an e-mail
address or add a comment, is included
with the program. You can also select a
mailing list and merge. The large print
was adequate for older eyes.
DogByte Development has a toll free
number for current prices. 1-800 9364298. They also have a technical support 719-592-0092. Stationery Store
Junior - Ages 8 and up Make your own
custom cards, stationary and envelopes!
System Requirements: Windows CDROM 1MB hard disk space
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SigWise
VB Sig News from
Martin Campion
The January meeting of the Visual
Basic SIG was the recipient of some of
the nastiest weather of the season, and
consequently your intrepid SIG coordinator was the only participant. I
made a few changes to the programming project we have been working on
and then left for home.
So this gives me a chance to vent a
few programming maxims. I believe
that VB is a great introductory programming language, but two of the
characteristics that make it easy to use
also make it treacherous.
The first is it’s acceptance of “loosetyping”. A programming language is
said to be “strongly-typed” if it
requires each variable to be defined
before it is used within the code. This
was often the case of BASICs in years
past but somehow this prudent practice
has been reversed with the latest versions. This can play havoc with careless typists (which by definition,
should read “programmers”) working
late in the night on deadlines due the
previous week. One letter wrong in the
variable name will cause VB to define
a new variable automatically and continue on it’s merry way.
Fortunately, the programmer can
short-circuit VB’s behavior by changing an environment setting. This setting is accessed through the
Options/Environment menu command
in VB3 or the Tools/Options menu
command on the Environment tab in
VB4. The setting is called “Require
Variable Declaration” and it should be
changed from the default of “no” to
“yes’ in VB3 or should be checked in
VB4.
This change causes the Editor to
automatically include the statement
“Option Explicit” at the top of every
subsequently created VB file. This will
cause the compiler to create an error if
a program tries to use a variable with-
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out specifically declaring it first. Be
carefull though - changing this setting
does nothing for files which already
exist. You must go back and type the
statement in yourself for code modules
that already exist.
While you are setting options you
should consider changing another
default setting. This setting causes the
editor to automatically save any
changes in a file or project before
compiling and running the project. Be
sure to have this set to yes. If you don’t
do this, a glitch in your program could
cause VB or the computer to crash sending all your recent changes to
nowhere.
One more default setting in VB3,
which I always change, is the one
called “Default SAVE AS Format”.
Make sure it is changed from “binary”
to “text.” This change allows you to
load a VB source file into a word
processor for reading, editing or printing. It may be a while before you have
the urge to do this, but if you wait,
then you will have a number of files
that will have to be laboriously converted. In VB4, files are always saved
as text.
Finally, the other characteristic of
Visual Basic which I define as treacherous is the presence of the “Variant”
data type, which, as far as I know, is
unique to VB. If you are not familiar
with VB, you may not know that a
“Variant” is a data “type” which can
contain any data type. A Variant can be
a string, any size integer, any size
floating-point variable or it can be
“Empty.”
I am generally friendly to change but
this does not seem to me to be a valuable innovation in programming.
Indeed I can imagine many problems
arising from not knowing what kind of
data you are dealing with at any particular time. Since VB also contains a
set of routines for testing Variants to
see what kind of data is actually pre-
By
SIG
Coordinator
Michael
Romeo
sent, the designers obviously could see
problems as well.
By default, any variable which is not
specifically declared as some other
data type becomes a Variant. Since my
programming mostly uses integer variables, I try to remember to type at the
beginning of every file “DefInt A-Z”
which will cause all variables to be
two-byte integers unless specifically
declared otherwise. This device saves
me from having to type “as Integer”
innumerable times. The only problem
is that there is no setting which automatically types this line in, and if I forget I create Variants by accident.
The next meeting of the SIG is on
February 13, so mark your calendars
and pray for decent weather.
New SIG News
from Michael Romeo
We all know the Web is dominating
the outlook of computing. Are you
finally ready to pick up some knowledge about Web concepts and designs.
Then make plans to attend one of our
newest SIGs at 330-F Distillery
Commons. Larry Bolton of WINNET
is organizing a WebMaster SIG to
meet at his offices on the 3rd Thursday
of the month.
The first meeting will be on
February 20th. The facilities are neat,
with a T1 connection to the Internet
and a video projection unit hooked to a
PC. A VCR tape unit is hooked in
series also and seating is there for 28.
If you plan to attend, be sure and give
a ring to Larry (589-6800 ext 17) so he
can be aware if too many are planning
to attend. For those of you who can’t
make it, why not use your browser to
check out the URL at “http://winnetcam.win.net” on that evening. Larry
has a 24-hour videocam pointing at the
audience seating. Maybe you’ll see us.
Meeting
We had a larger than average attendance for our January meeting. Perhaps
this reflects the interest people seem to
have in all things Internet. Did the
America Online dial-in problems put
people in the mood for finding a better
Internet Service Provider?
Club president Judy Lococo brought
the meeting to order precisely at 6:30
pm and started things off with the
Question & Answer segment. First
order of business: Jim Martin is missing!
Once again, Dave Puckett gives us a
lame excuse: “Jim has a sore throat. He
sends his best”. Suspicious, no? We all
know the hambone in Jim wouldn’t
keep him away from our meetings - not
for two months in a row. What’s really
up? Does Dave collect both salaries
when Jim’s not here? How are the residuals from syndication handled? There is
a mystery afoot.
We were told that Jim sent a replacement (name of Jack) to work in his
stead but I’ll bet he is just another one
of Dave’s lackeys. Will the show-stealing Martin be back? Can Dave succesfully keep the spotlight on himself?
Stay tuned, answer fans, when these and
other important questions are once
again resolved in.......
User to User
Questions can be penned onto index
cards before the meeting. Jack and Dave
read them to the group. Perhaps an
attendee will be able to help. This is a
popular segment and often ends up
putting the questioner and answerer
together after the meeting.
Question: What do members think of
the service they get from MSN?
Response: Microsoft Network is a service that competes with Compuserve
and AOL. Only three of the audience
had an opinion. All seemed happy with
the service (especially the inexpensive
price option) although one found the
automatic sound advertisments a bit
annoying.
Question: How is the World Wide
REVIEW
by Sharon and Michael Romeo
Web (WWW) different from the
Internet? Response: The WWW is a
way of viewing graphic information on
the Internet. The Internet is basically a
bunch of computers connected together.
The WWW is a subset of the Internet.
The Internet is not limited to being
graphical. Text based information can
be accessed also. See the January issue
of IO magazine for more details.
Question: Can I use a 1986 Lee Data
color monitor with a 25-pin female connector as a VGA monitor for a PC? The
company no longer has a phone listing
in Eden Prarie, Mn. Response: No firm
answers but most think it is more like a
dumb terminal that hooks up to a timesharing computer (older legacy equipment) such as a DEC RSTS system.
Michael checked later on the Web and
found that the InfoSeek search engine
had some articles about the demise of
the company.
Question: I am having a problem with
Windows 95 Explorer. When I start it
up, I get an hourglass and nothing else.
A CTRL-ALT-DEL gives me a message
that Explorer is not responding to the
system. What’s happening? Response:
One user had a similar problem and
fixed it by updating his video driver.
Others suggested that too little free
space on the disk could account for this
behavior. Some suggested too little ram
could be the culprit. Then the discussion went on to techniques for freeing
up space on disk.
General News
Our Program Director, Steve
Goldberg, told us about upcoming
meetings. Next is Symantec in February
which will deal with Norton Utilities
and WinFax Pro. Now that Windows is
moving from FAT16 to FAT32 it will be
important that your good old Norton
Utilities and Norton AntiVirus work
without error. Does this mean another
upgrade is necessary? Come and see.
Microsoft comes to our March meeting. We are hoping to be included as
part of the Office 97 tour but if not, then
the subject will be Window NT. Stay
tuned for details. The April meeting will
have Lotus showing their SmartSuite 97
products. All in all, this looks to be a
pretty strong line-up. We are negotiating with Corel to show their Office
Suite Product and IBM with OS/2.
Fred Soward, our volunteer coordinator, is still looking to have someone step
up and be our Publicity/Marketing
Director. He has a few volunteer certificates that need to get to members:
please contact him. However the main
thing he is interested in now is getting
people to stand up for officer elections.
He has put together a commitee to handle nominations. Please contact him
with names for submission. The slate
gets submitted to the membership at our
March meeting with the ballot being
published in the April edition of IO
magazine.
Featured Presentation
ISP RoundTable
Usually, we see a product demonstration as part of the presentation.
However, in January, we did things a bit
differently. We rounded up seven of the
Internet Service Providers (ISP) in our
area to take questions about the services
they provide and the future as they see
it.
We started off by having our
Webmaster, Ric Manning, lead them
through a Q&A session. We then had
questions from the audience. Ric is the
computer and home electronics columnist for the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Over the years, he has had occasion to
meet with all of the ISP representatives.
A quick survey of the audience found
more people shopping for an ISP than
currently using one. This came as a
slight surprise to us. The Web and
Internet e-mail are so useful that
Michael and I can no longer imagine
getting by without them.
Let’s start off by listing the presenters:
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(1) Richard Meadows of IGLOU.
IGLOU tells us that they have “thousands & thousands” of subscribers.
IGLOU serves the Louisville,
Lexington and Cincinatti markets.
(2) R. Collie King of NTR.NET (pronounced Internet, get it?). They claim to
have about 8,000 current subscribers in
93 cities.
(3) Mark Kinney of KA.NET says
they service the Louisville Metro area
and the Shelbyville area.
(4) Larry Bolton of WINNET claims
about 3,000 subscribers from the
Louisville area although they do provide an 800 number subsciption service
for those who travel.
(5) Chuck Burke of MicroTech,
headquartered in Lexington claims over
8,000 subscibers in 70 counties in
Kentucky and Indiana.
(6) Bob McNamara of MindSpring
claims over 125,000 subscribers in
about 250 cities. In Kentucky, they provide local dial-up for Lexington,
Lousivile, Owensboro and Bowling
Green.
(7) Eric Paul of AYE.NET, headquartered in Jeffersonville, Indiana, claims
about 850 subscribers in the Louisville
metro area.
Ric asked a series of questions and
gave each of the seven an opportunity to
answer. He started off by asking which
of them could offer simple telnet access
so that a subscriber could just do e-mail
and subscribe to a few mailling lists.
This is a text-based service (accessed
through software like ProComm or
Windows’ HyperTerminal) often
referred to as a shell account.
Presumably this would be cheaper than
getting the graphical WWW access that
so many equate with the Internet. Are
you surprised that only 3 of the 7 offer
access this way?
You might wonder why people bother
with this text-based access. After all,
isn’t the World Wide Web what you
really want to use over the Internet?
Yes, when all is said and done, you do
want WWW access. But sometimes you
are forced to use an older PC that is perhaps Dos-based and you still have a
need to send & retrieve your e-mail.
IGLOU, NTR.NET and KA-NET offer
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shell accounts.
Next came questions about pricing
options. IGLOU and MINDSPRING
have low-end plans for $6.95 per
month. NTR.NET and KA-NET offer
low-end plans for $14.95 per month.
MicroTech offers a low-end plan for
$17.95 per month. In fact, we will not
be able to list all of the plans offered by
these guys as there are quite a few variations.
Basicly, you can expect to pay about
$20-25 per month for unlimited access
from any of these guys. If you can get
by with less, most seem to have lower
fees for those who can limit their online
time or can limit their access to non
prime-time hours.
Some have plans that supply multiple
e-mail addresses like AOL does for
family members on the same account.
Some have plans that offer disk space
for your own web-pages. Some offer
discounts for pre-paying (say for 6
months or a year).
Next came questions about the
modem speeds supported. Are all lines
able to support 33.6-k speeds? Do some
lines step down to supports users calling
in at slower speeds (say 14.4-k)? Or are
the lower speeds provided with a seperate call-in phone number so that the
faster modems are utilized optimally?
What about the new 56-k X2 technology that we are hearing about lately?
By the way, check out the U.S.
Robotics web-site at www.usr.com for
good information about what the new
X2 technology is all about.
In general, all of the ISP’s are competing vigorously for your business and
none will surrender faster speed options
to the others. However, for those of you
interested in the very fast T1 access
speeds, only 3 of the 7 will be able to
provide you with it: MICROTECH,
WINNET and NTR.NET. You will pay
one, two or three thousand per month
for options at these speeds.
But what about the ISDN modems?
Do they all support this option? It’s a
definite YES from them all. However,
the pricing plans get even more complicated. You’ve got to figure in whether
the service is a dedicated line or a dialup connection. You also have to figure
in the usage of one or two B channels
(meaning 64-k or 128-k). Only a few of
them offer a $20 per month plan. Most
plans seem to cater to business use.
There seems to be many details
involved in the pricing of ISDN. Of
course, you must also figure in the cost
the local phone company charges to
you.
So how else do these guys compete?
If you are interested in classroom training then two of them offer free training
on Web concepts and site designs.
Check out WINNET and AYE.NET for
more details.
All of them provide Browser software
for their customers. Some provide it
free, some charge for it. These days,
you really do not have to pay for the
Browser software. Netscape’s Browser
times out after 90 days to allow you to
check it out and Microsoft offers it’s
own Browser for free.
MINDSPRING stands out from the
rest in offering a CD-Rom packed full
of software to it’s customers. Both
Netscape and Microsoft browsers come
on it. Free Agent is included for newsgroups. An IRC client and a TALK
client are included. Then they top it off
with all sorts of utilities.
WINNET is unique in providing it’s
own e-mail and newsgroup software.
When it comes to phone support to
help you with those pesky technical
problems, only MINDSPRING offers
24-hour support. However, NTR.NET
announced that they would be going to
24-hour support starting February 1st.
AYE.NET stood out from the rest in
offering Sunday support. Most of the
others had support on Saturday. All of
them had longer than business hours
support for Monday thru Friday.
It is typical for ISP’s to charge an initial set-up fee when you start to subscribe to their service. It is often in the
$15-25 range. However, tonight we
heard from most of our panel that they
would be glad to waive this fee as an
offer to our membership over the next
month. This is an offer that could cause
AOL some concern.
Are you all aware of the problems
AOL is having? Too many people are
calling them - a busy signal is getting
quite common. We heard a talk show on
Public Radio last week where one of the
commentators said that AOL now has 8
million subscribers with only 250-k
modems. That is a 32:1 ratio. They hope
to add another 150-k modems by June.
AOL has always been a victim of it’s
own success. They have often given
slow service, even before the flat
monthly rate pricing went into into
effect last December.
Of course, AOL offers more than
Internet access. They have many magazines and special interest forums that
can offer good value. However, if your
primary interest is Internet access, then
you should be able to achieve much better speeds with any of our panalists
tonight. None of them are cursed
(blessed?) with millions of subscribors.
What do our panalists think of the
future? There are about ten thousand
ISPs nowdays. Do they forsee consolidation or more differentiation? SCB and
ATT are now in the ISP business. Will
these big boys squeeze out the smaller
players?
Most of our panelists do not think that
Internet access will become a commodity product similiar to long distance service. To a man (and wasn’t it interesting
that not one woman was on the panel another story, another time) they believe
that the key to success in this business is
value added service. Most of them think
that web design service offerings will
be key to their business in the future.
Some think that different pricing plans
will be winning strategies.
The general consensus in the trade
press is that there will be shake out and
consolidation within this industry. R.
Collie King of NTR.NET was a standout in believing that this is indeed the
way things will go. His company is
positioning itself to be a provider of
access to ISPs themselves.
There were many technical questions
about “hops”, “adsl”, cable-modems,
satellites, and security that are too technical to go into detail here. This was
truly an interesting meeting and proved
once again that attendance provides
good value to our membership.
As the meeting winded down, we
were fortunate to have our panalists
offer free time on their services as raffle
prizes. Not bad, eh? All of our panelists
were enthusiastic and informative. It
was a pleasure to hear what they had to
say.
So was there a definate winner among
our panel? Have we come away with a
clear-cut choice as to who to sign up
with? I think it’s safe to say that the
winner is us. It’s clear that these companies are competing vigorously for our
business and you will be able to pick
and choose among them for a deal that
suits your needs.
If you are not now on the Net, then be
sure and budget money for the near
future. It seems to be about $250 per
year nowdays and one can only see it
getting cheaper. If you do any sort of
hardware & software support, then you
already know the value of checking
your vendor web-sites for the latest in
news, pricing and updates.
I
f you are not
now on the
Net, then be
sure and budget
money for the
near future. It
seems to be
about $250 per
year nowdays
and one can
only see it
getting cheaper.
For those of you who need to do
research, the web provides great value.
The riches of content out there are simply staggering. If your bent is politics,
then web out to c-span, the political parties and our government agencies. It’s a
sure bet you won’t be able to find all of
the offerings out there. There are so
many already with more being added all
the time.
Newspapers and magazines are
blooming all across the web. Catalogs
and auctions are getting prevalent also.
Radio is starting to become commonplace. Hold tight for video in the near
future. We’ve been noticing language
translation as well. Yea Mozilla! See
you next month.
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Talk about fun!
NetMeeting version 2.0 beta 2 gets you talking
to people all over the world via the Internet
N
etMeeting
version 2.0
beta 2 is now
available for
immediate
download over
the Internet for
use with the
Windows® 95
operating
system and the
Windows NT®
operating
system version
4.0
I/0 February, 1997 Page 20
Microsoft Corp. gas announced that
the second beta version of Microsoft®
NetMeeting™ conferencing software,
the real-time communications platform
of choice for the Internet and corporate
intranets, features support for video
conferencing based on the International
Telecommunications Union (ITU)
H.323 standard.
NetMeeting version 2.0 beta 2 is now
available for immediate download over
the Internet for use with the Windows®
95 operating system and the Windows
NT® operating system version 4.0. By
delivering the video phone component,
NetMeeting 2.0 is now the first realtime communications client for the
Internet to integrate standards-based
audio, data and video conferencing
capabilities, making it the most complete and easy-to-use Internet communication tool for end users and organizations.
“The global connectivity of the
Internet is enabling rich, real-time communications that were never possible
before,” said John Ludwig, vice president, Internet platform and tools division at Microsoft. “With the integration
of Internet video phone support in
NetMeeting 2.0, Microsoft is enabling
family and friends around the world to
stay in touch over the Internet, and for
organizations to communicate more
effectively over corporate intranets.”
Providing Standards-Based
Communications Solutions
By delivering a standards-based video
component as part of the NetMeeting
platform, Microsoft is delivering a complete communication solution for customers in the home and office. When inperson communications are not possible, and the telephone alone isn’t effective enough, NetMeeting enables customers to keep in touch with family,
friends and business associates through
a rich, interpersonal, face-to-face dia-
logue via the Internet.
Developed in conjunction with Intel
Corp., the video in NetMeeting 2.0 is
compliant with the ITU H.323 audio
and video conferencing standard, providing broad interoperability with other
H.323-compatible products and services, including the Intel Internet Video
Phone. The H.323 video standard offers
high-quality, interoperable video and
audio capabilities, available to every
desktop and every home with Internet
connectivity. These capabilities are possible through a modem or over a direct
network connection.
“Compaq portables bring customers
the ultimate flexibility for taking their
offices on the road,” said Ted Clark,
vice president of marketing for Compaq
Computer Corp.’s portable PC division.
“We are pleased to see that Microsoft is
furthering its real-time Internet communications efforts by integrating Internet
video phone support in the latest beta
release of NetMeeting 2.0. This new
software will provide business users
with access to co-workers and information through standards-based audio,
data and video conferencing over the
Internet or enterprise intranets.”
NetMeeting 2.0 beta 2 also adds support for the Internet Engineering Task
Force lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) standard and proposed
dynamic IP directory extensions, furthering the level of standards support
offered by NetMeeting. NetMeeting
uses LDAP for performing directory
queries and communicating with compatible directory servers such as the
Microsoft Internet Locator Server (formerly known as the User Location
Service).
New Communication Options
for Customers With Different Needs
“At SPRYNET, we pride ourselves on
providing the best service, support, education and latest Internet technology for
Here’s a look at the NetMeeting Beta 2 user environment. Both you and the people you are talking to appear in
the lower window.
our members,” said Craig McCallum,
vice president, general manager for the
Internet division at CompuServe Inc.
“The standards-based Internet video
phone support in NetMeeting 2.0 will
bring the latest in real-time communications technology to our SPRYNET
members, enabling them to communicate with each other over the Internet
with the familiarity of a friendly face
and the ease of a telephone call.”
With the release of NetMeeting 2.0
beta 2, video, audio and data conferencing together give customers with varying needs and resources rich communication options. For the corporate user,
NetMeeting enables organizations to
increase effectiveness of remote communication by bringing co-workers or
clients face-to-face over network connections. For the home, NetMeeting
allows users to keep in touch with family and friends in a more personalized
and immediate environment.
As a companion resource guide for
NetMeeting 2.0, Microsoft has released
the beta version of the NetMeeting 2.0
Resource Kit. The kit is designed to
serve as the one-stop technical information resource helping organizations
with deploying, supporting and understanding NetMeeting. The kit provides
useful information for system administrators, IS organizations and solution
providers. It covers information including configuring firewalls to work with
NetMeeting, and describes use of system policy features of Windows 95 and
Windows NT 4.0 to help make it easy
for IS managers to administer and control features of NetMeeting. The beta
version of the NetMeeting Resource Kit
can be found on the Microsoft
NetMeeting
Web
site
at
http://www.microsoft.com/netmeeting/
and can be downloaded free of charge
(other than connect-time charges, if
any).
Availability
The Beta 2 version of Microsoft
NetMeeting 2.0 is now available for the
Windows 95 and Windows NT operating systems. Microsoft NetMeeting 1.0
and beta versions of 2.0 are available
today for no-charge download at
http://www.microsoft.com/netmeeting/.
In the coming weeks, NetMeeting 2.0
beta 2 is scheduled to be available for
both Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0
in many international language versions, including simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, German, Japanese and
Korean. The following additional languages are expected to be available for
the Windows 95 beta version only:
Brazilian, Italian, French and Spanish.
The final version of NetMeeting 2.0 is
expected to include support for more
than 27 international language versions,
facilitating worldwide communication
and collaboration over the Internet.
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HELP
New Horizons offers a Computer
Learning Center that can get you
up to the speed of your CPU in no time
by Bonnie Zepka
Kentucky Indiana PC Users Group
You say you are walking around
mumbling to yourself and pulling out
your hair because all that great computer software you got for Christmas will
not do what you want. Even worse it’s
not your fun software that is causing
you problems but some your boss gave
to you and told you to “run it”. So now
what do you do? Will you use a multimedia CD ROM, video cassette tapes,
books for beginners, application tutorials, or professional training center, to
learn your software?
If you find yourself singing the old
1960’s Beatles song, “Help I need
somebody, Help not just anybody,” then
perhaps you should check out New
Horizons Computer Learning Center.
New Horizons, located at 10001Linn
Station Road, with 130 U.S. locations
and 190 world wide opened their doors
in Louisville two years ago. Starting
with seven people including two
instructors, they have steadily grown to
their present staff size of 20 people
including seven instructors.
Recently, I had the opportunity to
attend a class at New Horizons and I
found this instructor led training to be
the most effective way to learn computer software. As opposed to books, CD
ROM, or video tape, this is interactive
instructions that lets the student have a
hands- on experience. While taking the
class, I discovered knowledgeable and
dynamic teachers. These instructors
encouraged questions if you did not
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understand the material or if you wanted to know something that was not covered. An easy to understand manual is
thoroughly covered in class and is then
given to each student to keep as an after
class reference.
I found New Horizon’s best attributes
are their teachers, their 24 hour help
line, and their diverse schedule. New
Horizons’ philosophy of hiring their
staff is to hire certified professionals
who love to teach. This hiring philosophy ensures that you get the most
charismatic, proficient, and intelligent
instructors. In addition to having a thorough knowledge of the software, they
must also have superior presentation
skills. To guarantee that the students get
quality training, the students as well as
the staff continually evaluate each
teacher’s performance. The teachers
must maintain an average score of 9.3.
Also by limiting the class size you get
personalized attention.
A certified technical training center,
New Horizons offers software classes
from PCs, Macs, and basic applications,
through technical training. They teach a
variety of beginning and intermediate
classes designed to suit the individual’s
needs whether you are a novice or professional. By offering the class schedule
on days, evenings and week-ends, it fits
most everybody’s schedule. In addition
to the normal software classes, New
Horizons offers classes that can help the
student attain certification as a
Microsoft Systems Engineer by preparing the candidate for the Microsoft
Certified System Engineer Program
(MCSE) exam.
You say you need even more help;
well there is more help at hand. First,
the school offers a Help desk. Picture
this, it’s late at night and you are working on an important project that is due
on the boss’s desk first thing in the
morning. You are having trouble with
your software application and it will not
do what you want. Who are you going
to call? Where can you turn for help?
You want and need help now not sometimes tomorrow or the next day. Well,
you have the 24 hour telephone support.
Unlike some of the other training facilities in town that only take a message for
help from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM and
promise to call back sometime soon,
this is open 24 hours a day, seven days
a week. (What is more frustrating than
to wait for a call that does not come.)
The help desk is staffed by trained professionals to answer your question in
minutes and is free except for the telephone call. To minimize your telephone
cost, if the call will take longer than five
minutes they take your phone number
and call you ack. Second, if you find
you have not mastered the program you
can repeat the class anytime within six
months at no charge.
For more information contact New
Horizons at (502) 426-8519 or visit
their web site at WWW.NEWHORIZONS.COM.
Mentors aka members helping members
The following KIPCUG members have volunteered to provide assistance to any current
KIPCUG member on these topics:
Danny Lee Catron ([email protected]) OS/2
Steve Goldberg: ([email protected] OR [email protected]) Paradox Quattro Pro
T.Lee Harris ([email protected]) Pagemaker
Marvin Livingood (459-8888 OR [email protected]) WordPerfect (ver 6.0 and earlier)
Wakeley Purple (361-3945) Unix C, C++ programming Informix 4gl, SQL Programming
ProComm Aspect Script Language Borland Paradox for Windows DOS
Mike Shaikun ([email protected]) HTML and WebPage Design
Bob Streever (895-4180 - Eve // 459-2151 - Day OR [email protected]) Pagemaker and
FoxPro
Jerry Wasserzug: (452-1912 OR [email protected]) DOS Win 3.1 Win 95 Lotus 1-2-3
Quicken
There are a lot of areas which still need to be covered by Mentors, including the current Corel,
IBM/Lotus, and Microsoft office suites. Please give Fred Soward a call (426-1829) or send him
a message at [email protected] if you are interested in helping out your fellow KIPCUG
members as a mentor.
Application for Kentucky Indiana PC Users Group, Inc.
Annual dues: $35. Make checks payable to: KIPCUG, 219 N. Hubbards Ln.
Membership
Suite B-26-318, Louisville, KY 40207
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What activities interest you: General meetings __ Software library __ The Fifth Dimension BBS __ Newsletter __
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What software do you use? ____________________________________________________________________________
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