Agenda

 

LPCUG Meeting November 15, 2010

I.  Welcome, Signup list, Introductions.

II.  Review Board minutes sections that require membership action.

   A.  Approve Bylaw changes.

   B. Nominations for 2011 Club Officers:

    C. Input on future club programs.Browser Wars

   D.  Treasury Report--possible expenditures:

            1.  Library Projector needs new bulbs - Approx. $300

            2.  Projector is becoming obsolete (screen size only 600 x 800 or less)

III. Program

IV. Q & A.

V.  Adjournment 7:45 PM

 

 

Internet Browser Wars, among other interesting things!

       

The following review is modified from http://internet-browser-review.toptenreviews.com/

Rank #1 #2 #3
Excellent score   Excellent
Very good score   Very Good
Good score   Good
Fair score   Fair
Poor score   Poor
Firefox Google Chrome Internet Explorer
Firefox Google Chrome Internet Explorer
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Lowest Price Firefox 3.5
FREE		 Google Chrome
FREE		 Internet Explorer 8
FREE
 
Overall Rating Excellent Excellent Excellent
Ratings
Features Set Excellent Excellent Excellent
Ease of Use Excellent Excellent Excellent
Security Excellent Excellent Excellent
Speed & Compatibility Excellent Excellent Excellent
Help/Support Excellent Excellent Excellent
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Speed
Initial Startup Time 14 8.1 8.5
Average Startup Time 3.8 3.1 2.2
Navigation Time 6.4 7 7.4
Features
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Security
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Local Weather Station Software

Weather Watcher Live
version 7.0.34
 Access real-time weather information from thousands of NWS, WeatherBug and Weather Underground weather stations from all across the world.

 

 

 
Download Free Weather Exchange Network

Weather Exchange Free Download

Current Version
Version 1.30
released January 15, 2010

Operating System Requirements
Windows NT/2000/2003/ME/XP/Vista/Windows7 (32 and 64)

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Weatherbug

This one requires a little explanation.  When this program first came out, it was a simple, non-intrusive program that gave you local weather conditions, alerts, radar maps, and webcams--all in a box on your desktop.  When you closed the box, it would retreat to the taskbar where it would give you temperature, and would blink and sound alerts for severe weather.  Clicking on the taskbar icon would bring the box back to the desktop.  What could be simpler?

How to make a good thing worse!  The jazzed it up so much that the latest version takes up the whole desktop and not much more information.  I saved an installation file of the older program which can be downloaded here.  It may require a simple serial number which is included as a separate text file.  The program was a free program.