Author Archives: Joe Calvin

Top 10 Social Media Tips for Nonprofits/Businesses

[ May 23, 2013; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] This is just a quick reminder about the special program this Thursday at 6:30 in the Hondius Room at the Library.  The program is a joint presentation of The Estes Park Nonprofit Resource Center and the Estes Park Internet and Computer Users Group, and features speakers Adam Shake, Lee Lasson and Cassie Lasson.  To read more [...]

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Top 10 Social Media Tips for Nonprofits/Businesses

[ May 23, 2013; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] The Estes Park Nonprofit Resource Center and the Estes Park Internet and Computer Users Group are excited to present a program on social media for businesses and nonprofits.  Please note the earlier than normal start time.

Adam Shake from Neanderthal Productions will open the program with his Top 10 Social Media Tips for Nonprofits/Businesses. Participants will [...]

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SxSW 2013 – First-Hand Report

[ March 28, 2013; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Cassie Lasson and Lee Lasson of FrontDesk, Inc. will present a travel blog of their experiences in Austin, Texas at the South by Southwest (SxSW) Interactive 2013 conference. SxSW Interactive is all about interactive experiences on the web, mobile, for real, and sometimes surreal! You’ll have to see MakerBots making, robots talking, and hear of [...]

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Useful Mobile Apps

[ March 4, 2013; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Rembinder…  Tomorrow night, Monday March 4, EPICUG will meet at 7:00 PM in the Hondius Room at the Estes Valley Public Library to discuss “useful” mobile apps. Bring your favorite utility apps to share with the group – iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, or BlackBerry 10.  Games and entertainment apps will be discussed at a later [...]

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EPICUG:\TECH\SWAP this week

[ February 28, 2013; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] This Thursday, February 28 in the Hondius Room at the Estes Valley Public Library, EPICUG members and the public are welcome to attend and encouraged to participate in the first annual EPICUG:\TECH\SWAP. If you have outgrown the need for a piece of technology in your life, bring it to the Library. If you need a [...]

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Useful Mobile Apps

[ March 4, 2013; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] On March 4, EPICUG will meet at 7:00 PM in the Hondius Room at the Estes Valley Public Library to discuss “useful” mobile apps. Bring your favorite utility apps to share with the group. Games and entertainment apps will be discussed at a later meeting.  Like all EPICUG events, this meeting is free and open [...]

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Active-X Conversion Tool?

Anyone know of an inexpensive (or free) tool to convert from Defective-X (ActiveX from Microsoft) to something a bit friendlier/more generic (Java comes to mind).
I have already attempted to use Wine, but the complexity of this ActiveX application goes beyond what Wine is capable of doing.
Ideally I’d like to make this a browser app, but [...]

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Opera Browser Recommendation

At the 2/4/13 meeting, someone brought up the security issues of using a public Wi-Fi connection for browsing.
I’d like to suggest the “Opera” browser where these concerns are addressed in the URL window – both for a secure https connection, but also to see/show that there is a valid certificate for the site. [Doesn't address [...]

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MacWorld 2013 – First-Hand Report

[ February 4, 2013; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Reminder — On Monday, February 4, at 7:00 pm in the Hondius Room at the Estes Valley Public Library, EPICUG is pleased once again to welcome Jeff Gamet, Managing Editor for the Mac Observer, back to give us a overview of MacWorld 2013.  MacWorld/iWorld is the annual end-of-January convention in San Francisco for Apple-centric developers, users and the [...]

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EPICUG:\TECH\SWAP

[ February 28, 2014; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] On Thursday, February 28 in the Hondius Room at the Estes Valley Public Library, EPICUG members and the public are welcome to attend and encouraged to participate in the first annual EPICUG:\TECH\SWAP. If you have outgrown the need for a piece of technology in your life, bring it to the Library. If you need a [...]

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