CLOCKS CHANGE - 2AM SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1ST

Just a reminder next Sunday morning, November 1st at 2am, Daylight Savings Time will end and we will revert back to Standard Time. Before you go to bed Saturday evening, set all clocks, watches and other time pieces BACK 1 HOUR. We will then move them ahead to begin Daylight Savings Time "1 hour" at 2am on the second Sunday in March, March 13th 2010..

Most computers and cable boxes will make this change automatically without our help..

REGISTRATION FOR NEW COMPUTER CLASS SERIES IS THIS WEEK

Registration will be held this Wednesday morning, October 28th at 9am at the Southern Artery Office for the new computer class series #44, This new series will begin the following week, November 2nd and continue thru February 5th…

So join us and bring a friend along…

MORNING CLASSES are held Monday thru Wednesday at 9am-10:30am and 10:30am-12N

Beginner – Revision of the current program with emphasis on the introduction of computer equipment & software (Application & Operating system), Basic Computer Terminology and Mavis Beacon Typing – intro to basic games for helping to familiarize students with the use of the mouse and keyboard

Intermediate 1 – Introduces the Internet & Email – learning how to get on line, search on the internet, using internet favorites, and beginning to use email – setting up an account, sending & receiving emails, add& edit contact lists and much more,

Intermediate 2 –Introduces word processing skills, using MICROSOFT WORD: copying/pasting; title bar, menu bar, toolbars, task bar & multi tasking font styles & sizes, using bold, italic & underline, adding color & clip art to documents; setting margins and other basic word skills.

AFTERNOON CLASSES will be held at new winter hours Monday & Tuesday at 12:30pm-2pm and Wednesday and Thursday at 12:30pm-2pm and 2:pm-3:30pm (winter hours)

Advanced classes – Students enrolled in the afternoon class have to complete the morning series - Each new afternoon advanced series has a different focus and the topics are based on student requests... The new Series #44 Nov thru Feb will focus on various WORD processing projects to get ready for the holidays using clip art and photos to create note cards, iron-on transfer and other fun projects, create return address & mailing labels - then after the holidays we’ll focus on the “how to’s” of digital cameras, digital picture frames, memory cards and memory card readers, iPods, mp3 players and much more…

DURING THIS NEW SERIES #44 -NO CLASSES WILL BE HELD:

Wednesday, Nov 11-Veteran’s Day
Tuesday-Friday, Thanksgiving Holiday Nov 24-27
Mon.-Fri., Dec. 21 to Jan 1st – Christmas New Year Holiday
Monday, January 18th – Martin Luther King Holiday

REMINDER: WHEN QUINCY OR WEYMOUTH SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED (FOR SNOW/BAD WEATHER) NO COMPUTER CLASSES are HELD

Websites to find the "least expensive" services

If you have a favorite website - share it with us and tell us why it's your favorite..

Cell phone plans – www.rateplan.com or www.billshrink.com

Car insurance – www.carinsuranceratea.com or www.carinsurance.org

Bank fees – www.mybanktracker-com/banks OR www.findabetterbank.com

Airline tickets – www.skyscanner.net or www.efares.com

Travelling by car – you might want to know where the speed traps are set up… this is for real.. go to www.speedtrap.org

One of our favorites for just about everything we need.. www.allmyfaves.com

CAN YOU SEND CELL PHONE TEXT MESSAGE FROM YOUR COMPUTER?

Absolutely – many of us don’t have “text” ability on our cell phones or if we do, we don’t know how to text..

But you can send a text message to anyone who uses “texting” as long as you have their cell phone number. There are several websites – all are free – that offer us the ability to send family and friends text messages to their phones. Here is how they work...

• You type in the persons cell phone number
• Now type in your email address
• Now type in your message (actually it is a tweet because it has a 140 character limit and counts down as you type so you know what you have left) or they have lots of “quick messages to choose from so you don’t have to type”
• You're done, so now click on the SEND button..

The message appears as a text on their cell phone and if and when they respond, their message will come back to your email account…

Again these services are free – like email it’s their advertising that allows them to stay free. Most of these services also offer you the ability to set-up a free account, which will then confidentially save the cell phone numbers you send to and save your email address so you don’t have to type them in every time - very much like your address book in email..

So give it a try and start texting/tweeting – it’s all free!!!

http://www.textem.net/
http://www.txt2day.com/
http://www.text4free.net/
http://www.onlinetextmessage.com/

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH

I just want to thank each and every one of you for your generous loving thoughts and prayers for Bob's wife Jennifer, their 2 little boys Dylan & Justin and for me and my entire family these last few weeks since our son Bob's death Sept. 19th - you've touched our hearts and helped more than you'll ever know.

I know without a doubt that Bob is safe in God's arms and that God will give us all the strength to get thru this until we see him again...

God Bless you all and I will see you after the Thanksgiving holiday. Until then thank you and remember, although I'm in Arizona, I'm just an email away to answer any questions you may have...

Cherie Houston & family....