Welcome

Submitted by Hewie Poplock on Thu, 2010-06-17 11:06

Welcome to the updated website known as Hewie's Favorites and Hewie's Views & Reviews. The site will also include my Blog. This is the first major update to the site which went on line in 1995 and updated a few years later, when we went to our own domain. We are now developing the website using Drupal. Thank you for bearing with us during the transition. For more information about our history, check out our About page.

Steer Clear of AT&T CrossMedia

Submitted by Hewie Poplock on Thu, 2011-08-11 08:09

I just received an invitation to join the AT&T Crosswire Experience. They offered me a $15 incentive card and will add $10 every quarter that I remain an active panel member ($45 for the year). According to the letter, I would have to periodically complete a survey. That sounded like something I would like to do.

Recent Additions
Moat

Ad Search Engine which allows you to search for different kinds of ads running on the web. I'm not sure why you would want to
Minute your meetings

Take notes & share them right away. Very simple with no sign-up
100 Photoshop Tutorials

A great collection of tutorial showing Photoshop's capabilities
Video Rotator

Instantly rotate digital videos easily and reliably, with the click of a button. If you have digital movies which are in a landscape orientation, and you want them in portrait oprientation, Movie Rotator can rotate them so that you can view them easily.
Mobile Media Converter

Online video to audio converter tool that can convert a YouTube video to a sound file so that you can save it to your desktop or mobile phone. The converted audio output file will be sent to your email address
OCR Terminal

An online OCR service that allows you to convert PDF to Word, JPEG to Word and scanned images into editable documents. Browser based, so Linux and Mac are supported - Layout and formatting retention - OCR in over 20 languages
loads in

Gives the possibility to see how fast a website loads in a real browser from over 50 locations worldwide
RSS Search

Search tool to help you discover RSS feeds around your topics of interest. You may use ctrlQ to find feeds for blogs, news websites, podcasts, and more. 

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Hewie's Views & Reviews January 06 2011
++++ Phone Book Delivery Opt-Out Throughout the year I find Telephone Books left at my front door. I haven't used a phone book in years. Before the Internet was a part of our lives, these huge books were a necessary part of our lives. We had to pay extra to have our name, address, and phone number left out. The Yellow Pages were huge revenue streams for the phone companies. Now I maintain my important numbers on my computers and my phones, including my cell phone. If I need to search...

Windows SIG

Meeting Notes 2012-01-15 WinSIG
The January WinSIG meeting will be a nostalgia session talking about social networking before the Internet. Hewie will be showing a short documentary about electronic socializing using bulletin board systems (BBS). From 1986 to 1996, Hewie ran the FABulous BBS and several CFCS members also had BBS systems, including CFCS itself.   We invite all former members of CFCS to our annual meeting on January 15, especially those who used or ran BBS's back in the day. The Windows SIG...
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