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One of the benefits of APCUG membership is that every month the Editorial Committee sends a cartoon to your newsletter editor. Because of licensing limitations the cartoons can’t be used in your hard-copy newsletter, but they can be posted in your electronic newsletter or on your web site. The cartoons are the brain-children of Ken Nash, a 36-year old Capricorn who grew up in suburban Detroit and, after graduating from college, worked as an advertising copywriter in Detroit and Chicago. In 1992 he went to Prague and earned a living drawing illustrations and cartoons for the Prague Post. A book of his first Prague cartoons, which eventually became the Global Cartoon Project, was a bestseller at Prague’s first English-speaking bookstore, outselling Kafka and Vaclav Havel! Since Prague, the global cartoons have grown to encompass Guatemala, Thailand, the Baltic States and San Francisco, where Ken now makes his home. Ken says he didn’t watch much TV as a kid, though he enjoyed bad horror movies. And he wasn’t a cartoon junkie either, though he liked Peanuts, Gary Larson, and New Yorker cartoons. Perhaps that’s why his work is so original. Those of you who appreciate sick and bathroom humor will enjoy Rude Mountain, a parody of the electronic greeting card site Blue Mountain. The site had over a million hits in its first ten months of operation! The cartoons APCUG sends to its members come from Techniks, a cartoon series Ken started when he was asked by an ad agency to come up with a way of attracting high-tech customers. Each panel of the series comments on the culture of the arena Ken lives in, and we’re lucky and grateful that he allows us to use his work. Catch Ken’s web site at www.KenNash.com/techniks. Thank you, Ken! |
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Microsoft has just released the Windows Messenger version 4.5 upgrade for Windows XP Got to Start—Help and Support Center then click on Windows Update to view this recommended download. Windows Messenger lets you see when family members, friends, and co-workers are on line, and then lets you communicate with each other. You can send instant messages, send files, have a voice chat, or have a video conference, and use a whiteboard to collaborate on documents and other files. Windows XP comes with version 4.0 of Windows Messenger. The version 4.5 update has some nifty new features: · Contacts can be arranged in groups, like family, DVPC members, the kid’s soccer team, and so on. You can then instant message to the entire group with one click. · Windows Messenger 4.5 can now be used to place calls to any telephone almost anywhere in the world. You can select from a list of phone service providers whose rates are lower than regular long distance services. · .NET Alerts can be sent to your computer with stock quotes, weather bulletins, and more. |