Terry's Computer Tips - Newsletter
October 22, 2006

Terry's Computer Tips Newsletter
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A computer tips newsletter for users of PC's.

Volume 2, Number 19 — Sunday, October 22, 2006

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

IN THIS WEEK'S ON-LINE ISSUE:
   1.   Eudora to Become Open-Source
   2.   Updates Last Week
   3.   Windows XP Service Pack 3
   4.   Power Director Failure
   5.   Windows Region and Languages Settings
   6.   My Computer Security Software Recommendations
   7.   Switching Users in Windows XP
   8.   Recommend my Terry's Computer Tips Newsletter to Your Friends

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1. Eudora to Become Open-Source

As I reported in article 2 (Updates Last Week) last week, my favorite email program Eudora finally got a new version released. We went from v7.01 to 7.1.0.9.

There was another piece of good news — in plain sight — further down the web page at www.Eudora.com. Qualcomm, the phone manufacturer, has finally decided to release Eudora to the Open Source community!

Eudora is scheduled to become open source software, meaning anyone who wants can edit it and change it, in the first half of 2007.

Quoting the Eudora.com web site:

Eudora® email moves to open source development and delivers final commercial version — Eudora 7.1 for Windows and 6.2.4 for Mac OSX.

The open source version of Eudora® is targeted to be released during the first half of calendar year 2007 and will be free of charge. Once the open source version of Eudora is released, QUALCOMM will cease to sell Eudora commercially. Until then, the current commercial versions are available for the reduced price of $19.95 with a six-month period of technical support. All prior technical support commitments continue to be honored.

Features: Eudora 7.1 for Windows® OS
What's included for $19.95?
Product plan FAQ... (the announcement frequently asked questions)

This is great news. Eudora had and has three licensing models: paid ($40 per year!), advertising supported (a small image ad displayed in the Eudora window), and a completely free, fewer-functions light mode.

The Paid mode has some additional features that are not in the Sponsored mode. At this closeout price, Eudora users may wish to purchase the $19.95 license. The FAQ says: "Users can remain in any version of Paid mode in perpetuity."

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2. Updates Last Week

Microsoft (operating systems, email, web browser, office suites):
None! Microsoft releases almost all updates once per month, on the second Tuesday. The next scheduled update is Tuesday, November 14.

Firefox (web browser, http://www.mozilla.com, free):
No update last week. Firefox v1.5.0.7 was released on September 15th.

Opera (web browser, http://www.opera.com, free):
No update last week. Current version 9.02 was released during late September.

Netscape (web browser, http://browser.netscape.com, free):
No update this week. Version 8.1.2 was released during the week ending September 30.

SeaMonkey (web browser, email, HTML editor, newsreader; http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey; free): No update this week. Current version 1.0.5 was released on September 14th.

Eudora (email, http://www.eudora.com, options: paid, sponsored or free/lite):
Version 7.1.0.9 was released October 11, 2006.

Mozilla Thunderbird (email, http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird, free):
No update last week. Thunderbird version 1.5.0.7 was released September 14th.

OpenOffice (office suite — spreadsheet, word processor, presentations, graphics, web design; http://www.openoffice.org; free):
Version 2.04 was released on Friday October 13, which was also the 6th anniversary of OpenOffice.org. What's new?

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