The April CMUG meeting will be held on Thursday, April 18, 2013 at the East Columbia library.
    CMUG's own Paul Van Bloem will be discussing TV from the Internet and the options for free and pay shows and movies from the Internet.
    Paul says, "I would like to look at the streaming sources available on the Internet, including Hulu, NetFlix, and Amazon. If we have time, I'd also like to discuss linking your TV to the Internet so you can watch streaming video on it."
    Remember that we still need to be out of the meeting room before the library closes at 9, so we will be starting promptly at 7:30.
    See you on Thursday at 7:30 pm at the East Columbia library.

At the March meeting, President John Weske presented on the IRS's Free File and other options for free computerized income tax preparation and electronic filing. Thanks, John!

Mark your calendars! The May meeting is tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, May 28, 2013, at the East Columbia Library. (Note that this is the day after Memorial Day.)

Mark your calendars! The June meeting is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, June 12, 2013, at the East Columbia Library.

Thanks to Beth Tribe from the Howard County Library, who told (and showed) us all about using Overdrive at the February meeting. Overdrive is the system Maryland libraries use to lend eBooks to their customers.

Thanks to Paul Demmitt, who spoke on Windows 8 at the January meeting. He passed along his notes, which you can access here.

We had a nice potluck supper at the December meeting, on December 17. Thanks to Sumi Kinoshita and her assistant Jean Tigner for organizing and preparing and arranging and overseeing everything.

Interested in other computer user groups in the area?

• Columbia Area Linux User Group........www.calug.org
  a friendly informal group of Columbia-area residents who share an interest in Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in general, and Linux in particular
  meets on 2nd Tuesdays in Columbia Gateway
• Crabby Admins.............www.crabbyadmins.org
  the Baltimore/DC chapter of the League of Professional System Administrators
  meets on 1st Wednesdays in Columbia Gateway

Meeting Location
We usually meet at the East Columbia Library, which is at 6600 Cradlerock Way, Columbia, MD 21045. It's a good two miles from downtown Columbia, but only a mile off Route 29. Here's a Google Map you can use to find your way.
    Go in the main entrance of the building, and the meeting room is on your right before you get to the library space proper.

The last few issues of the CMUG Megaphone are available here in PDF form: June 2008, May, April, March, February, January 2008, December 2007, November, October, September, August, July, June, May, April, March, February, and January 2007.
   Since we have the space, I've also put the PDF files for the 2006 issues of The Megaphone online: Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, and Dec.