Smart Computing

Amber Coffin and Vince Cogley, from Smart Computing, were the presenters for this month’s General Session. Smart Computing is a monthly magazine designed for all computer users. It is a magazine that is in plain English and that is full of tips and topics. The magazine features a Web component that is available to all subscribers. All issues of the magazine are posted on the Smart Computing Website. Subscribers get the latest issue in advance of the newsstand readers. In addition, the site features a Q&A Board where subscribers can post questions to any problems that they may be having with their systems.

Amber and Vince demonstrated how much the magazine is integrated with the Web.

The site offers a search of over 20,000 articles from the Smart Computing archives. These archives reach as far back as the very first issue of the magazine, which at that time was called the “PC Novice.”  A new addition to the site is what was described as “My Personal Library.” This feature gives the reader a personal folder where any article that you may want to save for quick reference or future reading is stored on the Smart Computing servers. Amber pointed out the storage of articles from the magazine using “My Library” is unlimited. A new subscription service for electronic delivery has been added for folks that want to eliminate receiving paper copies of the magazine – a very nice option.

The entire presentation was presented in a very professional manner and for those of us that subscribe to the magazine it was a nice review. For those new to the publication, it was a very nice introduction.

Smart Computing provided the door prizes. The lucky winners were:

Naomi Robbins – A bound volume of the Smart Computing Reference Series

Mary Lou Acres – 1 year subscription to Smart Computing