Forget cars, check out Bikes for Clunkers

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The government’s Cash for Clunkers program had Americans streaming in to local car dealerships over the summer as drivers looked to cash in on their rusty gas-guzzlers, but not everyone thought the program lived up to its green potential. Joe Doebele, owner of Portland’s Joe Bike, decided to put a Mother Earth-approved spin on the popular car trade-in program by offering a discount on new bikes to people who traded in their old bicycle or car. The “Bikes for Clunkers” program aimed to not only get polluting vehicles off the road, but get more cars off the road in general by encouraging people to ditch their four wheel habit in favor of two wheel one. Doebele also teamed up with the American Lung Association, which collects donated clunkers and provides customers with a receipt that can be used for a discount at Joe Bike.

Bikes for Clunkers was originally intended as only a month-long promotion, but, because of the program’s immense popularity, Doebele has decided to run it through the end of the year.

now there you go

A Macintosh Computer Group open to everyone.

The Diablo Valley Macintosh Users Group (DVMUG) hosts its General Meeting monthly at Bancroft Elementary School, 2700 Parish Dr., in Walnut Creek. These meetings are open to the public and are free of charge. Question and Answer help for all things Mac begin at 6:30pm., followed by programs, demonstrations, and fun.

The next General Meeting will be on Tuesday evening, October 20th. Our guest speaker will be Derrick Storey who will demonstrate how to create and work with digital photos. In addition, we shall screen Phil Neff's Award Winning Film Fest entry, "Slowly to Alaska."

We invite you to attend. For more information call Tom, 925-689-1155. Details may be found at http://www.dvmug.org.

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Product of the day for OS X - adds functionality to chats - my faves: tabbed chats and easily managed and saved chat logs

Adobe brings Photoshop.com to the iPhone

by Josh Lowensohn

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Adobe Systems on Friday introduced a new Photoshop app for iPhone users that lets them edit photos from both their phone and their online library on Photoshop.com.

The app is free of charge and offers tools such as cropping, image rotation, color controls, and simple one-touch filter effects that can change the look and feel of shots all at once. It also features undo and redo controls so that if users make a mistake, or want to revert back to the original, it takes just a few taps.

have to look at this one

not that we ever let it go to our heads - ahem

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Things you didn’t know VLC media player can do

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Written by M. Zinoune (Zinovsky) | 28 September 2009
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For most people, VLC is the favorite media player because it plays everything they throw at it without hiccups. No hunting for codec. But VLC can do a lot of other things as well. Find out how many of these listed below you knew, and how many you did not.  

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