As a valued member, we bring you a section of discounts, offers, as part of the entire

Benefit of belonging. (Caveat- we are unable to endorse these companies, but make these offers available as a service to our members).

Shark Multimedia, manufacturer of modems and sound cards, has announced a

new User group program. User Group members can buy Shark modems, hubs, ethernet adapters and soundcards for 50% off the retail price.

Leopard Pocket USB 56K modem-$40

Pocket USB Hub-$20

Pocket USB Ethernet-$25

PCI modem or soundcard-$17.50.

User Group members *must* show a current membership card to the vendor. To participate in this program, users must call Shark sales to find a local

authorized dealer. (Not all Shark resellers are approved.) Call 800-800-3321, ask for "End-user sales", and identify yourself as a User Group

member.

To check out the products: http://www.sharkmm.com/

Reviews - http://java.idg.net/crd_usb_68696.html

MGI's Photosuite III-Platinum Edition $35, Video Wave III, $60, Bundle of both $80.

Call 1-888-MGI-SOFT (644-7638) with priority code: MGI US005 (for User Groups).

Try www.dialpad.com for free phone calls. You use your Internet connection to talk to someone who has a phone -- free. Requirements are Windows, a soundcard and microphone. No software to download! Actually this came to us from a friend in Alaska.

New- Another is www.i-link.com where you use YOUR own phone. You must use a computer and hit enter every minute after 3 minutes, but the other person does not need a computer, just a phone.

Epson is offering a free booklet - "Buying an Ink Jet Printer for Dummies" booklet, call 1-800-GO-EPSON. Offer available in the U.S. and Canada only. http://www.epson.com/whatsnew/promotions/dummies.html

Free Photo- sharing web sites:

At Comdex, everyone had a photo-sharing web page where you could upload unlimited pictures for free to share with friends and family.

1. www.zing.com – nice site

2. www.clubphoto.com - can edit pics online

3. www.gatherround.com- by Intel –recently improved

4. www.photopoint.com - must e-mail pictures

(a review of all these sites cam be found at: http://www.shortcourses.com/specialtopics/sharing/sharing.htm)

Visit http://www.shortcourses.com/ for a free short course including explainations of photo file formats, digital cameras, and photo printers. .

The list of products and prices can be found on the User Group Relations (Gene Barlow) web site at www.ugr.com/order/. User group members will need to submit the name of their user group as well as the following special user group price code: UGNOV99,

when ordering.. PartitionMagic lists at $69.95, but the user group price is $30 for the upgrade! To give user group members a bit of an advantage, we only charge $5 to ship the product, while PowerQuest charges $6.95 to ship their upgrades. We send out an additional license of the product, while PowerQuest gives you an upgrade to your existing license. Also, any funds generated by our user group sales are used to support PowerQuest's user group program. Funds from normal upgrades go to the stockholder. So, we encourage user group members to purchase their upgrades through User Group Relations and not directly from PowerQuest.

Brand New version of Adobe PhotoDeluxe 4.0 Home Edition (Windows/Mac)- $39.00; Adobe PhotoDeluxe Business Edition (Windows) - $69.00 ; To order call 1-800-888-6293 and mention offer #35701. http://www.adobe.com/support/usergroup/programs.html#discounts

Techweb has free computer show passes to events all over the world. It changes

periodically. Try it at: http://www.techweb.com/calendar/calendardocs/freepass.html

Any suggestions for items, e-mail Cathy Grammer-Margolin at inventor00@pobox.com.