San Jose IBM PC Club 2005 Calendar

General Meetings
Board Meetings
 
 
General Meetings are held in the SVL Cafeteria Room K222 on the second Tuesday of each month at 5:00 PM.
General Meetings General Meeting Topics
January 11, 2005 
5:00 PM 
San Jose IBM PC Club 
General Meeting 
Directions to the Meeting
Dalia Rodriguez, Sergeant with the Santa Clara County Property Crime Unit, will give a presentation on Identity Theft.  Identity theft involves acquiring key pieces of a person's identifying information in order to impersonate the individual.  This information enables the identity thief to commit many forms of fraud such as opening bank accounts and applying for credit cards, loans, social security benefits, driver's licenses, and passports.  Areas to be covered include what to do if you become a victim, government agencies to contact, credit bureaus to contact, preventive actions, precautions to take when using the Internet, expenses incurred, and reporting to law enforcement.  For more information, go to http://www.sjpc.org/idtheft/idtheftindex.htm.
February 8, 2005 
5:00 PM 
San Jose IBM PC Club 
General Meeting 
Directions to the Meeting
DeForrest and Bonnie Home, Club members, will give a slide show presentation on what they learned at the 2005 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.  The 2005 International CES, the world's largest annual technology showcase, will be held in Las Vegas, Nev. from January 6-9, 2005.  CES will cover latest digital video, audio products, electronic gaming,  Internet broadband technologies, and digital imaging technologies.  Also, there is an extensive lineup of more than 100 conference sessions designed to help educate attendees on the latest consumer electronics industry trends and provide hands-on training.  For more information go to http://www.cesweb.org/about_ces/default.asp.
March 8,  2005 
5:00 PM 
San Jose IBM PC Club 
General Meeting 
Directions to the Meeting
Scott Maiden, Club member, will give a presentation on Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.  Photoshop Elements 3 is a major product update to maintain its leadership in the field.  In a product comparison with the competition, the December issue of PC World it gave it 5 stars and said, "This is best overall application, with the best organizer."  See a demonstration of the many features that make this such a great product. Also, a video that Adobe has released that describes Photoshop Elements 3 will be shown.  Scott  worked with all the Elements releases since they first hit the market, and he will answer your questions and show you how it can help you with your digital photos.  For more information, go to http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelwin/overview.html.
April 12, 2005 
5:00 PM 
San Jose IBM PC Club 
General Meeting 
Directions to the Meeting
Jen Clausen, User Group Representative from Smart Computing, will give a presentation on the value the Smart Computing publications.  The presentation will step members through an issue of Smart Computing, convey the value of the Smart Computing Web site through a live demonstration, and introduce attendees to Smart Computing's sister publications which include PC Today, Computer Power User, and PC Novice Reference Series.  The speaker will also be asking attendees for ideas and feedback on ways to improve their products.  Issues of Smart Computing, Web site guides, and some door prizes will be distributed.  For more information go to http://www.smartcomputing.com.
May 10, 2005 
5:00 PM 
San Jose IBM PC Club 
General Meeting 
Directions to the Meeting
Charlie Rettner, IBM research scientist and digital photography enthusiast, will provide an introduction to digital cameras and the range of processing options available in the digital darkroom.  From point-and-shoot utility cameras to high-end SLRs, digital cameras are rapidly displacing their film counterparts.  Once the  digital image is captured, the fun really begins. This presentation will cover a number of his favorite digital image manipulations, including image optimization and refinement, producing web galleries, panoramas, and digital art.  Examples of the speaker's nature photography can be viewed at http://www.rettner.net/quicksilverflowers/index.html.
June 14, 2005 
5:00 PM 
San Jose IBM PC Club 
General Meeting 
Directions to the Meeting
Nancy Blachman, a Google expert with a website called googleguide, will give a  presentation on "What Google Can Do for You".  Google is an Internet search company with reputation as best way to find things on the Internet.  Google is so easy to use, why attend Nancy Blachman's presentation? If you're like many people, you use only a small number of Google's services and features. Learn how to go beyond Google's deceptively plain interface and take advantage of many shortcuts and  underutilized capabilities. For example, get driving directions by entering a US street address into Google's search box. If you aren't sure whether a word is hyphenated, search for it with a hyphen, e.g., [ long-term ]; you'll get more results. Find synonyms by preceding the term with a ~, which is known as the tilde or synonym operator, e.g., [ google ~guide ]; this will find guides, tips, help, and tutorials on using Google. The more you know about how Google works, its features and capabilities, the better it can serve your needs. For more information on what Google can do and how it works, go to http://www.googleguide.com/.
July 12, 2005 
5:00 PM 
San Jose IBM PC Club 
General Meeting 
Directions to the Meeting
Lawrence Doutherd, Club member, will give a presentation on how to read, write, and use HTML (hypertext markup language) tags for creating or maintaining your own web pages.  Please bring your own lap top if you have one for some hands on instructions. The primary tags used will be identified, and some tips to use when constructing pages will be given.  If you are running windows, all you need to construct and edit the files is Notepad. Also some helpful HTML URL's will be identified.  A document titled "HTML Made Really Easy" is at  http://www.jmarshall.com/easy/html/.
August 9, 2005 
5:00 PM 
San Jose IBM PC Club 
General Meeting 
Directions to the Meeting
Bader Kudsi, Club Program Director, will give a presentation on Pixifun kits which allow you to create cool and fun things with your digital  photos. There are 5 different kits to choose from; a Photo Key Ring kit, Photo Magnet kit, Photo Stickers kit with Mini Photo Album, Photo  CD/DVD Labeler kit, and a Photo ID Badge kit. Each kit includes a Pixifun software CD with project template to import your photos, a  generous number of pre-sized, pre-cut photo paper, alignment guide and test sheets for easy printing, and a user's guide to help you complete your projects. In three easy steps, you can have your favorite photo in a keepsake item to put on display or give to family and friends.  You can use digital photos from your digital camera, camera phone, or picture CD. You can even use your scanned photos or photos downloaded from the internet.  For more information go to http://www.pixifun.com/.
September 13, 2005 
5:00 PM 
San Jose IBM PC Club 
General Meeting 
Directions to the Meeting
Walt Cole, Club President and SeniorNet Almaden instructor, will give a presentation on Photo Story 3 which allows users to create professional looking slide shows from ordinary digital photos. This easy-to-use new Microsoft program includes capabilities to add music, narration and text to any photo or group of photos. Amazing pan and zoom effects (Ken Burns effects) can easily be added as well. There really is not much to learn to use this free program to create slide shows that will wow your family and friends. The slide show file produced is actually a video file with the WMV extension. You must have Windows XP to use Photo Story 3 and Windows Media Player 10 to view the result. A low-cost plug-in for Photo Story 3 is available to create a DVD version of the slide show that makes the slide show viewable with most DVD players.  For more information enter Photo Story 3 in a Google search box.
October 11, 2005 
5:00 PM 
San Jose IBM PC Club 
General Meeting 
Directions to the Meeting
Walt Cole, Club President and SeniorNet Almaden instructor, will give a presentation on audio ripping which is the process of transferring audio data from an audio CD to a hard disk. There are a number of practical uses for ripping. One is to allow the owners of CDs to listen to their purchased music in a more flexible way.  For example, ripping can allow users to create CDs of music from a number of different albums--making a CD of favorites.  Ripping can also be used to allow music to be played on portable digital audio players.  Also, the new "Windows Genuine Advantage" subject which protects against counterfeit software will be discussed.
November 8, 2005 
5:00 PM 
San Jose IBM PC Club 
General Meeting 
Directions to the Meeting
Dick Stuart, SJPC Newsletter editor, will show how to edit and copy a DVD using Nero6 Recode, and how to create a slideshow using Nero6 Express. Nero6 is a CD/DVD burning program that contains many subprograms to manage all your digital media including audio, video, photo and data. Please visit http://www.nero.com for complete product information.
December 13, 2005 
5:00 PM 
San Jose IBM PC Club 
General Meeting 
Directions to the Meeting
The business portion of the meeting will include the election of PC Club Officers for 2006.  Members who wish to show their favorite photographs at the meeting should bring  a CD or a USB flash drive containing the photographs in jpeg format so that they can be displayed on the large rear projection screen.  Please limit the number of photographs that you plan to show to ten.  This will be followed by a buffet.  Please consider volunteering for one of the positions shown at http://www.sjpc.org/contrib.htm.

 
 
Board meetings are held in the SVL Lobby Conference Room 017 on the first Tuesday of each month at 5:00 PM.
Dates
January 4, 2005 
February 1, 2005 
March 1, 2005 
April 5, 2005 
May 3, 2005 
June 7, 2005 
July 5, 2005 
August 2, 2005 
September 6, 2005 
October 4, 2005 
November 1, 2005 
December 6, 2005 

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