| General Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month at 5:00 PM at SVL in the room indicated in the left column.. | |
| General Meetings | General Meeting Topics |
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January 8, 2008
General Meeting Room K152 |
Scott Maiden, Club member and SeniorNet instructor, will give a presentation on Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 which is the latest version. See how the main Organizer screen has had a complete rework in look and feel. How the functionality is more logical although the user of prior versions will be a little confused by the changes. Find out what Smart Albums are! See what has changed in the editor screen. You will have to see the new Quick Selection Tool in action to believe it. You'll learn how they have improved the Healing Brush and Cloning tools and how easy it is to make a perfect group shot. See a demonstration of theses features and more. For more information, go to http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelwin/. |
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February 12, 2008
General Meeting Room K117 |
Don Heinsen, CompNet Services engineer, member of the NT Engineering Association and the Silicon Valley Computer Society, will give a presentation on Windows Media Center which is an all-in-one PC and entertainment center for your entire home. Windows Media center allows you to watch DVDs, record TV, listen to music, share your digital photos, as well as providing normal PC functions. It brings TiVo-like functionality to the PC, complete with a remote control, and .lets you watch and record TV on a PC in addition to playing music, photo slide shows, and videos within a slick, remote-control-friendly interface. With extra hardware, you can send your files to TVs around your house. To view the presentation outline, go to http://www.sjpc.org/presentations/mediacenter.pdf. |
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March 11, 2008
General Meeting Room K116 |
Daniel J Romanski, ASL Recycling representative, will give a presentation on electronic waste recycling programs for businesses and consumers. Modern Electronics Recycling is unfortunately in its infancy. With innovative new “ewaste recycling” models like the one spawned in California with the passage of SB20 in 2004, a global debate has been reignited on HOW DO WE GET RID OF THIS STUFF? The EU model spawned by the WEEE Directive highlights the difference of opinion and how different state and private actors are driving results in their communities. From the history of landfill management, to the exponential growth in product manufacturing, this presentation provides an overview of the state of ewaste and the industry it created. For more information, go to http://www.aslrecycling.com/index1.htm. |
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April 8, 2008
General Meeting Room K222 back half |
One Laptop Per Child: Bruce Parshall, former club member and avid computer hobbyist, will introduce and demo the XO Laptop, also known as the "OLPC Laptop" or "The $100 laptop". See this unique laptop up close and view a demo of the "Sugar" GUI interface developed exclusively for it. The goal of the XO laptop is to bring computing to kids in developing nations and the hardware and software was developed toward that goal. For more information on the XO and the OLPC project go to http://www.laptopgiving.org/en/index.php |
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May 13, 2008
General Meeting Room K117
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Mark Hames, SeniorNet instructor, will give a presentation on Windows Vista covering what he likes about it and what is new and different. Some of the features that may be covered include the new desktop appearance, improved security, new controls such as the Instant Search box and Enhanced Column Headers, Internet Explorer 7 with tabbed browsing, Sidebar & Gadgets for easy access to frequently used tools, SuperFetch to help manage memory efficiently, multiple layers of backup & restore, new networking capabilities, Sideshow for a secondary laptop display, Speech Recognition to interact using your voice, improved help, and improved updating. For more information, go to http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/features/default.mspx. |
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June 10, 2008
General Meeting Room K222 back section
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Akkana Peck, a freelance software developer and writer, will give a presentation on GIMP which is a versatile graphics manipulation package. She has been working with open source software for nearly 20 years, and she has written imaging software including GIMP plug-ins, cartography, and scientific visualization. The GNU Image Manipulation Program, or GIMP, is a raster graphics editor used to process digital graphics and photographs. Typical uses include creating graphics and logos, resizing and cropping photos, altering colors, combining multiple images, removing unwanted image features, and converting between different image formats. GIMP can also be used to create basic animated images in GIF format. For more information, go to http://www.gimp.org/ |
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July 8, 2008
General Meeting Room K222 back section |
The meeting was cancelled due to a power outage at SVL. The presentation was rescheduled for the August meeting. |
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August 12, 2008
General Meeting Room K222 back section |
Walt Cole, Club President and SeniorNet instructor, will demonstrate a few of his favorite pieces of software, not revealed previously: Portable Apps (http://portableapps.com/), Notepad++ (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm), Simple Sudoku (www.angusj.com/sudoku/) and PDF XChange Viewer (www.docu-track.com/home/prod_user/PDF-XChange_Tools/pdfx_viewer). All this software is free for personal use. None of us really needs more software, but Walt can't help trying more stuff. |
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September 9, 2008
General Meeting Room K222 back section |
Scott Maiden, Club member and SeniorNet instructor, will give a presentation on Adobe Photoshop Express which is a photo sharing site with easy to use editing tools. Photoshop Express is two things: a photo-sharing site targeting the millions of snapshot photographers who think software such as Photoshop Elements is too difficult, too disconnected or just too much, and a platform from which Adobe will serve partner sites with editing tools. For sharing, the feature set is pretty typical: it lets you upload photos into albums (up to 2GB), organize them, make them public for sharing or share them privately via email links, and generate and email nice-looking self-contained Flash slideshows. For more information, got to https://www.photoshop.com/express/landing.html |
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October 14, 2008
General Meeting Room K222 back section |
Walt Cole, Club President and SeniorNet instructor, will explain and demonstrate the new features in Picasa 3. Released in September, this new version includes additional image editing functions and improves some of the old ones. Retouch removes blemishes; text can be placed on the image; the Collage function is much improved, as is Crop and Red eye removal. Importing now separates photos by date. Limited video handling is included. Music can be added to a slideshow. There is now automatic syncing of image edits with your Web Albums. This free image organizer and image editing program is better than ever! For more information go to http://picasa.google.com/ |
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November 11, 2008
General Meetiing Room K222 back section |
Scott Maiden, club member and SeniorNet instructor, will give a demonstration of the new facial recognition technology of the free Picasa Web Album site that identifies faces in your photos and allows you to assign a name, email address and nickname to those faces. With the nickname assigned you can just point to a face in a photo and it will display the nickname and allows you to access the e-mail address. Also covered will be the free online editing capabilities of the Picnik and FotoFlexer websites which allow you to do such things as correct color and red eye and add text, borders, frames and all kinds of effects to your photos all for free on the web without an expensive photo program residing on your computer. |
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December 9, 2008
General Meeting Room K222 back section |
The business portion of the meeting will include the election of PC Club Officers for 2008. 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 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. |
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