| General Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month at 5:00 PM at the Almaden Research Center (ARC) starting in June in the room indicated in the left column if known.. | |
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January 13, 2009 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting SVL Room K222 back section Directions to the Meeting |
Walt Cole, Club President and SeniorNet instructor,
will give a short talk on the Logitech Harmony One Advanced Universal
Remote control which he bought and is attempting to make control
everything in his new hi-def home theater system. It is not a
piece of cake, no matter what Logitech tells people. Setting
it up requires persistence. For more information, go to
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/remotes/universal_remotes/devices/3898&cl=us,en |
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February 10, 2009 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting SVL Room K222 back section Directions to the Meeting |
Spreadsheet applications will be presented by the following Club members:
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March 10, 2009 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting SVL Room K222 back section Directions to the Meeting |
DeForrest Home, Club member, will give a presentation on Windows 7 features. Windows 7 is intended to be an incremental upgrade to Vista with the goal of being fully compatible with Vista device drivers, applications, and hardware. Windows 7 features include improved taskbar and full-screen previews, jump lists to quickly reach the files you've been working with, new intuitive ways to operate on files, Internet Explorer 8 improvements, free applications with Windows Live Essentials, better device management, and HomeGroup for easier connections to other computers and devices on a wireless home network. For more information, go to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/whats-new.aspx |
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April 14, 2009 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting SVL Room K222 back section Directions to the Meeting |
Alan Baker, PC Club system administrator, will demonstrate the MagicJack It's a Voice-Over-Internet-Protocol service for the home that allows you to make calls over a standard telephone. The hardware looks like a wide memory stick and it plugs into a USB port on your computer. The service includes a phone number in your choice of area code, unlimited calling in the USA, voice mail, and call forwarding. It requires a broadband internet connection, but it costs just $39 for the first year and $20 for subsequent years. Alan will explain its strengths and weaknesses, so come find out whether it's right for you. |
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May 12, 2009 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting SVL Room K222 back section Directions to the Meeting |
Scott Maiden, Club member and SeniorNet instructor, will give a presentation on features in Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 which is the latest version. Organize and find photos using visual keyword tags, text searches, and viewing options. Edit specific image areas with a single sweep of a brush. Enjoy creative options for sharing your photos in photo books, scrapbook pages, slide shows, and photo e-mail. Share and display them in dynamic, customizable albums and maps on the web, and show them off on your TV, iPhone, etc. For more information, go to http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopelwin/features/. |
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June 9, 2009 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting ARC Room J2-109 Directions to the Meeting |
Walt Cole, Club President, will moderate a discussion on digital television transition. With attendee participation, the pros, cons, problems, solutions, etc. of Dish Network, DirecTV, Comcast, AT&T U-Verse, TiVo, and over-the-air TV reception will be discussed. Comcast Digital Starter with On Demand & HBO is now $29.99 a month for one year. Satellite TV services are offering large discounts for 6 months or a year.. AT&T U-Verse offers IP TV with a DVR that can record four programs simultaneously. TiVo and DirecTV plan a new TiVo DVR for DirecTV. Some new TV’s have a Comcast card slot to eliminate a basic Comcast set top box. Before attending, please review the extensive information that is posted at http://www.sjpc.org/presentations/digitaltv.htm and note topics that you want to bring up at the meeting. |
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July 14, 2009 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting ARC Room J2-109 Directions to the Meeting |
Jose Medeiros, former SAN Systems Engineer with Intel & IBM, will give a presentation on the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows. This CD is a recovery CD (UBCD4Win) containing software used for repairing, restoring, or diagnosing almost any computer problem. The goal is to be the most complete and easy to use free computer diagnostic tool. Almost all of the software included in UBCD4Win are freeware utilities for Windows. Some of the tools included are "free for personal use" copies so users need to respect these licenses. A few of the tools included in UBCD4Win are paid for and licensed software owned by UBCD4win. For more information, go to http://www.ubcd4win.com/ |
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August 11, 2009 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting |
Canceled |
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September 8, 2009 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting ARC Room J2-109 Directions to the Meeting |
Walt Cole, SJPC President will present a PIAB* from LapWorks featuring the "Futura Laptop Desk" and the "Laptop Desk 2.0". LapWorks, Inc. makes and sells accessories for your laptop computer. Learn about laptop ergonomics and laptop overheating. The products they sell go beneath your laptop in several ways. One application is with your laptop on your lap. Another is with your laptop on a table. Another is a unit that replaces a docking station when you are using your laptop with a separate mouse and keyboard. Jose Calero, the head guy at LapWorks will tell us all about this subject by video. *(Presentation-in-a-Box) |
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October 13, 2009 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting ARC Room J2-109 Directions to the Meeting |
Walt Cole, club president and SeniorNet instructor,
will talk about creating panoramas with your digital camera.
Most cameras have a panorama-assist mode that helps in creating
the individual photos that a computer program can then stitch
together. The featured program will be the "Image Composite
Editor" from Microsoft Reasearch. This is excellent software
from Microsoft that is free to download. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/ |
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November 10, 2009 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting |
The meeting this month is a field trip. You are invited to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View where the 50th anniversary of the IBM 1401 computing system will be celebrated. The event starts at 7:00 PM. The major IBM players behind the 1401 will speak about the project. Everyone planning to attend must reserve a spot at the CHM web site. Do this as soon as you can, as a large crowd is expected and they may run out of room later. http://www.computerhistory.org/events/index.php?id=1246917465 |
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December 8, 2009 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting |
There will be no PC Club meeting in December. Have a Happy Holiday Season! |