| General Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month at 5:00 PM. The meeting locations are shown in the column on the left. | |
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January 11, 2011 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting ARC Room J2-109 Directions to the Meeting |
Subject: Taking Care of Your Personal Computers - Speaker: Sue Kayton Sue Kayton provides computer IT Tech Support for small businesses and home users. She also volunteers to refurbish and repair computers for Sequoia Union High School District's 5 high schools and other non-profit organizations. She is an expert in fixing computer problems. She has put together a useful document on "Taking Care of your Windows Computer" at http://www.suekayton.com/careandfeeding.htm. If you would like Sue to solve a problem that is bugging you or to make your machine perform better, bring it to the January meeting. She will tackle as many as we have time for. If you do plan on bringing your computer to the January meeting, please send an e-mail to Walt Cole at opawalt@gmail.com. |
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February 8, 2011 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting ARC Room J2-109 Directions to the Meeting |
Subject: Building a Personal Web Page - Speaker: Alan Baker Are you thinking about creating a web page or a blog? Have
you tried an online photo gallery or social networking, but it
doesn't have all you need? Alan Baker will talk about creating
a personal web page and online alternatives. Some uses for a
personal web page include: You can see the slides that Alan presented at the February
General Meeting at |
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March 8, 2011 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Subject: Building a Personal Web Page, Part 2 - Speaker: Alan Baker Alan Baker will explain how to create your personal web site
using KompoZer and HTML. In the presentation we will actually
build a web page that incorporates the most-used elements. The
handout will enable you to start building your own web site at
home. You will learn how to: You can see the slides that Alan prepared for the March General
Meeting at |
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April 12, 2011 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Subject: Building a Personal Web Page, Part 3 - Speaker: Alan Baker Alan Baker will conclude his three-part presentation on how to create your personal web site using KompoZer and HTML. He will review the major steps used in creating web pages and demonstrate how to change their look using style sheets. You can see the slides that Alan presented at the March General
Meeting at You can see the slides that Alan presented at the February
General Meeting at |
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May 10, 2011 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Subject: A Panel Discussion on VOIP The May meeting will feature a panel discussion of various methods of transmitting voice and video over the Internet. Topics to be discussed include Skype, Google Voice, and MagicJack. |
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June 14, 2011 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Member presentations of "My favorite software that is not well known". All members are invited to share a brief discussion of their favorite program that may not be well known by the other members. A connection to the projector is available for your laptop, or let DeForrest Home know if you would like to have a specific program installed on a computer that you can use at the meeting. |
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July 12, 2011 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Photoshop Elements 9 - The New Features - Speaker: Scott Maiden Scott will demonstrate the new features included in Photoshop Elements 9. |
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August 9, 2011 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Organizing and Protecting your Hard Drive - Speaker: Gene Barlow (via Skype) Gene will cover two very important topics about the use of your computer’s hard drive. The first topic will address how computer hard drives are setup and organized. He will describe several alternative ways you could organize your hard drive to better meet your individual needs. Gene will then cover the topic of how to protect your hard drive’s contents from hard drive failures. He will give you all of the latest information on the best way to backup your data using the new organizations he recommends. |
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September 13, 2011 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Ubuntu - Speaker: DeForrest Home Ubuntu is a fast, secure and easy-to-use distribution of Linux. Ubuntu is an absolutely free, open source operating system, available in 24 languages and used by millions of people around the world. DeForrest will show off the new user interface in version 11.04 and will demonstrate some of the many free applications that are available. |
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October 11, 2011 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Video Presentations - Speaker: John Zimmerman You just purchased a new video or SLR Camera and want to show the video or pictures to your friends. How do you create a DVD that is interesting and will keep their attention? We will be going through the process of making a DVD using video and pictures to create a DVD called, “A One Day Trip to San Francisco”. For the editing software, we will be using Sony’s Vegas program although there are many other editing programs available. The procedures are very similar from one to another. Hope you can come and we can all learn together. |
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November 8, 2011 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Walt will discuss OpenOffice, LibreOffice, MS Word 2010 and also MS Live Essentials Photo Gallery which now can do about what Picasa does. |
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December 13, 2011 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
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