San Jose IBM PC Club 2013 Calendar

General Meeting
Board Meeting

 
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.
General Meetings General Meeting Topics
January 8, 2013
5:00 PM
San Jose IBM PC Club
General Meeting
Almaden Community Center
Second floor computer room
Directions to the Meeting

Subject:  Seagate GoFlex® Home Network Storage System
Speaker:  Dick Stuart

Connect the GoFlex® Home network storage system to your WiFi router to enable centralized wireless backup and storage for up to 3 PC and Mac® computers.

  • Automatic, continuous backup of all your files and folders
  • Streams content to networked computers, media players and game consoles
  • Free remote access to your files over the Internet
  • Access your files from your mobile device using the free app for iPhone®, iPad® and Android®
  • Time Machine compatible straight from the box
February 12, 2013
5:00 PM
San Jose IBM PC Club
General Meeting
Almaden Community Center
Second floor computer room
Directions to the Meeting

Subject:  Seven Inch Android Tablets
Speakers: Walt Cole and DeForrest Home 

Walt and DeForrest will demonstrate and talk about their newly aquired Android tablets. Walt has a Nexus 7 made by Asus, and DeForrest has a Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 made by Samsung.

The comparison chart that Deforrest showed in his presentation, and the review from which it was taken, can be seen at http://deviceguru.com/galaxy-tab-2-7-0-review/
March 12, 2013
5:00 PM
San Jose IBM PC Club
General Meeting
Almaden Community Center
Second floor computer room
Directions to the Meeting
Subject:  Your favorite new program not known by most
Speakers:  Club members and guests

All members and guests are invited to share brief discussions of their favorite programs or websites that may not be well known by the other members. A connection to the projector is available for your laptop or flash drive. Let DeForrest Home know if you would like to have a specific program installed on a computer that you can use at the meeting.
April 9, 2013
5:00 PM
San Jose IBM PC Club
General Meeting
Almaden Community Center
Second floor computer room
Directions to the Meeting

Subject:  Basic Movie Making with Windows 7
Speaker:  Walt Cole

Walt will discuss how to use Windows Movie Maker (a component of Windows Essentials 2012) to make movies from digital photos, video clips, and audio files. 

May 14, 2013
5:00 PM
San Jose IBM PC Club
General Meeting
Almaden Community Center
Second floor computer room
Directions to the Meeting

Subject:  Intro to Adobe Lightroom
Speaker:  Dick Stuart

Dick will describe the layout and the basic functions of Lightroom and demo how to use it in everyday photography.


Monday. June 10, 2013
2:00 PM
San Jose IBM PC Club
General Meeting
Willows Community Center
Lincoln and Curtner 
Willows Community Center map

Subject:  Adobe Photoshop Elements Version 11
Speaker:  Bob Gager

This month we will move the June PC Club meeting from its normal time and place to Monday, June 10, 2:00 PM, at the Willows Community Center on Lincoln and Curtner. Bob Gager, an Adobe manager will talk about Adobe Photoshop Elements Version 11.
July 9, 2013
5:00 PM
San Jose IBM PC Club
General Meeting
Almaden Community Center
Second floor computer room
Directions to the Meeting

Subject:  Pinnacle Video Editing
Speaker:  Hal Hosfeldt

Creating videos to capture and preserve special events in our lives can bring joy to friends, family, and future generations.  Join us on July 9 for a demo of Pinnacle 14 Studio and other software to learn how to create DVD?s containing movies, photos, transitions, titles, and various enhancements using your own recordings.

August 13, 2013
5:00 PM
San Jose IBM PC Club
General Meeting
Almaden Community Center
Second floor computer room
Directions to the Meeting

Subject: Setting up a Simple Home Computer Network
Speaker: DeForrest Home

DeForrest will demonstrate some of the basic requirements for setting up a peer-to-peer home computer network. He will attempt to show how to include both Windows 7 and Windows XP computers in the network. Some of the topics covered will be

  • Configuring your router
  • Setting up wired and wireless connections
  • Securing your wireless network
  • Sharing files
September 10, 2013
5:00 PM
San Jose IBM PC Club
General Meeting
Almaden Community Center
Second floor computer room
Directions to the Meeting

Subject: Password Managers
Speaker: Scott Maiden

Scott will discuss two password managers. He will demonstrate how you can securely keep all of your many Internet passwords in a "vault"  which you can access with one master password.

October 8, 2013
5:00 PM
San Jose IBM PC Club
General Meeting
Almaden Community Center
Second floor computer room
Directions to the Meeting

Subject:  The Future of Personal Computing
Seaker:  Sue Kayton

Want to know what the Future of Personal Computing holds out for us?  Well, Sue Kayten, The Computer Doctor, is returning to tell us her thoughts and give some tips on the care and feeding of your computer.  Also, Sue said if members have "patient computers", they are invited to bring them in to have her repair and/or speed them up.

November 12, 2013
5:00 PM
San Jose IBM PC Club
General Meeting
Almaden Community Center
Second floor computer room
Directions to the Meeting

Subject:  European Trip Report
Speaker:  Walt Cole

Walt will tell us about his recent trip to Europe and show some of the many photos that he took.


December 10, 2013
5:00 PM
San Jose IBM PC Club
General Meeting
Almaden Community Center
Second floor computer room
Directions to the Meeting

Subject: Annual Photo Sharing Show and Tell

Bring some photos that you would like to share. The rules are as follows:

No more than 25 photos per person.
No more than 10 minutes per person.
Photos must have been taken in 2013.
Photos must be on a flash drive or CD/DVD. 


 
 
Starting with the March 8, 2011 meeting, board meetings will be held on the second Tuesday of each month at 4:00 PM in the Almaden Community Center, 6445 Camden Ave., San Jose, CA.
Dates
January 8, 2013
Board Meeting
February 12, 2013
Board Meeting
March 12, 2013
Board Meeting
April 9, 2013
Board Meeting
May 14, 2013
Board Meeting
June 11, 2013
Board Meeting
July 9, 2013
Board Meeting
August 13, 2013
Board Meeting
September 10, 2013
Board Meeting
October 8, 2013
Board Meeting
November 12, 2013
Board Meeting
December 10, 2013
Board Meeting

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