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 13, 2015 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Subject: Computer Tuneup and Malware
Removal--How to Do It Yourself |
February 10, 2015 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Subject: State-of-the-Art Technology from the
2015 Consumer Electronics Show Troy will discuss some of the major new technologies exhibited at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. For example:
Don't miss this! |
March 10, 2015 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Subject: The
Nexus 7 Tablet Speaker: Walt Cole Walt will talk about and demonstrate his Nexus 7 tablet, 2013 edition, with the latest Android operating system, 5.0.2 Lollipop. |
April 14, 2015 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Subject: Windows 10 Pro Technical Preview DeForrest will bring a computer on which he has installed the
latest version of the Windows 10 Pro Technical Preview. He will
show the new interface and demonstrate some of the new features
of the next Windows upgrade. |
May 12, 2015 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
We will see a podcast from the Triangulation series hosted by
Leo Laporte. Leo will interview Marc Goodman, author of a new
book, Future
Crimes. The discussion will be about the global threat
posed by malicious software being deployed by organized crime
and government agencies around the world. Leo and Marc will
discuss the recent targeted attacks against major corporations,
such as Target and Sony Pictures, and they will conclude with
some ideas of how we all can reduce the threat of malicious
attacks against our personal computer files, finances, and
identities. |
June 9, 2015 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Subject: Different and unusual uses of Excel
Pat will show an Excel application for solving Sudoku puzzles using complex functions and conditional formatting. He will also demonstrate an Excel game application used for helping people with brain development. Click here to see the slides that Pat presented at the meeting.
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July 14, 2015 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Subject: Picasa Web Albums vs Google+ Photo
Sharing vs Google Photos Google cannot make up its mind. All three photo sharing tools
are still around. Over time they first emphasized PWA, then G+PS
and now Google Photos. Come learn the differences and what the
latest tool does and its advantages. |
August 11, 2015 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Subject: Arduino Microcontroller Come see what it is, what it can do, the software Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and simple project examples. Below are links to the two Arduino User Guides discussed at the meeting.
http://make.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/SIK.pdf A number of Arduino tutorial videos are available on
YouTube. One of the best is |
September 8, 2015 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Subject: Subject: The Print Shop 23.1 The Print Shop 23.1 includes professionally-designed templates
for a wide variety of projects, including: Greeting Cards,
Invitations, Photo Projects, Mailing Labels, Matching Stationery
Sets, CD/DVD Labels, Calendars, Signs & Banners, and more!
Phyllis will demonstrate some of the many projects that you can
create with it. |
October 13, 2015 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Subject: The History and Technology of the
Enigma Cipher Machine The Enigma machine was an advanced electro-mechanical cipher machine used by the German military as their main device for secure wireless communications until the end of World War II. Ralph will present an overview of the Enigma cipher machine and its contribution to the outcome in WW2. For more on this and other cipher machines, see Ralph's website, http://ciphermachines.com. |
November 10, 2015 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Subject: MythTV Envision a mythical server in your home that enables all these things:
You can have that mythical server now. Come learn about MythTV. The notes that Alan composed for this presentation are
available at |
December 8, 2015 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.
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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. - prior to the General Meeting |