San Jose IBM PC Club 2015 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 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
Speaker: Alan Baker

Make your computer a lean machine by eliminating unnecessary programs that consume memory, CPU, and disk resources.  Removing malware requires these same steps plus a few more.  You can do both yourself by attending the presentation and following Alan's checklist.
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
Speaker:  Troy Wolverton, Personal Technology Columnist for the San Jose Mercury News

Troy will discuss some of the major new technologies exhibited at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. For example:

  • The Internet of things
  • 3D Printing
  • 4K Television

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
Speaker: DeForrest Home

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

Subject: Future Crimes

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
Speaker: Pat McMahon

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.


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
Speaker: Walt Cole

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
Speakers: Pat McMahon & Walt Cole

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
http://ardx.org/src/guide/V13-ARDX-EG-OOML-DD.pdf

A number of  Arduino tutorial videos are available on YouTube. One of the best is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F054MNB1QI

If you would like a more in depth look at Arduino, Jeremy Blum has a series of fifteen Arduino tutorials on YouTube, starting with
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCxzA9_kg6s

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
Speaker: Phyllis House

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
Speaker: Ralph Simpson

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
Speaker: Alan Baker

Envision a mythical server in your home that enables all these things:

  • Watch live TV on your home's TV, computers, tablets, or phones
  • Record TV shows, videos, DVD's, and CD's to disk
  • Watch those on your home's TV, computers, tablets, or phones
  • Stream those through the internet to a computer, tablet, or phone elsewhere
  • Windows-compatible file sharing and backup machine
  • Internet file server and web server

You can have that mythical server now.  Come learn about MythTV.

The notes that Alan composed for this presentation are available at
http://sjpc.org/baker/presentations/mythtv

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.
No more than 10 minutes per person.
Photos must have been taken in 2015.
Photos must be on a flash drive or CD/DVD.


 
 
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