| 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 12, 2016 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Subject: Interesting YouTube Videos |
| February 9, 2016 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 2016 Consumer
Electronics Show Troy will discuss some of the major new technologies exhibited at the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. For example:
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| March 8, 2016 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Subject: Windows 10 Speaker: Walt Cole Walt will demonstrate some of the key features of Windows 10 and discuss his experience with installing and using the operating system so far. |
| April 12, 2016 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Subject: Photoshop Elements 14 Bob Gager, Adobe Group Project manager for Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements, will present Photoshop Elements, version 14. He will give an overview of PSE and show some of the new features of this latest version. |
| May 10, 2016 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Subject: The World of Smartphones Troy will discuss the features, advantages, and disadvantages
of some of the popular smartphones on the market today. |
| June 14, 2016 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Subject: The Ring Video Doorbell. The Ring Video Doorbell is a gadget you mount in place of or in addition to your doorbell at your front door. It has a video camera, a speaker, a microphone and a proximity detector. It communicates via your wifi network. You can see who is at your front door on your smartphone or your computer, no matter where you are, as long as you are connected. You can talk to them, if you want.
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| July 12, 2016 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Subject: Using a solar array to power your home and charge your
electric car Rolf's solar panels have been providing power for his home and his Chevy Volt for years. He has collected data on the electric output of the array and has tabulated it in spreadsheets. He will show us how the system is connected and will discuss the performance data. |
| August 9, 2016 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Subject: The Nexus 5X and "Project fi" Walt will discuss his 7-month old Nexus 5X Android smartphone and talk about Google's "Project fi" cell phone service |
| September 13, 2016 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Subject: Google Photos and the Windows 10 Anniversary Update Walt will show how to share photos and make albums with Google
Photos. We will also show screenshots of some of the privacy and
security choices that you can make when you install the Windows
10 Anniversary Update. |
| October 11, 2016 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Subject: Using Google Photos to edit your photos online Walt will continue his discussion of Google Photos. This time he will demonstrate the online photo editing capabilities of the site. |
| November 8, 2016 5:00 PM San Jose IBM PC Club General Meeting Almaden Community Center Second floor computer room Directions to the Meeting |
Subject: Virtual Private Networks Do you ever connect your laptop or phone to a public Wi-Fi
hotspot at a coffee shop, hotel, or classroom? Would you
like to access your home computer from another location?
If the answer to either of these is yes, you need a virtual
private network (VPN). You can see the presentation slides at http://sjpc.org/baker/presentations/vpn.pdf |
| December 13, 2016 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 guidelines
are as follows:
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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 |