Program Notes and Reviews 2003
15 Dec 2003 At our year-end party we will hear from the mid-November Association of PC User Groups (APCUG) conference in Las Vegas including a flashback to Comdex.

Don't miss the election of officers and an Outlook to our program in 2004.
17 Nov 2003

Roger Steele presented a live show of the new ULEAD software product: VideoStudio 7

Movie Making for Everyone
Ulead® VideoStudio™ 7 is video-editing software that makes editing your movies as fun as shooting them. Use fast, cutting-edge technology that allows first-time users to easily create professional-looking video. And do it all in real-time! Share your movies with others on tape, DVD, Video CD and the Web.

This consumer video-editing software product makes editing movies fun. Its cutting edge technology enables first time users to easily create professional looking videos without the time consuming hassles. Its offers features to capture, edit, and share videos – all in one package. Using easy templates you can create DVDs. Their guided steps approach make video creation fun, and simple. VideoStudio 7 allows you to include your choices from an array of 190 different effects. With the latest technology you gain real time performance and immediate results with output to TV or camcorders.

14-17 Nov 2003 APCUG Conference Las Vegas
20 Oct 2003  Wade Cole presents Irfan View
15 Sep 2003 J. B. Burke showed us how to build your own PC with photos taken during the process.
18 Aug 2003  Pat McMahon presents Sun's Star Office Suite.
21 July 2003 Lotus SmartSuite 9.8 - Bernhard Krevet will present an overview and demonstration on what's new with this latest release.
16 Juni 2003 IBM WebSphere Portal Family, Jason Fox of IBM Menlo Park.
19 May 2003 Nasser Momtaheni of IBM Menlo Park will be our guest to talk about Linux. The presentation will look at IBM's marketing and the technical content.
21 Apr 2003

Michelle Lewis, Marketing Manager, MARGI Systems will present their line of "Handheld Solutions" which include

"Presenter-to-Go" - A complete presentation solution providing corporate executives, sales and marketing professionals, educators and healthcare professionals with a simple, fast and flexible tool for the delivery of high-quality color presentations using their handheld device...

and "Display-to-Go" - A laptop graphics adapter
which becomes the interface between your laptop and: digital or analog LCD flat panels, projectors, CRT's, plasma, and head mounted displays..

17 Mar 2003

Rick Altman presents "Dreamweaver"
Dreamweaver (DW) has quickly taken a leadership position among website development applications, and that is based largely on three enduring qualities:

  • Approachability
  • Site Management
  • Globalization

    • The last point is one of the most impressive. DW's system of templates, libraries, and seamless support for external CSS files all combine to make global control (and change) of a website a very smooth and extraordinarily powerful operation.

    This session will have at its core a thorough look at how DW goes about the business of delivering global control to a website that could contain five or 500 pages to it.

    About our Speaker

    Rick Altman has been consulting and lecturing to the Windows-based graphics community for almost 15 years. He is the host of the annual CorelWORLD User Conference, to be held this June in San Diego, and has written over a dozen books on graphics applications. He has been the webmaster at http://www.altman.com
    since 1995, back when Notepad was the standard tool for creating websites...

    17 Feb 2003  THE ANATOMY OF SPAM
    It's not your imagination: spam has gotten much worse lately. Spam has increased from 8% of email traffic to 38% in the past year! Where do spammers get your email address? Can you keep your email
    address private? Will it ever stop? What can you do to repel the onslaught?
    Come to our meeting to hear Kaitlin Duck Sherwood, author of the "Overcome Email Overload" book series, answer these questions.
    http://www.EmailOverload.com
    20 Jan 2003

    Our presenter Govind Raj - Account Manager of "eGrabber" talked about AddressGrabber, ListGrabber, ResumeGrabber, Web Response Grabber.

    AddressGrabber allows the user to quickly capture names and addresses and other contact details from emails, web pages and text documents and enter them into their Contact Manager, by intelligently processing the details into the defined contact fields. AddressGrabber Business also transfers contact information in to accounting applications like QuickBooks, Peachtree, etc. and shipping applications UPS, FedEx and more. AddressGrabber works with popular contact managers like Outlook, ACT, Goldmine, etc.
    ListGrabber is the quickest way to capture a list of prospects from online directories & address list into ACT!™, GoldMine®, Palm®, Excel® & more… ListGrabber creates a contact for 100's of prospects each, with a SINGLE click into your contact manger. ListGrabber intelligently identifies name, company, title, full street address, fax, email and other contact information in addresses and transfers them into the corresponding fields of your contact manager.
    ResumeGrabber extracts name & address and other details from resume, creates a new contact in your contact manager & links the resume - all with a SINGLE Click! ResumeGrabber works in tandem with the contact managers such as ACT!, GoldMine® and Outlook® and establishes a cost effective Resume Management System.
    Web Response Grabber is a handy software that captures and processes data in web form email into ACT, GoldMine, Excel, MS Access and MS Outlook. Requires no programming or scripting! Works with existing web forms, transfers hundreds of email responses, checks for duplicates, and updates your database in just a few minutes. Just show Web Response Grabber the form tags and where you want the data to go in your database. Web Response Grabber Business automates the entire process of updating web form submissions into your database in a few minutes.