Jan Laskowski presents: SnagIt

Everyone knows how to save Web site images by right-clicking on them, but what if you want to do the same for an application, your desktop, or some other type of screen capture?

With SnagIt, you can capture any image to a graphic file or send it directly to a printer. Options include capturing an entire screen, a window, or an arbitrary rectangle. You can also capture icons and buttons. GIF, JPEG, TIF, PCX, PNG, BMP, AVI, and other formats are supported.

Capture text from applications that don't support cut and paste, such as error pop-up screens or the directory and files windows of Windows Explorer. Video-capture on-screen activity, including mouse movements, as a standard AVI video file; optionally you can add voice-over during capture to create a file useful for training, multimedia clips, and user help documentation. The program includes a thumbnail browser, extended Windows capture, printer capture, and audio recording. go to download site

Herb Shear presents Info Select
Store, organize and find the information you need every day!

Info Select is the award-winning Personal Information Manager that helps you manage your daily random information and organize your Internet data
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Please join us for a presentation by Peter Hirsch. We will look at several free software programs on the Internet that are interesting and may be useful or entertaining:

• FXFOTO to do some of the things Photoshop and other expensive programs can do to fix and display your photos
• Google Earth which can display satellite photos of your home and much more
• Konfabulator Widgets, which are dynamic large icons that can display useful information on your desktop or fun things

Digital Photography!
Erik Stusnick is a very knowledgeable digital camera presenter and is deeply involved with the Digital Camera Club at The Villages in San Jose ... and is a Photoshop Elements user. Erik will refer to photography sources on the Internet such as "How to take and/or Print better pictures with your digital equipment" and "How best to share your digital pictures ... which size and format."

Bring your camera and pictures and get some advice from this Digital Camera Guru.

Adobe GoLive will be presented by Jan Laskowski.

Professional, standards-based Web and mobile authoring -- Adobe® GoLive® CS2 software lets you unlock the power of CSS with intuitive visual tools such as prebuilt CSS objects that you can drag and drop to build sophisticated sites. Jump-start your designs by easily converting Adobe InDesign® layouts into Web pages. Or, design Web and mobile content in an advanced, standards-based coding environment.

Scanners and Scanning, Herb Shear presents an overview of scanning technology and uses.

Scanners have become an important part of the home office over the last few years. Scanner technology is everywhere and used in many ways:

• Flatbed scanners, also called desktop scanners, are the most versatile and commonly used scanners. In fact, this article will focus on the technology as it relates to flatbed scanners.
• Sheet-fed scanners are similar to flatbed scanners except the document is moved and the scan head is immobile. A sheet-fed scanner looks a lot like a small portable printer.
• Handheld scanners use the same basic technology as a flatbed scanner, but rely on the user to move them instead of a motorized belt. This type of scanner typically does not provide good image quality. However, it can be useful for quickly capturing text.
• Drum scanners are used by the publishing industry to capture incredibly detailed images. They use a technology called a photomultiplier tube (PMT). In PMT, the document to be scanned is mounted on a glass cylinder. At the center of the cylinder is a sensor that splits light bounced from the document into three beams. Each beam is sent through a color filter into a photomultiplier tube where the light is changed into an electrical signal.

Speech Recognition, Bernhard Krevet
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ViaVoice® technology, now available to consumers on the Windows, Macintosh and handheld computer platforms, can afford a 'multi-modal' environment, freeing users from dependence on the mouse, keyboard and stylus for many applications.

ViaVoice personal computer software leverages generations of IBM voice recognition research and accomplishment. ViaVoice for Windows Release 10 product family offers a complete portfolio appealing to every level of user expertise, and our ViaVoice for Mac offerings were the first continuous speech products on their Apple Macintosh platforms in the consumer marketplace.

ViaVoice software is now available through and supported by ScanSoft Inc

Adobe Photoshop Elements 3, "Perfect, transform, organize, and share your photos like a pro!" Adobe® Photoshop® Elements, the #1 selling consumer photo-editing software, now provides powerful photo editing functionality plus intuitive organizing and sharing capabilities. Presented by by Hugh Trainor.

Review of Sonic(TM) "MyDVD Studio Deluxe Version 5.3" by Roger Steele.

Sonic Solutions of Novato, California has been the front-runner in multiple DVD authoring strategies over the last few years. They are said to have for years dominated the high end Mac authoring market with Creator. In Febrary 2001, Sonic and Daikin Industries combined forces to create a professional DVD offerings. In 2002, Sonic Solutions acquired the desktop and mobile division of Veritas software and in 2004 it acquired the Silicon Valley firm of Roxio.

On February 21, 2005, Roger Steele will provide a review of Sonic's My DVD Studio Deluxe. This product includes the capabilities for video editing, Slideshows, MP3 Music, Disc Copy, Labels, DVD Playback. It is offered as the complete and easy way to put your video, photos, music and data on DVD and CDs.