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...GENERAL MEETINGS Next General Meeting--Wednesday, Sept. 22nd Scott Sloan Next Generation Come and see Scott's New System
Past Meetings...
Thursday,
General
Meeting--Wednesday, June 23rd 1:00pm Abravanel Hall "Mr. Laptop" D. Lee visited our club to update us on Laptops. Presenting a short history of laptops over the last 30 years, Lee reviewed the past history and present status of laptops and notebooks.
D. Lee Lee handled many questions from members and gave us real practical tips on the history of Laptops and what to look for when buying one. We all appreciated his presentation. Thanks, Lee for your time and effort put into an outstanding presentation.
A crowd of over 50 attended the meeting and were rewarded with raffle prizes, refreshments and socializing...
The
Raffle winners were:
General Meeting--Wednesday, May 26th Topic: KINDLE Wil Wakely
Wil is a retired Ceramic Engineer, living in Pacific Beach, CA, who entered the
personal computer world in the '70s with Atari, Sinclair, Z-80 CPU and Heathkit
H89 type machines. All of his computers are now home-built of the PC variety and
the last count was 13 in various stages of repair. In 1985 was president of the
San Diego Computer Society and has been active in various local User Groups including
Access, UCHUG and Senior Computer Group. He is currently President of the Senior
Computer Group and will present a workshop on Excel 1:00pm Abravanel Hall
Short Video of Wil's Presentation and the Raffle Winners...
General
Meeting--Wednesday, March 24th The Computer Doctor 1:00pm Abravanel Hall The Computer Doctor made a house call to our club to update us on the latest in operating systems. Presenting a short history of operating systems over the last 20 years, Dennis concluded his power point presentation with a review of the Windows 7 system.
Dennis handled many questions from members and gave us real practical tips on how to utilize the new operating system. We all appreciated his presentation. Thanks, Dennis for your time and effort put into an outstanding presentation.
A large crowd of over 70 attended the meeting and were rewarded with raffle prizes, refreshments and socializing...
The
Raffle winners were:
General
Meeting--Wednesday, March 24th Jeff Brown--INTUIT Corp.
1:00pm Abravanel Hall Jeff Brown of INTUIT Corp. presented an excellent overview of a current topic of interest to all--completing our 2009 Income Tax forms. Turbo-Tax has overe 70% of the market for automated income tax systems and Jeff walked us through most of the features of this most popular program. Jeff also happens to be the son of our club's founder and past-resident--Terry Brown. Jeff answered a host of questions ranging from "tax questions" to how to better use Turbo-Tax's forms to make our annual job easier.
Jeff gave our members some real practical tips on how to file and use their "advanced" tax systems to help us plan for future years.We all appreciated his presentation. Thanks, Jeff for your time and effort put into an outstanding presentation.
A large crowd of over 50 attended the meeting and were rewarded with raffle prizes, refreshments and socializing...Intuit Corp. generously donated the grand prize of Turbo-Tax Deluxe.
The
Raffle winners were:
General
Meeting--Wednesday, February 24th Wayne Widener
1:00pm Abravanel Hall Wayne Widener presented an excellent overview of a current topic of interest to all of using computers today--that of preserving our own identities in the face of changing technology. Wayne is also President of the San Marcos Computer Club. Wayne's presentation gave our members some real practical tips on how to secure ourself, both online and in the real world--in spite of the eroding privacy that seems to be prevalent today. We all appreciated his handout, which indicated many links to online web sites, which our members can checkout. Thanks, Wayne for your time and effort put into an outstanding presentation.
A large crowd of over 60 attended the meeting and were rewarded with raffle prizes, refreshments and socializing... Intuit Corp. generously donated the grand prize of Turbo-Tax Deluxe. The
Raffle winners were:
General
Meeting--Wednesday, January 27th Dick Travis 1:00pm Abravanel Hall Dick Travis presented an interesting overview of GOOGLE's influence in today's computer world. Dick took us through a "virtual day" with his home desktop, laptop and Android smart phone. Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Sun and many other high-tech companies are in intense competition with each other for the consumers products from "Search" to "Office Suites" and everything else in between. An outline of his presentation is here... A large crowd attended the first General Meeting of the year and also heard from Geraldo Losa, from Ink-Jet-Lab on ways to save money on Ink cartridges.
Many questions were raised from the membership, and some requests for another meeting concerning a comparison of "smart phones" presently on the market. Gloria Rothenberg supplied the excellent refreshments and Hal McCawley distributed the raffle prizes to 4 lucky members. Next month's speaker will be Jeff Brown from Intuit Corp. on Turbo-Tax.
Geraldo
Losa The Raffle winners were:
Photos by General
Meeting--Wednesday, October 28th Microsoft
Corporation 1:00pm Abravanel Hall Woody Pewitt, Microsoft's Technology Evangelist was our guest speaker. Woody always draws a large crowd and was very effective in presenting the latest Microsoft Operating System--Windows 7, as well as demonstrating the uses of Windows Live Photo Gallery.
Woody made us aware of lots of new techniques being used by Microsoft to ease people into the digital revolution in photography.
Hal & Don
Everyone was impressed with the speaker and had many questions after the presentation, along with the delicious refreshments, which featured fresh fruit snacks.
Terry, Barbara & Lester
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.. The Raffle winners were:
Tony Calderone Past Meetings... General
Meeting--Wednesday, September 23rd Paul
Van Middlesworth
1:00pm Abravanel Hall Paul Van Middlesworth was our featured speaker from the San Marcos Computer Factory. Paul was very informative and educational for the large crowd in attendance.
Paul also presented his young(?) assistant Ronell for an amazing presentation of the younger generations techniques for obtaining "live" vidoes, TV shows, etc. over various devices from Laptops, Notebooks and even Cell Phones.
Everyone was impressed with both speakers and had many questions after the presentations, along with the delicious refreshments.
The Raffle winners were:
Past Meetings... General
Meeting--Wednesday, May 27th Dennis
Fisher 1:00pm Abravanel Hall
Dennis Fisher (The Computer Doctor) presided over an overflow crowd of members anxious to learn about Virus's and ways to keep their computer clean. His presentation was attended by over 75 members.
Dennis handled many questions from the members, as well answering members questions after his presentation. See the line below?
Afterwards,
the members enjoyed the refreshments and had a chance to socialize.
The Raffle winners were:
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