2010 Presentations
Video Files of some of the presentations are available
Complete list Click here or click link under presentation.
Dave "Doc" Dockery
Biography |
"The Human Adventure Is Just Beginning..."
How we're using the greatest tool that Mankind has EVER had.
(Opening Event - Spouses Welcome )
Doc has hosted computer and technology oriented shows on both local radio and television, and he is a "Kindness Coordinator" for Pinellas County -sponsoring events that promote "Random Acts of Kindness". He created the Random Acts of Kindness Computer Clinics where a team of computer techs from the Tampa Bay Computer Society goes into the community and repairs computers (for free) for a day.
Doc speaks at a wide variety of venues on computers, the Internet, social networking, paradigm shifts, mind mapping, and more. In this speech he will share his vision of a future that can be brighter if we use the new tools that we have at our disposal.
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Bill Campbell
Biography |
Advanced Shooting Techniques (for DSLR)
Capturing the natural world in images is a passion that has driven Bill Campbell to photograph since he was very young. Believing that images can inspire others to understand and respect the fragile nature of our world, his mission has been to weave together elements of the beauty of our planet to represent the splendor of our temporary home.
Bill Feels that the ability to see, capture and share this majesty of life is a gift and hopes to continue using this gift to open eyes and hearts to the beauty that surrounds us until his dying days.
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Lois Cohen
Biography |
An Intimate Look at the US Supreme Court
Finale Event - Spouses Welcome
Discover when and why the U.S. Supreme Court came into existence. Examine landmark cases decided by the Court, involving such important issues as segregation, women’s rights, presidential power, and the 2000 presidential election, and the impact of these cases on our nation. Enjoy the Court’s interesting and unusual traditions. Meet past and current justices of the Court. And look into your crystal ball at the Court’s future.
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Rollie Cole
Biography |
APCUG Alumni Meeting
Looking inside APCUG
Rollie Cole, co-founder and first president of APCUG, along with fellow alums from "the early days" to share photos and stories from "back then."
Everyone with a story or a photo or a handout or toy about APCUG from the late 1980's or early 1990’s is welcome to share it. Non-alums are also most welcome. Most of the photos will be displayed on a screen, so please provide copies in advance so Rollie can add them to the screen show. Materials that you want to just hand-around at the session are OK too.
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Tim Zaun
Biography |
Blogging
Review the benefits of blogging to advance your professional platform.
Visit Tim online at www.TimZaun.com.
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Dave "Doc" Dockery
Biography |
Boot Camp for Social Networking
Doc has hosted computer and technology oriented shows on both local radio and television, and he is a "Kindness Coordinator" for Pinellas County -sponsoring events that promote "Random Acts of Kindness". He created the Random Acts of Kindness Computer Clinics where a team of computer techs from the Tampa Bay Computer Society goes into the community and repairs computers (for free) for a day.
Doc speaks at a wide variety of venues on computers, the Internet, social networking, paradigm shifts, mind mapping, and more. In this speech he will share his vision of a future that can be brighter if we use the new tools that we have at our disposal.
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Hank Feinberg
Biography |
Community Service Project Builds Membership & Goodwill
How to start and run a computer refurbishing program in your User Group.
The greatest reward is the sense of accomplishment and pride of achievement in helping those less fortunate to receive a computer for their family. how to start and a program that your members can put their skills to use,enjoy and learn from each other and through community service increase the recognition of your computer user group publicly. This program will maintain and increase membership and build friendships that will last for years.
You will learn everything needed to start and run the entire program and think green in actively recycling and refurbishing.
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Jere Minich
Biography |
Computer Basics - Files & Folders
Windows involve working with files and folders.You can copy and move files from other locations such as another folder, computer, or the Internet to folders you create.
This presentation covers how to:
View, rename, move, copy, print, delete, search, create a shortcut, open, send to or create a new folder.
Everything you wanted to know about files and folders.
Also, we will cover the computer terminology associated with files and folders.
Spouses Welcome.
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Evelyn Watts
Biography |
Corel - New Product Demos
Corel® VideoStudio® Pro X3 gives you the power, speed and creativity to produce professional-quality video. Now dramatically faster, your end-to-end video production package delivers express and advanced editing, more than X professional templates and filters and powerful real-time effects. Get HD and Blu-ray authoring and online sharing to Facebook, Flicker and Vimeo in one complete package.
Corel7 PaintShop Photo Pro X3 gives you the power to easily organize, edit and share professional-quality photos. It’s easy-to-use advanced photo software that combines photo organization, single and multi-photo editing, creative projects, sharing and now simple HD video projects. Now your entire photo workflow is available in one high-performance package.
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Evelyn Watts
Biography |
Corel Painter Essentials
Painter Essentials 4 is based on the world's most powerful painting and illustration software, Corel® Painter
If you want to do more than just edit and print your photos, Corel® Painter Essentials 4 is the ideal way to get started with digital art. Create a painting from a photo in just 3 easy steps. Sketch or paint on a blank canvas to produce an original image, and add creative elements to any digital project. With handy tools, brushes, paints and effects, you'll find new ways to work with photographs and express your vision.
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Earl Stewart
Biography |
Current & Future Automotive Technology
Earl has been featured in news coverage by CNN, Fox News, the Wall Street journal and many more for his innovative and often unorthodox approach to operating an automotive dealership.
He is a weekly contributor to The Hometown News, writing columns on a variety of automotive topics. A blog is maintained at www.EarlStewartOnCars.comthat offers
advise to consumers on buying and servicing card.
Earl resides in Jupiter Inlet Colony, FL with his wife . His three sons are in the automotive business and his wife Nancy is Vice-President of special projects for the dealerships. She teams with Earl on a weekly radio talk show.
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Donald Tillman
Biography |
Hard Disk Data Destruction
In this class we will cover best methods of data destruction that will protect you legally.
What is safe enough? We will put this to rest.
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Carey Holzman
Biography |
Hints & Tips
Carey Holzman is known for his high-energy,fun and participatory presentation style.
There are no scripts or rehearsals and, as a result, no two presentations are ever the same. Carey is the co-host of the nation’s longest running, nationally syndicated radio talk show on computers, Computer America.
Now in it's 18th broadcast season, Computer America airs live, each weekday night, from 7pm to 9pm Pacific time on AM and FM radio stations across the country, and streams all over the world through the Internet at www.ComputerAmerica.com.
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Charles Oppermann
Biography |
Ins and Outs of Windows 7
Microsoft Software Expert Charles Oppermann is a frequent speaker on computers and technologies. He developed the JAWS screen reader for the blind as Chief Software Developer for a St. Petersburg company.
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Hank Feinberg
Biography |
Marketing 301
Learn how to Promote/Market your Club with ideas that work
Since 1985, Hank has been a member of the Rockland PC Users Group, located in Rockland County, NY. In 2001 he started Project PC ReNew and has served as its director for over 9 years. PC ReNew is an Award winning community service that has refurbished over 3,000 computers through the efforts of its member volunteers. These have been donated to families, seniors and disabled people that qualify and other non profits in our community.
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Charles Oppermann
Biography |
Microsoft Outlook Revealed
Charles Oppermann is a frequent speaker on computers and technologies. He developed the JAWS screen reader for the blind as Chief Software Developer for a St. Petersburg company.
In 1994 Melinda Gates (Mrs. Bill Gates) hired him at Microsoft where he finished work on the now-infamous Microsoft Bob product. He also formed a team who developed Windows 95 to be user friendly for people with disabilities.
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Brigitte Haag
Biography |
Move Money With PayPal
There is much more to PayPal than just paying your purchases at EBay. PayPal provides tools for your Club to accept Credit Card Payments for membership or class fees. It will allow you to go shopping electronics for your Club without asking a Board Member to use a personal Credit Card.
Part of the presentation will also show how to create a PayPal button and insert it into a Website, and how to set up a totally free e-commerce Website.
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Bill Campbell
Biography |
Offsite - Nassau, Bahamas
Assemble for Photo Shoot in Nassau, Bahamas
Capturing the natural world in images is a passion that has driven Bill Campbell to photograph since he was very young. Believing that images can inspire others to understand and respect the fragile nature of our world, his mission has been to weave together elements of the beauty of our planet to represent the splendor of our temporary home.
Bill Feels that the ability to see, capture and share this majesty of life is a gift and hopes to continue using this gift to open eyes and hearts to the beauty that surrounds us until his dying days.
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Sheila Bigel
Biography |
Open Office Freeware
OpenOffice.org. is a suite of programs offering compatibility with Microsoft Office at a great price.
Three applications will be demoed:
Writer - (Word Processing)
Calc - (Spreadsheet), and
Impress - (Presentations).
Comparisons with Microsoft Office will be highlighted where applicable.
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Bill James
Biography |
Perfecting your Photos
Perfecting Your Photos Using Windows Live Photo Gallery Nothing spoils a photo like red eyes, poor exposure or a stranger who wanders into the edge of your shot at the last second.
Fortunately, it is a snap to repair these and other common photo frights. All you need is Window Live Photo Gallery. This free program for Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 lets you organize, share, and fix your photos.
The presentation will show you how easily you can make poor photos really stunning with a few clicks. One of the great things about digital photos is how easy it is to make a good photo great. We will show how easily you can fix your photos, create a panoramic shot and send your photos. You don’t need fancy (expensive) editing software. With Windows and Windows Live, you’re just a couple clicks away from fixing the most common problems.And once you’ve got the red eyes out and the
image nice and bright, e-mailing your photos is also quick and easy.
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Jere Minich
Biography |
Performing Computer Maintenance
How To Keep Your PC Healthy:
Clean up your PC’s digital clutter, Speed up your computer, Clean up your startup folder, Stop un-necessary program running in the background, Maintain your hard drive, Keep your Computer clean, means, and safe.
Spouses Welcome.
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Carey Holzman
Biography |
Security
Carey Holzman is known for his high-energy,fun and participatory presentation style.There are no scripts or rehearsals and, as a result, no two presentations are ever the same. Carey is the co-host of the nation’s longest running, nationally syndicated radio talk show on computers, Computer America.
Now in it's 18th broadcast season, Computer America airs live, each weekday night, from 7pm to 9pm Pacific time on AM and FM radio stations across the country, and streams all over the world through the Internet at
www.ComputerAmerica.com
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Tim Zaun
Biography |
Social Media 2010
Social Networking - Current and Future Websites
Lean the trends in social media to help promote your user group (or any other professional endeavor); including new sites like Vreebit.
Review the benefits of blogging to advance your professional platform.
Visit Tim online at www.TimZaun.com.
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Bill Campbell
Biography |
Techniques for Better Photography
(Point & Shoot and DSLR)
Capturing the natural world in images is a passion that has driven Bill Campbell to photograph since he was very young. Believing that images can inspire others to understand and respect the fragile nature of our world, his mission has been to weave together elements of the beauty of our planet to represent the splendor of our temporary home.
Bill Feels that the ability to see, capture and share this majesty of life is a gift and hopes to continue using this gift to open eyes and hearts to the beauty that surrounds us until his dying days.
As a nationally recognized and award winning nature photographer, Bill’s credits include magazines such as Outdoor Photographer, Birders World, Backpacker, PCPhoto and various others. Clients include the National Park Service, US Fish and Wildlife, and Nikon. He has been the Summit Chairman of the North American Nature
Photography Association and currently sits on the board. Bill is also an Emergency Medicine Physician who still finds himself in the ER helping patients with his other profession.
He resides in Oak Ridge, TN with two of his three sons. You can find his teaching schedule at www.billcampbelldigital.com
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Jeffrey Fishkin
Biography |
Technology of the Space Program
Jeff will concentrate on the following:
Shuttle Processing
The new program after Shuttle (Ares and Constellation)
Slides about the Columbia disaster.
Jeffrey Fishkin is a NASA Logistics Engineer at Kennedy Space Center, responsible for the development, planning, integration and implementation of Logistics support systems, equipment, and processes that ensure that the Space Shuttle Orbiter is ready for flight.
These activities include the development of Integrated Logistics Plans, analysis
of supportability of hardware and systems, development of Logistics models, analysis of declining repair and materials sources, operational Logistics planning, trade studies and analysis, logistics information systems, and program/project phase down/phase up planning.
Overall, he is responsible for ensuring that flight hardware is available at all times to support Space Shuttle operations, and avoid zero balances that could delay a launch.
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Norwegian Sky Navigator
Biography |
Technology on a Modern Cruise Ship
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Rollie Cole
Biography |
Technology/User Groups Then and Now
Rollie Cole, co-founder and first president of APCUG, has been involved with personal computers and user groups for almost 35 years.
He will lead a discussion of the changes from then to now the personal computer technology, the user groups, and how the two sets of changes interacted with each other.
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Dr. Karl Wittman
Biography |
The Web in The Age of the iPhone
Lost in cyberspace? Trouble finding your way on the Information Superhighway?
It was easy to navigate the Web a few years ago when the home page was king. Now we have multiple Internet mobile devices ranging from laptops to netbooks and smart phones to tablets.
This workshop will explore how the Internet and the Web will likely change in the near future and how these changes will affect the design and our use of the Web and the mobile Internet.
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Evelyn Watts
Biography |
Video Production
Corel® VideoStudio® Pro X3 gives you the power, speed and creativity to produce professional-quality video. Now dramatically faster, your end-to-end video production package delivers express and advanced editing, more than X professional templates and filters and powerful real-time effects. Get HD and Blu-ray authoring and online sharing to Facebook, Flicker and Vimeo in one complete package.
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Donald Tillman
Biography |
Virtual Machine
Running Three Operating Systems on a MAC
There has been a lot of talk about virtual machines and how Mac users are able to run Windows on a Mac.
In this class we will cover:
What is a Virtual Machine
Basic Concepts
Why VM
Current VM software
installation of a operating system
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Leslie Hallock
Biography |
What To Do With Your Photos and Pictures
What to do with your photos - How to process, share, and print
As a med lab supervisor I have revised manuals and spreadsheets. I give basic how to presentation using PowerPoint.
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