SPRING Presentations
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Back to the Basics, a Magical Mystery Tour Basic courses are the most important classes you can do. They set the stage for everything and give a foundation to build upon for the more advanced classes. |
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Backup Strategies - Hardware and Software Choices This presentation discusses an age-old problem – data backup. There are many ways to backup data, but most of the time we forget about backing up our important data. Simple solutions are not so simple if you have never used them before. Strategies using hardware solutions and various software solutions will be reviewed. Also included will be do’s and don’ts for successful backups.
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Become a Green Star Certified User Group in 10 Steps Computers now account for 2% of our national electrical consumption. You will find out how easy it is turn your user group green and save money for your members. . Expect to see a live demonstration of a P2 Kill-A-Watt device. You will get answers to questions about laptops being more energy efficient than desktops, how to stop leaking power, when to turn off or use sleep mode and when to upgrade or purchase a new computer. What is "Energy Star" all about and which vendors sell green computers that meet these standards. What are the best ways to recycle your used PC? Expect to learn how to perform an energy audit of a computer and calculate potential savings. Watch a video on making your computer green. If you have concerns about our environment this is the presentation, you will not want to miss. Bring a memory stick and take a copy of this PowerPoint with you. |
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Building a Data Driven Website Description: With an interactive presentation, followed by a Q&A session, you will know:
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Computer Education - The Backbone of Every User Group Why do people join Computer User Groups?
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Dave's Trivia Friday Friday Evening Trivia with Dave Gerber |
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Exciting Digital Photography and Video Editing The Video presentation will cover a few of the more important elements of shooting, recording, editing and scripting home videos. Multiple camera editing along with night shooting and the use of still pictures in “pan and zoom” mode will be discussed. A couple of the consumer video editors will be discussed along with at least one high-end editor showing some of the differences and whether the average home editor needs more capability. A short discussion of what can be done with entirely free video editing and supporting software will be included. |
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FACUG - Double You're User Group Membership in One Year! A very special presentation by two of the leading member- ship professionals in FACUG, |
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How User Groups Can Benefit from Web 2.0 Technologies User Group 2.0: Web 2.0 is dramatically changing the web, as we know it. It is revolutionizing how people connect with each other and spread human knowledge across the Internet. I believe that computer user groups should be exploring and teaching web 2.0 technologies. |
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Identity Theft - Protect Yourself I am a victim of Identity Theft. Since then I have been doing a lot of research that I wish to share with you. I will describe Identity Theft. I will show you many ways in which it can occur. I will show ways to prevent it. If you do become a victim of Id theft, I will give you some ways to try to clear it up quickly. Finally, I will share with you how I am now protecting myself. |
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Internet Neutrality and the Internet Preservation Act of 2007 Should the Internet remain neutral for all comers or should big business have full control over the pipelines. Opponents are saying not so fast, let’s examine years of historical value of how the Internet has served so well without corporate control. Come hear a presentation on both sides stand and then make up your mind whether to get involved or no. |
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Learn All About Digital Media from the Mac Pro Digital Media is everywhere today! MP3, MP4, AAC, WMV, DIVX… what's it all mean!?
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Learn How to Build a PowerPoint Presentation (Part 2) ….in Two Hours. |
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Learn How to Build a PowerPoint Presentation (Part 1) ….in Two Hours. |
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Learn What a GPS Can Do For You The "GPS", Global Positioning System, is one of those devices, where people in a few years will not be able to imagine how one could travel without one. Long in use by the military, air traffic, boating industry it is only now getting slowly commonplace. Not depending anymore on upgrades in luxury cars, everybody now can purchase one of these hand held miracle devices. A friendly voice tells you where you are, what turn to take next to reach your destination. Some of them guide you to your car in the Mall parking lot, or help you climb a mountain, tell you where the next Chinese restaurant or where the Post Office is, some even tell you to slow down if you are entering a school zone. |
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My Growing Love Affair with New Windows Vista I would like to share some of the things I love about Windows Vista. With the new navigation and organization tools, Windows Vista makes it faster and easier to do nearly anything. |
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Newsletter Design - Hook’em and Hold’em The newsletter design principles that catch and keep your reader’s attention. This session will focus on the principles of graphic design that will help you create newsletters & brochures, using Microsoft Publisher, that will grab attention and focus on your message. Topics included will be overall design, template selection, typeface impact, & discretion in choosing clipart. The three Cs of design: Consistency, Clarity & Clutter Busting will be the overarching standards, which will guide our discussion. You will see PowerPoint examples. |
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Share the Wealth: Use a Home Network You have a wealth of Entertainment and Information bottled up in your computer island. Install a Home Network and share that with others in all the rooms of your home. This session will introduce you to wired and wireless computer networks and show you how you can set one up in your own home. Home networks allow multiple computers to simultaneously use a broadband connection to access the internet, and can allow those computers to share multimedia files and printers on the network. Network components and the “alphabet soup” of networking terms will be explored. Home Networking used to be a complex undertaking, but modern routers and modems have made the process quick and easy. Now the network is the computer, and all of your multimedia files can be played at any network node, from any network node. |
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Take a Tour of Windows Vista with "Dave and Dave" Dave Gerber and Dave Dockery will both do "Windows Vista": They will take you on a tour of Microsoft's newest Operating System. Many of those complaining about Vista, don't really understand many of the changes that have been made. We will explore several of the features that many of us have learned to love so well. Come see why we think that Vista is a worthy successor to Windows XP.
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Tech Session - Corel Some of the topics that will be covered. Transform ideas into professional results! Unleash your creativity with innovative graphics solutions from Corel. Our unique product line includes powerful, easy-to-use software for digital painting, illustration, graphic design, page layout, image editing, motion graphics and vector-based embroidery. Our professional tools help designers create, manage, plot, share and reuse technical diagrams, illustrations, and schematics, thereby ensuring the most seamless technical workflow possible. Get everything you expect in an office suite-and more! Corel® WordPerfect® Office X3 - Standard Edition includes word processing, spreadsheets, presentations and email, plus Microsoft® Office-compatibility, and powerful PDF creation and editing. Enhance and Personalize your Digital Photos! Corel offers an extensive range of software products that let everyone from home users to professional photographers do more with digital photos. From simple solutions for enhancing, sorting, sharing and storing digital photo collections to sophisticated image editors, Corel software makes digital imaging easy and fun. Enhance and personalize your digital photo collection with scrapbooking tools, create digital slideshows and more—with Corel, the possibilities are endless. Creating home movies has never been easier! Corel's comprehensive line of advanced DVD, digital video and multimedia software products let you capture, edit, author, burn, distribute and play digital multimedia content on PCs, digital media players and other devices. Our Video and DVD products let you watch video where, when and how you want to, with support for today's most popular file formats and technologies, including HD (high-definition) and Blu-Ray.
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Tech Session - Smart Computing Smart Computing is ready to knock your socks off again this year. Smart Computing is so much more than a magazine. Lindsay Albers & Jen Clausen are going to tell you about the new features you can find at SmartComputing.com as well as helpful information you can find each month in the magazine. |
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Tech Session - Verbatim
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Tech Session - Microsoft Please join Eric P. Kamont, Microsoft Account Technology Specialist for a look at Windows Vista and Windows Live consumer scenarios that will show you how to make your PC safer, more entertaining, more reliable and rewarding than ever.
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Tech Session - Pinnacle System In the Tech Session on Saturday I will give all attendees an overview of our flagship video editing application Studio Ultimate version 11.
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Tech Session - Trend Micro How Can I Stay Safe? |
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Tech Session - User Group Relations Perfect Backup Approach
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Tech Session - Ai Squared ZoomWare – High Resolution Screen Magnification for Everyone
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Techniques for Creating Award-Winning Newsletters My presentation will address techniques for creating award-winning newsletters, including the basic rules of good journalism, font readability, use of color, column sizes, page balance, etc. Other topics covered will be: how to get local members to write articles, how to shoot and use good photographs, which software to use, the value of print versus electronic publishing, and the criteria used for judging the FACUG newsletter contest. |
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