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Mike & Nancy  Sexton

Mike & Nancy Sexton

Biography

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.

Starting new with computers can be frightening. How does this box work and what if I hit the wrong key? Even the most experienced user needs to get back to basics every now and then just to move forward to the newest evolution in computers and software. Let us take you back in time and travel through some of the history of computers, demystify some of the acronyms, define hardware and software, and make them fun. Come fly with us through a lively PowerPoint presentation that is designed to teach and entertain at the same time.
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Chuck  Vroman

Chuck Vroman

Biography

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.


Carl  Lofstrom

Carl Lofstrom

Biography

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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Barry  Rimmer

Barry Rimmer

Biography

Building a Data Driven Website

Description: With an interactive presentation, followed by a Q&A session, you will know:

  • What a data driven website means
  • What having one will accomplish for your user group
  • What tools and methodologies are available to assist in developing the website, I.E. doing it yourself versus using a Content Management System
  • Which of these technologies best accomplishes my objectives, and what are the risks of my choice
  • How do I build it at the least cost
  • Time permitting, we will look at some examples


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Dave  Gerber

Dave Gerber

Biography

Computer Education - The Backbone of Every User Group

Why do people join Computer User Groups?
What is it that we offer that attracts new members and keeps them interested in remaining members?
It is all about learning. Whether it is the person who had their first computer thrust upon them by a loving friend or relative, an intermediate user (dweeb) or an experienced (geek) enthusiast, we are all in it to learn. The constant challenge to User Groups is offering an interesting and informative schedule of class offerings while meeting the ever-changing needs of our memberships. How do you determine what Sigs/classes to offer? Where do your leaders come from? This will not be a presentation. We are going back to the basics, an actual 'Roundtable' (metaphorically of course) forum structure where everyone interested in strengthening their group’s education focus can interact, share and exchange ideas.


Dave  Gerber

Dave Gerber

Biography

Dave's Trivia Friday

Friday Evening Trivia with Dave Gerber


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Ken  Larrabee

Ken Larrabee

Biography

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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Sam Wexler  Tom Theil

Sam Wexler Tom Theil

Biography

FACUG - Double You're User Group Membership in One Year!

A very special presentation by two of the leading member- ship professionals in FACUG,
Tom Thiel, President Lake Sumpter Computer Society and Sam Wexler, President Valencia Fall Computer Club!.

You will get actual case examples of our techniques presented in a PowerPoint presentation. If your user group membership is on a decline or not growing, we can show you how to find new ways to recruit young new members.

Our system works. By the end of one year, (2007) our membership increased by 225%. This presentation will discuss proven techniques, which are successfully used by APCUG member groups. Do not miss this opportunity to learn what works best and that an increase in services to the community will help membership grow.


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Dave  Dockery

Dave Dockery

Biography

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.
I will define and explain Web 2.0 features, and show you how to increase participation and membership in your group by promoting Web 2.0 applications and features. Come join my presentation to learn how your user group can benefit from Web 2.0 technology. It is that important!


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Hewie  Poplock

Hewie Poplock

Biography

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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JB  Hillard

JB Hillard

Biography

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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Brian  Sakowicz

Brian Sakowicz

Biography

Learn All About Digital Media from the Mac Pro

Digital Media is everywhere today! MP3, MP4, AAC, WMV, DIVX… what's it all mean!?
Your home computer is much more than a place to read your email and surf the web today. With today's modern processors, you can easily turn your home computer into a media center. Using a MacMini, I will show you how digitize your music collection, purchase music online through the various online music stores such as the iTunes music store, eMusic and Amazon's new mp3 music service and then show you how to digitize your own DVD's and how to purchase movies through the iTunes movie store. And lastly, we will take a look at Apple's FrontRow software that turns your Mac into a home media center.


Brigitte  Haag

Brigitte Haag

Biography

Learn How to Build a PowerPoint Presentation (Part 2)

….in Two Hours.
Part 2 of a special two-hour class designed to show you how to make slides for a PowerPoint show. You are encouraged to bring your laptop with Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 installed so you can practice along with others.
During the class, we will develop slides using this subject: “How a Proper Asset Documentation can save you Thousands of Dollars.”
This topic will get your emotions rolling and attention captivated. Learning to use PowerPoint to prepare presentations for your meetings can benefit your club. Classes supported with colorful presentations, music and movies will not only inform but also entertain your audience. The right kind of PowerPoint presentations can give your members compelling reasons to come back again to attend another meeting.
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Brigitte  Haag

Brigitte Haag

Biography

Learn How to Build a PowerPoint Presentation (Part 1)

….in Two Hours.
Part 1 of a special two-hour class designed to show you how to make slides for a PowerPoint show. You are encouraged to bring your laptop with Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 installed so you can practice along with others.
During the class, we will develop slides using this subject: 'How a Proper Asset Documentation can save you Thousands of Dollars.'
This topic will get your emotions rolling and attention captivated. Learning to use PowerPoint to prepare presentations for your meetings can benefit your club. Classes supported with colorful presentations, music and movies will not only inform but also entertain your audience. The right kind of PowerPoint presentations can give your members compelling reasons to come back again to attend another meeting.
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Brigitte  Haag

Brigitte Haag

Biography

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.
I will give you an overview of the amazing technology behind it and a demonstration explaining how to use it and have fun. My video clips will show 2 different GPS's in action. Take my materials except the GPS device with you and show your members the benefits of new improved technology called GPS.

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Ron  Purkhiser

Ron Purkhiser

Biography

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.
It will take less than 28 minutes to install the software. Vista is aesthetically beautiful to the eye and simplistic by nature. It makes using your PC a breeze. The easy-to-use organizational tools, Instant Search, Windows Aero and Windows Flip 3D allows you to see everything you're working on at a glance.
Another feature of Vista that I love and will demonstrate is Windows ReadyBoost. I love the new security features such as the backup and Vista Defender.
I will answer the question should I go Vista now or wait for SP1 and any other concerns you might have. Join my presentation and let me show you how to love Vista too.

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June  Wentworth

June Wentworth

Biography

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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Phil  Sorrentino

Phil Sorrentino

Biography

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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Dave Gerber     Dave (Doc) Dockery

Dave Gerber  Dave (Doc) Dockery

Biography

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.


Frank  Hodgson

Frank Hodgson

Biography

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.


Lindsay Albers  & Jen Clausen

Lindsay Albers & Jen Clausen

Biography

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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Bill  Baillie

Bill Baillie

Biography

Tech Session - Verbatim


 Eric  Kamont

Eric Kamont

Biography

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.


Robert  Evans

Robert Evans

Biography

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.
I’ll show you everything you need to know in order to create your own masterpiece movies. During my presentation I will talk about video capture, i.e. how to get your videos into the PC.
We will cover all the editing features in Studio Ultimate, from simple cutting and cropping, to adding titles, transitions, voice over narration, sound effects and background music. I will also point out the three professional plug-ins which come with Studio Ultimate: Soundsoap, an audio cleaning tool, Vitascene – a lighting effects tool, and Moving Picture, the application used by Ken Burns to create animated slideshows with pan and zoom moves on still pictures.
Lastly, I will show and explain to you the various output options. Studio Ultimate allows you to export back to a tape, create standard or high definition DVDs, or go straight to the web, among many other formats.
We’ll close this session with Q&A and I hope to be able to answer all your questions.

On Sunday Pinnacle invites you to a special lunch presentation. Don’t worry – I will let you eat in peace, I won’t start talking until 12:40pm.
During this part of the conference I will cover all the other fine products Pinnacle has to offer. These include: Studio software and hardware solutions, Dazzle low cost hardware capture solutions, the PCTV family which allows you to watch free HD TV on any PC or Mac, VideoSpin free editing software, and lastly our brand new Pinnacle Video Transfer – the absolute easiest way to archive old tapes or watch your movies on iPods, and all that without the use of a PC. Definitely check out this product.


David  Perry

David Perry

Biography

Tech Session - Trend Micro

How Can I Stay Safe?
Is my PC at risk?

All computers connected to the Internet are at risk to some degree. What risks you face and their severity vary based on what you do with your PC. These activities expose you to potential threats: Web surfing
Communications (Email, Instant Messaging)
Transactions (Banking, Shopping)
Multimedia (Sharing audio and video, Posting to blogs and wikis)

Each activity is potentially vulnerable to one or more threats.

From the Trend Micro Education Section of their site
Internet 101 Videos David Perry, the Global Trend Micro educator delights you in the classroom.



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Gene & Linda  Barlow

Gene & Linda Barlow

Biography

Tech Session - User Group Relations

Perfect Backup Approach
Making regular backups of your computer's hard drive is the most important thing you should do to protect and maintain your omputer. Without a good backup in place, you will "loose" your important data files and your computer will not run properly after a hard drive failure. With a good backup, you can be back up and running again in minutes with all of your important files in place after your hard drive fails. Backup technology has improved significantly in the past few years, so that it is much easier to do backups today than a couple of years ago. Using the latest technology will give you the best backups and be the easiest to do.

Our presentation this month covers the best backup approach to use to do your backups. You will find out what is the best ardware media to use to save your backups on. Then you will see the best backup software available today to do backups and what backup approach works best using that software. You will also learn how often you need to do backups and how to automate your backups so that you don't have to think about them.

Next, you will see how easy it is to recover one or more files from your backup media and how to get them back to your main hard drive. You will also learn the steps to restore your entire hard drive in case your main hard drive crashes. A backup is no good if you can't easily restore your lost files and hard drive. Knowing how to properly restore a backup is very important to understand.

Finally, the presenter will explore with you a couple of the more advanced backup considerations. One approach shows you how to set up a separate data partition in which to store your personal data files. He will also discuss the advantages of having local and remote backups to protect your system in all situations. Understanding these more advanced backup considerations will make sure your backups are the best possible for your needs.

Our presenter is Gene Barlow. He is a very knowledgeable individual on the many backup approaches available to PC users today and can tell you which way is best for you. He is an excellent and easy to understand speaker and can reach all levels of users - novice through advanced users. You will find him an interesting and entertaining speaker as well.

You won't want to miss this important presentation to your group on the Perfect Backup Approach.


Scott  Moore

Scott Moore

Biography

Tech Session - Ai Squared

ZoomWare – High Resolution Screen Magnification for Everyone

ZoomWare is a simple and affordable screen magnifier designed for individuals with early vision loss – you know, those of us who squint at the computer screen and lean in to read the fine print. ZoomWare solves this problem by providing a gentle boost of magnification (up to 2 times) so that everything on the screen is a little larger and easier to read. You can also adjust the size and color of the mouse pointer and text cursor so they’re easier to find and follow, and adjust screen colors for reduced glare and greatly improved clarity of text and graphics.
Come and see how ZoomWare can help you.


Robert  Black

Robert Black

Biography

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.
We will also discuss costs of printing and mailing and the public relations value of distributing copies where prospective members might see them. If your user group currently publishes a newsletter, your editor should attend this session; if your user group does not currently publish a newsletter, several officers should attend. The publication and effective distribution of a good newsletter is of inestimable value for attracting new members and making businesses, as well as the general public, aware of your group and its activities.


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