PC/MAC Users’ Groups – Archive

April 19. WordPerfect

• Demo of WordPerfect specific commands and techniques. Go to Tools | Settings to customize settings. Also, Tools | QuickCorrect to adjust automatic formatting options.
• Activate Shadow Cursor: View | ShadowCursor
• Also some general word processing options.
• Check the Corel website for a 30-day free trial WordPerfect Office. http://www.corel.com

April 26. Wireless Nuts and Bolts

• Go to www.hotspot-locations.com for the free worldwide directory of wireless Hotspots (WLAN, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth) that are open for everybody.  There are some good articles on the WWW if you care for more information.

• August 2: Everything you wanted to know about Yahoo (Bob Eick)
• August 9: Interfacing your digital camera with your computer (Vince Tylman) Program Materials Word Document
• August 16: LO Library’s new website and databases (Todd Feinman)
• August 23: CLC Closed
• August 30: ACC Closed

• September 6: CENTER CLOSED for Labor Day Holiday
• September 13: SECURITY ON THE WEB presented by Ann Fiore, a computer consultant
• September 20: Styles and Templates in MS Word (Richard Steingraber)
• September 27: Questions & Answers

• 11/1 Service Pack 2 - Victoria Short Baum [See the Resources page: News for SP2 links and info; Resources: Complimentary CDs to find out how to get a SP2 cd at the CLC]
• 11/8 Technology Use in Asia: A Cultural Perspective - Dr. Genevieve Bell, Srnior Researcher, Intel
• 11/15 Investing – Evelyn Metzger

The Users’ Group will not hold meetings on November 22nd and 29th due to the Thanksgiving Holiday

• 12/6    Mail Merge - Dick Steingraber
• 12/13   Q&A-Mary Lou Solid 9:30-10, 10-11:30 CLC Holiday Get-Together

The Users’ Group will not hold meetings on December 20th, 27th, and January 3rd. We will resume Users’ Group programming on January 10th, 2005!

• 1/10 Turbo Tax - Jerry Trageser documentation
• 1/17 Holiday
• 1/24 Internet Security - Victoria Short Baum documentation
• 1/31 Q&A Mary Lou Solid , and Victoria: additional internet security info.

  The discussion included some comments about the Firefox browser. Some people said they stopped using it because it "didn’t work." This is probably because the appropriate plug-in was not installed. I added some information about Firefox plugins, and a link to the plugins page on the Mozille web site, to the Resources page. Click here to go directly to that portion of the Resources page.
  

• 2/7 How People Not Like Us Use & Don’t Use Technology - Tony Salvador (Intel)
• 2/14 Wireless Networks - Wally Helm
• 2/21 Holiday
• 2/28 Q&A - Mary Lou Solid

• 3/7 Restoring your computer after a windows crash - BSOD (blue screen of death) and other exotic events", online tech help- Jerry Trageser Notes
• 3/14 Update from the library - Todd Feinman
• 3/21 Intel "Proactive Health Research at Intel " - Margaret Morris
• 3/28 Q&A - Mary Lou Solid
  

• 4/4 Use of Zone Alarm on your computer - Bob Eich
  • What is it, what does it do, how to download and install and how to handle temporary shutdown.
• 4/11 Alternatives to Microsoft - Victoria Short Baum
  • Notes
• 4/18 Desktop Publishing - Victoria Short Baum
  • presentation document (pdf)
• You can find The PC Is Not A Typewriter at Powells Technical Bookstore, and also online at anybook.com (new and used available)
• 4/25 Q&A - Mary Lou Solid
  • Link to Autostitch download site (Bob Guyan)

• April 14 Mail Merge in Apple Works - Victoria Short Baum Notes
• April 28 MAC OS X - Walter Bell

• 5/2 Hardware Information - Wally Helm & Mary Lou Solid
  • Notes from Session. Process Explorer http://www.snapfiles.com/get/processexplorer.html A freeware utility that tracks the processes running on your system.
• 5/9 Internet Security Update - Victoria Short Baum
  • What do you need to check? How often? What products are available to help you? Focus on spyware/malware. See documentation from Jan presentation, Also find security and anti-spyware resources on the Resources page
• 5/16 Google searches: Good or Evil? - Syd Kanitz [text of Oregonian article]
• 5/23 Q&A - Mary Lou Solid
• 5/30 center closed for memorial day
  

• May 12 Browsing the Internet - Jerry Trageser
• May 26 Appleworks - Pat Gates

• 6/6 Spreadsheets - Dick Steingraber
• 6/13 Open Office Instead: How to make the transition - Victoria Short Baum
  • Importing your documents, saving for maximum compatibility, menu structure, spreadsheets, basic databases, presentations. This is an overview as we can’t cover all of the above in depth in 90 minutes.
• 6/20 Ipod and Itunes - all about audio - Bob Guyan
• 6/27 Q&A - Mary Lou Solid

• June 9 - No topic announced
• June 23 Q&A - Bring your questions to share with the group.

• 7/4 Holiday (everyone enjoy the 4th!)
• 7/11 Intel and the Community - Working Together to Improve Education in Oregon – Morgan Anderson – INTEL
• 7/18 Questions & Answers - hosted by Mary Lou Solid (Note that this Q & A is switched from our normal last Monday of the month, just for July!)
• 7/25 Continuity Planning – disaster planning as related to supply chains, etc. - Steve Wooley – NIKE
  • portlandmaps.com
  • www.ready.gov

• July 14 - TBA
• July 28 - TBA

• 8/1 “LINUX – Learn a New and Free Operating System”- Lucas Mansfield – Lake Oswego High School - Student
  • Debian.org
  • Linux news
  • sourceofrge.net
• 8/8 “MULTIUSE PRINTERS AND TROUBLESHOOTING TRICKS” – Steve Anderson – Jesuit High School - Teacher
• 8/15 “QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS” – Mary Lou Solid
• 8/22 – Internet searching basics and library resources (LO Library) – Todd Feinman Documentation of Todd’s presentation, including links
• NOTE: DURING THE LAST WEEK OF AUGUST, 8/29, AS WELL AS LABOR DAY, THE CLC WILL BE CLOSED. WE WILL RESUME PROGRAMMING ON 9/12/05 WITH A TWO PART DVD PRESENTATION FROM JERRY & WALLY.

• August 11 Presenter will be Dale Conley who is Librarian at Newberg High School and works with students on Mac computers daily.
• August 25 Visit to MAC Store

• 9/5 ACC Closed for Labor Day
• 9/12 Making a DVD, Part I - Jerry Trageser & Wally Helm [documentation]
• 9/19 Making a DVD, Part II &
  10th Anniversary Celebration
• 9/26 Q&A - Mary Lou Solid

• 9/8 TBA
• 9/22 Apple Store Presentation

• 10/3 Library Presentation, Geneology - Cherill Vencill [documentation]
• 10/10 Intel: Community Solutions - Perry Gruber
• 10/17 Spreadsheets: Part 2 - Dick Stenigraber
• 10/24 Q&A - Mary Lou Solid

• 10/13 Investing, Evelyn Metzger, Links posted in Nov Newsletter
• 10/27 Travel Tips, Carol Higgings, Links posted in Nov Newsletter

• 11/7 Picasa - Bob Guyan Documentation
• 11/14 Victoria’s Louisiana adventure Victoria’s Journal
• 11/21 Mail Merge - Sending out your greeting cards the easy way - Dick Steingraber
• 11/28 Q&A - Mary Lou Solid

• November 10 Not available at this time—you will be notified. 
• November 24 THANKSGIVING DAY, no meeting 

• 12/5 Library Presentation —Search Engines, Todd Feinman
• 12/12 Internet Security Update, Victoria
• 12/19 Q&A - Mary Lou Solid (for 45 min.) then Holiday Party
  Note: the CLC will be closed for the rest of the year. We will resume programming on January 9, 2006

• 1/9 Turbo Tax Part 1 — Income, Dick Steingraber
• 1/16 ACC closed for MLK Holiday
• 1/23 Turbo Tax Part 2 — Deductions, Disk Steingraber
• 1/30 Q&A Wally and Bob G

• Jan 25: 2-3pm, Apple Store Visit
• Jan 26, Searching the Internet by Todd Feinman, Research Librarian at the LO Library

• 2/6 Network of Care, Mark Jones, Clackamas County
• 2/13 Library Presentation — Geneology, Cherill Vencill
• 2/20 ACC Closed
• 2/27 Q&A, Wally Helm and Bob Guyan

• Feb 9, Q&A
• Feb 23, Genealogy presented by Cheril Vencil, Reference Librarian at the Lake Oswego LIbrary

• 3/6 Intel Presentation: “What's New at Intel?” Bill McKenzie
  www.intel.com/community/oregon  or  www.intel.com/go/toOregon
• 3/13 Disaster Preparedness, Dar and Bob Young
  • Red Cross: Together We Prepare Oregon
• 3/20 Internet Security Update Victoria Short Baum Documentation
• 3/27 Q&A Mary Lou Solid.
  • Anti-spyware. Bob recommends CCleaner and Prevx

• to be announced

• 4/3 Video Editing Bob Timm
• 4/10 Library Presentation - More Geneology Cherill Vencill
• 4/17 "Tips" Review Mary Lou
• 4/24 Q&A Mary Lou

• to be announced

• May 1 FREE PROGRAM DOWNLOADS—“OPEN OFFICE”, ETC.  presented

  by Victoria Short Baum

  May 8 WIRELESS NETWORKING presented by Wally Helm

  May 15 BUILDING THE NEWEST (#3) TACOMA NARRROWS BRIDGE—A POWERPOINT PRESENTATION presented by Dick Steingraber

  May 22 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS hosted by Mary Lou Solid

  May 29 MEMORIAL DAY HOLIDAY—no users’ group—Center is closed.

• June   5^th LIBRARY PRESENTATION by Todd Feinman
• June 12^th INVESTING presented by Dave Park
• June 19^th FBI PRESENTATION on CRIME PREVENTION by Henry E. Gittleman (FBI agent)
• June 26^th QUESTIONS & ANSWERS hosted by Mary Lou Solid, plus coffee cake and the PC Doctor at 9:00 and during break.

• July 10 Wireless Networking by Wally Helm
• July 17 Tacoma Narrows Bridge Part Two by Dick Steingraber
• July 24 Review of "Tip of the Week" Tips by Mary Lou Solid
• July 31 Q&A, preceeded at 9:00 by coffee cake & the PC Doctor

• 4th Center closed due to Labor Day holiday.
• 11th An Overview of the High Tech Industry in Oregon – Jim Craven, American Electronics Association
• 18th Podcasts – Bob Guyan
• 25th Q and A session – Marylou Solid

• 2nd “Advanced Internet Searching – the hidden web” – Todd Feinman – L.O. Library
• 9th “Collages” – Bob Guyan
• 16th “How Things Fit Together” – the Internet as a whole and the role of an ISP”- Mikal Anderson
• 23rd “Quicken” – Dick Steingraber
• 30th “ Q and A” – Marylou Solid

• 11/6 Downloading and using FREE Web programs – Part I (open office, film developing and printing, etc.) – Bob Eick
• 11/13 Library – Geneology – Cherill Vencil
• 11/20 Mail Merge – Getting out your holiday mailings (cards, party invitations, etc.) simply – Dick Steingraber
• 11/27 Questions & Answers – Mary Lou Solid

• 12/4 Video Editing – Part 2 – Bob Timm
• 12/11 Free Program Downloads from the Web – Part 2 (SECURITY PROGRAMS) (why use them, how to use them, which one’s do I need, etc.) – including AVG; AdAware; CCleaner; Previx; Zone Alarm; Spywareblaster; Spybot; Windows Defender) – Bob Eick
• 12/18 Questions & Answers – Mary Lou Solid (this will be an abbreviated one-half hour session to allow time for our holiday party).

• 1/8 Turbo Tax – Part 1 – Dick Steingraber
• 1/15 Center is closed for MLK's birthday
• 1/22 Turbo Tax – Part 2 – Dick Steingraber
• 1/29 Questions & Answers – Bob Guyan and Wally Helm (our new Q & A headmasters)

• 2/5 Library – “Historic Photographs at the L.O. Library” – Jane Carr/Claire Kellogg – Reference Librarians
• 2/12 MS Access - Ed Campbell
• 2/19 CENTER IS CLOSED FOR PRESIDENT’S DAY
• 2/26 Questions & Answers – Bob Guyan and Wally Helm

• 3/5 “4-H Tech Wizards – Preparing Tomorrow’s Leaders Today” – Lisa Conroy, OSU Extension Services 4-H Faculty
• 3/12 Geneology – Cherill Vencil
• 3/19 “India’s Hole-In-The-Wall Project: The Internet and the Children of the Slums” - Mikal Anderson
• 3/26 Questions & Answers – Bob Guyan and Wally Helm

• 4/2 The Global Net: Site Internationalization, Localization, Automatic Translation Systems – Mikal Anderson
• 4/9 An Update on the construction of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge – Dick Steingraber
• 4/16 Tips Review – Marylou Solid
• 4/23 Rules for Safe and Secure Surfing – Mikal Anderson
• 4/30 Questions & Answers – Bob Guyan and Wally Helm

• 5/7 Library- “The Invisible Web” - Todd Feinman
• 5/14 The Machine That Changed The World” – Part I – “Giant Brains” – an OPB documentary – Dick Steingraber (first of a series of five presentations on how the computer came to be!)
• 5/21 Questions & Answers – Bob Guyan and Wally Helm
• 5/28 CLC Closed

• 6/4 “Google Applications – Moving to the Web” - Bob Guyan
• 6/11 “Digital Photography – The Big Picture” – Rebecca Forbes, Professional Photographer and Technology Trainer
• 6/18 “The Machine That Changed The World” – Part 2 Mouckly & Eckert (An OPB Documentary)- hosted by Dick Steingraber
• 6/25 Questions & Answers – Bob Guyan and Wally Helm

• 7/2 MAC’s vs. PC’s – Compare and Contrast the two – Paul Sleeper
• 7/9 Programming from National Geographic, PBS, and OPB... as well as a recent web video project for New Seasons Market in Portland. - Freelance Television Producer Laura Dickson
• 7/16 E-mail Etiquette - Ed Campbell
• 7/23 PC Users “The Machine that changed the World, Part 3-Paper Back Computer” – (An OPB Documentary – hosted by Dick Steingraber
• 7/30 Questions & Answers – Bob Guyan and Wally Helm

• 8/6 VISTA – Mark Matson and Larry Ruby
• 8/13 “Travelling with a digital camera” - Rebecca Forbes, Professional Photographer
• 8/20 Questions & Answers – Bob Guyan and Wally Helm
• 8/28 ACC Closed

• 9/3 Labor Day – Center closed
• 9/10 Library – The Invisible Web – Part 2 - Todd Feinman
• 9/17 “The Machine that changed the World, Part 4 The World at your finger tips (An OPB Documentary) hosted by Richard Steingraber
• 9/24 Questions & Answers – Bob Guyan and Wally Helm

• 10/1 The Machine That Changed The World. Part V last program of this series-Richard Steingraber
• 10/8 Travelling with a Digital Camera - Rebecca Forbes, Professional Photographer
• 10/15 More Mac - Comparing the Mac and the PC - Paul Sleeper (the head of our MAC group)
• 10/22 Everything (almost) you want to know about Vista - Mark Matson
• 10/29 Questions & Answers – Bob Guyan and Wally Helm

• 11/5 Library – Todd Feinman – The Invisible Web – Part 3
• 11/12 CENTER CLOSED for Veteran’s Day (Federal Holiday) – NO PROGRAMMING
• 11/19 Holiday Photography Tips – Rebecca Forbes, Professional Photographer
• 11/26 Questions & Answers – Bob Guyan and Wally Helm

• 12/3 Library – The Invisible Web – Part 4 – Todd Feinman
• 12/10 Music on the Computer – Bob Guyan and Vince Tilman
• 12/17 HOLIDAY PARTY – our yearly celebration ‘on the house’ for EVERYONE who participates in any of the COMPUTER USER’S GROUPS – (Both PC and MAC) and our Instructors, and the Staff of the Adult Learning Center. Former/current students in any of our classes are also very welcome to attend.
• 12/24 No Program. Programs resume 1/7/2008