Organizing, Protecting and Sharing your Hard Drive
Gene Barlow, User Group Relations
In this WEBINAR Gene will describe why you may want more than one hard drive partition, and show how to set up partitions with Acronis Disk Director 11. Regular backups of your hard drive are the most important thing you can do to protect the content of your computer. Gene will describe the backup approach that will give the best protection for your computer, and demonstrate Acronis True Image Home 2012. Acronis True Image 2012 allows you to share certain files with your other computers and with friends across the internet. Gene will demonstrate how to use the new Synchronization feature of True Image 2012. At the end of the meeting, Gene will offer a free software product to each attendee to monitor the well being of their own hard drive.
Editing Your Videos with Pinnacle Studio
Maurice Green
Now that the holidays are over, many of us have videos of family celebrations. Maury will demonstrate some of the techniques used with Pinnacle Studio 15 Ultimate video editing software to convert your video files into DVDs the whole family can enjoy. He will compare the capabilities of Pinnacle Studio to professional level programs like Avid Media and Adobe Premiere Pro.
Maury is the President and Webmaster of the Silicon Valley Computer Society (SVCS). He is a former member of the National Press Photographers Association and a current member of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals.
What Hank Will Talk About
Hank Skawinski, Owner/Manager, Datawise
Yes, that topic is flippant, but it's also true, because regardless of what's up there, Hank will talk about what Hank will talk about - knowledgably and in detail. It's likely to be about the latest things he's learned, and be based on his day-to-day experience dealing with the problems of maintaining, building, and using computers and related devices. He'll likely have something to say about Microsoft, about Linux, about some new product that's grabbed his fancy, and about something that's peeved him that shouldn't have.
Big Movers, Entertainment Equipment and Specialty Items
Red Calub, Micro Center
Red has been a law enforcement officer, managed a laptop facility, and has been a manager at Micro Center for a number of years. He has helped SPAUG and its members on many occasions. The helpful tone to customers at Micro Center is a result of his management philosophy.
From Telephones to Tablets: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Angela Hey, PhD
Lessons from history illustrate the progress, perils and pitfalls of mobile computing. This talk will show how innovative apps and add-on peripherals have revolutionized smartphones. It will look at how tablets transform lifestyles. Predictions for future products and services will be discussed. The talk will demonstrate how good design can help products and services succeed in today's cutthroat markets. Which interfaces are important? Are USB ports going away? What features are essential? Which services should you subscribe to? If you are in the market for a new phone, tablet or computer, the talk will give you some things to look out for before you buy.
Acronis Disk Director 11 Home & Acronis True Image Home 2011
Gene Barlow, User Group Relations
There are better ways to set up and organize your hard drive than the way we did years ago. Most end users are not aware of what changes they can make to their hard drives with very easy-to-use utilities.
This webinar presentation will show some of the better ways to organize your hard drive and how you can do this on your own computer. It’s very important that you know how to protect your hard drive from problems. We will show you several key activities that you need to follow to make sure your well-organized computer runs efficiently. We will show you the best way to backup the content of your hard drive as well as how to run your computer in a sandbox mode to protect hard drive content while you are doing rather risky functions.”
Get Ready for Your Next Purchase
Andy Marken, Marken Communications
Andy Marken, with more than 30 years of working in the PC/CE industry, returned fresh from CES, Macworld, NAB and a lot of research conferences. What was real, what seems to have staying power?
Here's your chance to catch up on the latest/trends in:
smartphones: how to choose from the ultimate to the simplistic for people with big fingers
Yahoo! Let’s Google Bing - or YahGooBing your family tree
Richard Rands, Silicon Valley Computer Genealogy Group
The days of tediously pouring through shelves of books, rolls of microfilm, and stacks of microfiche are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Countless organizations around the world are racing against time to digitally preserve their collections of historical records before the media they are on turns to dust or jelly. With the rising popularity of digging for our family roots, many of these organizations have discovered the potential financial benefit of posting searchable indexes of their records, and even the images of their records on the Internet.
Online Training Library: For the Love of Learning
Laurie Burruss, Lynda.com
Lynda.com is an Online Video Training Library with over 900 technology-learning courses and over 50,000 individual movies (12 - 20 + courses added monthly). It’s available anytime, anywhere, and at a person’s own pace. But. . It’s so much more. Laurie Burruss, Senior Director of Education, will present an overview of the library, its huge technological advances and features that make it a world-class library, speak about "power users" in the library, and discuss online learning using the lynda.com Online Training Library – how to find what you want when you want it, and the benefits to life-long learners. In addition, she will show some "best practices" that literally transform individual learning experiences.
Now that the holidays are over, many of us have videos of family celebrations. Maury will demonstrate some of the techniques used with Pinnacle Studio 15 Ultimate video editing software to convert your video files into DVDs the whole family can enjoy. He will compare the capabilities of Pinnacle Studio to professional level programs like Avid Media and Adobe Premiere Pro.
Yes, that topic is flippant, but it's also true, because regardless of what's up there, Hank will talk about what Hank will talk about - knowledgably and in detail. It's likely to be about the latest things he's learned, and be based on his day-to-day experience dealing with the problems of maintaining, building, and using computers and related devices. He'll likely have something to say about Microsoft, about Linux, about some new product that's grabbed his fancy, and about something that's peeved him that shouldn't have.
Red has been a law enforcement officer, managed a laptop facility, and has been a manager at Micro Center for a number of years. He has helped SPAUG and its members on many occasions. The helpful tone to customers at Micro Center is a result of his management philosophy.
Lessons from history illustrate the progress, perils and pitfalls of mobile computing. This talk will show how innovative apps and add-on peripherals have revolutionized smartphones. It will look at how tablets transform lifestyles. Predictions for future products and services will be discussed. The talk will demonstrate how good design can help products and services succeed in today's cutthroat markets. Which interfaces are important? Are USB ports going away? What features are essential? Which services should you subscribe to? If you are in the market for a new phone, tablet or computer, the talk will give you some things to look out for before you buy.
There are better ways to set up and organize your hard drive than the way we did years ago. Most end users are not aware of what changes they can make to their hard drives with very easy-to-use utilities. 
The days of tediously pouring through shelves of books, rolls of microfilm, and stacks of microfiche are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Countless organizations around the world are racing against time to digitally preserve their collections of historical records before the media they are on turns to dust or jelly. With the rising popularity of digging for our family roots, many of these organizations have discovered the potential financial benefit of posting searchable indexes of their records, and even the images of their records on the Internet.
Lynda.com
