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.
Maintaining and Upgrading Your CMS Website
Maurice Green
So you learned all about Drupal or Wordpress and built a CMS-based website. You filled it with content and pictures and sat back to admire it. Now comes the grimey, gritty job of maintaining that site. Maury will demonstrate some of the best-practice procedures necessary to insure that your website is up-to-date and secure.
WIX - A Free Flash Website Builder for Photographers (and the Rest of Us)
Rob Rush, WIX and Melissa Jeglum
Wix is a FREE Flash Website builder using a Drag & Drop editor to create stunning websites. This system can be used by anyone, but it is particularly suitable for photographers who want to display galleries of their photos.
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.
Convergence: CES 2012 Preview, Connected TVs, Blu-Ray Players and Smartphones
Kevin Lynn
Kevin Lynn will discuss various trends in how users connect to smart televisions, smart phones, tablets and computers,and preview news items from the upcoming CES (formerly Consumer Electronics Show). PC Magazine recently published The Ultimate Guide to Technology Buying
He also hopes to have a ComCast representative present Xfinity home specials for 2012.
Alternative Free Web Builder CMS Tools
Maurice Green
Over the past few years we have concentrated our efforts on Drupal, and to a lesser extent, on WordPress as the content management systems (CMS) tools for building your own websites. In this lecture, Maury will delve into several alternative systems which have some special properties that just may be what you need for your next website. These will include Joomla, XOOPS, Website Baker, Concrete 5 and ZenCart.
This is the big annual get-together of the Forth world. Chuck Moore, the inventor of Forth, will give his annual Fireside Chat.
The Silicon Vally Forth Interest Group (SVFIG) is a local, non-profit organization of individuals interested in discussing and learning about the Forth programming language through:
Kevin Lynn will discuss his conversion from Direct TV and ATT DSL to ComCast last month. He saw his DSL download speed increase from 512kbps to 36Mbps, and his channel lineup increase to 700 offerings.
You can check your download speed with the Sonic.net test.
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.
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.
