March 8th 2008 Meeting canceled due to snow storm |
February 9th 2008 We had a mini-swap meet Discussion about using external drives Photoshop Elements or LE - can upgrade for $300 We finally had our SpeedEDIT demo Which branched off to a discussion of home made steady cams |
January 12th 2008 We started with what I got for Christmas show and tell. We had an RC helecopter demo by LazerToyz And of new toys we didn't get like the Nokia N810 and the Asus Eee PC We talked about display technology. And the upcomming switch digital broadcast TV. Get your coupon for a DTV set top box. Talk switched to digital FM radio and AM radio reception. Mentioned were GE Super Radios and AM loop antennas While on the subject of radio, internet radio and Pandora were mentioned. Then there was a discussion of putting linux on thumb drive. Also see here |
December 8th 2007 Our annual Christmas party. |
November 10th 2007 We had a demonstration of gephex, a free program that can do real-time video effects. |
October 13th 2007 We had a discussion on the in's and out's of configuring and using bluetooth devices like GPS's We had a demo of the Open Street Map Project We had a brief discussion about tools to do basic image editing and corrections. We will continue the discussion at the next meeting. |
September 8th 2007 Open discussion touched may topics including the favorite subjects of image and video editing. - panotools - a free set of tools for creating panorama photos, - ptgui a gui front for panotools. - picasa, google's image editor - paint.net a free image editor - VirtualDVHS software makes a hi-def video recorder out of a Mac - aperture image editing for Mac - Download youtube videos with kiss youtube Our feature demonstration was an install of Medibuntu Brief demos of several standard programs including OpenOffice.org office suite and f-spot photo organizer. We also visited the Ubuntu forums, a great place to look for assistance with any Ubuntu problem you might encounter. |
August 11th 2007 Our annual picnic |
July 14th 2007 We had a small pre-meeting discussion of GPS and the Palm Computer We had a talk about digital camera, image resolution and compression, centering around the new Sigma SD14 The talk expanded to image manipulation with CompuPic Also mentioned was picasa a free image manager from google. And we looked at some images on the photo sharing site pbase Discussion then moved back to panorama photographs like ptgui a gui front end for panotools - a free set of tools for creating panorama photos, and autostitch another free panorama tool kit Then we had a demo of autopano pro, a commercial program that automatically creates panorama images from sets of pictures - WOW! We then had a mini demo of gephex, a free program that can do real-time video effects. |
June 9th 2007 We had a demo of a few programs for compressing DVDs for viewing on hand held devices We looked at the Star Trek New Voyages And we explored Streetview on google maps and Microsoft's local.live.com. |
Feburary 10th 2007 MythTV demo Also talked about: Wolfgang's vault Remove running process' with killbox. Set up, Manage and Secure Your Home Network with FREE Network Magic Make sure a virus doesn't come back if you restore your system by turning off system restore in the XP sysconfig |
January 13th 2007 The meeting was an open discussion. Among the items mentioned were: An open source, 3D printer you can build for $2500. Acronis True Image 7.0, a disk backup program is available free. Several members suggested running both SpyBot and Ad-Aware spyware programs |
December 9th 2006 Our annual Christmas party. |
November 11th 2006 featured a presentation on Movie Edit Pro version 11 from Magix |
October 14th 2006 featured a presentation on computer security for Microsoft Windows Computers by D & H Associates Sandboxie and Firefox Web Browser for more secure web browsing Eusing and Easy Cleaner Registry Cleaners |
