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...The CLUB CONNECTION....

February, 2010...

...GENERAL MEETINGS

Next General Meeting--Wednesday, February 24th

Topic: Turbo-Tax

Intui Corporation
Jeff Brown

1:00pm Abravanel Hall

We had a successful Do Dues Day on Saturday!!! Lots of new members... plus a hard working crew.................................and a geeky past-president!!!

SUMMER FLING
SATURDAY, AUGUST 8TH

Pictures & Videos

Past Meetings...

General Meeting--Wednesday, January 27th
Topic: Keeping Up With GOOGLE

Dick Travis

1:00pm Abravanel Hall

Dick Travis presented an interesting overview of GOOGLE's influence in today's computer world. Dick took us through a "virtual day" with his home desktop, laptop and Android smart phone. Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Sun and many other high-tech companies are in intense competition with each other for the consumers products from "Search" to "Office Suites" and everything else in between.

An outline of his presentation is here...

A large crowd attended the first General Meeting of the year and also heard from Geraldo Losa, from Ink-Jet-Lab on ways to save money on Ink cartridges.

Many questions were raised from the membership, and some requests for another meeting concerning a comparison of "smart phones" presently on the market.

Gloria Rothenberg supplied the excellent refreshments and Hal McCawley distributed the raffle prizes to 4 lucky members.

Next month's speaker will be Jeff Brown from Intuit Corp. on Turbo-Tax.

Geraldo Losa

The Raffle winners were:

Skip Hayden w/ Dick Travis	Connie Casselman
Marcia Saltzman	Harriet McCawley

General Meeting--Wednesday, October 28th
Topic: Windows Photo Gallery
& Windows 7

Microsoft Corporation
Woody Pewitt

1:00pm Abravanel Hall

Woody Pewitt, Microsoft's Technology Evangelist was our guest speaker. Woody always draws a large crowd and was very effective in presenting the latest Microsoft Operating System--Windows 7, as well as demonstrating the uses of Windows Live Photo Gallery.

Woody Pewitt

Woody made us aware of lots of new techniques being used by Microsoft to ease people into the digital revolution in photography.

Everyone was impressed with the speaker and had many questions after the presentation, along with the delicious refreshments, which featured fresh fruit snacks.

Terry, Barbara & Lester

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..

The Raffle winners were:

Woody Pewitt & Frank Boynton (Windows 7)
Gordon Beer	Evie Sanfilippo
Wayne Strunck	Muriel Kaplan

Past Meetings...

General Meeting--Wednesday, September 23rd

TOPIC: Should You Buy a New Computer?

Paul Van Middlesworth
(The Computer Factory)

1:00pm Abravanel Hall

Paul Van Middlesworth was our featured speaker from the San Marcos Computer Factory. Paul was very informative and educational for the large crowd in attendance.

Paul also presented his young(?) assistant Ronell for an amazing presentation of the younger generations techniques for obtaining "live" vidoes, TV shows, etc. over various devices from Laptops, Notebooks and even Cell Phones.

Everyone was impressed with both speakers and had many questions after the presentations, along with the delicious refreshments.

The Raffle winners were:

Sidney Pistone	John McMenamin
Julie Gilchrist	Bob Kerber
Audrey Sargisson	Photos by Tony Calderone

Past Meetings...

General Meeting--Wednesday, May 27th

TOPIC: Protecting Your Computer

Dennis Fisher
The Computer Doctor

1:00pm Abravanel Hall

Dennis Fisher (The Computer Doctor) presided over an overflow crowd of members anxious to learn about Virus's and ways to keep their computer clean. His presentation was attended by over 75 members.

Dennis handled many questions from the members, as well answering members questions after his presentation. See the line below?

Afterwards, the members enjoyed the refreshments and had a chance to socialize.

The Raffle winners were:

Carolyn Hollander	Ken Heist
Wanda Walsh	Bob Weber
Photos by Tony Calderone

Thanks to Tony Calderone