 May12, 2012: "Member's Round Table". Members should bring their questions, problems, successes and any information they care to exchange with the membership. Such meetings have proven both useful and interesting. April 14, 2012: "Presentations in the Cloud Using Google Docs" by John Fitzpatrick (Club member). John will show us how he easily creates his presentations using this Google program. A big advantage of creating your presentation in Google Docs is that is available to anyone who is given the link. March 10, 2012: "Never too Old to Help" by John Fitzpatrick (Club member). John will present a variety of computer- based ways that we as seniors, and others as well, can contribute to human progress that benefits us all. February 11, 2012: "Review of Gmail's Updated Format and Meet Lazarus the Laptop" by John Fitzpatrick (Club member). January 14, 2012: "Member's Round Table". Members should bring their questions, problems, successes and any information they care to exchange with the membership. Such meetings have proven both useful and interesting. December 2, 2011: "Why You Should Consider Using Linux" by John Fitzpatrick. John intends to give a bit of its history, who uses it, some of its advantages and how it can be used with Windows and more. November 12, 2011: “Identity Theft: What should and shouldn't be done” by Mary Ellin Eisele (Club member). She will be sharing her personal experience with identify theft. This is a topic that everyone needs to know about since it could happen to any of us at any time and possibly with devastating results. October 8, 2011: "Never too old to learn" by John Fitzpatrick (Club member) September 10, 2011: "Member's Round Table". Members should bring their questions, problems, successes and any information they care to exchange with the membership. Such meetings have proven both useful and interesting. August 13, 2011: "Social Networking Using Facebook and Twitter" by Georgiana Gehret (SeniorNet volunteer). If you've wanted to know what these web sites and web based social networking are all about, here is your chance. July 9, 2011: “The iPad 2, Apps and Accessories” will be given by Richard Loats (Club member) June 11, 2011: “YAGU - Yet Another Google Update”. This is the next in the series covering Google's ever expanding capabilities including FREE phone calling and much, much more. It will be given by John Fitzpatrick (Club member) May 14, 2011: "E-Book Readers and Software to Organize the Your E-Books ". Dick English will cover the Kindle, Ron Obremski the Nook and John Fitzpatrick the Kobo and iPod Touch. John will also give a brief presentation on Calibre, an E-Book organizer and converter. April 9, 2011: Once again it's time to have another of our "Members Roundtable" meetings. Bring your questions and problems and as a group, we'll attempt to answer and/or solve them. The last one was very well received with many asking for more such meetings. March 12, 2011: "Internet Service Providers (ISPs) available in Cary" by Tom Hadley (Club member) February 12, 2011: "Personal Health Record - How to Create and Use It" by John Fitzpatrick (Club member) January 8, 2011: "Introducing Cary's Cyber Crime Unit" by Kevin West and Todd Thomas of the Cary Police Department. December 11, 2010: "Streaming TV from the Internet." by John Fitzpatrick (Club member). November 13, 2010: "Internet Tools and Techniques for Investors" by Jim Yent of Golden Years Advisors October 9, 2010: "The eBook has Landed: How 2010 Changed the Way We Read." by Paul Gilster, columnist for the Raleigh News & Observer and author of several books on technology. September 11, 2010: "What's New in Gmail" by John Fitzpatrick (Club member). John will open with a brief review of what Gmail already provides and then move into the newer items that have been added in the last several months. He will use his own Gmail account in the presentation trying to set things up so that anyone can view the presentation afterward without his account's involvement. August 14, 2010: "Clean Up Your Computer" by Tom Hadley (Club member). Do you remember when you first turned on your computer? If it was your first computer, you were probably trying to figure out how it worked. But if your computer was not your first, you were probably amazed by how fast it was compared to your older machine. In both cases, I’ll bet it is not nearly as fast today. This session will address some of the things you can do to make your present Windows PC faster. We will focus on Windows XP, which is still the most popular PC operating system. And while there are many programs you can purchase which advertise the ability to make your PC run faster, we will look at what you can do for free. (To download the slides from this presentation go to the bottom of this page.) July 10, 2010: Once again it's time to have another of our "Members Roundtable" meetings. Bring your questions and problems and as a group, we'll attempt to answer and/or solve them. The last one was very well received with many asking for more such meetings. Besides, our president's wife will bake cookies again, which is worth your attending all by itself. June 12, 2010: "The New Apple iPad", by Francis Shepherd, Senior System Engineer, Apple, Inc. May 8, 2010: "A Spreadsheet Primer", by Dave Cree, Cary SeniorNet volunteer. April 10, 2010: "An Introduction and Demonstration of Windows 7", by Joe Gelm (Club member) March 13, 2010: “New threats attacking your computer”, by John Baines, Asst. Dir. Security Standards and Compliance, Office of Information Technology, NC State Univerisity. February 13, 2010: "Members Roundtable" meeting devoted to the interests, problems and personal experiences of the membership. We will cover topics such as: what type of uses members make of their computers (in general and by application), what, if any, problem(s) they may have both functionally with software and also performance oriented (hardware and/or network), things they would like to do beyond what they are currently doing (including upgrade considerations), and finally any suggestions they care to make on any topic that would be beneficial to club members. We will attempt to see what can be answered, what suggestions can be made and categorize things by types and see if there are any obvious conclusions to be drawn. This should be informative, useful and time very well spent. Thanks to Becky Cathey for her suggestions for this meeting. January 9, 2010: "Google's New Browser: Chrome", by John Fitzpatrick (Club member) December 12, 2009: "Converting old records to digital recordings with the club' ION truntable", by John Fitzpatrick (Club member) November 14, 2009: "Building a Personal Health Electronic Record and Managing Medicare", by John Fitzpatrick (Club member) October 10, 2009: "My Recent Experiences with a Netbook and Ubuntu 9.04" by Jim Burcsu (Club member) September 12, 2009: "Wireless Networking" by Tom Hadley (Club member) August 8, 2009: “Photo Geotags and More” by Rich Loats (Club member) July11, 2009: "An Update on Google's functions", by John Fitzpatrick (Club member) June 13, 2009: "An Introduction to Mac OSX, the Macintosh operating system", by Jim Burcsu, club member. This is a continuation of the series on buying a new computer that began with an introduction to Vista by Joe Gelm. May 9, 2009: "Buying a New Computer", by Bob Pierce, John Fitzpatrick and Jim Burcsu, all club members April 18, 2009: "Evolution of the Internet", by Bob Pierce, a Cary SeniorNet Volunteer Instructor. March 14, 2009: "Introduction to TCP/IP". By Tom Hadley. He will provide an understanding of the importance of TCP/IP to communications over the Internet over its history, now and into the future. February 14, 2009: "Web site building using Google Sites without knowing HTML". This is the program used to build this site. by Jim Burcsu (Club member) January 10, 2009: "Using iTunes with the PC, Mac, iPod and iPod Touch", for managing music, images, videos, books, mp3 recordings, internet radio and much more by Jim Burcsu (Club member) December 13, 2008: The movie "The Pirates of Silicon Valley" will be shown. November 8, 2008: "Managing Medicare Via The Internet" given by our VP, John Fitzpatrick October 11, 2008: "Genealogy - An Update" by Dick English, Club member and resident expert on the topic. September 13, 2008: "An Introduction to Vista" by Joe Gelm, Cary SeniorNet August 9, 2008: "Aid to the visually impaired, a new, free Internet based reader" by John Fitzpatrick (Club member) July 12, 2008: "How I Use Photoshop" by Charles Joyner, Professor at the Department of Art & Design, NCSU June 14, 2008: This month's meeting will be a "Members Round-table" type of meeting with expanded How can I? & Did you know? sessions. May 10, 2008: "Bookshelves and Bookshelves of E-Books" by John Fitzpatrick (Club member) April 12, 2008: “An update on Ubuntu Linux, version 7.10”. Is Ubuntu good enough now to extend the useful life of your computer? by Jim Burcsu (Club member). March 8, 2008: "Using a Computer to Make Tax Preparation Easy". Year round recording tips by Winston Hooker (Club member). February 9, 2008: "Google - More Than Just a Search Engine Now" by John Fitzpatrick (Club member) January 12, 2008: “Preparing for Life's Crises” by Jim and Teresa Yents of Golden Years Advisors December 8, 2007: "The Computer As A Statistical Tool" by Otto Dykstra, who has 40 yrs. experience as a statistician in industry November 10, 2007; "Converting Audio Books to MP3 Use" by Dick English, a club member and audiophile October 13, 2007: "Creating Web Sites Without Knowing HTML" by Jim Burcsu (Club member) September 8, 2007: "Astrophotography: Current Digital Advances" by Michael Etkin, Raleigh Astonomy Club August 11, 2007: "Dealing with New 2007 MS Office Formats" by John Fitzpatrick (Club member) July 14, 2007: "Searching with the new Google" by John Fitzpatrick (Club member) June 9, 2007: Gil Hoellerich (Club member) will discuss how he used his computer to help write a book that is now being published. May 12, 2007: "Converting Vinyl Records to CDs - an Update" by Dick English (Club member) April 14, 2007: "OpenOffice, the open source office suite" by John Fitzpatrick (Club member) March 10, 2007: "Using a Wireless Broadband Internet Service Provider (Clearwire)" by George Harrison (Club member) February 10, 2007: "Converting Records to CDs" by Dick English (Club member) January 13, 2007: "Cloning your entire hard drive on Macintoshes and Windows computers" by Jim Burcsu (Club member) and " Using Restore Points on your XP computer" by Gil Hoellerich (Club member) |