February Meeting:
The February General Meeting was held on February
26th. The speaker was 
Dana
Larrabee from Barcode Printers
(California Inkjet.com).
Dana offers a discount on the web site!!
Just refer a friend and both you and your friend will
get an additional 10% discount.
Dana presented a very interesting Evaluation of Digital
Cameras and Photo Printers and showed us how to place
your favorite digital pictures on T-Shirts.
Dana
showed us how to install a printer, how to re-size our digital pictures
and answered all our questions regarding emailing of pictures, techniques
for handling digital pictures and displayed a wide variety of paper,
ink jet cartridges and T-Shirt transfer paper.
The
members were very interested in Dana's practical procedures as well
as the many services his company offers. Their address in Oceanside
is 3365 Mission Ave. and their phone number is 722-8236.
Door prizes were distributed to the following.
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Ellen Baur
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Dick Wold
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Carol Raun
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John Vick
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Gary Baur
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Happy Members looking over the merchandise
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Thanks to California Inkjet.com for supplying the
premium software prizes and a big thank you to Dana for his interesting
presentation.
March Meeting:
The March General Meeting was held on March 26th.
The speaker was 
Riley
Davis from ADNC.
Riley gave the membership an overview of the
services ADNC offers our community as well as answered questions regarding
the availability of DSL from ADNC. His knowledge of the internet service
providers in our area is very broad and he gave us clear understanding
of the pros and cons of the various ways one can connect to the internet.
Riley also showed us how to access our ADNC Email
from another computer other than our home computer. Simply go to: webmail.adnc.com
after gaining access to the internet anywhere you happen to be. After
signing in with your usercode and password, you have the same privileges
of reading or sending Email as you had from home.
We thank Riley for answering our questions and for his
continued support of our community and especially our computer club.
As you may know, ADNC gives us free space for this website.
Winners of the $10.00 Comp USA gift certificates
were: Terry Westlake and John McGee. Winner of the Comfort Wrist Support
was Mirae Lauger.
Terry Westlake
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John McGee
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Mirae Lauger |
Thanks again to Riley Davis for his very interesting
presentation. We all learned a lot.
April Meeting:
The April General Meeting was held on April 23rd. Dave Whittle,
from Webworking Services in Salt Lake City was our speaker.
Dave Whittle
Dave is a technology expert and author who demonstrated
several digital and video techniques covering many software sytems.
Some
of the systems demonstrated were, 3D Album, muvee autoProducer, PhotoVista,
PhotoVista Virtual Tour and Alpha 5 Version 5.
Dave was received very well by our members and answered
many questions regarding the products.
Thanks to Dave for visiting our club. We appreciate
your time and assistance to our members.
May Meeting
The May General Meeting was held on May 28th. June Porto,
professor at Mira Costa College gave a very interesting presentation on
EXCEL.
Professor June Porto
June showed the club members how easy it is to use
EXCEL, as she demonstrated the concepts of building an EXCEL worksheet
and producing a graph.
She encouraged us to take the time to use EXCEL as
it can be a very powerful tool for many of the number crunching jobs we
all have. Thanks again to June, for a very interesting presentation.
Winners of the raffle were as follows:
Dori Forsyth & Tony Calderone
Willie Eck
Bob Weber greeting new member Ed Sox
June Meeting
Dick and Peggy Canning provided the General Program
in June, speaking on writing and publishing books. Together, the Canning's
have had several books published on varied topics including Nutrition,
Memory Self Help and Family Memoirs. Peggy encouraged us to collect family
stories from siblings and related family members and compile them into
books to share with relatives. Both Dick and Peggy have done this with
their own extended families.
A most interesting topic that was addressed was publishing
via Print on Demand, an internet publisher who will print copies of books
to order and will mail them to the customer. If you are a budding author,
this might be of interest. The Canning's have a web site, www.retiredlifefun.com
with several links to their publications. If you missed their presentation
you will enjoy reviewing this web site.
September Meeting
September Meeting:
"DRAGON NATURALLY-HOW TO OPERATE
YOUR COMPUTER BY VOICE"
BY: Rich Blumenthal
Rich Blumenthal of Dragon Naturally Speaking,
which turns speech into text, was the featured speaker. Whatever you can
do with a Word document you can do with Dragon.
The software converts the spoken word
to typed text at 160 wpm, also corrects and formats text verbally.
Dragon features a voice replay of the
document and is capable of playing back with the users own voice. There
is a vocabulary of 250,000 words built in. The features can also be used
with MS Excel and MS Access. The program requires MS 98, 2nd edition,
and newer. It includes a headset and microphone.
Our members thought it was an amazing
demonstration.
October Meeting
"MICROSOFT--2003"
A SNEAK PEEK...
by:
Marvin Jones
Marvin Jones of Microsoft Corporation
was our guest speaker for the October 22nd meeting. Marvin gave us
a sneak peek of the new Microsoft Office 2003 Suite.
He demonstrated all the new "Web Ready" features of the
new Word and Excel systems as well as the improved document control
and recovery enhancements.
Through the used of "Shared Servers"
a user can simplify the control and updating of documents, either
within a family, small business, club or organization.
Power Point has been enhanced to include
MPG files as well as being much more user friendly. Email has been
improved to allow the user to rid themselves of junk mail and easier
organizing of email addresses and letters.
We thank Marvin for his excellent
presentation. Over 160 computer club members were in attendance and
ten of them were lucky enough to win the following raffle prizes:
X-Box--MP3--One Note 2003--Publisher
2003--Front Page 2003--Visio 2003--and (5) copies of Office Pro 2003
X-Box Winner--Pat Butler............................................MP3
Winner
Office Pro 2003 Winners
Publisher 2003 Winner Paul
Cornell Pau.............................One
Note 2003 Winner B. A. Delaney
FrontPage 2003 Winner
Jim Mahlmeister
Microsoft Tee Shirts for everyone....
November Meeting
"A
Comparison of Major Email Systems"
by:
Dorothy Miller
Dorothy Miller, our Vice President,
gave an excellent presentation comparing the functions of the major
Email systems.
She explained how the Email systems
worked and how to adjust your particular Email client to work best for
you.
Also, yearly elections were held for
the Officers of the Computer Club.
Congratulation to the Officers elected.
They are as follows:
Don Raun,
President
Dorothy Miller, Vice President
Lavergne Brown, Secretary
Patti Kopcho, Treasurer
Winners of the raffle prizes are pictured
below:
Starbucks - Wilhelm Eck |
Barnes & Noble - Marcie Semoiloff |
Barnes & Noble - Gordon Beer |
Ross - Jerry Semoiloff |
Cocos - Harland Donahue |
Cocos - Margaret Waddell |
Souplantation - Marvin Marks
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Souplantation - Dori Forsyth |
Cocos - Alfred Deleo
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Souplantation - Dorothy Miller |
Jeff
Brown presented a very interesting and informative program on Turbo Tax. Jeff
is a programming engineer for Intuit Corp., the maker of Turbo Tax. He answered
many questions from the audience, before, during and after his presentation.
He was well received by all in attendance. 
