General Meeting -- December 20th

Topic: "Google Earth--Revisited"
By: Dick Travis

Dick Travis presented a very interesting Power Point presentation and demo on how to use Google Earth. His presentation covered a general overview and new additions to the program, as well as demonstrations of how to use Google Earth on your computer, with informative techniques on how to use the Search, Names and Layers portions of the program.

He answered questions regarding Google Earth and has put his power point presentation HERE for downloading onto your own personal computer as well as the documentation of Google Earth in the form of a PDF file HERE for your downloading convenience.. You can rerun the presentation and documentation at your leisure ....Happy Google Earthing!!!.

A very large crowd enjoyed his presentation and were treated to Holiday Wine, Cheese and a birthday cake for our Treasurer Patti Kopcho....

|Don Raun had all of the volunteers of the club stand to give them a warm welcome from the members...We thank Don Raun for his 4 years of leading our club. Great Job, Don...

The Raffle winners were as follows:

Faye Zimmerman Won a Flash Drive	Peter Iorlano Won a Flash Drive
Don Rosen Won a Flash Drive	Joe Carver Won a Speaker and Head Set

General Meeting -- October 25th

Topic: "Rejuvenating Your Computer"
By: Dorothy Miller

Dorothy Miller presented a very interesting Power Point presentation on how to Clean and Rejuvenate Your Computer. Her presentation covered not only physical cleaning, but care and maintenance of your hard drive, with informative techniques to eliminate unused programs and get rid of all sorts of clutter... in order to speed up your computer.

She answered many questions regarding cleaning and has put her power point presentation HERE for downloading onto your own personal computer. You can rerun her presentation at your leisure to insure that you follow up with her recommendations...

A very large crowd enjoyed her presentation and were treated to Halloween Refreshments after the meeting.

We thank Dorothy for helping our members do their Fall Cleaning of our computers.

The Raffle winners were as follows:

Henry Siesel won the Wine and Chocolates!!!	Lillian French won her 2nd Linux (Linspire) Operating System...
Mary Baker won a book on making your own computer...	Len Holness was the lucky winner of the "Perennial Tulip" Award....

General Meeting -- September 27th

Topic: "SENIORS USING COMPUTERS "
By : Russell Hoffman

Russell, assisted by his wife, Sharon spoke of his role in founding "The Animated Software Company in Carlsbad".

He demonstrated "The Engine of Life", "Statistics explained" and " All About Pumps", which are available at Best Buy and other computer stores.

He also demonstrated usage of the internet as a study tool, with questions from the members. He distributed free copies to all attendee's.

We thank Russell for taking the time to talk to our club. Next month's program will feature Dorothy Miller giving us hints on how to clean up our computers both inside and out.

May's Meeting:

Linspire: An Alternative Operating System
by:
Kendall Dawson
& Aurelia Negrerie
Linspire Corporation

President Don Raun & Kendall Dawson

Photos by Werner Greve

Kendall Dawson presented a very interesting topic, all about the new alternative for Computer users--The Linspire Operating System. He showed us how easy it is to use the Linspire operating system as an alternative to Windows or Mac computers. The popular Linspire software is run under the "open source" Linux base system, but is as easy as the familiar look and feel of Windows or Mac computers.

Kendall fielded many questions from our members, and everyone went home with a book and CD to try the system.

Later in the year, workshops will be scheduled for those people who want to learn more about this software. A big thank you toKendall and Aurelia for an excellent presentation. Over 100 members were in attendance, and many stayed after to enjoy the excellent treats beautifully prepared by our own Shirley Williams.

The Chow Lines...

Winners of the raffle are pictured below. Seven winners walked away with a variety of prizes, two of which were the actual boxed Linspire Operating System..

John Case	Don Raun
Fran Obler	Sidney Pistone
Gerry Stier	Dora Truban
Andy Truban	Joe and Muriel Weiner

Photography by
Tony Calderone

April's Meeting:

Photoshop Elements
by: Werner Greve

Werner Greve

Werner Greve presented the popular photography software, PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS. Werner showed a tutorial, which is available in the computer room and proceeded to show us most of the skills and tricks he has acquired over the years in using computer photography software.

Later in May, 2006 another workshop will be scheduled for those people who want to learn more about this software. Many questions were fielded by Werner, whose humor was present throughout the presentation. Thanks Werner.

Photoshop Elements Meeting

Refreshments were again served after the presentation by Shirley Williams and her crew and the Buy/Sell table was covered by Skip Hayden this month.

President Don Raun presided over the Raffle and eight happy winners walked away with a variety of prizes.

Olive Bishop	Sam Smith
Dora Tuban	Gus Silkowitz
Lester Hoffman	Muriel Kaplan
John Schlecht	Patti Kopcho

March Meeting:

The OHCC Golf Club
Computer Scoring System

by: Scott Sloan

Scott Sloan gave us an excellent presentation of the Golf Club's Scoring System which he developed over the last year and a half. This system was developed entirely with EXCEL and includes all of the possible golf games that are played during a yearly season.

Scott made extensive use of EXCEL's macros, which he demonstrated the ease and, of course, the difficulty in writing such a large system. Scott used the Visual BASIC computer language to write the macros.

The Golf Club now makes use of this computer system all most every day and it not only saves time for the golfers, but for the many volunteers who manage the tournaments.

Hal Phillips congratulated Scott on the work that he put into this project and thanked him from everyone in the Golf Club. Many questions were asked about the system and EXCEL in particular by the members.

Gerry, Chuck, Scott, Gary and Lester

Refreshments were again served after the presentation by Shirley Williams and her crew and the Buy/Sell table was covered by Werner Greve this month.

President Don Raun presided over the Raffle and 7 happy winners walked away with a variety of prizes.

Chuck Myers	Charlie Cragen
Gary Light	Lillian French
Hal Phillips	Tony Calderone
Dick Wold	Photography by Tony Calderone

Dick Travis and Karen Fox

February Meeting:

"HOW TO USE YOUR COMPUTER
TO HELP YOU WITH YOUR
INCOME TAX"
by: Jeff Brown, Intuit Corp.

Jeff Brown from Intuit Corp, producer of the famous Turbo-Tax presented a very interesting and informative program about the product. Turbo-Tax can be accessed on-line or used as a desktop application and is very user friendly, especially when downloading your tax records from Bank's or Brokerage's.

Jeff Brown

Jeff gave us lots of tips and hints at how to use the product successfully. Many questions from the members were also answered to their satisfaction. Jeff's Mother and Father (Barbara and Terry Brown) are long-time members of the Computer Club and very proud of their son.

Terry, Jeff and Barbara Brown

Werner Greve	Winners of the Raffle	Fay Zimmerman
Dorothy Miller	Muriel Kaplan	Barbara Brown
Fred O'Hara	Olive Bishop	Veggies and Dip went fast...

Photos by Tony Calderone

January Meeting:

Future Computers for under $500.00
by: Don Raun

January 23rd was the first program for 2006 and President Don Raun kicked off this year's program with an interesting and informative presentation on several computers on the market for under $500.00, which can produce almost everything that you are presently doing with your Windows computers. In addition, some futuristic computers were shown to the large crowd attending.

Refreshments were available before and after the presentation and the Buy/Sell Table was ably manned by Skip Hayden.

Don's presentation can be re-created or reviewed at your leisure by clicking on the link below...

Don's Power Point Presentation

Downloading with Don!!!

Terri Eckhardt	Winners of the Raffle	Joe Weiner
Audrey Sargisson	Charlie Cragon	Carol Raun
Barbara Schneider	Diane Bellerive	Max Mellner
Terry Brown	John McMenamin	Jim Amighi
Muriel Kaplan	Peter Klaphaak	Loraine Tichenor
Margarita Brill	Gary Baur	"My Son--Ramon"
Skip Hayden Buy/Sell Table	Thanks for Joining the Computer Club	Werner Greve

Pictures by Tony Calderone