| Meeting Information Index | ||
| September 30, 2009 | October 28, 2009 | November 25, 2009 |
| January 2010 | February 24, 2010 | March 25, 2009 |
| April 29, 2009 | May 27 2009 | June 24 2009 |
| February 24, 2010 | |
| Program | Pierre Houle, SCUG President, will be giving a talk on "Online Security: Pop-Up Scams". Pierre will attempt to show you how to spot a fake alert or a fake ad and how to have the proper safeguards in place to protect your system from scammers. |
| Disk of the Month | Interior Paint Scheme |
| Compu Prize | an HP Printer with a small secondary prize |
| Meeting report | After the meeting |
| January 27, 2010 | |
| Program |
This month our presenter will be Joe Black from Digital Friends.He is going to give a "General Talk on Computer Hardware, including what's new, how to optimize your computer and general Q and A". As you may recall Joe gave a talk last year on e-waste recycling which was ell received. He is a knowledgeable computer technician. |
| Disk of the Month | 3D Design This program allows you to design the interior of any and all rooms in a house and shows you The finished product in a number of ways. Download |
| Compu Prize | Draw for a - Monopod - 4GB Thumb Drive & a 5 port Ethernet switch. |
| Meeting report | After the meeting. |
| November 25, 2009 | |
| Program | We are pleased to have again, Antony Chodas, the owner of Forest City Imaging to talk on the latest in digital photography and other advances. |
| Disk of the Month |
Avery DesignPro for PC Avery Download Pick the Mac or PC version as you need. |
| Compu Prize |
Compuprize for November General Meeting is a 3 in 1 HP Printer and a Mouse is the secondary prize. Robert Devillaer won printer Jim LaPointe won mouse |
| Meeting report | Antony Chodas' very entertaining presentation on the technology improvements in cameras, plus a few other wider ranging items, was very well received. He had lots of exhibits, including a series of dissected memory cards, to show, teach and impress. There were many questions from the Membership, with Antony's usual enlightenment. |
| October 28, 2009 | |
| Program | Mitch Garvis will present on Windows 7 and possibly Office 2010. Here is a quote to introduce Mitch: "I have written a few articles on Windows 7 so far, and will be writing a number more in the next two weeks. The ones that are already published are at either mitchgarvis.com or garvis.ca. If you type in the word ‘Springboard’ into Search you should get the lot of them." You will not want to miss this meeting! |
| Disk of the Month | The free October software is called Book Designer. It is another piece of software that allows you to setup a photo album for your pictures. You can place a number of pictures on a page and put a short description with each picture. The company will gladly put these pictures in a finished album for a price. However the beauty of this software is that you can email your creation to your friends without going through the software company. Download link is to Photoinpress |
| Compu Prize | 50/50 Draw |
| Meeting Report | After the Meeting |
| September 30, 2009 | |
| Program | The September meeting will be a preview of the newest Microsoft operating system "WINDOWS 7". Andrew Swanstrom from Datatek is the presenter. |
| Disk of the Month | For the new season rather than have a software item I thought that a web site may be more appropriate as we have all been talking about the(most beautiful???) summer we didn't have chosen this web site as I feel that it is one of the better sites to find out about the weather we have ,Locally, Nationally and Internationally. I know that I look at it three or four times a day, especially when there is a storm about. Additionally if you are interested in upper winds, such as the jet stream, aviation weather, what it is like in Panama, Porto Rico etc it is all there. The more you explore this site the more fantastic it becomes. Have fun with www.sarnia.com/weather/frmain.html |
| Compu Prize | Laser printer with a small secondary prize. |
| Meeting report | When available |
| Wednesday June 24, 2009 | |
| Program | On June 24 GM Lynn Faubert has confirmed that Staples will do the demo. She will be covering the new "touch screen" a device that combines the tower + screen as well as the new smaller computers; e.g. Acer Aspire and others. |
| Disk of the Month | This month's freeware offering is a technician's dream come true.
System Information for Windows will show you everything you want to
know about your computer. It's more thorough than Belarc or Everest.
It gives software and hardware information. It gives license
information and passwords. The program is stand-alone which means it
can be used simply by downloading and running, no install is required.
This means that it can be run from a USB thumb drive. Here is the link to the download page: http://www.gtopala.com/siw-download.html homepage: http://www.gtopala.com/ |
| Compu Prize | TBA |
| Meeting report | When available |
| Wednesday May 27, 2009 | |
| Program | Bring along YOUR COMPUTER QUESTIONS to the meeting... At the SCUG General Meeting we are doing a live demonstration on Remote Control. We will be connecting between the Computer Tutor's system at her home in Toronto and our laptop at the meeting. We will be using 2 main software programs (both are free): Skype and Teamviewer. Here is how it will work: Members will be able to ask Pamela computer questions on either XP or VISTA. Pamela will then demonstrate how to fix your problem. We will see her actually perform the work on her computer via the large screen and watch every move of her mouse. Pamela will also demonstrate how she teaches computer via remote control. Pamela assists other computer user groups around the globe and is interested in doing live meetings such as the one we are going to do this coming Wednesday. Please help us out and bring along your questions so Pamela can demonstrate how this technology works. This remote access technology is FREE. One thing it is really good for is if someone has a relative or friend who needs some computer help, now you can do this between your 2 computers from anywhere on the planet. Come out and see how this is done...Maybe you know of someone who can help you via remote access...It is an excellent teaching method when the distance separates us from others. plus Dick on a Website boosting mission. |
| Disk of the Month | The Freeware selection for this month is a data recovery program called Zero Assumption. The download is a trial version but the picture recovery portion has no time limit. I was handed a camera memory card with no pictures on it even though it was suppose to be full of "once in a lifetime" photos. The program found the pictures and recovered all the them with no problems. Zero Assumption works with Windows 2000, XP and Vista. The link for download can be found on the SCUG website under DOM. |
| Compu Prize | First prize: Cross-cut Shredder Second prize: Labeler |
| Meeting report | When available |
| March 25, 2008 | |
| Program | Digital Friends on recycling computers and parts |
| Disk of the Month | This month's freeware selection is a small, portable word processor called AbiWord |
| Compu Prize | The Compuprize for March will be a Samsung Laser Printer and, a second prize of a 100 pack DVD-R. |
| Meeting report | When available |