OTHER
MEETINGS

The Meeting for Thursday, January 8, 2008, will be given by: Erik Von Halle

As a long time Apple enthusiast, Erik has always resented that PC is used to stand for Personal Computer and mean the IBM PC compatible, and not all personal computers. At the January meeting Erik will be getting his revenge by demoing his Apple system.

BOYS AND THEIR TOYS (The difference between men and boys, is the size and cost of their various toys.)

At the January meeting of the ORPCUG Erik Von Halle will have his toys to demonstrate. A truly portable computing system of an iBook with a new nano iPod to show off iTunes. The iBook will have portable speakers and an external 320 GigaByte USB hard disk with 80 GigaBytes of music. A Tungsten E2 Palm Pilot with a Bluetooth enabled GPS, the Garmin 10x. All this can run off batteries without AC power.

At the ORPCUG December meeting the topic of discussion was how to scan slides. Erik will demonstrate iPhoto and show some of the Von Halle Family slides he scanned with his Epson scanner that has a slide scanner attachment, and he will answer questions about the process. The Palm Pilot can show pictures also and has it's own slide show program, in addition to being an ebook reader and capable of displaying and editing Word documents.

If there is extra time after all of this, Erik will demonstrate how he made web pages for his websites that he got free from Yahoo and Microsoft.

We will also have a Question and Answer session, as usual, at the beginning of the meeting.

SPECIAL PRESENTATION ON VISTA It is quite probable that any PC that you recently purchased will have some version of the Microsoft Windows Vista Operating System. To help members of both ORPCUG and the community become familiar with this system, presentations will be provided beginning at 7:00 p.m. on January 15, 2009, in Room 35A, which is the "Arts and Crafts" room, of the Senior Citizens Center on Emory Valley Road. Vista comes in six different versions, and the presentation will help you select the version and hardware that will best fill your needs. Vista also permits you to adopt a different method of storing and retrieving your files; and it will be helpful to understand this option before you start using the system. The presentation will be based on the "Professor Teaches" series marketed by Individual Software. The overall presentation is divided into sessions that emphasize various aspects of the subject. The sessions begin with an explanation and demonstration and then present five questions to help you anchor the important points in your mind. It is possible to cover two sessions during one meeting, and the meetings will be spaced on alternate Thursdays until all sessions are complete. There is an optional introductory session that points out the differences between Windows XP and Windows Vista as operating systems. If enough of the members of the group feel that this session will be helpful, it will be included.

$ DUES ARE DUE $ Dues for 2009 are $20 per member or per household if two or more members share the same address. Please pay these to our Treasurer, Edward Von Halle, at the meeting or mail them to him at our Post Office Box 4241, Oak Ridge, TN 37831. Thank you.