May 1, 2008 DVPC Meeting
Dave Whittle Shares Tech Gems

Have you ever found a hidden gem of a product or service that was so good that you ended up telling people about it? Would you like to learn the secret favorites of five of America’s leading technology experts? Here’s your chance.
At our May 1, 2008 meeting DVPC is hosting a presentation by David B. Whittle, author of "Cyberspace: The Human Dimension" and named by Working Woman Magazine as "one of America's most original technological thinkers." Dave's been a leader in the PC revolution since 1979, and an opinion-leader in the PC industry since his days as OS/2 Evangelist at IBM in the early '90s. Most recently, he’s been writing for Smart Computing. Now, you can have a friend in the technology business as he shares new products and services that open up new horizons of possibility and solve problems you’re probably facing.
Dave will introduce you to hidden gems that are not yet household words, but will be because they solve real problems for real people and help make life a little bit or a lot better. These hidden gems include muvee™ autoProducer 6 (www.muvee.com) and the Invisus Family of PC Services (www.myinvisusdirect.com/usergroups). See exciting new possibilities from these companies and learn how the digital revolution can bless your life. You will come away from this meeting entertained and informed. Dave will provide time for questions and will bring valuable door prizes, informative handouts, and actual product for sale at significantly discounted prices arranged exclusively for user groups. If you'd like to take advantage of these special prices at the meeting and take product home with you, remember to bring cash, check, or a credit card. See you then!
This month's meeting will be fun, interesting, and informative. We'll see you on Thursday, April 3, at Diablo Valley College.
Our meetings are held in the Humanities Building, H109, at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill; see Where and When We Meet below, and the map and directions on our About DVPC page.

Where and When We Meet
Our monthly meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. at Diablo Valley College In Pleasant Hill, California, on the Main Campus located at 321 Golf Club Road. We meet in room H109 in the Humanities Building. See the campus map on the About DVPC page for driving directions, parking information, and how to get to room H109.
Remember: there's a $2.00 parking fee, payable at the ticket machines in each lot. Place the ticket face up on the driver's side of your dashboard.
NOTE: Diablo Valley College has replaced all of the old coin-only parking permit dispensers to new models that take dollar bills as well as nickels, dimes, quarters, and dollar coins, and will at some time in the future take credit cards. No longer do you have to have a collection of eight quarters to buy your parking permit!
We have a Networking Table from 6:30 to 7:00; if you have something to sell or trade, need technical help, or just want to exchange views, visit the Networking Table.
The regular monthly meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. with Random Access where you can ask questions or report on technical problems, followed by a presentation by our guest speaker. Also, as usual, we'll have SIG news and some of our usual great door prizes.

Diablo Blue Newsletter
Our monthly newsletter, Diablo Blue, is now 100% online, and published as a web document. What started as a printed newsletter, then converted to an online publication using pdf files and the Adobe Acrobat Reader for viewing. Both of these publication methods had a disadvantage: The newsletter could not be updated once it was published. So, we switched to publishing Diablo Blue as a web page. It's easier to read than the pdf version, the newsletter files are significantly smaller and load faster, and, most importantly, we can update each month's issue of Diablo Blue when there's a change or new information for DVPC members. Updates are flagged on the Table of Contents in red so you know if there's something new to check out.
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