| Diablo Blue August, 2002 The Monthly Newsletter of the Diablo Valley PC User’s Group |
August
1, 2002 Meeting Announcement
Audio/Video Featuring Nick Chase
The August 1st DVPC meeting
will feature DVPC’s own Nick Chase who will talk about the latest audio and
video hardware and software, including what’s new that will let you easily
create your own digital movies and record your own music. As you probably
know, Nick works in the video unit at Sony, so he has both a professional
and a hobbyist perspective on audio and video. Couple that with the fact that
Nick is a musician, and you have the ideal speaker to tell us all about using
the latest technology, whether we simply want to email or some pictures or
post them on the web, or transfer some home video tapes to CD-R or DVD+/-R
disks, or make a collection of our favorite records, audio tapes, and CDs
onto CD-R disks.
DVPC meetings are held in the lobby conference room in Building B at the Bank
of America Technology Center office complex in Concord, located near the northeast
corner of Clayton Road at Galindo (see the Map to Monthly Meetings on page
15). Please use the entrance that’s on the east side near the southeast corner
of the building. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and the meeting starts at 7:00 p.m.
The New Users SIG holds its meetings at 6:30 p.m. prior to the regular DVPC
monthly meeting on the first Thursday of each month at Bank of America building
B. We discuss whatever is confusing or puzzling new PC users. If you are a
new user of PCs who would like to meet with other new users - and some experienced
users who can answer your questions as well - then join us at the New Users
SIG meetings at 6:30 p.m. prior to each DVPC monthly meeting.
We'll also have the 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. We will have one of our pre-meeting games, with a great
prize for the winner! Also, as usual, we'll have library disks and those great
DVPC mugs (version 2) for sale, SIG news, and some of our usual great door
prizes.
| President’s Corner by Alan Mildwurm, DVPC My Newest Toy For the past two years I have been very happy with my Handspring Visor. I had the Prism — which is their color PDA. The Prism operates on the Palm operating system and has well met my needs. I liked the expansion socket because it was easy to add a small camera, backup memory module, or a modem. I especially liked the clear crisp screen. Anyway, I decided I needed a new toy and have been anxious to move over to the PocketPC world. I initially looked at the Compaq iPAQs but they are expensive and hard to find — especially the upper end units. For graduation, we bought Jason a new Toshiba E-310 which is a basic PDA running on the PocketPC 2002 platform. It is small, well designed, comes with a secure digital (SD) slot for expansion (watch for cameras, modems, etc. that will soon plug into the SD slot) and has great screen resolution. It is also well priced.
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What’s Inside |
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| Ten Years Ago Steve Bass |
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| IncrediMail Review Sigrid Foreman |
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| SIG News Nick Chase |
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| DVPC Board Meeting Minutes Tom Krauss |
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| California Copy Source Ad |
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| Email Meeting Notification |
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| Switch to the Diablo Blue Web Edition |
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| Caveat Emptor Judy Lococo |
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| AOL Scam Alert Steve Bass |
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| Information About DVPC |
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| Membership Application |
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| Directions and Map to DVPC Meetings |
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| DVPC Calendar |
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