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APCUG
2013 Winter Virtual Technology Conference
Saturday February 2, 2013

Time

Track One

Track Two

1:00 pm - 1:50 pm Eastern
12 noon - 12:50 pm Central
11:00am - 11:50 am Mountain
10:00 am - 10:50 am Pacific

 

Windows 8 -- Mysteries and Misconceptions Explained!
Francis Chao, Member
Tucson Computer Society, AZ


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To 'Cloud' or Not to 'Cloud', that is the Question
David Williams, APCUG Director
Central Iowa Computer User Group


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2:00 pm - 2:50 pm Eastern
1:00 pm - 1:50 pm Central
12:00 noon - 12:50 pm Mountain
11:00 am - 11:50 am Pacific

 

Freeware and Shareware
Marie Vesta, President, APCUG
Pasco Area Computer User Group


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Using Your Smartphone for Everything
Bill James, APCUG Advisor, Region 8
Computer Club of Oklahoma City


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3:00 pm - 3:50 pm Eastern
2:00 pm - 2:50 pm Central
1:00 pm - 1:50 pm Mountain
12 noon - 12:50 pm Pacific

 

Are We Losing This Generations Photos?
Rick Santich, President, MotoPhotos


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iPad Basics and a Bit More
Greg West, Advisor Region 6 and International
Sarnia Computer Users Group


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4:00 pm - 4:50pm Eastern
3:00 pm - 3:50 pm Central
2:00 pm - 2:50 pm Mountain
1:00 pm - 1:50 pm Pacific

 

How to Publicize Your User Group
Judy Taylour, Chair, APCUG Board of Advisors
Santa Clarita Valley Computer Club


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Virtual Conference Winter 2013
Saturday February 2, 2013
Presentation Descriptions
Speaker Biographies

ARE WE LOSING THIS GENERATIONS PHOTOS?
Rick Santich
President, MotoPhotos

Today, more pictures are being taken than ever before. It is so easy to take pictures anytime and anywhere with digital cameras and smartphones. So, why will future generations never have a chance to see today's pictures? Rick Santich, owner, MotoPhotos, Shaker Heights, Cleveland OH, will explain how to preserve your photos so they can always be viewed by others in the years ahead.

Bio
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is the President of Photo Holdings Corporation, an Ohio-based corporation which operates a MotoPhoto and Portrait Studio that includes a digital photo lab and portrait studio for families, high school seniors and executives; ProEventPhoto, a regional school pictures and sports event photo business; and PrintScans, a national print scanning operation. Mr. Santich also is President of Prepaid Digital Prints LLC, which provides a prepaid digital prints card solution for photo labs nationwide.

Rick created the corporation in 1985 and has seen the photo industry evolve through a number of remarkable changes. When he entered the industry, one hour film processing labs were a major provider of film processing and printing. Today, fewer and fewer consumer and professional labs exist and those that do, including Ricks, are transitioning from chemistry-based processing to high quality inkjet printing.

Rick has made presentations at numerous national photo industry conferences and trade shows and offers a variety of seminars to local groups. In his prior lives, Rick was a nationally recognized expert in the use of telecommunications for the health care industry and has a background in both photo and video. He has accumulated enough knowledge about computing and the Internet to be very dangerous

 


HOW TO PUBLICIZE YOUR USER GROUP
Judy Taylour
APCUG Board of Advisors
President, Santa Clarita Valley Computer Club

Are you looking for new members? This presentation will give you an overview of ways you can publicize your user group / computer club.


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is a 25-year member of the Santa Clarita Valley Computer Club where she serves as both Editor and President. She is also co-facilitator for the Southern California Regional User Group Summit (SCRUGS), a group of 20+ computer clubs in Southern California who have gotten together quarterly for over 15 years to share ideas and presenter information, solve problems, etc. Judy has taught adult education computer classes for 16 years through her local high school district and is a member of the Pierce College Computer Applications and Office Technologies Advisory Committee that meets annually to suggest courses for the next school year. She currently serves at Chair of APCUGs Board of Advisors, as well as chair of the Benefits & PUSH committees.

 



FREEWARE AND SHAREWARE
Marie Vesta
APCUG President

Lets learn the difference between freeware and shareware, and find out where to go for the safest downloads. A listing of sites to find free or bargain prices and I will tell you about some of my favorite free programs. This will be a fun and informative session.

Bio
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got her first look at a home computer in 1984. She joined the Pasco Area Computer User Group in 1998, became Vice President in 2001, President from 2003 until present. Currently she is also a member of Tampa Bay Computer Society and represents that group.

She was Program Chairman for the Florida Association of Computer User Group, (FACUG), conferences in 2005 and 2006. Marie served as Vice President and then as President of FACUG for two years. She coordinated and hosted a highly successful state-wide conference both years, the second conference in conjunction with APCUG. As a result of her activities, she was fortunate enough to have been invited to the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington, to attend and participate in an MVP Summit

She creates and maintains websites for mobile home parks in the Central Florida area and travels the Central Florida area giving presentations to various user groups.

 

 

IPAD BASICS AND A BIT MORE
Greg West, Advisor Region 6 and Internationa
Webmaster for Sarnia Computer Users Group (SCUG.ca)

Did you purchase an iPad and find it a bit of a mystery?
Did you set up your iPad properly? Are you sure?
Do you know how to secure your iPad?
Do you know how to find your iPad if stolen?
Did you backup your iPad? If not, you may be in trouble.

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spacer Greg West is also an affiliate member of COMP, in Port Huron, MI. For the past 10 years, he has reviewed tech books for OReilly Media. For many years he has also written a monthly tech column for a local newspaper. Greg created two free computer centers in his community: one has 30 PCs which is now run by church volunteers and the president of SCUG, his computer users group. Another church gives him a room for free tech workshops to run separately. He is designing a free website (alternatecloud. com) to assist seniors with a variety of tech topics. In his spare time, Greg volunteers as a TV camera operator and studio tech for TVCogeco, a local cable TV company. He taught Mac computer courses at his home town college for three years. The first home computer he owned was in 1984 was a Mackintosh 128k and he has worked with all Windows OS since 3.0. Today he has a Mac laptop with Windows 7. Conference, held in San Diego, for many years. 

 

 

TO CLOUD OR NOT TO CLOUD, THAT IS THE QUESTION
David Williams, APCUG Director

 
If you have never had your hard drive crash, be destroyed in a fire or flood, be struck by lightning, or stolen, you are exceptionally fortunate, or, perhaps, you havent been computing very long. After spending many painstaking hours inputting data, contact lists, medical histories, financial information, etc. on your computer, you experienced a crash that lost all of that data forever. Many times you toss or shred the paper trail thinking your information is safe forever. How naive can one be? It can be an oops moment, or it can be devastating.

You have many deices, a desktop, laptop, tablet and a phone -- how important is it for you to share files and information between them.

You have heard the term the Cloud. What does it mean? What can you do there? One of the great things you can do with the Cloud is to share and store data. How to share and store data using the Cloud will be covered in this presentation. You will learn what you can do using cloud storage and also learn about some of the programs and spaces that can make your life easier.

Bio
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joined the Central Iowa Computer User Group in 1995. He has served in many positions including president, vice president and editor. He has served as secretary since 2004, responsible for using One Note for board meetings and the board sharing of files through Microsoft Live and other cloud services. He also served as Program and Online Services coordinator, responsible for monthly meeting topics and the groups Web site. His other responsibilities include the social media content for the user group and producing and streaming the General Meetings on Ustream and other sites.

David has been attending computer shows and APCUG events since 2002. He was a presenter at the last two APCUG Regional Conferences in Ohio. He was elected to the Board of Advisors in January 2011 and moved to the Board of Directors in October 2011. David is currently Chairman of the Social Media Committee that is tasked with developing and maintaining a social media network for the benefit of APCUG.

 

 

USING YOUR SMARTPHONE FOR EVERYTHING
Bill James
APCUG Advisor, Region 8
Vice President, Webmaster & Editor, Computer Club of Oklahoma City

Cellphones in the last few years have increasingly become part of our lives. When cameras were added to cellphones it changed how we perceived a phone. It then became a camera phone that allowed us to transmit pictures to our friends and family within moments. Instant messaging was a part of the PC world but when it was introduced on our phones as texting, it was immediately adopted by the younger generation supplanting almost all voice communication. It is estimated that in December 2009, the 286 million US subscribers sent 152.7 billion text messages per month, for an average of 534 messages per subscriber per month.

The introduction of the Apple iPhone definitely changed the way we as consumers looked at phones. Google entered the market with a opensource product called Android. With these two competing products, a phone is now more than just a phone. They are mobile devices that are capable of accessing the cloud, internet, files and programs that allow us to carry our desktop to wherever we want.

In this presentation we will look at some of the Apps that are available on Smartphones that will allow you to work, play and really use your Smartphone for virtually everything. Although the android phone will be the primary instrument used in this presentation, the concepts can be applied to both Apple and Android products.

Bio
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first became involved in a PC User's Group in 1992 when he joined the Oklahoma PC User's Group now known as the Computer Club of Oklahoma City to learn more about the computer he purchased. He has been a member of the clubs' Board of Directors since 1998. Bill was elected President of the CCOKC in 2000 and served two terms. He is currently on the club's Board of Directors, serves as Webmaster, newsletter editor and frequently gives presentations on new software to his club. Bill attended his first Association of Personal Computer Users Group (APCUG) Fall Conference in 2003. He is a past APCUG Region 6 Advisor (KY, IL, IN, MI) and Treasurer and served on the APCUG Board of Directors from 2006 to 2009.

Bill currently is serving as the APCUG Region 8 Advisor (AR, KS, LA, OK, TX). He is an active member of Toastmasters International Club #627. Bill is also a current member of the Board of Directors for North Care Center, a private non-profit behavioral and social services facility located in Oklahoma City. He retired from the Federal Aviation Administration as a Supply Systems Analyst for the FAA Logistics Center in Oklahoma City, OK in 2007 where he worked for the past 38 years.

 

Windows 8 -- Mysteries and Misconceptions Explained!
Frances Chao, Member,
Tucson Computer Society, AZ

It boots up and shuts down faster and it runs slightly faster than any prior version of Windows. However, it will seem mysterious to you, especially if you have been reading online and print articles which are full of misconceptions about Windows 8. Here are some mysterious topics that we will clarify:

* Editions of Windows 8 (can be confusing)
* Differences between the Windows 8 (box) and the Windows 8 Plus Pack (box)
* Undocumented features of Internet Explorer 10
* Misconceptions about being "forced" to use the Start Screen (totally wrong!)
* Booting up directly into the Legacy Desktop (no problem!)
* Getting back the Start button and Start menu (no problem!)
* Inability to boot up with Linux and WindowsPE Live CDs/DVDs/flash devices
* Making Legacy Desktop applications the default (inside of Windows Store Apps)
* Shutting down Windows Store Apps
* Windows Media Player is no longer free (as of February 1)

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is a frequent presenter at the TCS, gave a Virtual Machine presentation at the 2011 Southwest Computer Conference, and has given a presentation at each VTC as well as user groups across the United States and Canada.    

   

   

   

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