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Past ACS-PCUG Meetings and Events - Year 2004
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Meeting - December 9, 2004 - Online Gaming
Many thanks go to local gaming enthusiast and club member, Lyle A. Austin, and a couple of his gaming buddies, for demonstrating MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games) types of games like EverQuest, City of Heroes, Ultima Online, and Asheron's Call. These online games require a monthly subscription fee, where thousands of players meet in a persistent online world, interacting between themselves and the computer controlled environment and entities.
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Meeting - November 11, 2004 - Digital Video Production
Johnny O'Barr did a great job of covering the complete process of creating your own digital video production:
- learning to shoot video using the mini-dv format
- importing that video into a Windows based PC
- editing the video footage with the Adobe Video Collection suite
- creating and output your video to VCD or DVD
- and duplicating your work for private sale or get it on Public Access Cable.
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Meeting - October 19, 2004 - Cellular Tech and Apple Tunes
This was a special two-part, joint gathering with the Alaska Apple Users Group, in the lower level of the Egan Center on a special date which coincided with the annual IT Expo.
First, a representative from Alaska Communications Systems discussed features of their recently improved cellular phone system that now interfaces with both PC’s and Macs.
And second, Apple representative Ben Kerosky demonstrated the cross-platform capabilities of iPod, iTunes, and Airport Express for local music streaming.
Thanks to all involved for making this joint meeting a success!
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Meeting - September 9, 2004 - Personal Computer Security
Local computer tech and ACS-PCUG member Robert Sprowl led a quite interesting discussion concerning personal computer security management. Topics included such areas as Vulnerabilities, Windows Updates (including WinXP SP2), Firewalls, Web Browsing, Anti-Virus, Application Security, Data Protection, etc.
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Meeting - August 12, 2004 - Favorite Web Sites and Utilities
Once again our Program Chair, Dawn Scott, presented some our member’s favorite web sites. And, in addition, our Web Editor, Mike Jacquot, previewed and discussed some of his favorite low and no-cost utilities. As usual, it is always interesting to see what the rest of the group has found on the World Wide Web!
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Meeting - July 8, 2004 - Steve Bass and Dave Whittle
Steve Bass, PC World contributing editor and past founder of the Pasadena IBM Users Group, and author of ‘PC Annoyances: How to Fix the Most Annoying Things About Your Personal Computer’, was touring the state and we snagged some of his precious time. He gave a great presentation while discussing how to eliminate common PC annoyances and also took challenges from the audience to solve their most annoying PC problems. His excellent book solves over 150 common annoyances and provides a download site for over 100 utilities.
 David B. Whittle, author of ‘Cyberspace: The Human Dimension’ and named by Working Woman Magazine as “one of America’s most original technological thinkers” also gave a fine presentation demonstrating cutting-edge, affordable software products including 3D-Album PicturePro, muvee autoProducer 3, PhotoVista Panorama and Virtual Tour, activePDF Symphony, and the Alpha Five v5 database. David had books and software products on sale at user group discount prices.
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 Meeting - June 10, 2004 - Adobe Illustrator CS
Once again, local guru Tom Shackle gave an excellent demonstration, this time previewing Adobe Illustrator CS, a fundamentally vector line-based drawing program that can import and integrate pixel images. Projects can be created in Illustrator using layers that can later be exported to Adobe Photoshop, where as rasterized layers they can be individually manipulated. The latest version now has a tool
 for converting 2D line drawings to 3D perspectives, whereas previously, such a feature was available only with a 3rd party plug-in. Tom said Illustrator and PhotoShop are designed to be complimentary but they perform their jobs in different ways, and that many folks confuse the two, so he helped distinguish between the two programs while defining what Illustrator does best.
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Meeting - May 13, 2004 - Copyright Laws/Online Usage
Attorney Michael Jungreis discussed the finer points of copyright laws as they relate to online usage. Michael is a local, well-known, expert authority on Internet copyright issues and violations.
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 Meeting - March 11, 2004 - Accessible Web Pages
Wayne Sturm of Creative Conservation, local web developer and specialist in accessible web pages, gave a great presentation on accessible web pages.
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Meeting - January 8, 2004 - MS Office 2003 New Features
Many thanks to our own Dawn Scott who gave a fine overview of some of the new features and highlights of Microsoft Office 2003.
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Page last updated: 14 September, 2005
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