MEETINGS
Our Meetings are the held the 3rd Sunday of the month at
The Third Sunday Monthly meeting & Windows SIG is located at Jackson Hewitt, the Tax people.
The Jackson-Hewitt office is located at 2221 Lee Road, WINTER PARK, just down the road from the Denny's where we have our BOD and the Tech-SIG, and not far from New Horizons Computer Learning Center.
CFCS welcomes presentors to come and talk at our meetings.
These
presentations are coordinated by our Program Chair.
If you would like to present to one of our meetings please
contact:
the Program Chair.
The Central Florida Computer Society Weekly e-Newsletter For an on-line version of this week’s e-newsletter Click Here Tuesday October 7 at 7:00 PM – The Access SIG – New Horizons Computer Learning Center on Lee Road The group will be working further on the Stock Tracking application. The New Horizons Computer Learning Center is at 1221 Lee Road, Orlando. It is located about a mile West of I-4 on Lee Road, just past Kingswood Drive. Wednesday October 8 at 7:00 PM - The Security SIG - New Horizons Computer Learning Center There will be discussion on current topics plus “How do I protect myself from my children?” The New Horizons Computer Learning Center is at 1221 Lee Road, Orlando. It is located about a mile West of I-4 on Lee Road, just past Kingswood Drive. Next week's events: Tuesday October 14 at 7:00 PM – The Microsoft OfficeSIG – New Horizons Computer Learning Center on Lee Road Sheila Bigel will be demonstrating and discussing the free Office program called “Open Office.” The New Horizons Computer Learning Center is at 1221 Lee Road, Orlando. It is located about a mile West of I-4 on Lee Road, just past Kingswood Drive. Thursday, October 16 at 7:00 PM The Digital Photo & Video SIG – Mark Street Senior Center Good News! We have a speaker for the Digital Photo Video SIG this month! (October 16, Thursday at 7:00 PM at Marks St. Senior Center). Ken Larabee will demonstrate and discuss the free program “Irfanview.” If you don’t use Irfanview, you should. If you do, there is more to learn. If you view or edit photos, you don’t want to miss this session. Be there for an enjoyable time. Remember, we only hold meetings of this SIG when one of the members volunteers to show their photos, videos or a favorite program (or until a permanent SIG chair signs up). If you can lead a session (Come on, if you don't take photos or videos, why are you in a photo/video SIG?) contact Bob Black at editor@cfcs.org . Information on Mike Ungerman’s Great Presentation at our last meeting: Visit Mike Ungerman's Google site to see the presentation he gave at CFCS's Sunday meeting, Sept 21st. The link is: http://sites.google.com/site/mikesavpresentation/ Expo passes still available for Create Chaos 2008: If you wish to receive a complimentary Expo Hall pass to Create Chaos 2008 email a request to expopass@hewie.otherinbox.com and one will be emailed to you. Because of its value and special nature, this cannot be posted on line. For more information see the Xtra e-news from October 2 or visit http://www.createchaos.com/08/ CFCS Fundraising: THE CENTRAL FLORIDA COMPUTER SOCIETY is again selling the popular Entertainment® 2009 Coupon Books to raise funds in support of its cause. The fundraising campaign will start 7/20/08 and continues through 12/20/08. Books still cost only $25.00, with a portion of the proceeds from every book supporting CENTRAL FLORIDA COMPUTER SOCIETY. To place an order, contact Stan Wallner of the CENTRAL FLORIDA COMPUTER SOCIETY at president@cfcs.org ; or visit www.entertainment.com/support and enter account number 591719, when prompted, to support CENTRAL FLORIDA COMPUTER SOCIETY. Each Entertainment® membership provides people with thousands of dollars in deals on the things they do every day, such as dine out, shop, entertain, travel, and more. Video Recording of Recent Meetings: To view a recordings of recent meetings of the SIGs and the main meeting of CFCS go to
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cfcs-techsig Please remember we are still in the testing stage, so these recordings have sections missing or contain technical problems, but your input to this technology is requested. Thanks to those who helped at the Business Expo: Hewie Poplock wishes to thank all of the following for showing up and helping at last week’s Business Expo. Our booth helped get the word out about CFCS. Thanks to James Thompson, Arvin Meyer, Craig Morris, Bess MacConnell, and Stan Wallner Future General Meetings: Sunday, October 19, 2008 Oz Rugless - Oz Rugless has provided many fun-filled, informational, and useful presentations to CFCS members before, and he plans on doing that again. He'll pique your interest with a potpourri of ideas, one of which is sure to be just what you were looking for, including: * Freeware and shareware you can use, today, that you never knew existed. * Shortcut techniques for making your computing easier and breezier. * Where to find answers when you're stumped with a computing problem. * How to automate routine computing tasks. * How to tame Windows Automatic Update (grrrrr!). * Programming tips for the experienced programmer and for the newbie. * Lots more. Be there. You'll walk away smiling, with a pocketful of new ideas you can use right away. Sunday November 16, 2008 George Colombo, Founder, Neulio http://www.neulio.com Sunday December 21, 2008 Ted Goodwin on Computers & Taxes Sunday January 18, 2009 Gene Barlow http://www.ugr.com ----- Folding at Home distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. The goal: to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases. CFCS is participating in this worthwhile project that uses the spare computer cycles of your computer when it's not doing anything as a member of the "super computer" team. Learn more about it at http://folding.stanford.edu . If you decide to download and install the client, join our team to give CFCS credit for the work your computer accomplishes by entering in team number 70013. ----- Our Web site at http://www.CFCS.org offers a wealth of information about all aspects of our computer activities and listings of our Board of Directors, activities chairpersons, and SIG leaders. See our Contacts page for phone numbers and e-mail addresses of our leaders. http://cfcs.org/about/leader.asp
Click here for Map to Main Meeting with Directions
June 2007
Oz Rugless, author of
101 Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Applications, available from Amazon.com.
Spoke at the Central Florida Computer Society’s June meeting
Left - Oz Rugless and his wife Erlinda
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