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(NOTE: 2008 dates for the events below to be announced)
ICON Meetings:
ICON PC User Group Workshops
Date: Friday, August 15, 2008
Time: 7:00pm to 8:45pm
Location: Brentwood Public Library in the History Room (main floor) ( DIRECTIONS)
Subject: "Microsoft Excel" Part 2
We continue this year's Microsoft Office series with a workshop on Excel, the spreadsheet program that has become a standard. In this workshop series, John White will give his insights into spreadsheet basics and add to the knowledge of those familiar with spreadsheets by covering some of the finer points of spreadsheet calculation, graphing, database use and formatting.
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ICON PC User Group - Next Meeting
Date: Friday, August 1, 2008
Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: Brentwood Public Library ( DIRECTIONS)
Subject: Computer Q&A & “Working With Video On Computers”
The meeting will start off with our Computer Q&A where anyone in attendance asked questions and we all helped solve problems and gain information.
ICON is pleased to welcome Brice Washington of Hauppauge Computer Works. Brice will be discussing using computers for capturing video, transferring video from tape to DVD, and editing video material, including working in high definition formats. He will also discuss working with Windows Media Center and creating home theater systems using his company’s latest hardware. Hauppauge Computer Works is a multi-national corporation based right here on Long Island.
Upcoming ICON PC User Group Monthly Meetings - The First Friday of the Month - (CLICK HERE for DIRECTIONS)
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August 1, 2008, Meeting Report
The meeting started off with our Computer Q&A where anyone in attendance asked questions and we all helped solve problems and gain information.
Andy Gilbert, of PC Richard & Son, presented what you need for Back to School including how to choose a notebook computer, what is new in printers, & hot back to school values.
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July 11, 2008, Meeting Report
The meeting started off with our Computer Q&A where anyone in attendance asked questions and we all helped solve problems and gain information.
Steve Lindsay of Microsoft gave a live demonstration of key new features in Windows Vista, Windows Live (which comprises of a collection of online services such as Live Messenger, Maps, Mail, SkyDrive, Toolbar and Live Photo Gallery) and a variety of other applications and technologies including Windows Media Center and Windows Home Server.
Steve Lindsay joined Microsoft in 2006 as a developer for the Forefront Server Security team in New York. As a Windows Champion, Steve has several popular blogs and community forums centered around digital lifestyle with Windows Vista, Live, Home Server and Media Center. His sites have had more than 60,000 unique hits in the last couple of months. Steve is technical enthusiast first and foremost and likes to share with the community the very features and tricks he finds and uses on a day to day basis.
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June 6, 2008, Meeting Report
The meeting started off with our Computer Q&A where anyone in attendance asked questions and we all helped solve problems and gain information.
Bernie Gorman returned to ICON with another of his informative and entertaining presentations, showing that anyone can produce and distribute video on a shoestring budget.
He covered the basics of computer and TV video and will showed how some inexpensive (often free) software and low-cost hardware can be used both to produce original TV content and to edit existing media.
Bernie gave to members a CD filled with freeware to use with media and video.
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May 2, 2008, Meeting Report
The meeting started off with our Computer Q&A where anyone in attendance asked questions and we all helped solve problems and gain information. This month there was extensive discussion about resolving problems with failed hard drive boot and hard drive failures.
After the Q&A, Larry Cohen, Professor Emeritus from Nassau Community College, and ICON Board member, emceed his game of “Don’t You Wish You Knew That?”, where Larry asked the audience what to do to resolve a number of common and uncommon computer problems and annoyances.
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April 4, 2008, Meeting Report
The meeting started off with a presentation by ICON's own Charlie Wagner about April's Trenton Computer Festival. It was followed by a Computer Q&A where anyone in attendance asked questions and we all helped solve problems and gain information.
After the Q&A, Pat Cavanagh, Connetquot Computer Lab Coordinator. presented “Seven of the Best,” covering seven programs that Pat has found to be consistently helpful in using PC computers. Most require no installation and will fit onto a USB pen drive, making them transportable for use on any computer.
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March 7, 2008, Meeting Report
The meeting began with a Computer Q&A. The Q&A was followed by several ICON members, with decades of combined experience combing the Internet, who presented "Web Sites We Like" a number of especially useful and unique Web sites. In addition to helpful computer sites, the range of resources is extensive from little-known video broadcasts to file conversions to home product reviews and more. These online resources are invaluable to use.
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February 1, 2008, Meeting Report
The meeting began with a 1/2 hour Computer Q&A. Later, ICON Secretary Laura Cummings demonstrated all of the cool, new online resources that Google is working to provide. She will discuss Google Desktop, IGoogle widgets, interactive mapping, using Google to see photos of where you drive, Google Documents, and other neat tidbits beta or otherwise. It looks as if Google is on the horizon of shaping our online future including the possibility of having a complete operating system on the Internet.
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January 4, 2008, Meeting Report
ICON member Tom Cott demonstrated using hardware to make computing easier, including special cables to transfer files between PC's and to temporarily connect devices to computers.
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2006 Meeting Reports
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2005 Meeting Reports
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