Computer Club History

A. Listed By Topic * Buying or Upgrading Your Computer . . 2004 Mike Jensen * Computer Questions & Answers . . 2003 James Stropp, . . 2005 George Casper & Dave Lott * Digital Cameras (& printers & camcorders) . . 2002 Rob Colley . . 2007 Rob Colley * Digital Photography . . 2002 Wayne Palmer . . 2005 Wayne Palmer . . 2006 Wayne Palmer * Ebay . . 2003 Isaac Hoffman . . 2005 Charles Ormsby . . 2008 Adam Leidhecker * File Management . . 2004 Brian Duffy * Identity Theft . . 2007 Dean Ely * Making Holiday Cards & Letters . . 2005 Margie Shaw * Making Labels & Letters w/Mail Merge . . 2006 Art Kline * Running Windows On Your Macintosh . . 2006 Matt Little & Rusty Clementoni * Upgrading To Windows Vista . . 2007 Zack Fox * Virus's & Spyware . . 2004 Greg Sauers . . 2006 Matt Hoppes & Evette Hill

B. Listed By Date - Short Description ------2002------ 12/3/02 - Digital Cameras - Rob Colley (Hoyers Photo Supply) 12/10 & 12/17/02 - Using Your Digital Camera - by Wayne Palmer (Palmer Multimedia) ------2003------ 4/22/03 - Open Forum For Computer Questions - by James Stropp (Compu-Gen) 10/21/03 - Ebay - by Issac Hoffman (Peggy Hoffman, SeniorNet) ------2004------ 6/16/04 - File Management - by Brian Duffy (SeniorNet) 9/01/04 - Computer Edibles (virus's, spyware, etc) - by Greg Sauers (Chilitech) 10/27/04 - Buying or Upgrading Your Computer - by Mike Jensen (Compu-Gen) ------2005------ 6/8/05 - Ebay Buying & Selling Basics - by Charles Ormsbee (JV Brown) 8/3/05 - Computer Q&A - by George Casper & Dave Lott (JV Brown) 10/13/05 - Digital Photography - by Wayne Palmer (Palmer Multimedia) 11/16/05 - Making Holiday Cards and Letters on Your Computer - by Margie Shaw (SeniorNet) ------2006------ 3/22/06 - Making mailing labels, return address labels, envelopes, and letters using the mail merge - by Art Kline (SeniorNet) 7/13/06 - Digital Photography, saving and sharing photos digitally - by Wayne Palmer (Palmer Multimedia) 9/12/06 - Running Windows On The Intel Macintosh - by Matt Little & Rusty Clementoni (Apple Computer) 12/6/06 - Connections anf viruses and spyware - by Matt Hoppes and Evette Hill (ChiliTech) ------2007------ 3/21/07 - Upgrading To Windows Vista - by Zack Fox (Susquehanna Computer Innovations) 5/23/07 - Identity Theft by Dean Ely (AARP) 9/26/07 - Digital Cameras, Digital Camcorders, and Photoprinters - Rob Colley (Hoyers Photo Supply) ------2008------ 3/12/08 - Ebay Buying & Selling Basics - by Adam Leidhecker (Paw Luxury, formerly Your Auction Company)

C. Listed By Date - Long Description 2002 Computer Club Meetings on 10/7/02 1:41 PM, SeniorNet Coordinator wrote: In the November/December session SeniorNet will be introducing the first of our Mini-Workshops. Our presentation starting December 3, 2002 will be Digital Cameras. The mini-workshop will be presented over a 3 week period. On December 3, Rob Colley of Hoyers Photo Supply will host the SeniorNet members at 18 W. Fourth Street @ 1:30 PM. December 10th and 17th the presentation will be given by Wayne Palmer of Palmer Multimedia Imaging at the Tech Center from 6 to 8 PM. This is an exciting upcoming event which will teach you to use your digital camera and to download the wonderful pictures your children and grandchildren send.  The fee for this workshop is $20.00. Please register early as there is limited space. 2003 Computer Club Meetings on 4/7/03 1:05 PM, SeniorNet Coordinator wrote: The SeniorNet Computer Club meeting has been rescheduled for Tuesday April 22, 2003 at 1:30 PM at James V. Brown Tech Branch, 123 East Fourth Street. The moderator will be James Stropp of Compu-Gen, who's presentation will be an open forum. Bring all your unanswered computer questions! on 10/15/03 8:54 AM, SeniorNet Coordinator wrote: The computer club will meet Tuesday October 21, 2003 at 6:00 PM. Peggy Hoffman and her son will facilitate the meeting. The lateness of the hour is some of us are not retired yet and we are trying to keep up with the day job. :-) The topic will be Ebay. I am told the apple seed (Peggy's son) deals with Ebay on a weekly basis. Come join the SeniorNet activities.!!!! Bring a Friend. 2004 Computer Club Meetings Thursday June 16, 2004, 7 pm-9 pm -- Computer Club -- File Management by Brian Duffy [details] Wednesday September 1, 2004, 6:30 pm- 8:30 pm -- Computer Club -- Computer Edibles. Presented in the SeniorNet Learning Center, 4th floor of the Library. Join Chilitech's Greg Sauers for a discussion of "Computer Edibles" -- spam, cookies, pop-ups, worms, virus's, ad-ware, spy-ware, phishing, and more -- how they work, and how to handle them. Wednesday October 27, 2004 -- 6:30 pm- 8:30 pm -- Computer Club -- Buying or Upgrading Your Computer . . . <snip> . . . Compu-Gen's Mike Jensen will present a discussion of "Buying or Upgrading Your Computer--What To Look For".This will be a general discussion of new computers and accessories, including some of the new gadgetry ,such as thumb drives, and memory card readers. 2005 Computer Club Meetings Wed June 8, 5:30 - 7:30 pm, Computer Club -- Ebay Buying & Selling by Charles Ormsbee [details] Wed August 3, 5:30 - 7:30 pm, Computer Club -- Computer Q&A by George Casper & Dave Lott [details] Thur Oct 13, 5:30 - 7:30 pm, Computer Club -- . . . Digital Photography by Wayne Palmer [details] Wed Nov 16, 5:30 - 7:30 pm, Computer Club -- . . . Making Holiday Cards and Letters on Your Computer, . . . including using digital photos by Margie Shaw 2006 Computer Club Meetings Wed Mar 22, 5:30 - 7:30 pm, Computer Club -- . . . Making mailing labels, return address labels, envelopes . . . and letters using the mail merge program by Art Kline   Thur July 13, 5:30 to 7:30 pm - Computer Club. Wayne Palmer of Palmer Multimedia Imaging will speak on Digital Photography, saving and sharing photos digitally, and using Adobe Photoshop Elements. Tue Sept 12, 5:30 to 7:30 pm - Computer Club. Matt Little & Rusty Clementoni from Apple Computer will demonstrate and discuss the new "Intel Mac", that can run both Windows and Macintosh operating systems, using Apple's new Boot Camp & other methods.  This means that you can start enjoying the legendary features of the Macintosh computers, that your kids have been telling you about for years, and also run the same Windows applications that the SeniorNet computers and all your friends and neighbors are using.   Wed Dec 6, 5:30 to 7:30 pm - Computer Club. Matt Hoppes and Evette Hill from ChiliTech will speak on several topics as follows: * Connections - Type of available internet connections and relative costs: dial up, telephone DSL, cable company broadband, Chilitech wireless, Chilitech DSL. * Security - protecting against viruses and spyware. * VOIP - Digital Voice Voice Over Internet Protocol (Vonage & similar) * Outlook Express - How to share address books between multiple accounts. (For multiple users on the same computer, you can share one address book, rather than duplicating all your addresses for the 2nd user.) * Repairs - A brief mention about what computer repairs Chilitech can do. (We don't think most of the SeniorNet people are even aware of this). 2007 Computer Club Meetings Wed Mar 21, 5:30 - 7:30 pm, Computer Club -- Upgrading To The New Windows Vista Operating System - presented by Zack Fox of Susquehanna Computer Innovations . Is your computer upgradeable, what do you need to upgrade, which version of Vista do you want, demonstration of Vista basics, and answers to any other questions you may have. Wed May 23, 5:30 - 7:30 pm, Computer Club -- Identity Theft by Dean Ely You've possibly already "dug through" the mountains of statistics and what-to-do's in all the articles in the papers and magazines about Identity Theft. Now come and let Dean Ely "pull it all together" for you. This presentation is geared to both people who don't use a computer as well as people who do. Dean will discuss all aspects of ID Theft, including what it's all about, how big a problem is I D Theft, how does Identity Theft occur, Phishing & Pharming, how can you tell if you are a victim of I D Theft, getting your credit report, tips for staying safe on-line, passwords and pin numbers, banking, paying bills or making on-line purchases, what to do if your personal information is lost or stolen, what actions you need to take quickly, and other immediate steps for identity theft victims. [ complete outline ] Dean is one of 24 members of the Pennsylvania AARP Consumer Issues Task Force, that monitors ID Theft, home improvement scams, investment scams, payday lending, precious metals/coin investments, foreign money offers, power cut-off by utilities, and energy assistance programs . . . to name a few. He Dean is a retired Field Investigator after thirty-six years with the Pennsylvania Bureau of Standard Weights and Measures, and was involved in hundreds of investigations on issues of fraud relating to weights and measures laws, many of those ending up in courts of law. He has been "on-line" since the mid eighties -- utilizing the computer for communication, banking and as source of information. Wed Sept 26, 5:30 - 7:30 pm, Computer Club -- Digital Cameras, Digital Camcorders, and Photoprinters - presented by Rob Colley of Hoyers Photo Supply . Confused about the 1,364 different possible selections of digital cameras ... or the possible 572 selections of digital camcorders, or the 253 possible selections of photo printers ??? Come, relax, and let Rob Colley of Hoyers Photo Supply do all the work of making sense of all these choices for you. Rob will bring along several examples of cameras, camcorders, & printers, and recommend what features to look for, and give you an idea of how much to expect to budget for it. Hoyer's Photo Supply Company was founded in 1935 by C. Frank Hoyer, the Great Uncle of President Robert W. Colley. Bob's father G. Walter Colley took over as manager of the business in 1938. Today Bob and his son, Robert W. Colley, Jr. continue to run the family business after 71 years. 2008 Computer Club Meetings Wed Mar 12, 5:30 - 7:30 pm, Computer Club: Ebay Buying & Selling Basics No reservation required, open to all interested persons. Presented by Adam Leidhecker, previously of Your Auction Company Ebay service in Montoursville (now Paw Luxury "Luxury Living For The Everyday Dog"). [ more details ] . . [ photos from presentation ] . . [ ebay links by presenter ] Location: Unless otherwise note, all events are in the SeniorNet Learning Center on the fourth floor of the James V. Brown Library in Williamsport