• We will elect PC Club officers for 2013.
• We will have our annual PC Club Giveaway for current members
• Please plan to bring topics you would like to have discussed in 2013

Update to Picasa, New version Picasa 3.9
Speaker: Ralph Bernstein

Google’s Picasa is a free photo and movie management system that can transfer, find, organize, edit, print, and share images. Picasa automatically organizes your pictures into elegant albums by date. The program works with JPEG, GIF, BMP, PSD, and movie files and is compatible with most digital cameras; it detects your USB driver and imports pictures into albums.

Editing tools include cropping (standard or custom), automatic removal of red-eye, and enhancing--switching from color to black and white or sepia tone. Create slide shows set to your MP3s. Integration with Picasa's free Hello instant picture-sharing software lets you share hundreds of photos in seconds and chat in real time. e-mail photos with Picasa's built-in client to take the guesswork out of compressing images, and order photo-lab quality prints, or print at home. You can make backups to CD (or to other hard drives) of your photo collections, organize your photos using labels and stars (just like with Gmail), write captions for all pictures, and organize videos as well as pictures. Face recognition and extraction is also a very nice feature.

New Picasa 3.9 features will be demonstrated:
Picasa 3.9 lets you share directly to Google+ and offers a much richer selection of editing tools. You can download Picasa at http://picasa.google.com. You can use Picasa 3.9 to share directly to contacts in Google, they'll see your photos and videos in their Google+ stream. There is a plethora of new editing effects like Vignette, Duo-tone, Borders and more.

Two different photos can be compared side by side. Or compare the original and edited versions of the same photo simultaneously as you apply edits in Picasa.

Steve Jobs “One Last Thing” – PBS Documentary

We will show a PBS 1 hour video on former Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, titled “One Last Thing”.

From Wikipedia biography of Steve Jobs, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs :
Steven Paul Jobs; February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, designer and inventor. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Through Apple, he was widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution and for his influential career in the computer and consumer electronics fields. Jobs also co-founded and served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, when Disney acquired Pixar. Jobs also founded and was CEO of NEXT corporation which was acquired at Apple Corp.

In the late 1970s, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak engineered one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Apple Lisa and one year later, the Macintosh. During this period he also led efforts that would begin the desktop publishing revolution, notably through the introduction of the LaserWriter and the associated PageMaker software.

Five Industries that Steve Jobs changed,
1. Personal Computing, iMac
2. Animation, Pixar
3. Music, iPod
4. Mobile Smart Phone, iPhone
5. Mobile Computing/Tablets, iPad

Photo credit: Jonathan Mak

Steve Jobs/IBM/Micrososft/P.Hirsch Time Line (PDF)

What is Cloud Computing?
By Peter Hirsch

We will define cloud computing, show different deployment models, show essential characteristics of cloud computing, types of cloud computing and show several examples of cloud computing.

Watch Presentation (PDF)

Quicker PC Start-Up, Speed-Up your PC
by Ralph Bernstein and Club Members
Some of the techniques that will be presented:

• Using Msconfig, remove any unnecessary applications in startup which will improve PC Start-Up.
• Reducing memory usage using CC Cleaner and Comodo System
  Cleaner to clean temp files and cache thereby speeding up your
  computer.
• Checking Memory Utilization
  

Other PC Club members can also provide their techniques to improve startup and execution of the computer.
View Presentation.

New Computer Trends in 2012 and Beyond
Sue Kayton
Happy New Year!!!
By popular demand, Sue Kayton will be back to talk about "New Computer Trends in 2012 and Beyond."

Bring in your desktop or laptops that have problems and also bring in your new electronic toys that you got over the Holidays or recently, such as smart phones, book readers, tablet computers or desk top computers so we can all see the trends and directions of computing.

You can show everyone your new device and tell us what you like (and don't like) about your not-a-computer device.

Sue will also fix problems, as she did last year, with your desktop and laptop computers, as time permits.