Midwest
Computers, LLC.The folks from Midwest Computers, LLC. will talk about what's new on the market, and about the computer business in general, and also about the Mac side of things.
Cascade
Asset Management is the local computer recycler in the Madison Metro
Area. Neil Peters-Michaud of Cascade Asset Management will be
presenting to us on Wednesday, November 13. He will show a video
documentary about the dumping of e-waste in China, and he'll contrast that with
what Cascade Asset Management does to recycle and reuse what could otherwise be
our own computer waste.
The November meeting will be the MPCUG's Annual Meeting! We will elect a full slate of officers.
The
company presenting is GeoAnalytics, a local IT consulting firm with a presence
in Chicago and Florida, that specializes in GIS (Geographic Information Systems)
and Spatial Information Systems. They were in the newspaper recently, August 8,
regarding a Web GIS solution they're developing for the city of Chicago for
automated fleet tracking.
Michael Bryant, Director of Training and Consulting from
Sonic Foundry will be speaking demonstrating some of the latest Sonic Foundry goodies in the realm of editing, creating, and manipulating music and video. Their products are fantastic and the demos are always amazing! Come, look, see!
Gene Barlow from User Group Relations, representing PowerQuest Corporation & AccessData will provide our members a special opportunity this month to learn about a number of hard disk utilities. First, "How To Upgrade & Organize Your Hard Drive", and second, "How To Protect & Secure Your Hard Drive."
The actual presentation will be done by Jim Wargula, but Gene has sent us several copies of his presentation CD to give out and copies of PowerQuest Drive Image and Partition Magic as grand prizes.
Bill Kunkler, Executive VP of Fiore Companies will talk about a new urban technology project opening in Madison in mid-2002 called Network222.
Lance
Hagert, from XIOtech®, will be presenting.
Business success demands focus on
productivity, growth, knowledge management, and fiscal performance. Harnessing
the power of a perpetually expanding information base is the key to winning the
race. XIOtech® meets this challenge by delivering integrated storage solutions
that pave the way to the future, providing the widest range of business benefits
of any network-based storage solution, while lowering the cost and complexity of
enterprise storage.
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Join us to find out how people with disabilities use computers and how accessibility features can help you. Hear demonstrations of talking web browsers and screen readers, and find out how you can get your computer to read to you. Learn about system settings to help when you've lost your glasses and can't read small text, or broke an arm and only have one hand to type with. We'll also talk about the cooperation required between developers, designers, users, and others to make hardware, software, and web site accessible to people with disabilities and people without disabilities.
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The presenter for April 10 is Garth yeazel, our Investment SIG leader. Garth will give us some insites into Online Investments, Brokerages, techniques, philosophies, and maybe even some hot tips!
Garth has been involved with MPCUG for years, having managed our software library for quite a few of them, and most recently was elected MPCUG Treasurer.
...the March MPCUG Meeting
The House of Rose...
The presenter for March 13 is Jane Langdon, who runs the Internet business, House of Rose, from here in Madison. Utilizing E-Commerce on a very attractive web site, she supplies an extensive line perfumes for men and for women.
...the February MPCUG Meeting
GetItBack Software will be demo'd by Clifford T. Haines, President and CEO of CTH Technologies.
A presentation on ZoneAlarm, by one of our own experts, Eric Selje, is now on the agenda instead.