PRESENTER/
ORGANIZATION |
WEB SITE / TOPIC |
OPCUG members:
Chris Taylor, Lawrence Patterson, Bob Walker, Alan German | Chris Taylor – Wacom Tablet
Lawrence Patterson – Video editing
Bob Walker (with input from Bob Herres) – Bluetooth hearing aids
Alan German – Virtualization (Dropbox and VirtualBox)
Bob Walker - ecommerce |
| Cameron Bell, CEO CANImmunize | Vaccination Tracking App |
| Alan German and Chris Taylor, OPCUG | Effective backup strategies |
Lynda Buske, OPCUG
| Basic digital photo editing using free software |
| Lawrence Patterson, OPCUG | Multi-Factor Authentication |
| Zeina Osman, Co-executive director of CompuCorps | Fighting to reduce the digital divide |
| Mike Stallabrass, owner of Safeguard Security Systems | Home security technologies |
| Lawrence Patterson; IT Manager / ISSO / ITIL & ordinary computer guy | #PasswordPhrasing, the Easy, Silly, Secure & Safe Technique for the People |
| Brock Godfrey, Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, North Bay | Mass
Marketing Fraud and Cybercrime Awareness For Seniors |
| Bob Walker,
OPCUG | Renewable
Energy |
| David Smith
and Colin Smith (The Surface Smiths) | Podcasting |
| Toufic
Sbeiti, Ottawa-based Web Accessibility
professional |
Practical
Tools for Website Accessibility Testing |
| Art
Hunter and Stewart Dibbs |
Ottawa Microgrid |
| Chris
Taylor, OPCUG President |
Windows Tune-Up |
Members'
Favourites
Presenters: Jeff Dubois,
Alan German, Bob Walker |
Jeff
Dubois: Streaming and
texting applications
Alan German:
Video editing
Bob Walker:
Small 2-in-1 Laptop Buyers Guide &
Other Gadgets |
| Lynda
Buske |
How to take
better vacation photos |
| Dr.
Beth Robertson, Department of History,
Carleton University |
Omeka: Realizing the
Educational Potential of an Open Sourced
Web Publishing Platform |
| Mark
Lamarre, CEO Cumulus
Dental |
From
Concept to Commercialization |
| Chris
Taylor, OPCUG President and Microsoft
Windows Insider MVP |
Windows
10 – two years out |
| Dr. Art
Hunter, Energy Freedom Project, http://canadiancor.com/energy-freedom-project/ |
Energy
Freedom & the Internet of Things
(IoT) |
| Malcolm
Townsend, Office of the Privacy
Commissioner of Canada |
Privacy
in a Digital World |
| Terry
Billingsley, CEO AppYourWay |
With
the evolution of Apps, is the web dead? |
| Members'
Favourites |
Speaker:
Chris Taylor Topic:
*ON1 Photo RAW
2017; Speaker:
Alan German Topic:
Integrated Development Environment; Speaker:
Jeff Dubois Topic:
QR
Codes |
| Scott
Murphy, IT Consultant |
Static
Site Generation |
| Walter
Knitl, Principal at Praxiem |
Internet
of Things |
| Paul
Butcher, HostedBizz |
Cloud
Infrastructure as a Service business |
| Doug
Gray, Ottawa Branch, Ontario Genealogical
Society |
An
Introduction to Genealogy - Exploring
Current Techniques, Key Tools, and
Resources |
| Doug
McGregor, Vice-President, The Better
Software Company |
BPro:
Software as a Service (SaaS) |
| Chris
Taylor, OPCUG President and Microsoft MVP |
Windows
10: One Year Out |
| Nina
Digioacchino, Ontario Electronic
Stewardship (OES); Alan German, OPCUG |
OES
eWaste event: Responsible Electronic
Waste Recycling; Securely erasing a hard
drive for disposal |
| Dr. Marc
Lamarre, B.Sc., DDS, EMBA |
Revolutionizing
Dentistry Through Technology: One Byte at
a Time |
| Will
Wegenast (Airborne Media Pros, Skyborne
Systems) & Regie Alam (ASG Mappng
Ltd.) |
A
Discussion on UAVs: Exploring Emergent
Unmanned Vehicle Technologies &
Real-World Applications |
| Members'
Favourites |
Jeff
Dubois presented VMware Player &
Wearable Technologies. Chris Taylor
explored remote desktop options. Jocelyn
Doire discussed computer-aided design
(CAD) options. And Bob Walker examined
the reasons, advantages, disadvantages
for upgrading to an SSD. |
| Nishant Bhasin, Episync
WiFi File Transfer App |
The
Software Trajectory: From Idea, Through
Development, To Market |
| Bob
Johnson, Funkdawg Films |
An
Introduction to Videography |
| David
Fewer, Director CIPPIC |
The
Use & Misuse of Anonymizing
Technologies |
| Art
Hunter [B.Eng.(Mech), Ph.D. (Aero)] |
Windows
10 - An End-User's Evaluation |
| Shelley
Robinson & Andre Dalle (National Capital Freenet) |
Your
ISP & Privacy |
| Colin
Smith and David Smith |
Microsoft
Surface and Windows 10 - Better Together |
| Eric
Jacksch |
Cybersecurity
for Individuals |
| Jeff
Dubois, OPCUG, and Fred Ennis |
VoIP
(Voice over IP) |
| Brian
White, VTSP, VCP-DCV, Senior Systems
Engineer, VMWare Canada |
End
User Computing: Access at the Speed of
Life |
| Jeff
Dubois, Chris Taylor, Alan German (OPCUG
members) |
Members' Favourites by
OPCUG members:
Jeff Dubois: Kodi Enhancements:
Streaming Live TV Content
Chris Taylor: Photo to book
Alan German: web site WYSIWYG
|
| Bob
Walker, OPCUG |
History
of Computers |
| Chris
Taylor, President, OPCUG |
How
to buy a digital camera |
| Bob
Sobol |
EMF's
& YOU - HOW THEY AFFECT YOU .... what
they do not tell you about |
| Brian
Stagg, TechLifestyle |
Technology
Services designed for Seniors |
| Mark
Shainblum |
Web
Comics |
| Chris
Taylor (OPCUG) |
Basic
Digital Photo Editing |
| Mark
Gelsomino |
Maker
Culture and the Rise of the Makerspace |
Jason
Barney, City of Ottawa and
Robert Giggey, City’s Open Data
initiative |
Spatial
data at the City; OpenData at the City |
| David
Andrews |
Colour
Management |
| Don
Isaacs |
Raspberry
Pi |
| Jeff
Dubois |
Media
Streaming 101 |
| Mark
Shainblum |
My
Word! Free, low-cost and specialized
alternatives to that word processor |
| Edward
Lee, QNX (a subsidiary of BlackBerry) |
QNX,
what makes it an embedded software |
| Jocelyn
Doire and Doug Drouillard |
Computer
hardware, choices, maintenance and repair |
| Ben
Houston, founder of Exocortex |
Creation
of 3D content with Clara.io |
| Alan
German, OPCUG |
Building
a web site that's "good enough" |
Hugh
Chatfield, President,
CyberSpace
Industries 2000 Inc. |
Is it
Canada's turn to implement e-invoicing with UBL? |
| Andrew
Plumb |
Introduction
to 3D Printing |
| Doug
Drouillard of KRC (Knights Refurbishing
Computers) INC. |
"We are the
bridge between those who have but do not
need, and those who need but do not
have." |
| Barton
McKinley, CISM, CISSP-ISSAP, CRISC, ITIL |
"Bring
Your Own Disaster. Issues and Options for
Solving the BYOD Dilemma" |
| Pierre
Roman, Microsoft, Canada |
Windows
8 |
| Chris
Ellis, McAfee SE |
Threat
landscape and latest anti-malware trends |
| Chris
Simmons, Ottawa
Public Library |
The
eBook industry as it pertains to
libraries |
| Members'
Favourites Night Presenters:
Chris Taylor
Alan German
Mark Cayer
Jocelyn Doire
|
Some
links are accessible by OPCUG members of The PUB only.
|
| Dr. John
C. Nash, retired Full Professor, Telfer
School of Management, Ottawa University |
"Reproducible
research: tools to write reports that
adapt to changes in programs and
data".
Read his article 'Sensible Report
Updates' (PDF). |
| Ross
Kouhi, Executive Director, National
Capital FreeNet |
Changes
behind the high-speed DSL internet
service of the NCF |
| Bob Walker, OPCUG |
Accessible computing |
| Pierre Roman,
Senior Technical Account manager for the
Federal sector of Microsoft Canada |
Windows 8 |
Michael Geist, Canada
Research Chair, Internet and E-commerce
Law,
University of Ottawa |
The Year the Internet
Fought Back |
| Alan German,
Treasurer, OPCUG |
Linux 101 – An
Introduction to the “Other”
Operating System |
| Chris Taylor,
President, OPCUG |
Protecting your computer |
Bill Wilson, Chief
Privacy Technologist,
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of
Canada |
Privacy and the Internet |
| Evelyn Watts of
Corel Corporation |
Corel PaintShop Pro X4 http://www.corel.com/ |
| Members'
Favourites Night Presenters:
Chris Taylor
Alan German
Harald Freise
|
Chris Taylor:
shoX mini
speaker (OPCUG Review)
Product website: http://www.shoxmini.com/product_info.php?products_id=1
Optoma PK201
Pico Pocket ProjectorAlan German:
Macrium Reflect (OPCUG Review)
Product website: http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx?x-free=Y
Zoner Photo
Studio
Harald
Freise:
WinDirStat,
VirtualDub,
FAVC -
AVI->DVD Video Converter,
Feedly news
reader,
Bluestacks -
Android apps on PC
|
| Roger Lanthier |
Personal Computers &
Audio Recording |
| Sylvain Dumas |
Media Centre |
| Google |
emerging trends around
mobile, social and cloud computing |
| Alan German
(OPCUG) |
So, you want to be a
blogger...? |
| Rick Claus,
Microsoft Canada |
Consumer Technology
Innovation with Cloud Integration |
| Bob Walker, OPCUG |
Web 2.0 Enterprise
Social Networking |
| Chris Taylor and
Andrea Wells, OPCUG |
Social Networking |
| Members'
Favourites Night Presenters:
Chris Taylor
Jeff Dubois
Alan German
Harald Freise
Guy Marks
|
- Chris
Taylor: Secunia
Personal Software Inspector
- Jeff
Dubois: Understanding VOIP, worldline.ca, 295.ca, freephoneline.ca, [PDF]
- Alan
German: Filehippo's
update checker, Desk
Hedron virtual desktops, VisiPics
identical pictures, Sumatra
PDF, Process
Monitor, CombineZP
merge photographs, Geni
family tree, HDClone
disk imaging, QuickShadow
instant backup, Taxman
Income Tax, StudioTax
Income Tax, laptop
alarm, [PDF]
- Harald
Freise: Skype
VoIP, Google
Voice, Radio?
Sure!, Songr
song search engine, Picasa
photo editing, UltraDefrag, [PDF]
And,
how could you not check out: Loving You
Has Made Me Bananas (Guy Marks) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh5oaxyMt0I
Some
links are accessible by OPCUG members of The PUB only.
|
| Chris Ellis of
McAfee |
The State of Network and
System Security |
| Brian Glaser of
Orleans Computers |
What you need to know
when buying a computer |
| Paul Godin |
Linux 101 - What Every
Windows' User Should Know |
| Evelyn Watts of
Corel Corporation |
CorelDRAW® Graphics
Suite X5 http://www.corel.com/ |
| Bert Schopf of Blackbird
Publications, Communication & Design |
http://www.blackbirdpcd.com/ Image Editing
with Photoshop |
| Richard Brisson of
Bletchley Park |
Codebreaking Enigma -
The World War II challenge then and today
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/ |
| David Skoll,
President and CEO of Roaring Penguin
Software |
The State of Spam and
Spam-Fighting
http://www.roaringpenguin.com/ |
| Bob Walker (OPCUG) |
Web 2.0 and Social
Networking |
| Bruce Cowper of
Microsoft Canada |
Microsoft Hack and
Defend |
| Member's Favourite
Night |
Chris Taylor presented
the private side of the OPCUG - The Pub.
Alan German presented several programs he
chose for the OPCUG Free Software Guide
articles
Harald Friese presented some of his
favourite programs. |
| Harley Bloom of
Bloom MicroTech |
http://www.bmtnet.com |
| Chris Taylor,
OPCUG |
Buying the perfect
digital camera |
| Rick Claus, IT Pro
Advisor, Microsoft Canada |
Microsoft Windows 7,
Microsoft XBox 360 |
| Roger Wambolt,
Corel Corporation |
Video Editing |
| Chris Taylor,
OPCUG |
How the Internet Works
... and Doesn't |
| Steven Totolo /
tvcAutomation, Ottawa |
The Future of Home
Automation http://www.tvcAutomation.com |
| Elizabeth
Dussault, Natural Resources Canada |
Computers and Persons
with Disabilities |
| Rick Claus, IT Pro
Advisor, Microsoft Canada |
Microsoft PhotoSynth |
| Members'
Presentations |
http://opcug.ca/file/area43/CT-AcerAspire1.pdf
Chris Taylor’s presentation on the
Acer Aspire One and other netbooks.
http://opcug.ca/file/area43/DC-OO3.pdf
Don Chaisson’s presentation on Open
Office 3
http://opcug.ca/file/area43/AG-SoftwareGuide.pdf
Alan German’s presentation on 8
programs he has picked for the OPCUG Free
Software Guide
http://opcug.ca/file/area43/HF-UsefulThings.pdf
Harald Friese’s presentation on 8
useful programs he has happened across. |
| Harley Bloom of
Bloom MicroTech |
http://www.bmtnet.com |
| Doug Gray,
Co-ordinator of the Computer Genealogy
SIG of Ontario Genealogical Society
(Ottawa Branch) |
computer based tools for
the popular hobby of genealogy |
| Harald Freise,
OPCUG |
Changes in Storage (Hard
Drive) Technology |
Gordon Graham,
Director of Marketing
Wrapped Apps Corporation |
http://www.wrappedapps.com |
| Jason Tryon,
Service Desk Delivery Manager,
Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Co. |
n/a |
| Members'
Presentations |
Acronis True Image http://www.acronis.com/ (User Group
special offer promos.htm#UGR)
Rsync (Linux) http://rsync.samba.org/
cwRsync (Windows) http://www.itefix.no
Partimage http://www.partimage.org
SystemRescueCd http://www.sysrescd.org
Gparted http://gparted.sourceforge.net
GNU Emacs http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ |
John Shore, Retail
Specialist and
Rob Blackburn, Account Manager,
Eurocom Computers, Ottawa |
http://eurocom.com |
| Andrew Clunis,
Ottawa |
One Laptop Per Child
(OLPC): http://laptop.org |
| Maggie James,
Monitor Magazine |
Monitor's Tax
Preparation Update |
| Jean-Pierre Fiset
of Ottawa-Gatineau WiFi |
n/a |
| Harley Bloom of
Bloom MicroTech |
http://www.bmtnet.com |
| Rick Claus, IT Pro
Advisor, Microsoft Canada |
http://www.microsoft.com/canada/windows/products/
windowsvista/default.mspx |
John Selwyn,
Executive Director,
National Capital Freenet (NCF) |
http://www.ncf.ca/ |
| Alan German, OPCUG |
Microsoft Office
Publisher 2007:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher/FX100487821033.aspx
http://office.microsoft.com |
| Dr. Michael Geist,
University of Ottawa |
Canada's Choice:
Copyright, Culture, and the Internet.
OPCUG member Micheline has created a
comprehensive article about his
presentation. Her article also contains
the many URLs Dr. Geist showed us.
Available in PDF (444 KB) or HTML format. |
| Chris Ellis, CISSP
Systems Engineer, McAfee Canada Inc. |
http://www.mcafee.com/ca-en/ |
Rick Claus, IT Pro
Advisor,
Microsoft Canada, Canadian IT Pro Blog |
http://www.microsoft.com/canada/windows/products/
windowsvista/default.mspx |
Evelyn Watts,
Product Specialist
Corel Corporation, Ottawa |
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/ca/en/Content/1150905725000 |
| Alan German, OPCUG |
A Little HTML
Knowledge |
| Harley Bloom of
Bloom MicroTech |
http://www.bmtnet.com |
Don
Chiasson,
Harald Freise,
Alan German,
Chris Taylor
|
Due to popular demand,
these dedicated OPCUG members gave
several mini presentations:
Don Chiasson: Open Source definition, SourceForge;
Harald Freise: CDex (CD ripper), Ewido
(anti-spyware), Foxit (PDF reader), Foobar2000 (media
player);
Alan German: FileZilla (file
transfer), Sunbird
(calendar-schedular);
Chris Taylor: SpamBayes (spam
control), UltraVNC (remote
access) |
| Dr. -Ing. Detang
Zhong, Mobile GPS Online, Ottawa, ON |
http://mobilegpsonline.com |
| Lothar Wegner of
Novell Canada |
http://www.novell.com/linux/ |
Evelyn Watts,
Product Specialist, Corel Corporation |
Corel
WordPerfect X3 and CorelDraw X3 |
| Dany Bouchard and
Benjamin Campin of DBx GEOMATICS |
http://www.dbxgeomatics.com Web Mapping
with Scalable Vector Graphics |
| Chris Taylor,
OPCUG President and System Administrator |
Chris gave us an
informative presentation on configuring a
secure (enough) home wireless network. |
| Elliot Finkleman,
Practical Computing |
"Protect your
computer from virtual crime";
CFRA Forums: http://www.voicemediaonline.com/forum/ |
| Mike Potter, Adobe
Systems Canada |
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/
200512/120505AdobeAcquiresMacromedia.html
Mike discussed the
technical integration of Adobe and
Macromedia. |
| Michael Ondrechak,
O-C Linux Users Group |
http://www.oclug.on.ca/index.php
Michael gave a presentation on Linux Live
Install |
| Rick Claus, IT Pro
Advisor, Microsoft Canada |
http://www.microsoft.com/canada/default.aspx |
| Sylvain Dumas of
Montreal |
Sylvain gave a personal
presentation on setting up a Home Theatre
System |
Gary
MacArthur, President,
GMA Perfect Image Inc.
Stuart Morrison,
VP-Market
Development, OS Security |
http://GMAPerfectImage.com http://www.ossecurity.ca
|
| Eric Jacksch,
Tenebris Technologies Inc., Ottawa |
http://www.tenebris.ca/ |
| Don Chiasson,
former OPCUG member |
n/a |
| Rick Claus, IT Pro
Advisor, Microsoft Canada |
http://www.microsoft.com/canada/default.aspx |
| Harald Freise,
Jocelyn Doire, Chris Taylor, Alan German |
Many thanks to these
dedicated OPCUG members who gave several
mini presentations after a scheduled
speaker canceled at the last minute.
FireFox browser (Harald
Freise); WebCoder and InkScape (Jocelyn
Doire); Total Commander and TextPad (Chris
Taylor); Excel Compare and Universal
Document Converter (Alan German) |
| Gord Hopkins, RA
Photo Club |
http://www.raphotoclub.com/ |
| Bob Gowan, OPCUG
Program Coordinator |
We thank Bob for gaving
a last minute presentation on Etopo Digital Maps when the
scheduled speaker canceled his
presentation. |
| Chris Burchett of
BOLDStreet Inc. |
http://www.boldstreet.com |
| Chris Taylor,
OPCUG President and Sysop |
We thank Chris for
giving a last minute presentation on Microsoft
Digital Image Pro 9 after a
speaker cancelation. |
| Josh McPherson of
the Microsoft Office 2003 Team |
http://www.microsoft.com |
| Michel Daw of
Corel Corporation |
http://www.corel.ca |
| Joe Donnelly and
Alison Canavan of Hemera Technologies |
http://www.hemera.com |
| Pete Roberts,
OPCUG member |
We thank Pete for giving
a last minute presentation on Scanning
after a speaker cancelation. |
| Brian Donovan of
Macromedia Canada |
http://www.macromedia.com/ca/ |
| Steve Totolo of
Total Voice Control |
http://www.totalvoicecontrol.com |
| Toggle Software |
http://www.toggle.com |
| Sylvain Dumas of
McAfee Security |
http://ca.mcafee.com |
| Eurocom
Corporation |
http://www.eurocom.com |
| Bob Walker, OPCUG
member |
We thank Bob for giving
a last minute presentation of Microsoft
Access after a speaker cancelation. This
was, in fact, Bob's second presentation
of the Microsoft Access database. |
| Bill Hanigsberg of
Alpha Software |
http://www.alphasoftware.com |
| Cheryl Witoski of
Injury Prevention Plus |
http://www.injurypreventionplus.com |
| Olympus |
http://www.olympusamerica.com |
| Information
Technology Security, Inc. |
URL not available |
| Texar Corporation |
http://www.texar.com ; http://www.s-peer.com |
| Corel Corporation |
http://www.corel.com |
| Microsoft Canada's
Home Division |
http://www.microsoft.com/canada/insider/default.asp ; http://www.microsoft.ca/holiday |
| Environment Canada |
http://publiservice.gc.ca/training/acttp-ftia/act_e.htm |
| Forefront Graphics
Corp. |
http://www.forefront.com |
| Total Media
Systems Inc. |
http://www.totalmedia.ca/english.html |
| Zero-Knowledge
Systems, Inc. |
http://www.zeroknowledge.com |
| The Focus Centre |
http://www.focuscentre.ca |
| Communications and
Information Technology Ontario (CITO) |
http://www.cito.ca |
| Toronto-Dominion
Bank |
http://www.tdaccess.com |
| Newtech Home
Automation |
www.newtechautomation.com |
| PSION Users Group |
http://www.geosurv.net/pug/pughome.htm |
| David F. Skoll |
http://www.roaringpenguin.com |
| Intel |
http://www.intel.com |
| Avery Dennison
Canada |
http://www.avery.com |
| Lotus Development
Corp. |
http://www.lotus.com |
| Keating
Technologies Inc. |
http://www.keating.com |
| Epson Canada |
http://www.epson.com |
| IBM Canada |
http://www.ibm.com |
| New Deal Inc. |
URL not available |
| Centrepoint
Technologies |
http://www.ctrpoint.com |
| Data Web |
URL not available |
| Griffin Computer
Training and Consulting |
http://www.griffininc.ca |
| Kinetic Imagery |
http://www.kinetic-imagery.com |
| Vorton
Technologies |
http://www.vorton.com |
