DATE | PRESENTER / ORGANIZATION |
TOPIC |
|
2019 |
Dec 11, 2019 |
Kyle Christoper
| The Ottawa Public Library in the digital age |
Nov 13, 2019 | Lawrence Patterson, OPCUG
| Scam Avoidance and Trust
|
Oct 9, 2019 | Members' Favourites | 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 |
Sep 11 2019 | Chris Taylor, OPCUG President | My experiences upgrading to a solid state drive (SSD) |
Jun 12, 2019 | Cameron Bell, CEO CANImmunize | 18th BBQ / Pizza Night & eWaste event + Vaccination Tracking App by Cameron Bell |
May 8, 2019 | Alan German and Chris Taylor, OPCUG | Effective backup strategies |
Apr10, 2019 | Lynda Buske, OPCUG | Basic digital photo editing using free software
|
Mar 13, 2019 | Lawrence Patterson, OPCUG | Multi-Factor Authentication |
Feb 13, 2019 | Members' Favourites | Lawrence Patterson (video editing), Bob Walker (blue tooth hearing aids, online and cross-border shopping) Alan German (free Software), Chris Taylor (Wacom tablet)
|
Jan 9, 2019 | Zeina Osman, Co-executive director of CompuCorps | Fighting to reduce the digital divide |
2018 |
Dec 12, 2018 | Mike Stallabrass, owner of Safeguard Security Systems | Home security technologies |
Nov 14, 2018 | Lawrence Patterson; IT Manager / ISSO / ITIL & ordinary computer guy | #PasswordPhrasing, the Easy, Silly, Secure & Safe Technique for the People |
Oct 10, 2018 | Brock Godfrey, Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, North Bay | Mass
Marketing Fraud and Cybercrime Awareness For Seniors |
Sep 12, 2018 | Bob Walker,
OPCUG | Renewable
Energy |
Jun 13, 2018 | David Smith
and Colin Smith (The Surface Smiths) | 17th BBQ / Pizza Night & eWaste event + Podcasting |
May 9, 2018 | Toufic
Sbeiti, Ottawa-based Web Accessibility
professional |
Practical
Tools for Website Accessibility Testing Toufic Sbeiti is the manager of the web team at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada and co-organizer of #a11yyow Accessibility Camp Ottawa |
Apr 11, 2018 | Art
Hunter PhD and PC owner since 1984 and Stewart Dibbs, PiXCL Automation Technologies |
Ottawa Microgrid by Art Hunter Energy Freedom Project and Stewart Dibbs PiXCL Automation Technologies |
Mar 14, 2018 | Chris
Taylor, OPCUG President and Microsoft Windows Insider MVP |
Windows Performance Tune-Up |
Feb 14, 2018 | Members'
Favourites
|
Jeff
Dubois: Streaming and
texting applications
Alan German:
Video editing
Bob Walker:
Small 2-in-1 Laptop Buyers Guide &
Other Gadgets |
Jan 10, 2018 | Lynda
Buske, OPCUG |
How to take
better vacation photos |
2017 |
Dec 13, 2017 | Bob Walker, OPCUG | Where Are Self-Flying Planes and Self-Driving Cars Taking Us? |
Nov 8, 2017 | Dr.
Beth Robertson, Department of History,
Carleton University |
Omeka: Realizing the
Educational Potential of an Open Sourced
Web Publishing Platform |
Oct 11, 2017 | Mark
Lamarre, CEO Cumulus
Dental |
From
Concept to Commercialization |
Sep 13, 2017 | Chris
Taylor, OPCUG President and Microsoft
Windows Insider MVP |
Windows
10 – two years out |
Jun 11, 2017 | Dr. Art
Hunter, Energy Freedom Project |
16th BBQ / Pizza Night & eWaste event + OPCUG 35th anniversary cake + Energy Freedom & The Internet of Things by Dr. Art Hunter, Energy Freedom Project. |
May 10, 2017 | Malcolm
Townsend, Office of the Privacy
Commissioner of Canada |
Privacy
in a Digital World |
Apr 12, 2017 | Terry
Billingsley, CEO AppYourWay |
With
the evolution of Apps, is the web dead? |
Mar 9, 2017 | Members'
Favourites |
Chris Taylor:
*ON1 Photo RAW
2017;
Alan German: Android Studio
Jeff Dubois:
QR
Codes |
Feb 8, 2017 | Scott
Murphy, IT Consultant |
Static
Site Generation |
Jan 11, 2017 | Walter
Knitl, Principal at Praxiem |
Internet
of Things (IoT) |
2016 |
Dec 14, 2016 | Paul
Butcher, HostedBizz |
Cloud
Infrastructure as a Service business |
Nov 9, 2016 | Doug
Gray, Ottawa Branch, Ontario Genealogical
Society |
An
Introduction to Genealogy - Exploring
Current Techniques, Key Tools, and
Resources |
Oct 12, 2016 | Doug
McGregor, Vice-President, The Better
Software Company |
BPro:
Software as a Service (SaaS) |
Sep 14, 2016 | Chris
Taylor, OPCUG President and Microsoft MVP |
Windows
10: One Year Out |
June 8, 2016 | Nina
Digioacchino, Ontario Electronic
Stewardship (OES); Alan German, OPCUG |
15th BBQ / Pizza Night & eWaste and: Responsible Electronic Waste Recycling by Nina Digioacchino Securely erasing a hard drive for disposal by Alan German |
May 11, 2016 | Dr. Marc
Lamarre, B.Sc., DDS, EMBA |
Revolutionizing
Dentistry Through Technology: One Byte at
a Time |
Apr 13, 2016 | Will
Wegenast (Airborne Media Pros, Skyborne
Systems) & Regie Alam (ASG Mappng
Ltd.) |
A
Discussion on UAVs: Exploring Emergent
Unmanned Vehicle Technologies &
Real-World Applications |
Mar 9, 2016 | Members'
Favourites |
Jeff
Dubois presented VMware Player &
Wearable Technologies. Chris Taylor
explored remote desktop options. Jocelyn
Doire discussed computer-aided design
(CAD) options. Bob Walker examined
the reasons, advantages, disadvantages
for upgrading to a Solid State Drives (SSD). |
Feb 10, 2016 | Nishant Bhasin, Episync
WiFi File Transfer App |
The
Software Trajectory: From Idea, Through
Development, To Market |
Jan 13, 2016 | Bob
Johnson, Funkdawg Films |
An
Introduction to Videography |
2015 |
Dec 9, 2015 | David
Fewer, Director CIPPIC |
The
Use & Misuse of Anonymizing
Technologies |
Nov 11, 2015 | Art
Hunter [B.Eng.(Mech), Ph.D. (Aero)] |
Windows
10 - An End-User's Evaluation |
Oct 14, 2015 | Shelley
Robinson & Andre Dalle (National Capital Freenet) |
Your
ISP & Privacy |
Sep 9, 2015 | Colin
Smith and David Smith |
Microsoft
Surface and Windows 10 - Better Together |
Jun 10, 2015 | Eric
Jacksch |
14th BBQ / Pizza Night & eWaste + Cybersecurity
for Individuals |
May 13, 2015 | Jeff
Dubois (OPCUG) and Fred Ennis |
VoIP
(Voice over IP) |
Apr 8, 2015 | Brian
White, VTSP, VCP-DCV, Senior Systems
Engineer, VMWare Canada |
Virtualization 101 End
User Computing: Access at the Speed of
Life |
Mar 11, 2015 | Members' Favourites |
Jeff Dubois: Kodi Enhancements:
Streaming Live TV Content
Chris Taylor: Photo to book
Alan German: web site WYSIWYG
|
Feb 11, 2015 | Bob
Walker, OPCUG |
History
of Computers |
Jan 14, 2015 | Chris
Taylor, President, OPCUG |
How
to buy a digital camera |
2014 |
Dec 10, 2014 | Bob
Sobol |
EMF's & You - How they affect you... what they do not tell you about |
Nov 12, 2014 | Brian
Stagg, TechLifestyle |
Technology
Services designed for Seniors |
Oct 8, 2014 | Mark
Shainblum, creator of Northguard |
Webcomics Unlimited |
Sep 10, 2014 | Chris
Taylor (OPCUG) and Antonio Misaka |
Basic
Digital Photo Editing by Chris Taylor Video Editing by Antnio Misaka |
Jun 11, 2014 | Mark Gelsomino, Ottawa Public Library, Nepean Centrepointe Branch, Imagine Space | 13th BBQ / Pizza Night & eWaste event + Maker Culture and the Rise of the Makerspace |
May 14, 2014 | Jason
Barney, City of Ottawa and Robert Giggey, Ottawa's Open Data
initiative and Apps4Ottawa program. |
"Spatial data at the City" by Jason Barney and "OpenData at the City" by Robert Giggey |
Apr 9, 2014 | Bob Walker, OPCUG | Business Intelligence, Big Data and Your Privacy |
Mar 12, 2014 | Don
Isaacs and Vasiliy Lazutin of Buy a Pi |
Raspberry
Pi's - Uses, software options and OS's that are available by Don Isaacs
+ Raspberry Pi's options and accessories by Vasiliy Lazutin |
Feb 12, 2014 | Jeff Dubois, OPCUG |
Media
Streaming 101 |
Jan 8, 2014 | Mark
Shainblum, creator of Northguard, followed by:
Members' Favourites |
My
Word! Free, low-cost and specialized
alternatives to that word processor by Mark Shainblum
|
2013 |
Dec 11, 2013 | Edward
Lee, QNX (a subsidiary of BlackBerry) |
QNX,
what makes it an embedded software + Silent Auction to the benefit of the Ottawa Food Bank |
Nov 13, 2013 | Members' Favourites | Computer hardware, choices, maintenance and repair- Alan German: Installation of Solid State hard drive.
- Doug Drouillard: 1) Over the air HDTV. 2) Laptops - what's inside, and why one needs to be careful in buying one.
- Peter Roberts: Travelling with a Tablet:
How to stay "connected" whilst on an overseas vacation without the
weight of a laptop and worries about keeping it secure. Do you really
need to have all of your personal data with you whilst on vacation?
Tablet specific accessories to make things more user friendly.
- Jocelyn Doire: Connectors on the Motherboard
|
Oct 9, 2013 | Ben
Houston, founder of Exocortex |
Creation
of 3D content with Clara.io |
Sep 4, 2013 | Alan
German, OPCUG |
Building
a web site that's "good enough" |
Jun 13, 2013 | Hugh
Chatfield, President,
CyberSpace
Industries 2000 Inc. |
12th BBQ / Pizza Night & eWaste + Is it
Canada's turn to implement e-invoicing with UBL? |
May 8, 2013 | Bert Schopf, Blackbird PCD | Digital Imaging on the Run |
Apr 18, 2013 | Andrew Plumb |
Introduction
to 3D Printing |
Mar 13, 2013 | 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." |
Feb 13, 2013 | Barton
McKinley, CISM, CISSP-ISSAP, CRISC, ITIL |
Bring Your Own Disaster? Issues and Options for Solving the BYOD Dilemma |
Jan 9, 2013 | Pierre
Roman, Microsoft Canada |
With Windows 8, we reimagined Windows to focus on users' lives |
2012 |
Dec 12, 2012 | Chris
Ellis, McAfee SE |
Threat
landscape and latest anti-malware trends + Silent Auction to the benefit of the Ottawa Food Bank |
Nov 14, 2012 | Chris
Simmons, Ottawa
Public Library |
The eBook industry and the development of technologies as it pertains to libraries |
Oct 10, 2012 | Members'
Favourites
|
|
Sep 12. 2012 | Dr. John
C. Nash, retired Full Professor, Telfer
School of Management, Ottawa University |
"Reproducible
research (ZIP file download): tools to write reports that
adapt to changes in programs and
data".
Read his article 'Sensible Report
Updates' (PDF). |
Jun 13, 2012 | Ross
Kouhi, Executive Director, National Capital FreeNet |
11th BBQ / Pizza Night + Changes
behind the high-speed DSL internet
service of the NCF |
May 9, 2012 | Bob Walker, OPCUG |
Accessible computing |
Apr 11, 2012 | Pierre Roman,
Senior Technical Account manager for the
Federal sector of Microsoft Canada |
Windows 8 |
Mar 14, 2012 | Dr. Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa |
The Year the Internet
Fought Back |
Feb 1, 2012 | Alan German,
Treasurer, OPCUG |
Linux 101 – An
Introduction to the “Other”
Operating System |
Jan 11, 2012 | Chris Taylor,
President, OPCUG |
Protecting your computer |
2011 |
Dec 14, 2011 | Bill Wilson, Chief Privacy Technologist, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada |
Privacy and the Internet |
Nov 9, 2011 | Evelyn Watts, Product Marketing Manager, Corel Corporation |
Corel PaintShop Pro X4 |
Oct 12, 2011 | Members'
Favourites
|
Chris Taylor:
shoX mini
speaker (OPCUG Review) Alan 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
|
Sep 14, 2011 | Roger Lanthier |
Personal Computers &
Audio Recording |
Jun 8, 2011 | Sylvain Dumas. McAfee, Montréal |
10th BBQ / Pizza Night + Home Theatre |
May 11, 2011 | Google |
Emerging trends around
mobile, social, and cloud computing |
Apr 13, 2011 | Alan German
(OPCUG) |
So, you want to be a
blogger...? |
Mar 9, 2011 | Rick Claus, Microsoft Canada |
Consumer Technology
Innovation with Cloud Integration |
Feb 9, 2011 | Bob Walker, OPCUG |
Web 2.0 Enterprise
Social Media Tools |
Jan 12, 2011 | Chris Taylor and
Andrea Wells, OPCUG |
Clicking, Flicking and Tweeting: Social Networking Controversy |
2010 |
Dec 8, 2010 | Members'
Favourites
|
Chris
Taylor: Secunia
Personal Software Inspector
Jeff
Dubois: Understanding VOIP, worldline.ca, 295.ca, freephoneline.ca 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 And,
how could you not check out: Loving You
Has Made Me Bananas (Guy Marks) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh5oaxyMt0I
|
Nov 9, 2010 | Chris Ellis of McAfee Inc. |
The State of Network and
System Security |
Oct 13, 2010 | Brian Glaser of Orleans Computers |
What you need to know
when buying a computer |
Sep 8, 2010 | Paul Godin |
Linux 101 - What Every
Windows' User Should Know |
Jun 9, 2010 | Evelyn Watts of Corel Corporation |
9th BBQ / Pizza Night + CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5 |
May 12, 2010 | Bert Schopf of Blackbird
Publications, Communication & Design |
Image Editing
with Photoshop |
Apr 14, 2010 | Richard Brisson of Bletchley Park |
Codebreaking Enigma -
The World War II challenge then and today |
Mar 10, 2010 | David Skoll,
President and CEO of Roaring Penguin Sofware |
The State of Spam and
Spam-Fighting |
Feb 10, 2010 | Bruce Cowper of Microsoft Canada |
Microsoft Hack and
Defend |
Jan 13, 2010 | Members' Favourites |
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. |
2009 |
Dec 9, 2009 | Harley Bloom of Bloom MicroTech |
11th Christmas Goodies |
Nov 11, 2009 | Chris Taylor,
OPCUG |
Buying the perfect
digital camera |
Oct 14, 2009 | Rick Claus, IT Pro
Advisor, Microsoft Canada | Microsoft XBox 360 |
Sep 9, 2009 | Rick Claus, IT Pro
Advisor, Microsoft Canada |
Microsoft Windows 7,
Microsoft XBox 360 |
Jun 10, 2009 | Roger Wambolt, Corel Corporation |
8th BBQ / Pizza Night + Video Editing |
May 13, 2009 | Chris Taylor,
OPCUG |
How the Internet Works
... and Doesn't |
Apr 8, 2009 | Steven Totolo / tvcAutomation, Ottawa |
The Future of Home
Automation: What's in-store for 2009 |
Mar 11, 2009 | Elizabeth
Dussault, Natural Resources Canada |
Computers and Persons
with Disabilities |
Feb 11, 2009 | Rick Claus, IT Pro
Advisor, Microsoft Canada |
Microsoft PhotoSynth |
Jan 14, 2009 | Members' Favourites |
http://opcug.ca//presentations/CT-AcerAspire1.pdf
Chris Taylor’s presentation on the
Acer Aspire One and other netbooks.
http://opcug.ca//presentations/DC-OO3.pdf
Don Chaisson’s presentation on Open
Office 3
http://opcug.ca//presentations/AG-SoftwareGuide.pdf
Alan German’s presentation on 8
programs he has picked for the OPCUG Free
Software Guide
http://opcug.ca//presentations/HF-UsefulThings.pdf
Harald Friese’s presentation on 8
useful programs he has happened across. |
2008 |
Dec 10, 2008 | Harley Bloom, BMT MicroTech |
10th Christmas Wish List |
Nov 12, 2008 | Doug Gray,
Co-ordinator of the Computer Genealogy
SIG of Ontario Genealogical Society
(Ottawa Branch) |
Computer based tools for
the popular hobby of genealogy |
Oct 8, 2008 | Harald Freise,
OPCUG |
Changes in Storage (Hard
Drive) Technology |
Sep 3, 2008 | Gordon Graham,
Director of Marketing
Wrapped Apps Corporation |
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and the "ElastX" initiative |
Jun 11, 2008 | Jason Tryon,
Service Desk Delivery Manager,
Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Co. |
7th BBQ / Pizza Night + HP "Help Desk" |
May 14, 2008 | Members' Favourites |
Acronis True Image http://www.acronis.com/ (User Group Relations
special offer promos.htm#UGR)
Rsync (Linux) http://rsync.samba.org/
cwRsync (Windows) http://www.itefix.no
Partimage http://www.partimage.org
SystemRescueCd (URL discontinued)
Gparted http://gparted.sourceforge.net
GNU Emacs http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/ |
Apr 9, 2008 | John Shore, Retail
Specialist and
Rob Blackburn, Account Manager,
Eurocom Computers, Ottawa |
Come out and see tomorrow's technology today, http://eurocom.com |
Mar 12, 2008 | Andrew Clunis,
Ottawa |
One Laptop Per Child
(OLPC): http://laptop.org |
Feb 13, 2008 | Maggie James,
Monitor Magazine |
Monitor's Tax
Preparation Update |
Jan 9, 2008 | Jean-Pierre Fiset
of Ottawa-Gatineau WiFi |
ogWifi brings free Wireless to YOUR community |
2007 |
Dec 12, 2007 | Harley Bloom & associates, Bloom MicroTech |
9th Annual Christmas Wish List |
Nov 14, 2007 | Rick Claus, IT Pro
Advisor, Microsoft Canada |
Windows Home Server
|
Oct 10, 2007 | John Selwyn,
Executive Director,
National Capital Freenet (NCF) |
Overview of NCF, http://www.ncf.ca/ |
Sep 19, 2007 | Alan German, OPCUG |
Microsoft Office
Publisher 2007:
http://office.microsoft.com |
Jun 13, 2007 | Paul Leroux, Public Relations Manager and Technology Analyst, QNX Software Systems | 6th BBQ & Newsletter contest + QNX - the company, its technology and applications you use every day |
May 9, 2007 | Dr. Michael Geist,
University of Ottawa |
Canada's Choice:
Copyright, Culture, and the Internet. (PowerPoint file download)
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. |
Apr 11, 2007 | Chris Ellis, CISSP
Systems Engineer, McAfee Canada Inc. |
An Update on Network Threats & Risks and the
Dangers of the Internet Today |
Mar 14, 2007 | Rick Claus, IT Pro
Advisor, Microsoft Canada, Canadian IT Pro Blog |
Windows Vista in your home |
Feb 21, 2007 | Evelyn Watts,
Product Specialist Corel Corporation, Ottawa |
Paint Shop Pro Photo XI |
Jan 10, 2007 | Alan German, OPCUG |
A Little HTML
Knowledge (ZIP file download) |
2006 |
Dec 13, 2006 | Harley Bloom & associates, Bloom MicroTech |
8th Annual Christmas Wish List |
Nov 8, 2006 | Members' Favourites:
|
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) |
Oct 11, 2006 | Dr. -Ing. Detang
Zhong, Mobile Mobile GPS Online, Ottawa, ON |
GPS applications for business and consumer use: navigation, tracking and outdoor recreational activities |
Sep 20, 2006 | Lothar Wegner of
Novell Canada |
n/a
|
Jun 14, 2006 | Rick Claus, IT Pro Advisor, Microsoft Canada | 5th BBQ & Newsletter contest + Collaboration and information sharing with Microsoft Office 2007 |
Mar 10, 2006 | Evelyn Watts, Product Specialist, Corel Corporation |
Corel
WordPerfect X3 and CorelDraw X3 |
Apr 12, 2006 | Dany Bouchard and
Benjamin Campin of DBx GEOMATICS |
Web Mapping
with Scalable Vector Graphics |
Mar 8, 2006 | Chris Taylor,
OPCUG President and System Administrator |
Chris gave us an
informative presentation on configuring a
secure (enough) home wireless network. |
Feb 22, 2006 | Elliot Finkleman,
Practical Computing |
"Protect your
computer from virtual crime" |
Jan 11, 2006 | Mike Potter, Adobe Systems Canada |
Mike discussed the
technical integration of Adobe and
Macromedia.product lines |
2005 |
Dec 14, 2005 | Harley Bloom & associates, Bloom MicroTech | 7th Annual Christmas Wish List |
Nov 9, 2005 | Michael Ondrechak,
O-C Linux Users Group (OCLUG) |
Michael gave a presentation on Linux Live
Install |
Oct 12, 2005 | Rick Claus, IT Pro
Advisor, Microsoft Canada |
Windows Vista
|
Sep 21, 2005 | Sylvain Dumas of
Montreal |
Sylvain gave a personal
presentation on setting up a Home Theatre
System |
Jun 15, 2005 | Gary
MacArthur, President, GMA Perfect Image Inc.
Stuart Morrison,
VP-Market Development, OS Security |
4th BBQ
|
May 11, 2005 | Sylvain Dumas of McAfee, Montréal | Computer security |
Apr 13, 2005 | Eric Jacksch,
Tenebris Technologies Inc., Ottawa |
http://www.tenebris.ca/ |
Mar 09, 2005 | Don Chiasson (Don C++),
former OPCUG member |
Emulators |
Feb 16, 2005 | Michel Daw, Corel Corporation | Corel's new Paint Shop family (formerly Jasc) |
Jan 12, 2005 | Rick Claus, IT Pro
Advisor, Microsoft Canada |
New Technologies from Microsoft and what they can do for you, http://www.microsoft.com/canada/default.aspx |
2004 |
Dec 08, 2004 | Harley Bloom & associates, Bloom MicroTech | 6th Annual Christmas Wish List |
Nov 10, 2004 | Members' Favourites |
Many thanks to these
dedicated OPCUG members who gave several
mini presentations after a scheduled
speaker canceled at the last minute.
Harold Freise: FireFox browser Jocelyn Doire: WebCoder and InkScape Chris Taylor: Total Commander and TextPad Alan German: Excel Compare and Universal
Document Converter |
Oct 13, 2004 | Gord Hopkins, RA
Photo Club |
Selections and Masks |
Sep 08, 2004 | 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. |
Jun 09, 2004 | Michel Daw, Corel | 3rd BBQ + Corel WPOffice 12 |
May 12, 2004 | Chris Burchett of
BOLDStreet Inc. |
Public Access WiFi |
Apr 14, 2004 | 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. |
Mar 10, 2004 | Josh McPherson of
the Microsoft Office 2003 Team |
Office 2003 on a Tablet PC, http://www.microsoft.com |
Feb 12, 2004 | Michel Daw of
Corel Corporation |
CorelDRAW 12, http://www.corel.ca |
Jan 14, 2004 | Joe Donnelly and
Alison Canavan of Hemera Technologies |
Photo-Objects |
2003 |
Dec 10, 2003 | Harley Bloom, Bloom MicroTech | What's New for the Holidays |
Nov 12, 2003 | Pete Roberts,
OPCUG member |
We thank Pete for giving
a last minute presentation on Scanning
after a speaker cancelation. |
Oct 08, 2003 | Brian Donovan of
Macromedia Canada |
Studio MX, Dreamweaver |
Sep 10, 2003 | Steve Totolo, Total Voice Control |
Home Automation, http://www.totalvoicecontrol.com |
Jun 11, 2003 | Joel Plouffe, Microsoft Canada | 2nd BBQ + Office 2003 with Instant Messaging and Windows Sharepoint Services |
May 14, 2003 | Greg Hayes, Raxco Software | Improving File System Performance |
Apr 09, 2003 | Toggle Software |
20th anniversary: artefacts display, panel discussion and trivia contest + Toggle presentation, |
Mar 12, 2003 | Sylvain Dumas, McAfee Security |
Present and future threats, VirusScan and Desktop Firewall, http://ca.mcafee.com |
Feb 10, 2003 | Eurocom computers | New releases including a new tablet PC, http://www.eurocom.com |
Jan 08, 2003 | Bob Walker, OPCUG | Relational databases and how they work |
2002 |
Dec 11, 2002 | Harley Bloom, Bloom Microtech | Finalize your holiday gift list |
Nov 13, 2002 | Bill Hanigsberg, Dawson College | Database Alpha Five, Alpha Software, http://www.alphasoftware.com |
Oct 09 2002 | Cheryl Witoski, Injury Prevention Plus | Injury prevention, http://www.injurypreventionplus.com |
Sep 11 2002 | Bob Walker, OPCUG | Software Application Development |
Jun 2002 | No speaker (SIG meetings at 8 pm after the BBQ) | 1st BBQ |
May 2002 | Suzanne Blain, Synersys VP | Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 |
Apr 2002 | Peter Durst, ExitCertified | Integrating Linux and Solaris into the ExitCertified network |
Mar 2002 | Eurocom
Corporation |
Technology for the future, today, http://www.eurocom.com |
Feb 2002 | Hugh Chatfield | XML - MIDI for the Text world |
Jan 2002 | Michael Vlugt from Texar Corporation | Using S-Peer to enabe secure P2P collaboration |
2001 |
Dec 2001 | Harley Bloom and Luc Laplante, Bloom Microtech | Large assortment of computer entertainment products |
Nov 2001 | Hanif Mawji, J-Squared Technologies | The latest on AMD processors and on AMD's road map to future processors |
Oct 2001 | Chris Taylor, OPCUG |
Home networking |
Sep 2001 | Microsoft Canada | Office XP, https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca |
Jun 2001 | Olympus |
Digital Cameras, Digital Printers and Digital Audio recorders, http://www.olympusamerica.com |
May 2001 | Chris Taylor, OPCUG |
VMWare and Microsoft Office XP |
Apr 2001 | Ron Thompson, Information
Technology Security, Inc. |
Personal Information Electronic Documents Protection Act |
Mar 2001 | Computer Recyclers Inc + Tunstall Data Recovery | (URLs n/a) |
Feb 2001 | Ruth Gmehlin, Corel Corporation |
CorelDRAW 10 Graphics Suite, http://www.corel.com |
Jan 2001 | (speaker info n/a) |
Security while on the Internet |
2000 |
Dec 2000 | (speaker info n/a) |
Computer games and entertainment products by different manufacturers |
Nov 2000 | Andre Demers, Environment Canada |
Assistive computer technologies for the disabled |
Oct 2000 | Ian Malcolmson, Forefront Graphics
Corp. |
Video editing software for personal and professional |
Sep 2000 | Liliana Faillace, Zero-Knowledge
Systems, Inc. |
Prevention of personal information collection |
Jun 2000 | Luc Laplante and Leana Smith, Bloom Microtech |
Setting up your own home office / small office network |
May 2000 | Toronto-Dominion
Bank | e-Banking |
Apr 2000 | Pat Gilligan | Windows 2000 |
Mar 2000 | (speaker info n/a) |
Operating systems |
Feb 2000 | Wendy Lowe, Corel |
Corel Linux Operating System, http://www.corel.com |
Jan 2000 | Harley Bloom and his crew at Bloom Microtech |
Helpful hints on maintaining and upgrading your computers |
1999 |
Dec 1999 | John Stephens, The Focus Centre |
Digital Cameras |
Nov 1999 | OPCUG |
OPCUG Annual Computer Swap Meet |
Oct 1999 | Peter Leach, Communications and
Information Technology Ontario (CITO) |
Future direction in Computing Technology for Home/Office, http://www.cito.ca |
Sep 1999 | Sally Reijerse, Corel Corporation |
CorelDraw 9 Tips and Tricks, http://www.corel.com |
Jun 1999 | Toggle Software followed by:
Members' Favourites
| ToggleMouse https://togglemouse.software.informer.com/
Members' favourite software: Jean Vaumoron: Graphics Chris Taylor: Documenting "indidpensible" Windows Commander utililities Doug Curry: Y2K patch installations David Curling: Website case study on information architecture |
May 1999 | Jon Coxworth, Intel |
Intel, Pentium!!! The latest processor with an updated version of MMX |
Apr 1999 | Vorton Technologies |
Create self-running multimedia slide shows and distribute them by floppy
or by e-mail |
Mar 1999 | Newtech Home
Automation |
Corel Dragon NaturallySpeaking voice recognition and
Newtech HAL 2000 voice-activated computer-based home automatio |
Feb 1999 | PSION Users' Group |
Psion Handheld Computer |
Jan 1999 | David F. Skoll, Monitor Magazine |
Introduction to Linux, http://www.roaringpenguin.com |
1998 |
Dec 1998 | Luc Laplante,
Bloom Microtech |
Computer graphics and networking as they apply to gaming |
Nov 1998 | (speaker info n/a) |
Removable media storage and drawing tablets |
Oct 1998 | Chris Taylor, OPCUG |
ListServe (Part Two) |
Sep 1998 | Sean Creaghan, Griffin Computer Training and Consulting Dave Healey, President of Kinetic Imagery |
Basic HTML, Java, and JavaScript by Sean Creaghan PERL by Dave Healey |
Jun 1998 | Bill Noel, Microsoft Canada |
Windows 98 |
May 1998 | Members' Presentations | H.J. McClemens: Revolution in Typography Jean Vaumoron: Digital Image Manipulation Bert Schopf: Typical Desktop Printing Project |
Apr 1998 | Chris Taylor, OPCUG | Demonstration of the new features of PUB II |
Mar 1998 | (speaker info n/a) | Corel Office Suite |
Feb 1998 | Centrepoint Technologies |
PC enhanced telephony, micro-PBX communications command center |
Jan 1998 | Dick Kellerman, PowerQuest |
Hard-disk partitioning and duplicating |
1997 |
Dec 1997 | Eric Albert, Keating Technologies |
3COMs networking, USRobotics Modem, Pilot Palmtop and other items, http://www.keating.com |
Nov 1997 | Susan Finlay, Corel |
CorelDRAW 8.0 (DRAW, PHOTO-PAINT 8.0, and DREAM) |
Oct 1997 | Jon Coxworth, Intel Canada |
Processors, chipsets and the past, present. and future of PCs, http://www.intel.com |
Sep 1997 | OPCUG Core Strategy Development Committee | The future of the OPCUG |
Jun 1997 | John Mulroy, DataWeb | Proper care and feeding of computer peripherals |
May 1997 | New Deal Inc. | New Deal Office 97 (URL n/a) |
Apr 1997 | Dawn Fiander-McCann, Lotus Development
Corp. |
Lotus SmartSuite 97 |
Mar 1997 | Chris Taylor, OPCUG | Less talked about features of Microsoft Exchange 4.0 for Windows 95 and Schedule+ 7.0 |
Feb 1997 | Peggy Morley, Product Specialist for Corel Corporation | Newest features of CorelDraw 7.0 and Ventura 7.0 for Windows 95 |
Jan 1997 | Jean Simoneau, Epson Canada | PhotoPC digital camera, http://www.epson.com |
1996 |
Dec 1996 | Eric Albert, Keating
Technologies Inc. |
U.S. Robotics modems, http://www.keating.com |
Nov 1996 | Microsoft | Microsoft Office 97 Suite |
Oct 1996 | n/a | n/a |
Sep 1996 | n/a | n/a |
Jun 1996 | Televitesse Systems, Inc | n/a |
May 1996 | n/a | n/a |
Apr 1996 | Lotus and Borland | n/a |
Mar 1996 | Eric Albert, Keating
Technologies Inc. | Microsoft Sneak Preview |
Feb 1996 | Daniel Langlois, Senior Technologist, Look Software Systems Inc. | Look's Virus Alert 4.1 (ranked as one of the top three virus detectors in worldwide scores) |
Jan 1996 | Steven Rich (Western Digital) and Jon Coxworth (Intel Corporation) | The technology behind Western Digital's hard drives and Intel's new Chipset (the 82430SX) |