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NJMUG Meeting Archive:
July 2013 - December 2013
Older Archives Newer ArchivesDecember 17, 2013
Meeting Cancelled Due To Snowstorm
It snowed.
The Clifton library closed early.
There was no meeting.
There was no party.
There was no raffle.
Everyone was sad.
The End
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November 19, 2013
Brookstone Virtual Keyboard - Ricoh Theta 360 - iPad Air - 21st Century Gadgets
This month Bruce Mittelman will give demonstrations of three new pieces of hardware: The Brookstone Virtual Keyboard, the Ricoh Theta 360, and the new Apple iPad Air.
The Brookstone Virtual Keyboard is a small box roughly half the size of the iPhone and can be carried on your keyring. It projects a virtual keyboard on the table in front of the iPad or iPhone using a red laser. If you ever wanted to feel like you are living in the future or at least gather a crowd at you local coffee house, this is the show off gadget of the year.
The Ricoh Theta 360 is a small point-and-shoot camera that features two 180-degree wide-angle lenses mounted on opposite sides of the device. With one shot, a user is able to capture a 360-degree image that places the viewer - or tripod - at the center of a 3D scene.
The iPad Air is Apple's 5th generation of its popular iPad tablet computer. Featuring a thinner, lighter design along with a fast 64-bit Apple A7 processor, the iPad Air represents state of the art in tablet design.
Our next presenter will be Louis Perez who will give another installment of the "Magical Mystery Tour of the Web" which provides a collection of interesting Web sites based around a particular topic. This month's "tour" will focus on Web sites pertaining to gadgets for the 21st century home.
October 15, 2013
Gigapan - iRadar - FotoMagico
This month Bruce Mittelman will give a demonstration of the Gigapan hardware and Gigapan for iPad app which allows photographers to easily create high-resolution gigapixel (billions of pixels) images and panoramic photographs with remarkably crisp and vivid details.
Next, Catherine Mascis will give a demonstration of the Cobra iRadar, a cloud reliant, community based radar/laser detector that interfaces with your smartphone to instantly alert you about live traffic enforcement, caution areas, and photo enforcement areas.
Our final presenter will be George Ajjan, who will give an overview of FotoMagico, the application that allows you to easily create professional slideshows from your photos and music with just a few, simple mouse clicks.
September 17, 2013
AppleTV vs. Chromecast - Using Tables in Word - Top 50 Gadgets of 2013 (Part 2)
This month Bruce Mittelman and George Ajjan will give an in-depth comparison of AppleTV and Google's newly released Chromecast. Come learn how both of these devices allow you to easily enjoy your movies, TV shows, music and much more on your HD television.
Next, Catherine Mascis will discuss how to use tables in Microsoft Word. She will also give a demonstration of her small, handheld projector.
And picking up where he left off at our August meeting, Louis Perez continues his "Magical Mystery Tour of the Web" which will focus on the "Top Gadgets of 2013 (Part 2)".
August 20, 2013
Leap Motion - TextExpander - Anonymous Torrenting - Top 50 Gadgets of 2013 (Part 1)
This month Bruce Mittelman will give a demonstration of the just released Leap Motion Controller which allows you to intereact with your computer in a whole new way. The Leap Motion senses and translates hand motion and fingure gestures allowing you to point, reach, grab, select, and move objects on your computer screen. From browsing the web, flipping through photos, painting with your fingertips, and picking and strumming a guitar, the Leap Motion opens a whole new realm of possiblities.
Next, Scott Alenick will show TextExpander, the on-the-fly typing accelerator that enables you to save time and keystrokes. Textexpander allows you to define abbreviations called snippets for frequently used text strings and images. When the snippet is typed it is automatically expanded to the full text string. From standard greetings, phrases, boilerplate paragraphs, often used email responses, and signatures, TextExpander can save you time and increase your productivity.
Next, Bob Helmond will be giving the second part of his Anonymous Torrenting presentation. Bob will teach you how to stay safe and secure when downloading torrents using Transmission, Hidemyass web proxy, and other services.
Finally, Louis Perez returns with another installment of his ongoing "Magical Mystery Tour of the Web" where he presents a collection of interesting and informative web sites dedicated to a common topic. This month's tour will focus on the "Top 50 Gadgets of 2013 (Part 1)".
July 16, 2013
Backup and Data Recovery Tools From Prosoft Engineering - Computer Security
This month, President of Prosoft Engineering, Inc., Gordon Bell, will be on hand to present the company's full suite of Macintosh utilities including: Drive Genius 3, Data Rescue 3, Data Backup 3, Klix, and SoundBunny. He will also be introducing The Data Rescue Center, Prosoft's professional data recovery service.
Prosoft's Drive Genius 3 and Data Rescue 3 programs allow you to backup, recover, maintain and manage your important data as well as speed up, clean up and optimize your Mac. Klix allows you to recover your precious photos from media cards that are corrupted or accidentally erased. And SoundBunny is a powerful volume control application for your Mac that enables you to control the volume level for all open applications on your computer.
Prosoft Engineering will have all products available for purchase at the meeting with special pricing for NJMUG members. The special pricing will only be available at the meeting. Also, Prosoft will be raffling off an iTunes gift card at the conclusion of their presentation.
To round out the evening, Bob Helmond and Allan Warner will be discussion the recently exposed NSA PRISM program, how it affects you and steps you can take to protect your online privacy.
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