Agenda

Demos, presentations and SIG's will begin immediately following the general meeting. General meeting starts at 12:30.
March, 9 2002	Flight Simulator 2002 - presented by Mike McEnery. Flight Simulator 2002 is a revolutionary new release in the history of Flight Simulator! It includes real-time, interactive ATC, stunning new auto-generated scenery and visual effects, cool new airplanes — including a floatplane — plus more activities to challenge and excite new virtual pilots and long-time enthusiasts.
April, 13, 2002	Elections 2002 Digital Corner SIG & MS Office (Publisher 2002). Mike McEnery (editor) will demonstrate how he creates our great-looking newsletters. The Publisher desktop publishing program makes it easy to design print and Web promotional materials for your business. This latest version of Publisher offers professional design guidance, thousands of customizable templates, 15 new design sets, powerful integration with Office, and enhanced support for commercial printing and Web publishing.
May 11, 2002	Wireless Network - Jim Rutledge will show us how to Installing and setting up a home wireless network between multiple computers.
June 8, 2002	PC Clinic - Bring in your computer for spring cleaning and a tune-up. The gurus will blow it out, clean you keyboard and mouse. Upon request, the gurus will teak your OS, offers hints and tips to improve your performance, and offer general trouble-shooting along with some common questions with your Windows system. Beginners SIG - If you have basic Windows questions, the gurus will walk you through them and help you better understand how to use your computer.
July 13, 2002	No Meeting (Enjoy your month off!) For those with nothing to do, we are planning a field trip to visit the Mac group in Palatine. The Northwest of Us (TNWofU) meets on the same second Saturday as us so this will give us a good opportunity to visit another computer club. Their normal attendance is 150+ members.
August 10, 2002	OpenOffice - Lester Larkin will demonstrate OpenOffice software an affordable alternative in office productivity suites that runs on multiple operating systems, including the Solaris[ Operating Environment, Microsoft Windows, and Linux. The suite has a simple, easy-to-use interface and contains full-featured applications including word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and graphics capabilities. Beginners SIG - If you have basic Windows questions, the gurus will walk you through them and help you better understand how to use your computer.
September 14, 2002	Snag-It - makes is easy: presented by Marshia Hobson Capture an exact copy of anything that appears on your screen Apply edits and annotation Send the screenshot directly to the printer, a file, an e-mail, or the web
October 12, 2002	Q&A Roundtable (Ask the Gurus) This form will replace the Video Editing presentation which will be rescheduled for a later date. The gurus will address any question that you may have.
November 16, 2002 (rescheduled meeting date)	CD Burners - Phil Grimm has tentatively volunteered to do a presentation on CD Burning with *EZ CD Creator* and *Nero Burn* software. Mr. G. volunteered display the *History of Atari Computers* and will bring in his collection of 8-bit and 16-bit computers. Mr. G will also be displaying his CAD computer system developed by MarsGraphic
December 7, 2002	Christmas Party & SwapFest - The annual Christmas party will be held at the University of Illinois Annex, Rt. 45 and Rt.120, Grayslake, Il. Bring a dish to share, and any computer related software or hardware you want to sell or swap. There will be music, games, raffles, and plenty of FUN!
January 11, 2003	Backup Programs - Want to back up your entire hard drive or just a particular folder or folders. Then we will demonstrate several programs that will allow you to perform this task. With PowerQuest's Drive Image you can create an exact image of your hard drive for backup and disaster recovery, or to upgrade your system, quickly and easily. Beginners SIG - If you have basic Windows questions, the gurus will walk you through them and help you better understand how to use your computer.
February 8, 2003	FlipAlbum Pro - FlipAlbum® 5 Professional allows users to instantly create a digital photo album or catalog with our 3D Page-Flipping interface. With this latest version, in addition to being able to lay out more than one object (such as images, annotations, multimedia files, etc.) on each flipping page, users are provided with the new multi-flip technology to rapidly flip pages of the albums easily. The improved new look also makes using FlipAlbum® 5 Professional a more pleasant experience.
March 1, 2003 (rescheduled meeting date)	Microsoft Office XP - This presentation will introduce you to the new features in Microsoft Office XP (Word, Excel and Access).
April 5, 2003 (rescheduled meeting date)	IncrediMail - Never send another dull email. ... Well, look no further, IncrediMail will easily give you all that and much more...
May 10, 2003	Main presentation has not been scheduled yet Beginners SIG - If you have basic Windows questions, the gurus will walk you through them and help you better understand how to use your computer.
June 14, 2003	Main presentation has not been scheduled yet Beginners SIG - If you have basic Windows questions, the gurus will walk you through them and help you better understand how to use your computer.