Organizational skills have a profound affect on our productivity, but
they are difficult to teach because we are all different and have varied
organizational preferences. Travis Cardwell, a software architect with
LINC Media, Inc. and organizational expert, will present digital organization
techniques as well as applications of these techniques in the organization
of general data, digital photos, email, schedules, bookmarks, and contacts.

The presentation will cover the use of organization software, including
outliners, mindmapping utilities, spreadsheet applications, and online
applications. BasKet Note Pads, Freemind, and Gnumeric will be
used during the presentation, but alternative software for various
platforms will be introduced as well.

Travis will lead a discussion at the end, so come prepared to explain
your most challenging organizational problems!

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Related links:
http://basket.kde.org/
http://freemind.sourceforge.net/
http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/

LINC Media, Inc.
http://www.lincmedia.co.jp

TIME: Doors open at 6:30 with the meeting getting underway at 7pm.

VENUE: The meetings are held in the basement of The Tokyo Union Church.  (map) on Omotesando Dori, a short walk from the A-1 exit of the Omotesando subway station on the Ginza, Hanzomon, and Chiyoda Lines.

COST: Members free, non-members 1000 yen at the door.

We hope you can make it to the meeting. For those who can’t, you can catch us at Shakey’s nearby after 9pm.
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Have you ever imagined operating a PC without using a mouse or any other pointing device? The debut of the GUI (Graphical User Interface) was a big breakthrough for most computer users but for blind people, it presented yet another big challenge.  Tonight’s presenters who have both been totally blind since soon after birth, have met that challenge and in the course of their work, are helping other visually handicapped people to use and be able to benefit from computers.

Takashi Kobayashi, Customer Support Manager at Techno Tool K.K. (http://www.ttools.co.jp/index.html), a provider of equipment and devices for use by the handicapped, and Kazuya Hosoda, a Program Manager at Microsoft Japan (http://www.microsoft.com/enable/), will explain their jobs, and the importance of accessibility, while demonstrating how, with the use of special reading software, blind people can use a PC.

Come along to this meeting to see, hear and learn about this fascinating, but largely unknown, aspect of computing.

TIME: Doors open at 6:30 with the meeting getting underway at 7pm.

VENUE: The meetings are held in the basement of The Tokyo Union Church.  (map) on Omotesando Dori, a short walk from the A-1 exit of the Omotesando subway station on the Ginza, Hanzomon, and Chiyoda Lines.

COST: Members free, non-members 1000 yen at the door.

We hope you can make it to the meeting. For those who can’t you can catch us at Shakey’s nearby after 9pm.

The meeting at TPC this month will be of particular interest to those who hosting their web pages with a web host other than their ISP.  Most web hosting services offer a browser control panel that gives the user access to a plethora of nifty tools that, unfortunately, barely get used as they seem more of a hassle than help!  Tonight TPC president, Terry McKenna, will demonstrate how to get the most out of such a control panel. Aspects that will be covered will include Security and Accessibility: keeping bad guys out, and keeping the good guys in. Terry will also demonstrate some tricks he uses to frustrate the efforts of those who would otherwise harvest his email address or photos. Since cPanel is the most popular this will be used.

TIME: Doors open about 6:30, the meeting starts at 7PM

VENUE: The meetings are held in the basement of The Tokyo Union Church (map) on Omotesando Dori, a short walk from the A-1 exit of the Omotesando subway station on the Ginza, Hanzomon, and Chiyoda Lines.

COST: Members free, non-members 1000 yen at the door.

Greetings everyone!  Welcome to an evening of a most interesting presentation.  Jerry Suppan, who spoke at our club meeting this January, will also kick-off our 2008 presentations.

Tonight’s presentation will will take you on a journey through virtual worlds.  It does not matter whether you currently use Linux, Windows or OS-X as your primary computing environment, if you are a computer user at all, and would like to consider experimenting or go production in an alternative environments, there will be something for you in this presentation.  As a consequence of policy changes at Apple Computer accompanied by recent enabling hardware and software technologies, Jerry will present and demonstrate how any computer user can, have their windows, linux, mac meal served alacarte, or full course! By leveraging and maximizing virtualization technology, you can have it all.

The presentation will be at a grassroots level of understanding of and interest.  So, if you are just an ordinary computer user, and are considering to dabble in an alternate OS environment, or need to run a second OS for whatever reason, without purchasing another computer, then, this presentation is for you.  Depending on how you navigate through these virtual worlds, you may just acquire the LUV factor!

TIME: Doors open about 6:30, the meeting starts at 7PM

VENUE: The meetings are held in the basement of The Tokyo Union Church (map) on Omotesando Dori, a short walk from the A-1 exit of the Omotesando subway station on the Ginza, Hanzomon, and Chiyoda Lines.

COST: Members free, non-members 1000 yen at the door.

Ubuntu is attracting much attention since DELL computers starting shipping Laptops with a choice of Windows or Ubuntu Linux.  TPC president, Terry McKenna, will explain a method of installing Ubuntu on a Windows PC, while keeping your Windows OS intact, using virtualization software by Virtualbox.org.  Ubuntu installation and some customization steps will be demonstrated with browser snapshots. Those considering an Windows OS companion will get the information they need to make an informed decision.  In the remaining time, an alternative to hosting your web site on the free disk space from your ISP will be introduced.  Domain registration, URL Forwarding and Masking, and the popular cPanel web hosting browser control panel will be discussed.

TIME: Doors open about 6:30, the meeting starts at 7PM

VENUE: The meetings are held in the basement of The Tokyo Union Church (map) on Omotesando Dori, a short walk from the A-1 exit of the Omotesando subway station on the Ginza, Hanzomon, and Chiyoda Lines.

COST: Members free, non-members 1000 yen at the door.