Interested in learning about some tools that can seriously improve the way you work, your productivity, or how to manage your life? Mr. Jason Winder, President & CEO of Webnet IT will demonstrate some of these technologies at our next meeting.

When it comes to IT, Jason has a keen interest in new technologies and the business applications of these new tools.  As a result, he’s continuously trying new and upcoming tools, Web 2.0 applications, operating systems, devices and software.

Jason’s presentation will be loosely focused on Business IT technologies, but will aim for a broad range of technology, some examples of which will be:

* The Google Revolution. How many of Google’s new and extremely useful functions are you actively using? (Practical Application : Finding and organizing information fast – and making it look good in the process) Focus : Google Desktop (Practical Application : Revolutionizing the way you store and find your personal information)

* Windows Mobile and Push Email (Practical Application : Fast access to Business or Personal Mail with all the benefits of a PDA Phone)

* Wireless Headsets and Voice Recognition (Practical Application : Keeping your hands free, and making and receiving calls)

* Docking Stations – They’re actually useful. Which PCs work with them, and why use them? (Practical Application : Data management. Keeping your data and settings in one place as you travel around)

* Asterisk/Trixbox (Practical Application : Business PBX System in a flash)

* Bit Torrents (Practical Application : Sharing large files with large groups of people.)

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. The entrance is through the parking area at the side of the church.

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

Learn to use Search Engine Optimization (SEO), to your best advantage, JavaScript to mask email addresses and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for page layout.

Terry McKenna, president, Doyen Ltd., is ready to share some nifty tips and tricks to improve the performance of your website.

If you’ve spent weeks or months creating your website, you want to make sure that it can be viewed, and that people will find it. SEO is the knack of persuading search engines to index your homepage higher than millions of others. As your site floats closer to the top of the search you’ll begin to see your site hits increase.

Terry will demonstrate SEO techniques using Hugh Burns Jazz site. Burns’ site is currently #1 in Google for certain keywords. As you learn how you can reuse these techniques on your own web pages, you’ll also learn how to prevent the spam bot from harvesting email addresses from your site. Terry will show you how to mask your email address from spam harvesters, reducing the annoying messages dramatically.  Finally, see how to use CSS for page layout and learn why that’s important.

Terry is collecting his thoughts on the presentation and is willing to share them with us here.

VENUE: The meetings are held in the basement of The Tokyo Union Church (map) on Omotesando Dori, a short walk towards Harajuku from the A-1 exit of the Omotesando subway station on the Ginza, Hanzomon, and Chiyoda Lines. The entrance is through the parking area at the side of the church.

Are you thinking of changing operating systems? Hear from people who’ve migrated from one operating system (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to another. Find out why and how they managed the change?

We are still looking for people that have switched to be up front. (Payment is free pizza and drinks at Shakey’s after the meeting.) Contact us if you are interested.

We welcome all TLUG and Ringo members to this meeting as our guests. Just mention it at the door when you come in.

DATE: Thursday April 12th (The 2nd Thursday this month!)

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. The entrance is through the parking area at the side of the church.

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

Come along to learn about latest web browsers - Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 7, and Opera 9. Also hoping to have some audience members give us insight into the best browsers for Mac OSX and Linux. Where is your vote? Come and make your voice heard and share your experience with others.

Will also feature users talking about their favorite, useful browser plug-ins.

Thursday, March 1st at the Tokyo Union Church. Doors open at 6:30, meeting starts at 7 PM Click here for a map to the TUC.

A few TPC members and regulars plan to show some of the Web 2.0 services they use.

Some of the services/platforms to be shown are:
- Flickr
- Blogger
- YouTube
- MediaWiki
- Google Docs & Spreadsheets
- SiteKreator
- Trumba

Thursday, February 1st at the Tokyo Union Church. Doors open at 6:30, meeting starts at 7 PM Click here for a map to the TUC.