Are you enjoying the digital revolution that is transforming your home? In the ideal digital home, PCs and consumer electronic devices are not only protected against Internet security threats, but work together to deliver digital media such as pictures and video and music to the parts of your home where you want it. Enabled by innovation’s rapid pace, you can re-invent your lifestyle, waste less time, and have more fun. The possibilities for managing your own digital and enjoying content digital entertainment are more engaging than  ever before. On Intel-based systems, you can now take pictures and videos with digital cameras and camcorders, add our choice of background music,  and moments later share them with family and friends via e-mail or CD or even by DVD, displayed on our television sets in “home theaters.”

 On July 11, 2005, at the AFL-CIO Union Hall, CPCUG is hosting a presentation by David B. Whittle, author of  “Cyberspace: The Human Dimension” and named by Woman Magazine as “one of America’s most original  technological thinkers.” Dave’s been a  leader in the PC revolution since 1979, and an opinion-leader in the PC industry  since his days as OS/2 Evangelist at IBM in the early ’90s. Most recently, he’s been writing for Smart Computing. Now he’s bringing to you his favorite discoveries from recent trade shows in order to show new products that open up new horizons of possibility or solve

 Would you like a brief look at the latest hardware and software technologies available for the digital home? Are you looking for a new laptop but don’t know what to look for? Interested in building your own PC? Would you like to have software that takes your digital photos and video footage and almost magically transforms it into a movie on DVD or CD that is a surprising delight to watch? Do you want to easily but dramatically show all of the digital photos in any given folder while the song of your choice plays in the background? Ever wish you could rise above ordinary flat snapshots of those special places you visit and have an immersive, 3-dimensional picture of the place so you can revisit the scene looking in any direction? Most importantly, do you ever feel as if there is more to know about Internet security than you’re being told? Are you tired of being your own Internet security expert? Would you be interested in a service that brings, for a very reasonable monthly fee, comprehensive Internet security to your PC and peace of mind to you? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you won’t want to miss Dave Whittle’s presentation at our next monthly meeting! 

Dave will introduce some of his favorite technologies, products, and services that solve real problems for real people and can help make life a little bit or a lot better for each of us. “Whittle’s Picks” are hidden gems from companies large and small, old and new, with outstanding, innovative offerings —

companies and learn how the digital revolution can enhance your life. You will come away from this meeting entertained and informed. Dave will provide time for questions and will bring valuable door prizes, informative handouts, and actual product for sale at significantly discounted prices arranged exclusively for user groups. If you’d like to take advantage of these special prices at the meeting and take product home with you, remember to bring cash, check, or a credit card.

See you then!

July 11^th, 2005  at 7:00 p.m.