General Meeting Program for June16, 2005
By Troy Segler, VP of Programs
I want to plug the general meeting for June 16, 2005. Mark your calendars.
Our gue
st will be Gene Barlow. Gene and his wife, Linda, have been
supporting User Groups longer than we have been an organization. Make plans
to support our club and Gene at this meeting. If you are interested in
purchasing any of this software discussed below or updating your current
version, doing so at this meeting is encouraged. Discounts will be
available for User Group members.
Gene Barlow has been a key figure in the
user group community for the past 25 years. He is an educator, writer and a
talented presenter, representing many vendors over the years with products
that he finds valuable and effective for home and small business users.
Gene currently represents Acronis Software, WhiteCanyon Software, and
Spearit Software and their products. Gene will
demonstrate 3 of the most
exciting products from his clients at the general meeting this month.
MoveMe: This is a clever utility to help
users easily transfer all of their application programs, settings and data
files from an old computer to a newer computer. By using this utility from
Spearit Software, you can quickly stay current with technology and still use
your familiar files on your new computer.
SecureClean/WipeDrive/MediaWiper: Recent
studies have shown that hard drives on PCs contain hundreds of private files
that most users thought they had removed from the drive months or years
earlier. Simply deleting a file from the hard drive does not permanently
remove it from the drive. The only effective way to remove information
permanently from a hard drive is to write blanks or zeros over the top of
the deleted information. Gene will demonstrate three wiping utilities from
WhiteCanyon Software and show you how easy it is to prevent personal and
private information from getting in the hands of the wrong people.
True Image: Gene's main topic will be
Backing Up Your Hard Drive with True Image, a drive-imaging utility from
Acronis Software. Steve Bass from PC World said, "I've been using True
Image for regular backups since the beginning of the year. So far, I
haven't had a lick of trouble, either with creating the image, adding
incrementals, or with the restoration
function… I'm happy with True Image's simplicity." Backing up your hard
drive is possibly the most important thing you should do with your computer.
Gene will demonstrate True Image and show you how to use the incremental
backup feature, backups that are relatively small and are completed very
quickly. This is a topic every user should understand.
Gene and Linda visit about 100 user groups each
year. He is one of the most interesting presenters
you will hear. Do not miss this meeting.
If you have not attended a General Session recently, attend one soon and bring a friend.
Coffee and refreshments will be available for the taking and soft drinks are available at a cost of $.50. Invite a friend to join you for this meeting. I wish to thank all those who have regularly attended these meetings. If you have a recommendation for a specific topic or speaker, please drop me a note in the Program Vice President’s mail box just around the corner from the refrigerator.