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Our Own Gadget Gurus Will Demo Their Favorites

Thursday June 18, 2009

Presented by NYPC members

Many NYPC members have discovered and use many great gadgets, and they will share their finds and favorites with all comers. And all comers are most welcome to bring their own favorites to show and share.

Beyond the straightforward use of the computer, much of the joy of technology revolves around gadgets...simple or complex. Such as iPods and Palm Pilots, label printers, and a magic mouse that lost its tail.

Some gadgets fit inside a computer; many are computers on their own. Some are complex others are simple attachments that make things work better such as a simple cord to bring the USB port to the front of the computer, or an USB extender that lets you plug two chubby devices side by side into your laptop.

I have thrown away several drugstore digital fever thermometers because they took too long and were so inconsistent that they were useless. Come have a look at a new digital wonder that takes 1000 reading per second. Yes per second. Just pass it over your far head and it displays the highest reading it found in less than 5 seconds. Cool, well maybe hot if you have a temperature.

The evenings Gadget show is mostly computer related but some may just be clever things that make life go better, be more interesting or just be more fun.

There will be a drawing for my new favorite magic Logitech wireless mouse. You just plug a little transmitter into any USB port and it works right away. No software, no configuration, it just works. The USB transmitter is half the size of a flash drive and it stores inside the mouse when not in use. I have had other wireless mice and keyboards in the past and they were a pest. When the battery died you had to call India to help you reconfigure the device which involved many steps and much frustration. The new model is truly plug and play.

Also in the drawing will be Michael Horowitz’s selection of 30 portable apps on a thumb drive and a CD of NYPC’s pick of free anti malware programs.

by William Ginsberg
NYPC Program Chairman

At a new location: Ripley Grier Studios
520 Eighth Avenue, between 36th & 37th Street
16th floor - Studio 16L
From 6PM to 8PM
Ripley Grier is two blocks North of Penn Station and the Hotel New Yorker

The Meeting is Free and Open to All

Meetings

NYPC holds our General Meeting on the third Thursday of the month at 6:00 PM (normally, but not always). We usually meet in the Auditorium of PS 41 on 11th Street just west of Sixth Avenue (116 West 11th Street). See a Google Map* of the area. During the summer months we meet in other air conditioned locations.

NYPC general meetings are free and open to the public.

Previous Meetings

See what you missed at our previous general meetings.

Some of our members are new to computers, while others are computer pros. Some of our meetings feature NYPC members who share their special areas of expertise such as Genealogy, Digital Photography, Photoshop, Wireless Networking, Palm PDA’s, and Treo Phones, Antivirus Protection, and Windows Tips and Traps.

Outside Speakers have included, Jeff Hawkins inventor of the Palm Pilot, David Pogue NY Times columnist, Peter Norton, the man behind Norton Utilities, Bill Gates – well you know, Andy Grove CEO of Intel, Katrin Eismann, Photoshop Diva and author, Eric Raymond author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar. PC Magazine’s Michael Miller, Bill Machrone, Alfred Poor and John Dvorak have also spoken at our General Meeting.

Many computer companies have sent representatives to our meetings including: Microsoft, Adobe, Intel, IBM, Compaq, Symantec, Lotus, Novel, Trend Micro, Intuit, Olympus Cameras, Corel, Color Vision, Pro Graphics, 4G Data Systems, Palm, Handspring, Tekserve, and Apple computers.

If there is a topic you'd like covered, send an email to Bill Ginsberg at programs@nypc.org.

PS41 is accessible by subway (A, B, C, D, E, F, Q, V to West 4th Street, or, 1, 2, 3, 9 and L to 14th Street and Seventh Avenue) and by Path (take the 33rd Street line to the Ninth Street Station).

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