June, 2008
Five people
attended a social dinner of Indian food at
Namaste Restaurant on Banksville Rd.
May, 2008
Instead
of a meeting, we devoted the time to designing a
survey to try to find out why people are not
either the meetings or the socials and what we
need to do to bring them back. Coming soon to an
email box near you. Watch for it and let's hear
you thoughts.
April, 2008
Three people
attended a pizza lunch in town and then the
Pittsburgh Auto Show at the D. L. Lawrence
Convention Center.
March, 2008
Due
to a low registration turnout, those registered
(4) retreated to Chez Andy Ai for an evening of
revelry, eating pizza, drinking beer and playing
PS3 games, viewed on a 60" flat panel TV.
February,
2008
The
February social meeting, originally
scheduled for Sushi Tomo, was
first postponed by a week and then cancelled
due to (pick one): bad weather, location,
apathy, dislike of sushi.
January,
2008
The January meeting was on where to find free
video content on the Internet. We had
presentations by John Vukovic and Andy Ai on
their favorite free sites and how to best use
them. Earl Sarain also gave us a presentation on
some subscription (not free) sites that he uses.
Selected sites follow:
http://www.veoh.com
-- Free to use, more features and options if you register.
-- Site also offers a downloadable player for better
enjoyment.
-- Usually commercial free
http://www.hulu.com
-- Free but requires registration.
-- In beta now so you may need to wait.
-- Run by studios and content owners
themselves. All legit.
http://www.joost.com
-- Free but requires registration and
download of their player software.
-- Very short commercials (15 seconds) and
back to show.
http://www.stage6.com
-- Free to use, requires registration for
more features and options.
-- Uses "DivX" player.
Also see: "FreeTube", "Hiveproductions", "'TIOTI'
(Tape it off the Internet)", "Streamic", "TVlinks",
"PPStream", "ABC", "PeekVid", "PPlive", "TVU
Player", "Chooseandwatch", "Channelking", "MyEasyTV".
December, 2007
The
December meeting was a social event at the
Rivers Club in One Oxford Center, Downtown
Pittsburgh. Our host and resident Rivers
Club member was Andy Ai.
November, 2007
For the November meeting we had presentations by
Harvey Schoenman and John Williams on the
current state of voice recognition and
navigation.
Harvey presented the native capabilities in
Windows Vista. These include voice recognition
for dictation and navigation within any
application and windows itself. The presentation
was "challenged" due to the low quality of
Harvey's microphone with the inherent noise
level in a large room.
John had a much better (noise cancelling)
headset microphone and was able to superbly
demonstrate the impressive qualities of Dragon
Naturally Speaking. While Dragon does not have
the voice navigation features that Vista does,
it's dictation features are unarguably much
superior.
We were also able to recognize our own Andy Ai
as one of Pittsburgh's "40 Under 40." an award
he received earlier in the evening.
November was also our 7th anniversary and we
celebrated with a birthday cake.
October, 2007
The
October social meeting, originally scheduled for the
Atria's Restaurant in Fox Chapel, was
cancelled due to (pick one): rock slides on Rt 28N, too far, rock slides on Rt 28N,
don't like Atria's, or rock slides on Rt
28N.
September, 2007
For the September meeting we had presentations by
Andy Ai and Rob Copeland on broadcast and
streaming video on mobile devices.
