Seminars in November

eBay Seminars

eBay for Buyers
Monday, November 5, 10:30 am

eBay for Sellers
Monday, November 12, 10:30 am

Location: Computer Classroom, Pinnacle Community Center
Instructor: Tom Kimber

Founded in September 1995, eBay is the leading online marketplace for the sale of goods and services by a diverse community of individuals and businesses. Today, the eBay community includes 46.1 million registered users, and is the most popular shopping site on the Internet when measured by total user minutes.

These buyer and seller seminars are presented by an avid eBay user who will share his secrets for bidding successfully and selling with confidence at this Internet marketplace.

Library Goodies

Monday, November 12, 1:00 pm
Location: Computer Classroom, Pinnacle Community Center
Instructor: Zane Clark

At the last Library seminar we explored the Library database, but there are a lot more goodies to be found on the Library website! In this seminar you will learn how to download movies, request  books and perform several other Library functions over the Internet.

Add and Remove Programs

Wednesday, November 14, 9:00 am
Location: Computer Lab, Pinnacle Community Center
Instructor: Mehdi Javan

Learn how to install and uninstall software on your computer. This is a hands-on program. No reservation is necessary. Seating is the first come and first basis. Please come early and take a seat on the computer that you will be using.

Works Database

Wednesday, November 21, 9:00 am
Location: Computer Classroom, Pinnacle Community Center
Instructor: Jim Wilkinson

This seminar on a Works Database will show you how to set up a database and use it to make labels or address envelopes, or other functions.

First come, first seated. No pre-registration is required.

Home Networking - Wired and Wireless

Thursday, November 29, 9:00 am
Location: Computer Classroom, Pinnacle Community Center
Instructor: Tom Burt

This 2 1/2 hour seminar describes all aspects of setting up and securing a mixed wired and wireless home network.  We will survey both wired and wireless networking equipment and software.  We'll demonstrate how to set up your wireless network equipment to create a mixed wired and wireless LAN and how to secure it from undesired outside access We’ll also briefly review how to share files, printers and your cable or DSL Internet connection between two or more PCs.  And we'll keep some time open to answer your networking questions.  This edition of the seminar will include wired and wireless networking on Windows Vista.

This seminar's target audience is users who are pretty comfortable with their PC and Windows and want to move up to taking better advantage of having multiple PCs.

Backup your Hard Drive

Thursday, November 29, 1:00 pm
Location: Computer Classroom, Pinnacle Community Center
Instructor: Allan Pogensky

Your hard drive is probably your computer's most important component as it is the repository of all your vital operating system files, program files, configuration settings, and data files.

All kinds of things can cause problems with your hard drive -- including electrical and mechanical problems as well as a computer virus infection that may make the drive inoperable. There's an old saying in the computer industry -- "The question is not whether a hard drive will fail; the question is when it will fail".

One of, if not the best, ways of protecting yourself against a hard drive "crash" is copying the contents of your hard drive to another hard drive on a regular basis. This will insure that should your original hard drive fail, you will have at hand a complete backup of the hard drive and avoid the hassle of having to reinstall the operating system and all your programs and data to a new drive.

In addition to a general discussion, Allan will show and talk about the new Serial ATA Drives (SATA) and demonstrate one method of backing up your hard drive using a program that will "clone" the contents of one drive to another. It's a simple and straightforward process that's relatively fast and quite effective.