Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 00:11:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Steven Allen Subject: Boston Windows User Group September 26 Meeting Monday, September 26, 2000 ----------------------- Is there Life without Photoshop =============================== Boston Windows User Group ------------------------- 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Speaker at 8:00 p.m. --------------------- BWUG's John Allen compares several moderately-priced graphics applications. Find out which are most likely to meet your needs, and how you can often benefit from using two or more applications in tandem. This is a continuation of John's July presentation which can be obtained from John's Web site: The PowerPoint '97 presentation is at: http://www.bikexprt.com/bwug/ppt/ (1.4 MB) and the graphics examples are at http://www.bikexprt.com/bwug/ (6 kB HTML file and about 2.2 MB of images). Some material being presented in this meeting is included with these. Location: Microsoft's Multipurpose Room 1, 6th floor, 230 Third Ave, Waltham, MA, which has Parking and has Wheelchair access. Directions: Take Route 95/128 to Exit 27A. Go south on Third Ave passing between the northbound 95/128 and the Westin Hotel. Reaching Third Ave requires a U-turn to the right from the northbound 95/128 exit or a "cross the overpass and turn right" from the southbound 95/128 exit. From Third Ave, turn left onto Fourth Ave immediately after the Westin. Go to end, turn right and follow signs for Prospect Place. Bear right at the fork and follow signs to Visitor Parking. Lobby is on second floor. Also see map on http://www.bwug.org/events. ***************************************************************** ****** Meet us at Bertucci's Restaurant at 5:30. ****** ****** We expect the speaker to join us. ****** ****** It's in the small strip mall diagonally across ****** ****** the 95/128 intersection with Winter St ****** ****** from the meeting location. Use exit 27B. ****** ****** From northbound exit take a right at the traffic ****** ****** light, then bear right to cross 95/128. ****** ****** Blend with southbound exit traffic, go past ****** ****** Bertucci's and take a right into the mall. ****** ***************************************************************** Pat Ryan is our Ride Coordinator. You can earn double raffle tickets by bringing a person in need of a ride or may obtain a ride if you need one. ****** Special Event ****** Wednesday, October 11, 7:00 p.m. -------------------------------- "Working with Digital Media" Microsoft's John Stroiney shows us the just-released Windows Millenium Edition (Me) with new features: Windows Image Acquisition, Media Player and Movie Maker. John will also present Picture It! Platinum and the Pocket PC. ****** Next BWUG Meeting ****** There probably will not be a regular BWUG meeting in October because Steve will be out of the country. If you have a topic you want to present - this is an opportunity. Barring such an unexpected contingency, the next regular meeting will be just after Thanksgiving. We'll let you know if there is an October meeting. Monday, November 27, 7:00 p.m. ------------------------------ Steve Saver, Field Engineer for AMD, gives us their Processor Roadmap, including the Athlon and newly announced Thunderbird and Duron CPUs. We need more participation from you: what could YOU (or people you know) present to the group this year. Please notify us, http://www.bwug.org/join or by email, when your email address changes.