In the morning introduction session, Stan Hungness, meeting Coordinator for the Westside Chapter, welcomed all of the attendees and introduced Bill James, Region 6 coordinator for APCUG, the parent group to which CCS belongs.

Stan next introduced Al Cheeks, the current President of CCS, who thanked everyone for attending and passed out additional T-shirts to those who asked for them. He also reviewed the day’s agenda and the drawing prizes to be given away at the end of the day, prizes which included an Epson R320 printer, a Canon Power Shot S2 IS digital camera and much, much more.

The 10 to 11 AM schedule included Patrick Green talking about Linux, “the World’s Easiest Desktop Operating System”, Frank Hudziak talking about AMD processors, and CCS’ own Joe Novak, on “Blogs, What are They and Why Would I Want One.” Joe also covered “Things that we may not know about Google.”

In the 11 AM to 12 Noon hour, another CCS member, Charles Berkley talked about PDAs, Dave Whittle, from Invisus Computer Security, talked about “Internet Security, What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You”, and Don Haynes from Hitachi had a presentation on hard drives.

In the 1 PM to 2 PM hour, Dave Makin talked about Connect3D, their latest and fastest video card. Luke Vavricek from Smart Computing guided us through their magazine and talked about how they are becoming a reference tool as well as an informative magazine. Another CCS member, Bill Ziegler, presented “Malware, Detection and Cleaning Techniques”.

In the 2-3 PM hour, Mark Rogers talked about “the Epson World of Photography”; Dave Whittle returned to describe the “Digital Home: Hardware Photo and Video” and Bill Ziegler talked about “Adding Wireless to Network and Internet Connections”.

Finally, in the 4 o’clock hour, Matt McCann and Richard Katz, from Microsoft, had intended to demonstrate Vista, the next generation operating system that will be replacing Windows XP, however when Vista crashed their PC, they elected instead to demonstrate their latest photo manipulation software, MS Digital Image.

At the conclusion of the day’s programs, drawings were held to give away over 200 prizes provided by the various vendors supporting CCS for MX-IV. That took over an hour, with the Grand Prize of the Epson printer and Canon camera going to CCS member Don Fairbank.