General Meeting Minutes
September 4, 2025 - 1 PM - Meeting Room A
Board Attendance: Duke, Ken, John, Lou, Sue
Absent: Gladys, Marsha
Q&A: Run by Ken
Quiz: Run by Ken - Multiple Choice Questionnaire created by Perplexity
Minutes
Minutes will no longer be read at the Technology Club meetings. Minutes are available at https://www.cv-computerclub-wpb.com/p/current-minutes.html
Business
A storybook can be created on Gemini by telling Gemini what type of storybook you want.
Suno is a music app where you can create a song.
Presentation - Journey Thru History - The Dawn of a New Era
1945 - Computers filled a room;
1960’s space age, color TV, push button phones;
1981 IBM Computers introduced;
1983 - Birth of the internet;
1990’s - Internet - ability to communicate with anyone in the world
1992 - Mobile phone revolution;
1997 - Social media begins;
2000’s FaceBook introduced, online shopping, banking, digital cameras replaced film camera,
AI in daily life
2010’s Smartphone revolution, pocket computers, streaming services replaces Cable TV,
Health monitoring on watches, Photo albums in digital libraries
Raffles - 50/50
Next meeting will be Thursday, October 2 at 1:00 PM
Meeting adjourned 2:07 PM
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General Meeting Minutes
July 3, 2025 - 1 PM - Meeting Room A
Board Attendance: Ken, John, Lou, Sue, Gladys (on Zoom)
Absent: Duke Horton, Marsha
Q&A: Run by Ken
Quiz: Run by Ken AI Moderated/Created
Minutes
Minutes will no longer be read at the Technology Club meetings. Minutes are available at https://www.cv-computerclub-wpb.com/p/current-minutes.html
Business
Access Internet Archives to see old shows - this is a free service. Pixlrx.com is a free online photo editing program. Fotor is an action figure generator. Clipchamp is a video editor.
Presentation - Web Browsers
Web browsers allow an unlimited supply of information.
Cookies are a small snippet of information and a way to get back to the place when researching a subject. Mosaic was the first web browser (1993). It allowed online banking, games, work remotely, email, streaming and videos. A browser can perform a device diagnostic on any device as long as there is access to the internet. For Storage and Performance - cloud storage is available in many formats on Google and Apple. Each google account will give you 15 GB of storage free. Google My Drive has folders for archiving documents. A document created in Word will open in Google Docs and is editable. Microsoft products like Word, Excel are free but may not be robust. To use AI within a browser you can go to Perplexity, Claude, Gemini and CoPilot depending on which browser is used.
No Raffles - No 50/50
Please note:
There will be no Technology Club meeting in August.
Next meeting will be Thursday, September 4 at 1:00 PM
Meeting adjourned 2:10 PM
