Whittle's Picks for the Digital Home! presented by David B. Whittle
Tuesday, August 31 at University of Dayton Campus, Dayton, Ohio No charge.    Please bring a friend.    Guests welcome. Please join us Tuesday night, August 31, 2004 for this free presentation at the University of Dayton. Go to O'Leary Auditorium in Miriam Hall. We'll begin at 7:30 p.m. Bring a friend. by Bob Kwater

Come See "Whittle's Picks for the Digital Home!"

Are you ready for the digital revolution that is transforming your home? In the digital home, PCs and consumer electronic devices work together to deliver digital media such as pictures and video and music to the parts of your home where you want it. Enabled by innovation's rapid pace, you can re-invent your lifestyle, waste less time, and have more fun. Simply gathering together to share such memories can now become a precious memory of its own. Family memories are not the only use for these new technologies--they also enable new economic opportunities and freedom as well. On Intel-based systems, you can now take pictures and videos with digital cameras and camcorders, add our choice of background music from .MP3, .WAV, or .MIDI files, and moments later share them with family and friends via e-mail or CD or even by DVD, displayed on our television sets in "home theaters." With the advent of Intel's Centrino Mobile Technology, you can "unwire" yourself and gain freedom from plugs and short-lived batteries. Coupled with the explosion of wireless (Wi-Fi) hot-spots worldwide allow you to get high-speed Internet access on your laptop while lounging in a Border's bookstore, sipping coffee at Starbucks, or simply relaxing as a couch potato in your digital home. Share anything you can print via e-mail, without scanning.

This month DMA^®'s guest presenter at their general meeting on Tuesday August 31th at O'Leary Auditorium on the campus of the University of Dayton will be by David B. Whittle, author of "Cyberspace: The Human Dimension" and named by Working Woman Magazine as "one of America's most original technological thinkers." Dave's been a leader in the PC revolution since 1979, and an opinion-leader in the PC industry since his days as OS/2 Evangelist at IBM in the early '90s. Now he's bringing to you his favorite discoveries from recent trade shows in order to show new products that open up new horizons of possibility or solve problems you might be facing.

Looking for a new laptop but don't know what to look for? Tired of laptops too hot to put on your lap and battery life that needs new life? Do you want to easily, but dramatically show all of the digital photos in any given folder while the song of your choice plays in the background? Would you like to have software that takes your raw video footage and almost magically transforms it into a movie that is a surprising delight to watch? Ever wish you could rise above ordinary flat snapshots of those special places you visit and have an immersive, 3-dimensional picture of the place so you can revisit the scene looking in any direction? Know someone who's selling a home who would like to easily publish a virtual tour on the web? Have you wanted to create a file containing printed pages of your information in the Internet-standard PDF format but couldn't afford it or didn't know how to do it? Do you need a database management program that's not only easy but also powerful? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you won't want to miss Dave Whittle's presentation at our next monthly meeting!

Dave will introduce some of his favorite products that might help make life a little bit better. "Whittle's Picks" of hidden gems from companies large and small, old and new, with outstanding, innovative technologies, including Intel, 3D Album, muvee Technologies, iSeeMedia (formerly MGI), activePDF, and Alpha Software. See exciting new products from these companies and learn how digital multimedia can enhance your life. You will come away from this meeting entertained, informed, and perhaps even inspired. Dave will provide time for questions and will bring valuable door prizes, informative handouts, and actual product for sale at significantly discounted prices arranged exclusively for user groups. If you'd like to take advantage of these special prices at the meeting and take product home with you and avoid S&H charges, remember to bring your wallet in order to save $$$!

Jim Rowe, Editor
The DataBus
editor@dma.org

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