Tutorials and Presentations

This area of the site is intended for the downloading of tutorials and presentations that I have put together to help others help themselves. If you are still having problems after going through these tutorials, you may contact me for an appointment to resolve your individual situations at my standard hourly rate.

You can view my PowerPoint presentations by selecting the "Open" option when prompted for the download within Internet Explorer. Alternately, you can download the presentation to your computer for viewing at a later time.

For those of you who do not have Microsoft PowerPoint installed on your computer, you may need to install a viewer to use these presentations. Microsoft has a free one available. Click here to get a copy now.

Home Networking

On Tuesday, August 30th, 2005, I gave a presentation to TUGNET (The Users' Group Network) on home networking. This presentation served as a walk-through in setting up a home networking using Windows XP, sharing resources such as files and printers, and gave overall security tips to avoid being hacked. You can download a copy of the presentation here.

Freeware and Shareware

On Tuesday, November 29th, 2005, I gave my second presentation to the members of TUGNET. This time it was a little less technical and a lot more general. I discussed various applications that were either "free" or fell in the "shareware" realm. I covered topics such as PC Maintenance, Music, Graphics and even a hardware emulator. The PowerPoint for this presentation links to the websites for each product. You can download a copy of the presentation here.

Digital Audio

On Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006, I spoke with members of TUGNET about digital audio, explaining Codecs, Digital Rights Management and some nifty applications that I enjoy using for the subject.  A copy of this presentation can be found here.

Digital Video Editing

On Tuesday, September 19th, 2006, I gave a presentation to the members of TUGNET on Digital Video Editing utilizing Pinnacle System's Studio Plus 10.5, Titanium Edition.  The purpose of this presentation was to encourage people to reduce the bloated home movies that they subject others to watch into a more tolerable format that would hopefully be entertaining.  For the demonstration, I shot one hour of footage of my dog (hey, I don't have kids, okay?!) and edited it down to 5 minutes.

Even at 1/12th of the running time, it is obvious to me that unless someone really cares about the video subject, it will still be boring to them.

A copy of the PowerPoint associated with this presentation can be found here, while a copy of the edited footage that I shot can be found here.