at HARA Arena

Saturday, August 23RD 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Sunday, August 24TH 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Approaches To Backing Up Your Hard Drive

Presented by Gene Barlow, User Group Relations
by George Gibbs, Co-Editor, The DataBus
Many DMA® members and attendees of past Computerfest® shows are familiar with the excellent hard drive utility products, PartitionMagic and Drive Image, offered by the PowerQuest Corporation. Our August General Meeting welcomes back, and will feature, Gene Barlow of User Group Relations, who will be giving us a very informative presentation on how to set up and operate a successful backup program for your computer’s hard drives ...   more  »

Smashing Spyware

by Jerry Wonderly, Regular Columnist
In this day and age, we are constantly bombarded with spam, telemarketing calls, and Internet snooping. Luckily, we are not defenseless. Here’s a great site to get off some of those spam list ...   more  »

Linux: The Elusive Command Prompt

by Nancy J. Christolear, DMA® member
In 2000, I took a class in Unix at Sinclair. We signed into the Unix system through a telnet application using a Windows desktop. I noticed that many of my fellow students were having the same problem --dealing with the command prompt ...   more  »

Computerfest®

Have A Little Extra Time On Your Hands?

Computerfest® Increases Vendor Participation

Free Pizza And Subs

Important Booths @ Computerfest® ...   more  »

Review - Palm Zire M150 Handheld

by Dan Woodward, Regular Columnist
For those of you who are not familiar with the Palm, here is a short bit of history. Originally known as the Palm Pilot and marketed by 3Com, the Palm started out as a handheld computer that focused on long battery life. It had a touch sensitive screen, a proprietary operating system, and greyscale graphics ...   more  »

Technology.talk —
Those Little Silver Disks

by Patrick J. Suarez, Regular Columnist

Tape and film are dead. Long live their…memory.

Digital is here for good and it has finally conquered the last bastion of analog technology: still photos and movies made by home users ...   more  »

DMA® Board of Trustee Elections

Elections are held at the annual General Meeting in September. The DMA® by-laws state specific requirements to be a nominee for a Board of Trustee or Officer position.  Each year, three people will be elected as Board of Trustees for a three (3) year term by the membership ...   more  »

Dayton LANfest

Imagine a large room filled with 200 hardcore computer gamers and their favorite machines, playing some of the hottest games on a high speed, high performance, custom built network for bragging rights and prizes from some of the biggest name vendors in the business. Thanks to local game organization ...   more  »

Get Ready For GrabTV, Making The Game

by Lincoln Berry III
Remember when you were a child and wished that you could reach into your television and pull anything you saw out of it? Well, now you can…

GrabTV combines Interactive Television with e-Commerce and makes shopping through your television quick, easy, and even fun ...   more  »

The Deals Guy
Bob (The Cheapskate) Click

Some time ago I noticed $1.80 on my phone bill for incorporating the long distance charges on it. I called the Phone Company and asked to be billed separately by Sprint, my long distance provider, to save the $1.80. No postage to pay the LD bill since I do it on the computer. Since my cell phone plan’s minutes are local all over the US ...   more  »

DMA® In Pictures - Recent Events

- Photos by Millard Mier III

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Member News

This month we have received word of the recent wedding of DMA® member Ron Williamitis to Deb Oluaghin. The wedding took place on June 14, 2003.
Following the ceremony, Ron and Deb enjoyed their honeymoon aboard a cruise from San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Upon their return, the happy couple has taken up residence in Oakwood.
We want to sincerely congratulate Ron and Deb on their recent nuptials and send a wish for every happiness that marriage can bring to their lives.

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