Merle started the meeting at 6:15pm by welcoming everyone and introducing the officers. There were discussions about starting a Windows SIG possibly at HCC. Mary Sheridan passed around a sheet to see how much interest there might be in this. Merle announced the start of a 50/50 drawing at the meetings, separate from the software drawings. As always donations for the tickets are $1.00 each or 6 tickets for $5.00.

One of the members asked about information on electronic filing of taxes and using Tele-File. It was discussed and hopefully cleared up by the other members at the meeting.

Mary Sheridan announced how important it was for everyone to be involved and asked that some try to attend the board meetings.

At 6:30pm Dick Kellerman, a self-proclaimed User Group Evangelist, began his presentation. He was showing two programs by MGI software, Photo Suite and Video Wave. He explained that both programs needed a greater resolution than our projector provided and apologized that they wouldn't appear as good as possible. Photo Suite is a complete photograph manipulation program. It allows for touching up, resizing and photo album creation. You can make slide shows from various media, scanned pictures, captured pictures, digital cameras and photo disks. A free upgrade will be available for those who bought Photo Suite, and the upgraded program will include the ability to morph photos and use on the Internet.

The Video Wave program was for manipulation of videos. He couldn't demonstrate this program since it required a higher resolution than the 640 x 480 our projector produced. He offered a great price for the software purchased at the meeting.

The door prizes were MGI Suite won by Kevan Sheridan, Norton Utilities won by Jim Weber and Magic Cap won by Roger Waters. Roger also won the 50/50 drawing, so it was a good meeting for him. u