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The next ordinary meeting will be on Monday 1 March 2010. General information on computers will be provided by Russell. On 8 March there will be a special meeting including a beginners class.

Special Meetings with Beginners' lessons are on the second and fourth Mondays of each month, and the fifth if there is one (in March, May, August and November). Bring your own laptop if you have one.

On Monday 25 Jan, Russell showed us some of the differences between XP, Vista and Windows 7. Bill posed a few questions for himself many of which he was able to answer.

From February we will revert to the normal timetable of ordinary meetings on the first and third Mondays, and Special meetings on the 2nd and 4th Mondays. March, May, August and November will have an extra normal meeting on the 5th Monday of those lucky months.
Bring your laptop computers to the Special meetings.

Last year we had a Q&A session with Ruth Coulson answering many tricky questions about Photoshop. Who would have thought of a Magic Extractor? Well done, Ruth! After m/t Bill showed us how to save videos from a tape player onto a hard-drive in preparation for making a DVD. It involved the purchase of a video card to join the two machines, and the use of Windows Movie Maker© to edit the footage. Very interesting!

Last year at a Special meeting, Sheila gave a session on how to cut and paste extra people into your family photo. Just remember this - magnetic lassoe, image/transform/free transform.

Previously, Alan told us about Plug-ins to Photoshop Elements4. Russell then showed us the best way to add attachments to e-mails.

Another day, Russell reminded us about a great audio-editing program called Audacity.

Some time ago, Bill showed us how to capture a still image from a video. Recently Russell showed us how to print labels on CDs and DVDs. After m/t Sophie showed us how to use Word help files.

On 22 September Neville Perry presented a session on making text with photos inside it. Really good stuff! At the same time there were lessons for beginners run by Brian and George.

Once (18/8) Bill Ardus gave a talk on Burning with NERO, and Downloading and Saving a Program.

Last year Neville showed us two amazing new programs which he got off the internet. The programs are:
1- Wondershare Photo Collage Studio, and
2- Nature Illusion Studio.
If you want to try them out, just Google the product and download it. Thanks Neville for an excellent presentation.

Ages ago, Alan showed us how to download Paint from the internet. After m/t Sophie showed us how to download drivers, those handy little programs that make things work. A summary of Sophie's talk can be seen by clicking here. Just close Word to return here.

A recent talk on inserting Excel worksheets into Word documents can be re-visited by clicking here. Click on Back arrow to return here.

Last year Russell showed us how to transfer our old vinyl records to MP3 format. Fantastic! He also introduced us to Audacity, a free program for editing sound files, another excellent freebie.

Aeons ago, Brian demonstrated the transfer of photographic slides to a computer, using his amazing invention. Brian is happy to transfer your slides to .jpeg format on a disk for 20¢ a slide, and $2 per DVD or CD. Ask him at a meeting.

Alan showed us how to make a DVD or CD video of photos, to be played on a DVD player, by Aunty Flo.

I think we are very lucky to have members of this calibre who never fail to come up with something interesting and useful. Even if you know nothing about computers, you will find these meetings informative and fascinating. Also we had four visitors who saw our little para in Agenda in the local paper.

On Monday 31/3 Russell talked to us about Using a Flash Drive. After m/t Bill showed us how to add music to our documents. Thanks chaps, very interesting!

Our new projector greatly improves the visibility of our display, and even works well with the lights on. Well done Alan!

Don't forget, if you receive any dodgy-looking e-mails or unlikely stories, check 'em out at Hoax-Slayer here. All known myths and hoaxes catered for.

Recently Lynette gave a talk on Appropriate Handling of E-mails. This talk is available here. Please have a read of this page if you send and receive e-mails.

Feel free to click on links below to visit some interesting and informative pages, here and elsewhere.

Ruth's Spybot Notes Noel's handy household hints.
Noel's computer lessons. About Seniors.com
SeniorNet Assn. Seniors Computer Clubs Association
Greypath Lynette's Rules for sending e-mails nicely
Sophie's talk on Drivers Talk on inserting XL worksheets in Word