Sydney PC User Group Incorporated Helping Members for 30 Years Visitors are always welcome
Meetings During the Week 2 - 7 February 2015
1st Floor Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts 280 Pitt Street, Sydney http://www.sydneypc.com Sydney PCUG's Blog 9 - 14 February 2015 Programming SIG Friday Forum Communications SIG Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Read a review here.	Hello and Welcome, The Penrith Group will meet next Saturday and details of their meeting are below: *Saturday 7 February - Penrith Group - F Bowman - 2:00pm - 5:00pm* At the last meeting of the Penrith group, Tony gave an excellent summary of some of the features of a web building program, Active X5, which would be useful for both professional web designers and beginners. The group also used Paragon software to make an image backup of a C: drive in a Windows 8.1 laptop. Making the archive files took almost an hour. Restoring the files onto another disk took about half an hour. The group also found it interesting to peruse a list of the top dozen tech gadgets of the year which were outlined in an article in "The Australian" newspaper. The list included the GoPro Hero camera, a drone, Samsung's Note 4 large phone, LG's curved TV, the Google Chromecast dongle, Apple's iPhone 6, Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 tablet and LG's G Watch R. At this month's meeting the group will discuss the following three topics: (a) Virtual Private Networks including how they work and some of the popular VPN services; (b) The Internet of Things, and how it could change our homes; and (c) Some of the new features in Windows 10. In addition the group will have a Question and Answer session around the table to allow members to share problems, advice and tips. Visitors are always welcome. However, if you intend to go to the meeting please ring Frank Bowman on 4722 2456 for directions. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ John Mathews
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Sydney PC User Group Incorporated

Helping Members for 30 Years

Visitors are always welcome

Meetings During the Week 2 - 7 February 2015

1st Floor
Sydney Mechanics'
School of Arts
280 Pitt Street, Sydney
http://www.sydneypc.com

Sydney PCUG's Blog

9 - 14 February 2015

Programming SIG
Friday Forum
Communications SIG

Microsoft Surface Pro 3

Read a review here.

Hello and Welcome,

The Penrith Group will meet next Saturday and details of their meeting are below:

Saturday 7 February - Penrith Group - F Bowman - 2:00pm - 5:00pm

At the last meeting of the Penrith group, Tony gave an excellent summary of some of the features of a web building program, Active X5, which would be useful for both professional web designers and beginners.

The group also used Paragon software to make an image backup of a C: drive in a Windows 8.1 laptop. Making the archive files took almost an hour. Restoring the files onto another disk took about half an hour.

The group also found it interesting to peruse a list of the top dozen tech gadgets of the year which were outlined in an article in "The Australian" newspaper. The list included the GoPro Hero camera, a drone, Samsung's Note 4 large phone, LG's curved TV, the Google Chromecast dongle, Apple's iPhone 6, Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 tablet and LG's G Watch R.

At this month's meeting the group will discuss the following three topics:
(a) Virtual Private Networks including how they work and some of the popular VPN services;
(b) The Internet of Things, and how it could change our homes; and
(c) Some of the new features in Windows 10.

In addition the group will have a Question and Answer session around the table to allow members to share problems, advice and tips.

Visitors are always welcome. However, if you intend to go to the meeting please ring Frank Bowman on 4722 2456 for directions.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

John Mathews

Information for Members and Visitors:

All Meetings, unless specifically stated above, are held on the
1st Floor, Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney.

Sydney PC User Group's FREE newsletter: Subscribe Un-subscribe

Go to Sydney PC User Group's: Website Events Calendar

Changing your e-mail address? Please e-mail your new address to newsletter@sydneypc.com

DISCLAIMER: This Newsletter is provided “As Is” without warranty of any kind.

Each user or reader of this Newsletter assumes complete risk as to the accuracy and subsequent use of its contents.