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WEEKLY SIG MEETING UPDATE 8 - 14 February 2009 | |
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1st
Floor January Main
Meeting Winner
Dell Mini 9
Notebook
 Steve South
Upcoming
SIG'S
15 - 21
February
2009
 Skype 4.0 for
Windows
 Firefox 3.0.6
CHINESE PROVERB
QUOTE
Not until just before dawn do people sleep
best; not until people
get old do they
become wise.
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Hello and Welcome, There seems to be an opinion that Windows 7 will be the all to end all (a story thats been heard before). This months PC Authority magazine carries an article on 30 great reasons as to why one should ditch Vista. On the PC Authority web site it is reported that there will be 5 versions of Windows 7 namely Windows 7 Starter, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise and Ultimate, want to know more?
Monday 9 February - Stocks & Shares - Malcolm Robertson - 6 pm - 8 pm The past few months have seen dramatic changes in the
financial industry world wide with heaps of doom and gloom being the
only predictions from the PM and Treasurer! Come along
to the first meeting for the year 2009 and see what your fellow members
think/forecast for the future of the markets. Tuesday 10 February - Programming - Neville Hoffman - 6 pm - 8 pm At the January meeting Neville showed two YouTube movies about cutting polystyrene foam with a hotwire under CNC control. They showed an industrial machine at work and an Instructable on building a DIY version. Andrew L. reviewed his experience in programming computers with multiple CPU's and Wayne discussed the assembler code he wrote for last month's TV display of a PIC output. This month we will see some new applications members have made with microprocessors. Friday 13 February - Seniors - Bill Parry - 10 am - 12 noon Friday Seniors SIG will spend some time on
Vista'. Terry will bring along his laptop and those
of you who have some experience using
Vista can walk us through the fundamentals. Colin
Bolton may also bring in his new laptop to show us how he has reconfigured
some of the interface etc. Friday 13 February - Communications - Terry Eakin - 1 pm - 3 pm Terry will
continue with 'Vista' to solve communication problems when using the
operating system. Terry will also
bring along some text books on the Windows
Vista and Office 2007. There will
also be a discussion on saving of documents in Office Professional
2007. Many users cannot accept a word document in the .docx format so
they are saved in the old file (compatible) of .doc or .xls when using
Excel and this does remove some of the enhanced features of Office
2007. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You can use this utility as a primary registry backup utility, apart from System Restore. ERUNT can be downloaded from Majorgeeks. ERUNT sets up a shortcut in the Startup group, that backs up the registry for the current day, during the first Windows startup for the day. This feature is provided by Autoback.exe add-on for ERUNT. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please remember if your e-mail address is changed for any reason at all, unless you tell me your new address then you will not receive these weekly updates! Any change of address should be notified to changedetails@sydneypc.com So until next week, health and happiness. Cheers Elaine
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