Sydney PC User Group Incorporated ~ Members helping Members for over 22 Years ~ Visitors are always welcome
*WEEKLY SIG MEETING UPDATE 21 - 27 JUNE 2009*
1st Floor Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts 280 Pitt Street, Sydney http://www.sydneypc.com UPCOMING SIG'S 28 June - 4 July 2009 Penrith MEMBERSHIP DRIVE Sunday 28 June 2009 9.00am - 3.00pm Roundhouse University of NSW WINDOWS 7 Release date 22 October 2009 Starter Edition, Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate. MICROSOFT 'MORRO' ?Morro? the codename for the new anti-malware solution which Microsoft will be plugging to the world by the end of the year read more... MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 4 June - 23 August 2009 Ricky Maynard Portrait of a Distant Land	Hello and Welcome, To SIG Leaders and members, you will all be happy to hear that at the last Committee Meeting the Committee approved the purchase of a new computer with the latest 'bells and whistles'. Once the specifications have been sorted it will happen. It was also decided to purchase a portable projector screen. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tuesday 23 June - Main Meeting - 6 pm - 8 pm The main meeting will start with Robert Israel's sites of interest, followed by the Q & A session, so if you have any questions please be sure to bring them along. Dell have confirmed that they will be the presenter for the evening. As we all know from past presentations by Dell, we can look forward to an interesting evening. Alex was invited to Santa Clara, California for a few days with Intel et al., he will be back in time for the meeting, no doubt with tales to tell and possibly some new gadgets to show us all! Friday 26 June - Digital Photography - Peter Collard - 10 am - 12 noon Introduction & Software Updates (bring your thumb drive if you want to copy my downloads). Future planned topics. Photography Exercise: critical discussion of your efforts for last month's topic for June - "animals other than cats"! Peter has noted that it is good sunset weather if it is not raining. Q&A & tips: bring us your problems and solutions. Main Topic - Photoshop Express - the on-line version of Photoshop. If Peter's dial-up is not up to the task of him learning enough, he will fall back to The GIMP v2.6.) Please note that the PMA Australia 2009 Imaging Technology Show , exhibition hours for hobbyist and consumer visitors will be: Saturday 27 June 2.00pm to 6.00pm; Sunday 28 June 10.30 to 5.00pm. This is being held at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre Darling Harbour, pre-register to save the $20 Admission. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tip of the Week Twitter is a free social networking service that enables you to send and read each others' updates, known as tweets. To learn more on how to use Twitter the website Butterscotch has a set of videos for beginners, which will take you through the basics of signing up for an account, customise your page and how to find and follow friends and family and much more. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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, Cheers Elaine Please e-mail this newsletter to all your friends. Simply click Forward, add their e-mail addresses. Then click Send
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Sydney PC User Group Incorporated

~ Members helping Members for over 22 Years ~

Visitors are always welcome

WEEKLY SIG MEETING UPDATE 21 - 27 JUNE 2009

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

UPCOMING SIG'S

28 June - 4 July 2009

Penrith

MEMBERSHIP DRIVE

Sunday 28 June 2009

9.00am - 3.00pm

Roundhouse

University of NSW

WINDOWS 7

Release date 22 October 2009

Starter Edition, Home Basic,

Home Premium, Professional,

Enterprise, Ultimate.

MICROSOFT 'MORRO'

?Morro? the codename for the

new anti-malware solution

which Microsoft will be

plugging to the world by

the end of the year

read more...

MUSEUM OF

CONTEMPORARY ART

4 June - 23 August 2009

Ricky Maynard

Portrait of a Distant Land

Hello and Welcome,

To SIG Leaders and members, you will all be happy to hear that at the last Committee Meeting the Committee approved the purchase of a new computer with the latest 'bells and whistles'. Once the specifications have been sorted it will happen. It was also decided to purchase a portable projector screen.

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

Tuesday 23 June - Main Meeting - 6 pm - 8 pm

The main meeting will start with Robert Israel's sites of interest, followed by the Q & A session, so if you have any questions please be sure to bring them along.

Dell have confirmed that they will be the presenter for the evening. As we all know from past presentations by Dell, we can look forward to an interesting evening.

Alex was invited to Santa Clara, California for a few days with Intel et al., he will be back in time for the meeting, no doubt with tales to tell and possibly some new gadgets to show us all!

Friday 26 June - Digital Photography - Peter Collard - 10 am - 12 noon

Introduction & Software Updates (bring your thumb drive if you want to copy my downloads).

Future planned topics.

Photography Exercise: critical discussion of your efforts for last month's topic for June - "animals other than cats"! Peter has noted that it is good sunset weather if it is not raining.

Q&A & tips: bring us your problems and solutions.

Main Topic - Photoshop Express - the on-line version of Photoshop. If Peter's dial-up is not up to the task of him learning enough, he will fall back to The GIMP v2.6.)

Please note that the PMA Australia 2009 Imaging Technology Show , exhibition hours for hobbyist and consumer visitors will be: Saturday 27 June 2.00pm to 6.00pm; Sunday 28 June 10.30 to 5.00pm.

This is being held at the Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre Darling Harbour, pre-register to save the $20 Admission.

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

Tip of the Week

Twitter is a free social networking service that enables you to send and read each others' updates, known as tweets.

To learn more on how to use Twitter the website Butterscotch has a set of videos for beginners, which will take you through the basics of signing up for an account, customise your page and how to find and follow friends and family and much more.

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

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,

Cheers

Elaine

Please e-mail this newsletter to all your friends.
Simply click Forward, add their e-mail addresses.
Then click Send

Information for Members and Visitors:

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

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

Please note that all Meetings, except where specifically stated, are held on the 1st Floor,
Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, 280 Pitt Street, Sydney.