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WEEKLY SIG MEETING UPDATE 9 - 15 MAY 2010
1st Floor Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts 280 Pitt Street, Sydney http://www.sydneypc.com Sydney PCUG's Blog UPCOMING SIGs 16 - 22 May 2010 Tuesday Seniors Genealogy SmartPhone ASCCA NEWSLETTER read more... ASCCA CLUB COMPETITIONS 2010 Competition Guidelines... VIVID SYDNEY 27 May - 21 June 2010 Various CBD Locations read more...	Hello & Welcome, Monday 10 May - Stocks & Shares - M. Robertson - 5.30pm - 8.30pm The Market is really Falling. Dow down 350 points last night (Thursday). Will be interesting to see how the ASX is at the close of this Friday. On Monday, 10 May 2010, we will talk about the market. Also talk about some new ETF's (Exchange Traded Funds on the ASX. Malcolm may be 15 minutes late (he is attending a Mining Conference). John Lucke will be coming and will open up. Hopefully John Ewing will get the milk! (Malcolm Robertson) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tuesday 11 May - Programming - N. Hoffman - 5.30pm - 8.30pm At the April meeting Anthony showed an upgraded version of his digital clock. He built it this time using six of the GAL16V8 programmable chips on predrilled copper strip board. John demonstrated wire wrapping technique, and gave Anthony some wrapping tools and sample boards. Bob showed the SPCUG blog and the Snagit screen capture program. Neville showed the January 2009 Silicon Chip article on remote wireless control using a PIC and a transceiver. Alex demonstrated RocketDoc, the free application launcher. He also showed the free download OSC_DLL, from which he is trying to build a software oscilloscope. At the May meeting we'll see some new microprocessor applications and programming examples. Come and show your projects, or see some others. (Neville Hoffman) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Friday 14 May - Seniors - B. Parry - 9.30am - 12.30pm I will have a number of small, but nevertheless I think interesting, items to review and discuss on Friday; they include: PDF readers Acronis Disk Director Suite 10 The 'Alureon' rootkit Windows Sysinternals Windows Secrets etc. (Bill Parry) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Friday 14 May - Communications - 12.30pm - 3.30pm Unfortunately there is no information available as to the topic for this months Communications SIG, but you can be sure that your fellow members will have put together an interesting topic for you all. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Saturday 15 May - Web Design - R. Hume - 1.30pm - 4.30pm We installed a copy of Photoshop 6 for the SIG to use when photo enhancing. Bob showed us some of the features of KompoZer. We found it opened best using Google Chrome. Some features did not show in Firefox or IE8. We will look further into NetObjectsFusion this month. (Robert Hume) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tip of the Week SmillaEnlarger want to enlarge a picture SmillaEnlarger uses a simple interface, it has two preview windows, one with the complete image and the other with the area under the zoom grid. You only have to drag the grid to resize the image. The first result may not be the best one, so use the available sliders until you obtain the picture of your liking. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So until next week, health and happiness. Cheers Elaine Please remember if your e-mail address is changed for any reason at all, unless you tell me your new address you will not receive these weekly updates! Any change of address should be notified to changedetails@sydneypc.com
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The Market is really Falling. Dow down 350 points last night (Thursday). Will be interesting to see how the ASX is at the close of this Friday.

On Monday, 10 May 2010, we will talk about the market. Also talk about some new ETF's (Exchange Traded Funds on the ASX.

Malcolm may be 15 minutes late (he is attending a Mining Conference). John Lucke will be coming and will open up. Hopefully John Ewing will get the milk!

(Malcolm Robertson)

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Tuesday 11 May - Programming - N. Hoffman - 5.30pm - 8.30pm

At the April meeting Anthony showed an upgraded version of his digital clock. He built it this time using six of the GAL16V8 programmable chips on predrilled copper strip board. John demonstrated wire wrapping technique, and gave Anthony some wrapping tools and sample boards. Bob showed the SPCUG blog and the Snagit screen capture program. Neville showed the January 2009 Silicon Chip article on remote wireless control using a PIC and a transceiver. Alex demonstrated RocketDoc, the free application launcher. He also showed the free download OSC_DLL, from which he is trying to build a software oscilloscope.

At the May meeting we'll see some new microprocessor applications and programming examples. Come and show your projects, or see some others.

(Neville Hoffman)

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Friday 14 May - Seniors - B. Parry - 9.30am - 12.30pm

I will have a number of small, but nevertheless I think interesting, items to review and discuss on Friday; they include:

PDF readers
Acronis Disk Director Suite 10
The 'Alureon' rootkit
Windows Sysinternals
Windows Secrets etc.

(Bill Parry)

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Friday 14 May - Communications - 12.30pm - 3.30pm

Unfortunately there is no information available as to the topic for this months Communications SIG, but you can be sure that your fellow members will have put together an interesting topic for you all.

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Saturday 15 May - Web Design - R. Hume - 1.30pm - 4.30pm

We installed a copy of Photoshop 6 for the SIG to use when photo enhancing.

Bob showed us some of the features of KompoZer. We found it opened best using Google Chrome. Some features did not show in Firefox or IE8.

We will look further into NetObjectsFusion this month.

(Robert Hume)

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

Tip of the Week

SmillaEnlarger want to enlarge a picture SmillaEnlarger uses a simple interface, it has two preview windows, one with the complete image and the other with the area under the zoom grid. You only have to drag the grid to resize the image. The first result may not be the best one, so use the available sliders until you obtain the picture of your liking.

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So until next week, health and happiness.

Cheers

Elaine

Please remember if your e-mail address is changed for any reason at all, unless you tell me your new address you will not receive these weekly updates! Any change of address should be notified to changedetails@sydneypc.com