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WEEKLY SIG MEETING UPDATE 8 - 14 AUG 2010
1st Floor Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts 280 Pitt Street, Sydney http://www.sydneypc.com Sydney PCUG's Blog UPCOMING SIGs 15 - 21 August 2010 Seniors Tuesday Genealogy Smart Phone Web Design The Committee & Members would like to welcome new members and subscribers who joined during the month of July. CCleaner UPDATE Ver 2.34 download... ASCCA CONFERENCE Australian Computer Conference for Seniors 8th & 9th September An event not to be missed. Register Now..	Hi John, Four Special Interest Group meetings are scheduled this week with enough variety for everyone. With the weather now starting to warm up, come along and join in, you will be glad you did. Monday 9 Aug - Stocks & Shares - M. Robertson - 5.30pm - 8.30pm Malcolm attended the yearly Australian Investors Assocation conference at the Gold Coast a week ago. At this meeting, he will give an overview of the Conference and showing some of the more interesting Powerpoint slides. John Lucke will show and discuss the quite impressive return on the group's "paper" share portfolio of selected stocks during the last financial year. (Malcolm Robertson) Tuesday 10 Aug - Programming - N. Hoffman - 5.30pm - 8.30pm Come and show your projects, or see some others. Last month, Les showed samples of the bottles handled by the robot he described last month, and gave details of how they are made. Alex showed us an alarm clock radio to which he had added a Picaxe08M to play its tunes on wake-up. Bob showed videos of various multi-legged robots. Neville visited the Microzed webpage to show the new Picaxe-18M2. It replaces all the older 18 pin Picaxes, can run four separate tasks in parallel and operate from a 3volt battery pack. Stuart showed how he used Microchip's 16 bit development board to make a voltmeter. (Neville Hoffman) Friday 13 Aug - Seniors - Peter Collard - 9.30am - 12.30pm For the Friday Seniors I will be following the tried and true format of Q&A / discussions followed by a presentation on Freeware Sources and Portable Software - how to take your favorite programs with you on holidays or to diagnose problems on a friend's computer. Then we will hold elections for a permanent or rotating SIG leader ! (Peter Collard) Friday 13 Aug - Communications - John Lucke - 12.30pm - 3.30pm Firstly we will have the usual Q & A session and discussions on any aspect of internet communications. Then there will be an indepth presentation about emailing including: mailing applications and webmail options, setting up accounts, embedding and attaching image and document files, reducing file sizes, message rules, reducing spam, email security and lots more. (John Lucke) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So until next week, health and happiness, Cheers John L 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
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. 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.

Sydney PC User Group Incorporated

Members helping Members for over 24 Years

Visitors are always welcome

WEEKLY SIG MEETING UPDATE 8 - 14 AUG 2010

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

Sydney PCUG's Blog

UPCOMING SIGs
15 - 21 August 2010

Seniors Tuesday
Genealogy
Smart Phone
Web Design

The Committee & Members
would like to welcome
new members and
subscribers who joined
during the month of July.

CCleaner UPDATE
Ver 2.34

download...

ASCCA CONFERENCE
Australian Computer Conference for Seniors
8th & 9th September

An event not to be missed.

Hi John,

Four Special Interest Group meetings are scheduled this week with enough variety for everyone. With the weather now starting to warm up, come along and join in, you will be glad you did.

Monday 9 Aug - Stocks & Shares - M. Robertson - 5.30pm - 8.30pm

Malcolm attended the yearly Australian Investors Assocation conference at the Gold Coast a week ago. At this meeting, he will give an overview of the Conference and showing some of the more interesting Powerpoint slides.

John Lucke will show and discuss the quite impressive return on the group's "paper" share portfolio of selected stocks during the last financial year.

(Malcolm Robertson)

Tuesday 10 Aug - Programming - N. Hoffman - 5.30pm - 8.30pm

Come and show your projects, or see some others.

Last month, Les showed samples of the bottles handled by the robot he described last month, and gave details of how they are made.
Alex showed us an alarm clock radio to which he had added a Picaxe08M to play its tunes on wake-up.

Bob showed videos of various multi-legged robots.
Neville visited the Microzed webpage to show the new Picaxe-18M2. It replaces all the older 18 pin Picaxes, can run four separate tasks in parallel and operate from a 3volt battery pack.
Stuart showed how he used Microchip's 16 bit development board to make a voltmeter.

(Neville Hoffman)

Friday 13 Aug - Seniors - Peter Collard - 9.30am - 12.30pm

For the Friday Seniors I will be following the tried and true format of
Q&A / discussions followed by a presentation on Freeware Sources and
Portable Software - how to take your favorite programs with you on
holidays or to diagnose problems on a friend's computer.

Then we will hold elections for a permanent or rotating SIG leader !

(Peter Collard)

Friday 13 Aug - Communications - John Lucke - 12.30pm - 3.30pm

Firstly we will have the usual Q & A session and discussions on any aspect of internet communications. Then there will be an indepth presentation about emailing including: mailing applications and webmail options, setting up accounts, embedding and attaching image and document files, reducing file sizes, message rules, reducing spam, email security and lots more.

(John Lucke)

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

So until next week, health and happiness,

Cheers

John L

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

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.

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.