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WEEKLY SIG MEETING UPDATE 22 - 28 AUG 2010
1st Floor Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts 280 Pitt Street, Sydney http://www.sydneypc.com Sydney PCUG's Blog UPCOMING SIGs 29 Aug - 4 Sep 2010 Penrith Group The Committee & Members would like to welcome new members and subscribers who joined during the month. Ad-Aware 8.3.1.0 UPDATE (Non-commercial Freeware) download... ASCCA CONFERENCE Australian Computer Conference for Seniors 8th & 9th September An event not to be missed. Register Now..	Hello and Welcome, Don't forget this week's Main Meeting is on Tuesday evening with a chance to win some valuable prizes. See full details below. An early agenda item for the new Committee who meet recently was the election of these officers: President - Warren Wylie, Vice President - Dennis Campanella, Secretary - John Symonds, Treasurer - John Lucke, Room Bookings & SIGs Banking - Roger Foulds, Newsletter Editor - John Mathews. Please feel free to discuss any suggestions or issues you may have for the advancement of our club with any of these willing officers. At the last Friday Seniors SIG, Peter Collard took the helm and steered the group through an informative Q & A session, resolving many member's queries. He then explained the different categories of mostly free down-loadable programs available from the internet. These, plus his favourite freeware sites are included in his latest report now available on the Seniors Friday page of our club's website. In the afternoon, during the Communications SIG, we spent much of the time discussing the intricacies of emailing. This included: selecting type, opening accounts, setting rules and filters, sending photos plus lots more. You can click on our Email Tips presentation which has been published "in the clouds" using Google Docs and enjoy it at your own pace. *Tuesday 24 Aug - MAIN Meeting - 5:30pm - 8:30pm* With around seventeen new consumer notebooks and netbooks ready for release, Toshiba has something for everyone. Anthony Geronimo, Product Manager of Marketing - Consumer Division will present some of these at this meeting. He will happily delve into the details, new features and new benefits that the 2010 range from Toshiba offers us all. They have generously offered the new Toshiba Satellite T230 notebook computer as the main meeting prize! It is a Toshiba Satellite T230 in Red - a very nice portable computer with a 13.3-inch screen and more power than your basic "netbook", thus making it a very nice prize for someone in the main meeting. The details of this notebook are here: http://www.mytoshiba.com.au/products/notebooks/satellite/t230d/pst4la-00l008 and the RRP is $799. *Friday 27 Aug - Digital Photography- P. Collard - 9:30am - 12:30pm* Introduction & Software Updates (bring your thumb drive if you want to copy my downloads). ~ Select future planned topics ~ Photography Exercise : critical discussion of your efforts for last month's task - Macro Photography. ~ Q&A & tips : bring us your problems and solutions. Main Topic - Photos with high contrast & HDR processing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 22 - 28 AUG 2010

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

Sydney PCUG's Blog

UPCOMING SIGs
29 Aug - 4 Sep 2010

Penrith Group

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

Ad-Aware 8.3.1.0 UPDATE
(Non-commercial Freeware)

download...

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

An event not to be missed.

Hello and Welcome,

Don't forget this week's Main Meeting is on Tuesday evening with a chance to win some valuable prizes. See full details below.

An early agenda item for the new Committee who meet recently was the election of these officers: President - Warren Wylie, Vice President - Dennis Campanella, Secretary - John Symonds, Treasurer - John Lucke, Room Bookings & SIGs Banking - Roger Foulds, Newsletter Editor - John Mathews.

Please feel free to discuss any suggestions or issues you may have for the advancement of our club with any of these willing officers.

At the last Friday Seniors SIG, Peter Collard took the helm and steered the group through an informative Q & A session, resolving many member's queries. He then explained the different categories of mostly free down-loadable programs available from the internet. These, plus his favourite freeware sites are included in his latest report now available on the Seniors Friday page of our club's website.

In the afternoon, during the Communications SIG, we spent much of the time discussing the intricacies of emailing. This included: selecting type, opening accounts, setting rules and filters, sending photos plus lots more. You can click on our Email Tips presentation which has been published "in the clouds" using Google Docs and enjoy it at your own pace.

Tuesday 24 Aug - MAIN Meeting - 5:30pm - 8:30pm

With around seventeen new consumer notebooks and netbooks ready for release, Toshiba has something for everyone. Anthony Geronimo, Product Manager of Marketing - Consumer Division will present some of these at this meeting. He will happily delve into the details, new features and new benefits that the 2010 range from Toshiba offers us all.

They have generously offered the new Toshiba Satellite T230 notebook computer as the main meeting prize! It is a Toshiba Satellite T230 in Red - a very nice portable computer with a 13.3-inch screen and more power than your basic "netbook", thus making it a very nice prize for someone in the main meeting. The details of this notebook are here: http://www.mytoshiba.com.au/products/notebooks/satellite/t230d/pst4la-00l008 and the RRP is $799.

Friday 27 Aug - Digital Photography- P. Collard - 9:30am - 12:30pm

Introduction & Software Updates (bring your thumb drive if you want to copy my downloads). ~ Select future planned topics ~ Photography Exercise : critical discussion of your efforts for last month's task - Macro Photography. ~ Q&A & tips : bring us your problems and solutions.

Main Topic - Photos with high contrast & HDR processing

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

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.