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WEEKLY SIG MEETING UPDATE 26 NOVEMBER-1 DECEMBER 2012
1st Floor Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts 280 Pitt Street, Sydney http://www.sydneypc.com Sydney PCUG's Blog UPCOMING SIGs 10 - 15 December 2012 Programming SIG Fridays Seniors SIG Communications SIG Web Design SIG There are no meetings in the week commencing 3 December Finerday is a program to help the elderly use the Internet. It can be seen here... Recuva 1.44.778 Download...	Hello and Welcome, Alex Zaharov-Reutt has arranged another fine presenter for the Main Meeting on Tuesday. On Saturday, there is another interesting meeting arranged for the Penrith Group at the St Clair High School. Details of both meetings are below: *Tuesday 27 November - MAIN Meeting - 5:30pm - 8:30pm* We're nearly at the end of 2012, but there's still November to fully get through and all of December to go first, along with this final main meeting of the year, complete with our traditional Christmas Party - an event that has been moved to the end of the meeting so there's no rush to get back in to hear the presentation and so that we have a bit more of a party! We will, however, have a presentation to get through first, after Robert Israel's rundown on new business, new discoveries, new news, new sites and new software, and after what will probably be a slightly shortened Q&A session, we'll launch straight into our guest presenter, Derek Austin, Nuance Sales Director, Dragon Integrated Technologies! Derek has visited the Sydney PC Users Group several times over the years, with his earlier visit this year to show us just how far voice recognition, voice transcription, voice command and voice interaction software has advanced to the heights we see on the iOS, Android and today, the Windows Phone 8 platforms, along with demonstrations of Nuance's latest apps. Next Tuesday, the 27th of November, Derek is back to show us the very latest versions of Dragon Naturally Speaking 12 for PC, and Dragon Dictate 3.0 for Mac, with both using the same Dragon voice engine. Dragon Dictate 3.0 for Mac only launched in late September 2012, and the latest PC version only a couple of months before that, and Derek will demonstrate to us just how far and fluid voice recognition, voice transcription and powerful computer control can be achieved on PCs and Macs - simply by speaking. Given the polished nature of Dragon's latest 2012 editions, all you need to do is learn the voice commands to use the system, and once you do, a powerful new way to use and interact with your computer is unleashed, as Derek will powerfully demonstrate on the night, and naturally, there'll be a couple of copies of Dragon software to win on the night, which could make a great Christmas for yourself or some lucky friend or relative So, come along and see how the 2012 version of voice recognition software can change and improve your life at the Sydney PC Users Group Main Meeting - a place where you always get to "voice" your opinion, whatever the presentation! See you then and see you there, Cheers Alex. *Saturday 1 December - Penrith Group - F. Bowman - 2:00pm - 5:00pm* Frank Bowman will start the meeting with a question session around the table to enable members to share problems, advice and tips. At the group's last meeting they looked at a site that listed an amazingly large number of search engines. The site, located at http://www.thesearchenginelist.com/, categorised the search engines into specific groups, such as accounting, blogs, books, business, e-mails, games, legal areas and medical fields. A few old favourites, such as AltaVista and excite, still exist. At this meeting the group will: - use two freeware programs which convert video files from one format to another, targeting flash video files in particular; - look at some eBook freeware; - see if DOS BOX will run some old DOS files in Windows 7; - use the audio editor Audacity; - add a few paragraphs to a website using HTML code; and - explore a recently released Microsoft eBook running Windows 8. The group meets at St Clair High School, Endeavour Avenue, St Clair. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Cheers, John Mathews 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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Sydney PC User Group Incorporated

Members helping Members for over 25 Years

Visitors are always welcome

WEEKLY SIG MEETING UPDATE 26 NOVEMBER-1 DECEMBER 2012

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

Sydney PCUG's Blog

UPCOMING SIGs
10 - 15 December 2012

Programming SIG
Fridays Seniors SIG
Communications SIG
Web Design SIG

There are no meetings in the week commencing 3 December

Finerday

is a program to help the elderly use the Internet.

It can be seen here...

Recuva 1.44.778

Download...

Hello and Welcome,

Alex Zaharov-Reutt has arranged another fine presenter for the Main Meeting on Tuesday. On Saturday, there is another interesting meeting arranged for the Penrith Group at the St Clair High School. Details of both meetings are below:

Tuesday 27 November - MAIN Meeting - 5:30pm - 8:30pm

We're nearly at the end of 2012, but there's still November to fully get through and all of December to go first, along with this final main meeting of the year, complete with our traditional Christmas Party - an event that has been moved to the end of the meeting so there's no rush to get back in to hear the presentation and so that we have a bit more of a party!

We will, however, have a presentation to get through first, after Robert Israel's rundown on new business, new discoveries, new news, new sites and new software, and after what will probably be a slightly shortened Q&A session, we'll launch straight into our guest presenter, Derek Austin, Nuance Sales Director, Dragon Integrated Technologies!

Derek has visited the Sydney PC Users Group several times over the years, with his earlier visit this year to show us just how far voice recognition, voice transcription, voice command and voice interaction software has advanced to the heights we see on the iOS, Android and today, the Windows Phone 8 platforms, along with demonstrations of Nuance's latest apps.

Next Tuesday, the 27th of November, Derek is back to show us the very latest versions of Dragon Naturally Speaking 12 for PC, and Dragon Dictate 3.0 for Mac, with both using the same Dragon voice engine.

Dragon Dictate 3.0 for Mac only launched in late September 2012, and the latest PC version only a couple of months before that, and Derek will demonstrate to us just how far and fluid voice recognition, voice transcription and powerful computer control can be achieved on PCs and Macs - simply by speaking.

Given the polished nature of Dragon's latest 2012 editions, all you need to do is learn the voice commands to use the system, and once you do, a powerful new way to use and interact with your computer is unleashed, as Derek will powerfully demonstrate on the night, and naturally, there'll be a couple of copies of Dragon software to win on the night, which could make a great Christmas for yourself or some lucky friend or relative

So, come along and see how the 2012 version of voice recognition software can change and improve your life at the Sydney PC Users Group Main Meeting - a place where you always get to "voice" your opinion, whatever the presentation!

See you then and see you there,

Cheers

Alex.

Saturday 1 December - Penrith Group - F. Bowman - 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Frank Bowman will start the meeting with a question session around the table to enable members to share problems, advice and tips.

At the group's last meeting they looked at a site that listed an amazingly large number of search engines. The site, located at http://www.thesearchenginelist.com/, categorised the search engines into specific groups, such as accounting, blogs, books, business, e-mails, games, legal areas and medical fields. A few old favourites, such as AltaVista and excite, still exist.

At this meeting the group will:
- use two freeware programs which convert video files from one format to another, targeting flash video files in particular;
- look at some eBook freeware;
- see if DOS BOX will run some old DOS files in Windows 7;
- use the audio editor Audacity;
- add a few paragraphs to a website using HTML code; and
- explore a recently released Microsoft eBook running Windows 8.

The group meets at St Clair High School, Endeavour Avenue, St Clair.

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

Cheers,

John Mathews

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.