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WEEKLY SIG MEETING UPDATE 7
- 12 APRIL 2014
1st Floor
Sydney Mechanics'
School of Arts
280 Pitt Street, Sydney
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UPCOMING
SIGs
14 - 19 April 2014
14 - 19 April 2014
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Tuesdays Seniors SIG
-
Genealogy SIG
MAIN MEETINGS
22 April - Microsoft will give a major presentation on Windows 8.1
O&O
Migration Kit
can be used to move Windows XP programs and files to a new computer
can be used to move Windows XP programs and files to a new computer
ASCCA
The April newsletter is available here.
Course details for April and May are available here.
Hello and Welcome,
Support
for the very popular Windows XP operating system ends on 8 April 2014 and
that prompts us to remind you that Microsoft's Jeff Alexander will make a
major and very timely presentation at the Main Meeting on 22 April. This
is a meeting that could be of great interest to your friends, relatives
and colleagues so bring them to the meeting to learn about Windows 8.1 and
its future
development.
Details
of next week's meetings are
below.
Tuesday 8 April - Programming
- N Hoffman - 5:30pm - 8:30pm
At the March meeting
Andrew spoke about the numbering systems in computer
languages.
Martin
showed us a board he made to connect various sites via a mobile network to
an Internet server so they can be monitored from the Internet.
Lino showed
a movie from the South Australian PIC User Group of a Pick and Place
machine made by one of their members.
Members of the
group will demonstrate some new microprocessor applications and
programming examples at Tuesday's meeting. - Neville
Hoffman
Friday 11 April - Seniors - 9:30am - 12:30pm
John Lucke has prepared a two
part cloud presentation for the Fridays Seniors SIG and the first part
titled "Regaining Control of Your PC's Start-up Process" will be presented
to members at this meeting.
In this presentation he will examine many of the
options that are available to safely delay, disable or remove any
processes that may have taken over and painfully slowed a computer at
start-up time.
He will also demonstrate how members can perform
some basic cleaning procedures to help return their computers to a near
pristine condition.
Part 2 titled "Maintain Control of Your PC's
Processes" will be given at next month's meeting.
Friday 11 April -
Communications - J Lucke - 12:30pm - 3:30pm
John
Lucke has prepared another cloud presentation for this meeting which he
has called "A Review of the latest Email Back-up Apps & Services".
In this
presentation John will provide details of some of the apps and services
that can be used to back up computer based emails to the cloud and
conversely how web-mail can be saved to a computer or an external storage device.
He will
also show members how to safely compress and backup all their Windows Live
Mail emails in less than 2 seconds and restore them just as fast!!!
Question
and answer sessions will be available at both of the meetings held on Friday.
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John
Mathews
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