Previous Meetings Agenda| 6 April 2021 |
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| Event Cancelled | This event is cancelled due to the current Covid-19 Lockdown level 1. Keep Safe! | | |
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| 2 March 2021 |
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| Event Cancelled | This event is cancelled due to the current Covid-19 Lockdown level 3.
Keep Safe! | | |
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| 2 February 2021 |
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| Event Cancelled | This event is cancelled due to the new Covid-19 Lockdown level 3.
Keep Safe! | | |
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| 1 December 2020 |
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| Pi-Hole | Network-wide Ad Blocking black hole for Internet advertisements using a Raspberry Pi | Wayne Evans |  |
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| UltraSearch Free | UltraSearch Free looks for files and folders and presents the results in just a few seconds. | Mike Robertson | |
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| 3 November 2020 |
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| Windows 10 PowerToys | Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows | Mike Robertson | |
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| Inkscape | Inkscape is a professional vector graphics editor for Linux, Windows and macOS. It's free and open source. | Mike Robertson | |
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| 6 October 2020 |
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| Event Cancelled | This event is cancelled due to the Covid-19 Lockdown. Talks have been moved to the 3rd of November 2020 (we are working on this happening). Keep Safe! | | |
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| 2 September 2020 |
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| Event Cancelled | This event is cancelled due to the Covid-19 Lockdown. Talks have been moved to the 6th of October 2020 (optimistically). Keep Safe! | | |
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| 4 August 2020 |
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| Event Cancelled | This event is cancelled due to the Covid-19 Lockdown. Talks have been moved to the 1st of September 2020 (optimistically). Keep Safe! | | |
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| 7 July 2020 |
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| Event Cancelled | This event is cancelled due to the Covid-19 Lockdown. Talks have been moved to the 4th of August 2020 (optimistically). Keep Safe! | | |
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| 2 June 2020 |
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| Event Cancelled | This event is cancelled due to the Covid-19 Lockdown and curfew. Talks have been moved to the 7th of July 2020. Keep Safe! | | |
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| 5 May 2020 |
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| Event Cancelled | This event is cancelled due to the Covid-19 Lockdown and curfew. Talks have been moved to the 2nd of June 2020 (optimistically). Keep Safe! | | |
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| 7 April 2020 |
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| Event Cancelled | This event is cancelled due to the Covid-19 Lockdown. Talks have been moved to the 5th of May 2020. Keep Safe! | | |
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| 3 March 2020 |
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| AGM | Annual General Meeting | Everyone | |
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| Microsoft Teams | Communication and Collaboration platform in Office 365 | Wayne Evans | |
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| Komposer (Held over until April) | Free open source WYSIWYG HTML Editor | Mike Robertson | |
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| 4 February 2020 |
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| Samsung Dex | Use your Samsung mobile as a desktop PC | Wayne Evans | |
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| nomacs Image Viewer | Free Image viewer and editor | Mike Robertson | |
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| Virtual Box | A free virtual machine environment | Mike Robertson | |
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| 3 December 2019 |
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| The Gadget Show | Bring any interesting gadgets you think may interest others - we will bring ours! | Various | |
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| Social | Year End Party | All | |
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| 5 November 2019 |
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| Sli.do Audience interaction tool | Crowdsource the best questions from your audience and make everyone part of the conversation. | Wayne Evans | |
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| Windows System Control Center Part 2 | WSCC is a Windows application, which allows you to install, update, execute and organize the utilities from various system utility suites such as NirSoft and Sysinternals | Mike Robertson | |
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| Windows System Control Center Part 3 | WSCC is a Windows application, which allows you to install, update, execute and organize the utilities from various system utility suites such as NirSoft and Sysinternals | Mike Robertson | |
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| 1 October 2019 |
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| Zoom Video Conferencing and Recording | Zoom is a cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, collaboration, chat, and webinars | Wayne Evans | |
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| Malwarebytes | Blocks malware, hackers, viruses, ransomware, and malicious websites that traditional antivirus isn’t smart enough to stop | Mike Robertson | |
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| Windows System Control Center Part 2 (Postponed) | WSCC is a Windows application, which allows you to install, update, execute and organize the utilities from various system utility suites such as NirSoft and Sysinternals | Mike Robertson | |
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| 3 September 2019 |
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| Building an Arduino Robot | A demonstration of an Arduino controlled robotic vehicle | Wayne Evans | |
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| Exact Duplicate Finder | Find and manage duplicate files | Mike Robertson | |
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| Windows System Control Center Part 1 | WSCC is a Windows application, which allows you to install, update, execute and organize the utilities from various system utility suites such as NirSoft and Sysinternals | Mike Robertson | |
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| 6 August 2019 |
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| Microsoft Word Online | Using the Online version of Microsoft Word 365 | Wayne Evans | |
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| DuckDuckGo Search Engine | A search engine focused on user privacy | Mike Robertson | |
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| Windows System Control Center Part 1 (Held over to September) | WSCC is a Windows application, which allows you to install, update, execute and organize the utilities from various system utility suites such as NirSoft and Sysinternals | Mike Robertson | |
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| 9 July 2019 |
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| Icecream PDF Editor | Create and Edit PDF documents | Ted Phillips | |
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| WizTree File Space Analyser | Use WizTree to find the files that take up the most space on your disk | Mike Robertson | |
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| ToolWiz Care | ToolWiz Care is a suite of utilities | Mike Robertson | |
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| 4 June 2019 |
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| SharePoint | A Document Management system that integrates with Microsoft Office | Wayne Evans | |
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| Media Player Classic - BE Edition | A free and open source audio and video player for Windows | Mike Robertson | |
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| QuickMon 5 | A tool to monitor and alert on various local and remote resources and services | Mike Robertson | |
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| 14 May 2019 |
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| Microsoft Edge with Chromium Browser Engine | The next version of Microsoft Edge browser built on the open source Chromium engine | Wayne Evans | |
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| Microsoft PowerBI Desktop | Free desktop application to view and visualize data | Mike Robertson | |
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| RoboCopy and RoboCop | RoboCopy is a powerful (but little known) command line utility that has been built in Windows since Windows Vista that copies files and directories | Mike Robertson | |
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| 2 April 2019 |
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| Epic Browser | A chromium based browser with a specific focus on web security | Wayne Evans | |
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| DisplayFusion | Manage Windows display behaviour | Mike Robertson | |
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| Windows 10 Next Version | A demo of the imminent 1903 version of Windows 10 | Mike Robertson | |
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| 5 March 2019 |
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| Annual General Meeting | | All | |
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| Android Auto | Your smart driving assistant that helps you stay focused, connected and entertained. | Wayne Evans | |
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| Outlook Add-ins | Make Outlook work better for you using some free add-ins. | Mike Robertson | |
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| 5 February 2019 |
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| Fitbit Ionic Smartwatch | Demonstration of the Fitbit Ionic smart watch and fitness tracker | Mike Robertson | |
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| Vivaldi Web Browser | The alternative, highly customizable web browser from the creator of Opera | Wayne Evans | |
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| Input Director | Freeware software that allows mouse and keyboard access to multiple PCs | Mike Robertson | |
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| 4 December 2018 |
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| Video streaming services | Comparing Netflix, Showmax and Black | Wayne Evans | |
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| End of year party | Time to socialize | All | |
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| 6 November 2018 |
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| NAPS2 | Not Another PDF Scanner 2 - Convert scanned graphic PDFs to searchable text PDFs and other functionality | Ted Phillips | |
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| Microsoft Outlook Rules | Use rules to manage your email | Mike Robertson | |
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| Home Networking | Extending your WiFi and other possibilities | Mike Robertson | |
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| 2 October 2018 |
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| Samsung Smartwatch/Fitness Tracker | Demo of the Samsung Gear S3 Smartwatch and the Data it collects | Wayne Evans | |
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| Password Hashing | How web sites should store a hash of your password (and not the actual password) | Mike Robertson | |
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| Windows Utilities | Various useful utilities | Mike Robertson | |
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| 4 September 2018 |
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| Google Home Mini | A voice controlled speaker that can control home automation, answer questions and play music or videos | Wayne Evans | |
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| Audacity Audio Editor and Recorder | Audacity is an easy-to-use free, open source, multi-track audio editor and recorder for many operating systems | Mike Robertson | |
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| Windows Utilities | Various useful utilities (Held over) | Mike Robertson | |
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| 7 August 2018 |
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| Brave browser | A fast browser with ad blocking and built-in privacy | Mike Robertson | |
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| AutoHotkey utility | Remap any key or key combination to run a macro | Mike Robertson | |
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| Flashback Pro screen recorder | Computer screen recording software | Mike Robertson | |
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| 3 July 2018 |
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| Sway 2016 | Interactive presentations and how to tell stories | Nicki Davies | |
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| Evernote | Note taking, organizing, task lists and archiving | Wayne Evans | |
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| Opera Web Browser | A web browser with powerful and interesting features | Mike Robertson | |
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| 5 June 2018 |
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| Windows 10 April 2018 Update | Latest features in the latest Windows 10 update | Mike Robertson | |
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| Concurrent file editing | Collaboratively edit documents | Wayne Evans | |
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| Raspberry Pi | Experiments with Raspberry Pi micro-computers | Mike Robertson | |
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| 8 May 2018 |
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| OneNote | Store and share text, video and audio notes | Nicki Davies | |
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| Online Utilities | Public Email address, SMS Inbox | Mike Robertson | |
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| Frame - Browser based Virtual Machine | Run any software in a browser | Wayne Evans | |
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| 3 April 2018 |
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| Word Calendar Template | Easily create your own calendars | Nicki Davies | |
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| Draw.io | Online diagram application | Mike Robertson | |
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| XML | eXtensible Markup Language | Mike Robertson | |
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| 13 March 2018 |
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| Annual General Meeting | | All | |
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| What's new in Windows 10 | A catch-up of features in recent Windows 10 releases | Mike Robertson | |
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| Azure Logic Apps | Cloud based Event - Action Applications | Mike Robertson | |
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| 6 February 2018 |
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| Modern USB Standard | Some background info on current USB | Guy Dewar | |
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| USB Devices | Some current USB devices | Mike Robertson | |
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| CDBurnerXP | Powerful Free CD & DVD Burner software | Mike Robertson | |
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| 5 December 2017 |
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| Microsoft Family | Free Windows 10 service that connects family members and keeps kids safer | Wayne Evans | |
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| End of Year Party | A time to socialise | All | |
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| 14 November 2017 |
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| Paint.Net | Free graphic editor | Mike Robertson | |
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| Disk Utilities | Manage your PC/Laptop hard drive | Mike Robertson | |
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| Truecaller | Crowd sourced cell phone call blocker | Wayne Evans | |
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| 3 October 2017 |
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| Paint.Net (Postponed) | Free graphic editor | Mike Robertson | |
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| Disk Utilities (Postponed) | Manage your PC/Laptop hard drive | Mike Robertson | |
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| Truecaller (Postponed) | Crowd sourced cell phone call blocker | Mike Robertson | |
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| 5 September 2017 |
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| Windows Shortcut Keys | Use your keyboard to make Microsoft Windows do some useful things | Wayne Evans | |
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| Visual Studio Code | Free Open Source text editor | Mike Robertson | |
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| ProcMon from SysInternals | Get an in-depth view of all the activities occurring on your PC | Mike Robertson | |
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| 1 August 2017 |
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| Kodi | Free Home Entertainment media centre for your PC | Wayne Evans | |
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| Paragon Hard Disk Manager 15 | Copy Drive, Backup Drives and resize Partitions | Mike Robertson | |
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| Sysinternals AutoRuns | Investigate what is started automatically when Windows starts | Mike Robertson | |
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| 4 July 2017 |
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| 6 June 2017 |
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| Improve your Google searching | Tips on using Google search effectively | Mike Robertson | |
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| Avoid Malware & Virus infection | Do's and Don'ts to keep your devices safe | Mike Robertson | |
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| Free Download Manager | Control file downloads | Mike Robertson | |
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| 2 May 2017 |
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| Windows 10 - Paint 3D | Design 3D objects | Mike Robertson | |
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| OCR using IrfanView | Convert text image to editable text | Ted Phillips | |
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| Discussion - Passwords | Initial talk about passwords and then group discussion | Mike / All | |
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| 4 April 2017 |
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| Windows 10 Creators Update | An update to Windows 10 due in April 2017 | Mike Robertson | |
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| PushBullet | "Pushbullet connects your devices, making them feel like one" | Mike Robertson | |
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| Sysinternals Sysmon | Background monitor of Windows System resource access | Guy Dewar | |
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| 14 March 2017 |
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| AGM | Annual General Meeting 2017 | All | |
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| Screenshot Captor | Capture and Edit screen items | Mike Robertson | |
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| The Cloud and Azure | Your Server in the Cloud | Mike Robertson | |
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| 7 February 2017 |
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| Google Photos | All your photos organized and easy to find | Wayne Evans | |
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| Word - Tabs and Indents | Document layout 101 | Nicki Davies | |
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| Sysinternals Utilities | Collection of useful utilities | Guy Dewar | |
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| 6 December 2016 |
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| Google Local Guides | Contribute to improving Google Maps | Wayne Evans | |
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| Party | | All | |
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| 1 November 2016 |
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| UrBackup | Free Backup Client Server Backup software | Mike Robertson | |
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| Raspberry Pi 3 and Win 10 IOT | Small computing | Mike Robertson | |
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| Sysinternals Utility software | Process monitor | Mike Robertson | |
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| 4 October 2016 |
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| Windows 10 Aniversary Edition | What's new in the latest edition of Windows 10 | Mike Robertson | |
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| If This Then That | Web service to manage information flow | Wayne Evans | |
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| Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition | Free Development software | Mike Robertson | |
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| 6 September 2016 |
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| Google Office Suite | Online Documents, Spreadsheet and Storage | Wayne Evans | |
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| Personal Digital Certificate | Authenticate/Sign & Certify Electronic Documents | Wayne Evans | |
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| Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition (Postponed to October) | Free development software | Mike Robertson | |
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| 2 August 2016 |
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| Postponed until the 6th of September 2016 | This venue is being used for Municpal Elections on the 3rd of August 2016 | | |
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| 5 July 2016 |
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| Monitor your Driving | Use the Drive app with OBDII technology | Wayne Evans | |
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| Searching files on your PC | Use Windows Explorer and other tools to find files | Mike Robertson | |
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| Upgrading PC Hardware | An insight into the process of making an up-to-date PC | Mike Robertson | |
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| 7 June 2016 |
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| BT Remote PC | Remote Control your PC with your SmartPhone | Guy Dewar | |
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| DOSBox | Run Legacy programs on your PC | Ted Phillips | |
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| REGEX | Use Regular Expressions to search | Mike Robertson | |
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| 3 May 2016 |
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| The WayBack Machine | See Websites as they were in the past | Mike Robertson | |
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| Google Maps | | Wayne Evans | |
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| Excel Macros | Using VBA to program in Excel | Wayne Evans | |
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| 5 April 2016 |
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| Excel Pivot Tables Part 2 | Manipulate data in Excel | Wayne Evans | |
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| HW Monitor | Examine your PC's inner workings | Guy Dewar | |
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| Slide Dog | Free presentation software | Nicki Davies | |
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| 1 March 2016 |
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| AGM | Annual General Meeting 2016 | All | |
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| JS Create Wormhole Switch | USB File sharing device | Guy Dewar | |
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| Microsoft Band 2 | Microsoft's Fitness Band | Mike Robertson | |
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| 2 February 2016 |
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| Snapchat | Social media chat | Hannah-Rose Milton | |
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| Windows Continuum | Run your office from your phone | Mike | |
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| Corsair K95 RGB Keyboard | Make your keyboard work for you | Mike | |
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| 1 December 2015 |
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| Interesting Websites | Member's share their favourite websites | Mike Robertson | |
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| Party | Snacks and networking | All | |
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| 3 November 2015 |
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| Microsoft Outlook 2016 | What's new in the latest version | Wayne Evans | |
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| USB Drive Letter Manager | A free utility to manage USB drive letters | Mike Robertson | |
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| Solid State Drives (SSD) | High speed storage to increase system performance | Mike Robertson | |
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| 6 October 2015 |
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| Google Search | Get better search results from Google | Mike Robertson | |
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| Windows 10 Tips | Get up to speed with your new Windows 10 | Mike Robertson | |
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| Microsoft Hyper-V | Run virtual machines on your PC | Mike Robertson | |
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| 1 September 2015 |
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| Excel Filtering | Filtering, sorting and other data interrogation | Wayne Evans | |
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| Raspberry Pi 2 with Windows 10 IOT | Miniature computer as an Internet of Things (IOT) device | Mike Robertson | |
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| Bitnami | Bitnami is an App Store for Server Software | Wayne Evans | |
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| 4 August 2015 |
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| Excel Filtering | Filtering, sorting and other data interrogation | Wayne Evans | |
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| Raspberry Pi 2 with Windows 10 IOT | Miniature computer as an Internet of Things (IOT) device | Mike Robertson | |
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| Bitnami | Bitnami is an App Store for Server Software | Wayne Evans | |
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| ***** | ****** All Talks Postponed until September 2015 ****** | ****** | |
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| 7 July 2015 |
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| Windows 10 | The next version of Windows due for release on the 27th of July 2015 | Mike Robertson | |
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| Bitnami Pre-Configured Applications | Bitnami is an app store for server software | Wayne Evans | |
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| Networked Security Cameras | An introduction to IP Cameras | Paul Milton | |
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| 2 June 2015 |
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| Pebble Watch | Smart Watch | Guy Dewar | |
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| Coursera | Free Online Courses | Hannah Milton | |
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| Inbox by Gmail | New way to organize your email | Wayne Evans | |
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| 5 May 2015 |
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| USB Microscope | A Microscope that connects to your PC | Guy Dewar | |
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| Leap Motion | Use your Hands and Fingers to contol your PC | Mike Robertson | |
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| Optical Fibre | How it works | Paul Milton | |
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| 7 April 2015 |
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| Pinterest | Visual Bookmarking | Hannah Milton | |
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| Photo Editing | Software to Edit your Photos | Guy Dewar | |
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| Surprise | Something interesting by Nicki | Nicki Davies | |
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| 3 March 2015 |
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| Annual General Meeting | | Chairperson | |
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| Google Translate | Use Google to translate between a number of languages | Wayne Evans | |
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| Kindle for Windows | Use the Kindle app to read and mange Amazon ebooks | Mike Robertson | |
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| 3 February 2015 |
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| Android | A look at the Android Phone Operating System | Wayne Evans | |
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| MalwareBytes | A free Malware Detect and Remove utility | Mike Robertson | |
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| WinDirStat | A free utility that allows you to visualize your Hard Disc usage | Mike Robertson | |
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| 2 December 2014 |
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| Gadgets | A look at various gadgets that are either already available or will be soon. If you have something to show you are welcome to do so. | Mike Robertson | |
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| End of Year Party | A time to snack and network | All | |
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| 4 November 2014 |
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| Windows Phone 8.1 | A look at Microsoft's Windows on a Phone | Mike Robertson | |
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| Glasswire | A Free Security Monitor and Firewall Tool | Mike Robertson | |
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| Chocolatey | Easy Command line installation of applications | Mike Robertson | |
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| 7 October 2014 |
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| WordPress | Create your own Blog | Mary Bruce | |
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| Ice cream Slide Show Maker | Turn your holiday pictures into a slideshow | Guy Dewar | |
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| Cloud Computing | What is the Cloud and how does it work | Mike Robertson | |
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| 2 September 2014 |
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| PicMonkey | Online Photo Editing | Wayne Evans | |
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| TeamViewer | Connect to another PC anywhere in the world | James Naiker | |
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| Bitcoin | A look at how Digital Currency works with a focus on BitCoin | Mike Robertson | |
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| 5 August 2014 |
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| LinkedIn | A very popular business focused social networking service | Mary Bruce | |
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| KeePass | Free Password Management utility with many features | Mike Robertson | |
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| Microsoft OneNote | Free information collecting and sharing application available on a number of platforms | Mike Robertson | |
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| 1 July 2014 |
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| Car Camera | Dashboard Camera and Software | Guy Dewar | |
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| Utility Websites | A look at some useful Websites | Mike Robertson | |
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| Speccy | Hardware monitor software for your PC | Guy Dewar | |
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| 3 June 2014 |
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| Publisher 2013 | Produce professional brochures, cards and other documents | Mike Robertson | |
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| Kaspersky USB or CD Bootable Antivirus | Build a CD or USB Boot Antivirus | Guy Dewar | |
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| 7 ZIP | Free Compress and Decompress file utility | Ted Phillips | |
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| 6 May 2014 |
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| Twitter | Introduction and etiquette | Mary Bruce | |
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| Know your Era, Know your Data | Understanding when data was created can assist in a better understanding of that Data | Ted Phillips | |
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| Microsoft Publisher 2013 | Produce professional brochures, cards and other documents | Mike Robertson | |
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| 1 April 2014 |
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| Windows 8/8.1 Start Menu Replacements | Haven't moved to Windows 8/8.1 because of the missing Start Menu? Or you've moved but really miss that Menu? Perhaps there is some help out there. | Mike | |
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| Dropbox | File sharing in the Cloud | Ted Phillips | |
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| PDF Creator | Create your own PDF documents from other applications | Ted Phillips | |
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| ScreenShot Captor | Freeware Screen Capture application with many features | Mike Robertson | |
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| 4 March 2014 |
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| Annual General Meeting | Elect committee and discuss venue | All | |
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| PDF-XChange Viewer | View and Annotate PDF Documents | Guy Dewar | |
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| PC Performance Analysis | Demo of some free utilities that will assist in finding performance bottlenecks on your Windows PC | Mike Robertson | |
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| 4 December 2013 |
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| Trinidad & Tobago Open Source DVD | 100 Top free applications | Guy Dewar | |
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| End of Year Party | | All | |
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| 6 November 2013 |
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| Windows 8.1 | The free update to Windows 8 | Mike Robertson | |
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| Free HD Video Converter | Convert various video formats | Ted Phillips | |
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| Skype | Free Voice (and Video) over IP | Mike Robertson & Guy Dewar | |
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| 2 October 2013 |
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| ProjectLibre | Free, Open Source Project Management software | Nicki Davies | |
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| Microsoft Skydrive | Free online file hosting service | Mike Robertson | |
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| SQL Part 2 | Continue looking at SQL (Structured Query Language) Update, Insert & Delete | Mike Robertson | |
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| 4 September 2013 |
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| LibreOffice Calc | The free spreadsheet | Wayne Evans | |
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| Photobook | Create physical photo albums from digital pictures | Ted Phillips | |
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| Structured Query Language (SQL) | Use SQL to capture, modify and retrieve data from SQL Databases | Mike Robertson | |
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| 7 August 2013 |
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| Internet Archive's Wayback Machine | See what various websites looked like in over time | Mike Robertson | |
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| Libre Office Impress | The free open source presentation module | Nicki Davies | |
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| Freeware: VLC and Media Player Classic (MPC) | Alternate video viewers | Guy Dewar | |
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| 3 July 2013 |
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| Free Useful Utilities | A look at some great little programs for your PC | Mike Robertson | |
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| Phishing | What is it and how can you protect yourself | Nicki Davies | |
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| Windows Firewall | Configure the firewall that is built into Windows to protect your PC | Mike Robertson | |
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| 5 June 2013 |
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| DVD Studio Pro | Authoring your DVD | James Naiker | |
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| Searching Part 2 | More complex searching using Google | Mike Robertson | |
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| Questions and Answers | Bring your questions and we will try to answer them | All | |
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| 1 May 2013 |
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| Spam | What is spam and what can one do about it | Mike Robertson | |
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| Freeware: Wordweb | Free Dictionary and Thesaurus | Guy Dewar | |
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| How to optimize your laptop batterylife | Tips and tricks to get the most out of your laptop battery | Guy Dewar | |
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| Questions and Answers | | Mike Robertson | |
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| 3 April 2013 |
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| Windows on Speed | Shortcut keys for Windows 7 | Martin Voges | |
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| Word 2013 | What's new and not so new? | Nicki Davies | |
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| CrystalDiskInfo | Monitor SMART disks to determine its health | Guy Dewar | |
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| YouTube Downloader | Download YouTube videos for smooth offline viewing | Guy Dewar | |
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| 6 March 2013 |
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| Annual General Meeting | | Chairperson | |
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| Google search | Tips for effective searches | Mike Robertson | |
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| Web favourites | Share web sites that you find interesting | All | |
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| 6 February 2013 |
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| Geomapping photos | Mapping locations for large numbers of photos | Martin Voges | |
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| Batch programming tips for Windows | Conditional commands and substring manipulation | Martin Voges | |
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| Paragon Hard Disk Manager Version 12 | Professional hard disk management | Mike Robertson | |
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| 5 December 2012 |
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| Team Quiz | Audience participation in team quiz - topics related to the 2012 club talks | All | |
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| Snacks and Drinks and time to network | | All | |
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| 7 November 2012 |
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| Microsoft Windows 8 Pro | Microsoft's latest Operating system (launched on the 26th of October 2012) | Mike Robertson | |
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| Microsoft SyncToy | Free utility to keep a copy of important data | Ted Phillips | |
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| Solid State Drives (SSD) | High speed hard drive replacement | Mike Robertson | |
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| 3 October 2012 |
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| Evernote | Acess your notes and documents using your computer, phone, tablet and the web. | Wayne Evans | |
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| Right-click tricks | The usefulness and power of the right mouse button (in Windows) | Ted Phillips | |
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| Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web | Free software for creating web applications and sites | Mike Robertson | |
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| 5 September 2012 |
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| Paint.Net | A free image editor for the rest of us | Mike Robertson | |
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| Spring cleaning your PC | with examples | Guy Dewar | |
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| Windows 7 Backup | Safeguard your data with Windows 7's built-in backup facility | Mike Robertson | |
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| 1 August 2012 |
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| Google Maps | Maps that get you there | Martin Voges | |
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| PDF-XChange Viewer | Annotate PDF documents | Guy Dewar | |
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| PC Wizard | Investigate your computer's hardware | Mike Robertson | |
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| 4 July 2012 |
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| LibreOffice Calc | Spreadsheet application in a free office suite | Nicki Davies | |
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| Freeware Highlight: USB Devices Viewer | Investigate all USB devices on your PC | Guy Dewar | |
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| Geotagging photos | Batch pocessing: geotagging & locating via EXIF GPS data | Martin Voges | |
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| 6 June 2012 |
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| Video editing II | Introduction to editing videos | James Naicker | |
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| Windows 7.5 Phone | Features of new Windows phone systems | Mike Robertson | |
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| QR codes | Digital signs in the physical world | Martin Voges | |
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| 2 May 2012 |
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| Video editing II | Introduction to editing videos | James Naicker | |
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| Windows 7 File Searches | Using Windows 7 file searches effectively | Mike Robertson | |
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| Digital Photo Frames | Preparing and displaying your favourite photos in a digital frame | Guy Dewar | |
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| 4 April 2012 |
|---|
| Video editing | Introduction to editing videos | James Naicker | |
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| Windows Know-How | Nifty tips for Windows 7 Windows Explorer | Mike Robertson | |
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| Geolocation of photos | Sharing photos with mapped locations | Martin Voges | |
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| 7 March 2012 |
|---|
| Annual General Meeting | Reports, Chair & Committee Elections, Fees, Suggestions, Recommendations | Chair | |
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| Facebook | A trip around Facebook | Nicki Davies | |
|---|
| Photo selection with Irfanview | Helpful Irfanview features and tools for evaluating & managing many photos | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| WiFi Spectrum analyser | Investigating the quality of your WiFi service | Guy Dewar | |
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| 1 February 2012 |
|---|
| Free GPS Utilities | Utilities for managing GPS data. | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| Amazon Kindle | The Amazon Kindle ebook reader. What is it and what can one do with it. | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Database .NET | A free SQL manager that can access many different SQL database servers. | Mike Robertson | |
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| 7 December 2011 |
|---|
| Portal 2 | A game of | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Fun Searches | Surprise! | Martin Voges | |
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| Party | Bring a friend | All | |
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| 2 November 2011 |
|---|
| Computers and Travel | How I used Information Technology for my visit to India | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| Windows Know-How | Guy's Utility Selection | Guy Dewar | |
|---|
| Microsoft Visio 2010 | Create graphs, organization charts and other diagrams | Mike Robertson | |
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| 5 October 2011 |
|---|
| Free Cloud Storage | Storing and synchronizing documents on the internet | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| InstaPaper | "A simple tool to save web pages for reading later" | Mike Robertson | |
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| Windows 7 Resource Monitor | Checking system performance | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 7 September 2011 |
|---|
| Video Editing | Apple Mac - Final Cut | James Naicker | |
|---|
| Freeware Highlight | Find files on your disk with Agent Ransack | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| Anti Virus Software Roundup | A look at free and commercial Anti Virus software | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 3 August 2011 |
|---|
| LibreOffice part 2 | Mail merge and other advanced Writer features | NIcki Davies | |
|---|
| Opera 11.5 | What's so special about this browser? | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| SQL Server Express 2008 R2 | Capabilities and limitations of Microsoft's free SQL server | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 6 July 2011 |
|---|
| Search engine developments | What's new and different with today's search engines? | Mary Bruce | |
|---|
| LibreOffice Part 1 | Writer - the LibreOffice wordprocessor | Nicki Davies | |
|---|
| Home Theatre PC | Building your HTPC for fun and games | Mike Robertson | |
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| 1 June 2011 |
|---|
| Interesting Websites | A variety of interesting and useful websites | Nicki Davies | |
|---|
| Windows Media Center | Multimedia management system built into Windows Vista and Windows 7 | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| SQL - Structured Query language | A primer on the use of SQL to retrieve, modify and delete data (held over from May) | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 4 May 2011 |
|---|
| DuckDuckGo Search Engine | A new search engine with some unique features | Nick Davies | |
|---|
| Windows Freeware | A selection of Windows freeware including CintaNotes | Guy Dewar | |
|---|
| Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 | The released version of IE9 | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| SQL (Structured Query Language) | A primer on the use of SQL to retrieve, modify and delete data | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 6 April 2011 |
|---|
| Using Wikipedia wisely | Conflicting attitudes on the research value of the collaborative encyclopedia | Genevieve Phillips | |
|---|
| Opera 11 | Impressions of the latest version of a great web browser | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| Netduino+ Project | Using a programmable, networked kit to create a custom computing device | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| PicPick | Powerful screen capture utility with image editing and other tools | Mike Robertson | |
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| 2 March 2011 |
|---|
| AGM | | Everyone | |
|---|
| Free PDF Utilities | Create and Annotate PDFs | Guy Dewar | |
|---|
| Microsoft Publisher 2010 | Easily create Greeting Cards, Pamphlets and Brochures | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2010 Professional | Adjust partition sizes, Image drives and many other disk related functions | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 2 February 2011 |
|---|
| Windows 7 - 64 Bit | What is special about the 64 bit version of Windows 7 | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Serena OpenProj 1.4 Project Manager | An Open Source desktop Project Management application for Windows, Linux, and Mac | Nicki Davies | |
|---|
| Selecting components and building a powerful PC | Choosing the best components to create a high-end PC | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Multiple Monitors | How using multiple monitors can improve productivity | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 1 December 2010 |
|---|
| Favorite Google Earth places | Member contributed places of interest on Google Earth | All | |
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| Gadgets | Members to bring any interesting gadgets they may have obtained recently to show other members | All | |
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| 3 November 2010 |
|---|
| Microsoft Word 2010 | What's new in Word 2010 | Nicki Davies | |
|---|
| Useful Excel Formulae | A look at some useful formulae available in Microsoft Excel | Wayne Evans | |
|---|
| Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 Beta | What's new and improved in Microsoft's browser | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| GNU Plot | An introduction to a free graphing utility | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| 6 October 2010 |
|---|
| Pivot Tables in Excel | Using Excel Pivot Tables to understand data | Wayne Evans | |
|---|
| Finding Portable Freeware | How to find and download portable freeware | Guy Dewar | |
|---|
| AutoHotKey | Free Mouse and Keyboard Macro program which allows users to automate repetitive tasks | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Microsoft Access 2010 | What's new or enhanced in the latest version of Microsoft's Access database | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 1 September 2010 |
|---|
Portable freeware part 2
In memory of our friend and club colleague. | More applications that you can run from your flash drive without installing them | Vic Hugo | |
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| Microsoft Excel 2010 | What's new in Microsoft's latest spreadsheet application? | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| To Do List | Organise your life with powerful freeware | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| Filters in Excel | Viewing data selectively with filters | Ted Phillips | |
|---|
| 4 August 2010 |
|---|
| Alternate Search Engines | Other ways to find what you want on the internet | Mary Bruce | |
|---|
| Antivirus comparison | How do various Antivirus products (free and commercial) compare? | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Portable freeware | A selection of applications that you can run from your flash drive without installing them | Vic Hugo | |
|---|
| Paint.Net | Latest version of this powerful freeware graphic editor | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 7 July 2010 |
|---|
| There will be NO meeting in July due to the clash with the soccer world cup semi-final | See you in August | | |
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| 2 June 2010 |
|---|
| Special AGM | Honorary Membership: Peter (Pete) Moss | Chairperson | |
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| Mind-Mapping Software | Comparison of three mind mapping applications to creatively help organise your thinking and working. | Vernon Solomon | |
|---|
| Interaction between Microsoft Office applications | Reusing information from one application in another | Vic Hugo | |
|---|
| Internet performance problems? | Check the obvious! | Guy Dewar | |
|---|
| AVG USB Clean Boot Anti-Virus scan | Disinfect your PC from a USB stick | Ted Phillips | |
|---|
| 5 May 2010 |
|---|
| Twitter Clients | Using Twitter Clients such as TweetDeck to manage Twitter messages (called Tweets) | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Creating graphics - does the software matter? | Open Source Gimp versus professional Photoshop | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| Free Download Manager | Multiple download, restart download and schedule downloads. | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2010 | The latest version of Microsoft's Development suite | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 7 April 2010 |
|---|
| Creating ISO images | Free method to create ISO images | Ted Phillips | |
|---|
| Intel's new CPUs | The i3, i5 and i7 range of processors | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Who is connecting to your PC? | Windows Know-How: Inspecting network connections with Netstat | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| PC Wizard 2009 | What hardware does your PC have? | Mike | |
|---|
| 3 March 2010 |
|---|
| AGM | Annual General Meeting | All | |
|---|
| Sniffing the concealed network | Troubleshooting network problems with sniffers like Wireshark and Network Monitor | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| Avira Boot Antivirus | Boot from CD and scan hard drive directly | Ted Phillips | |
|---|
| Windows PowerShell | DOS on steroids | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 3 February 2010 |
|---|
| Windows 7 | The latest operating system from Microsoft - do you need it? | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| KeepPass | Store username and passwords | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Prevent Autorun Infections | Stop viruses on USB storage devices | Ted Phillps | |
|---|
| Microsoft Security Essentials | Antivirus, Antispyware | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 2 December 2009 |
|---|
| Readability | Say goodbye to superfluous stuff on your browser | Mary Bruce | |
|---|
| Alternate Character set ASCII | How to get non keyboard characters | Margaret Meek | |
|---|
| Browser Annoyances | What irritates you in the browser you use | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| Social | End-of-year party time | All | |
|---|
| 4 November 2009 |
|---|
| Quickbooks Lite | Free version of Quickbooks accounting software | Margaret Meek | |
|---|
| Common Windows shortcut keys | Work more efficiently | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| PicPick Screen Capture | Save parts of your screen for manuals etc | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| LTSpice | Electronic Circuit Simulation Software | Pete Moss | |
|---|
| 7 October 2009 |
|---|
| Audacity (Held over from September) | Freeware Sound Editor | Pete Moss | |
|---|
| Batch to Exe | Convert batch files to executables | Ted Phillips | |
|---|
| Microsoft Expression Web | Create web sites with the new 'Frontpage' | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 2 September 2009 |
|---|
| Social Bookmarking | Save your favourite websites online | Nicki Davies | |
|---|
| Download Accelerators | Leechget & Free Download Manager | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| TrueCrypt | Encrypt USB Sticks etc to protect your data | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Microsoft Silverlight | Create Interactive applications for the internet | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 5 August 2009 |
|---|
| Microsoft One-Note | Organizing thoughts and Data | Nicki Davies | |
|---|
| Twitter | Submit messages (tweet) to a social network service also known as Micro-Blogging | Nicki Davies | |
|---|
| Windows Knowhow - 7 ZIP | Free Unzip Zip utility | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Superimposing photos | Create your own desktop Wallpaper | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| 1 July 2009 |
|---|
| Bing | Microsoft's new search engine | Nicki Davies | |
|---|
| Convert PDF to Word documents | Freeware | Nicki Davies | |
|---|
| Chrome security settings | Lock down Google's browser | Mary Bruce | |
|---|
| New developments from Google | | Mary Bruce | |
|---|
| OpenOffice.org Database | Opensource database | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 3 June 2009 |
|---|
| BlogEngine.net | A free Blog for your website | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| BBCode | How BBCode (Bulletin Board Code) is used to keep a blog up to date | Pete Moss | |
|---|
| Vector Graphics in IfranView | Lesser known capabilities of IrfanView | Pete Moss | |
|---|
| Chrome security settings | Lock down Google's browser | Mary Bruce | |
|---|
| Safari Browser for Windows | Apple's free Web Browser for Windows | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 6 May 2009 |
|---|
| OpenOffice.Org version 3 Calc | The free spreadsheet component of this business suite | Nicki Davies | |
|---|
| Web Application Security | Threats and Countermeasures - Understand the issues and avoid the problems | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Windows Know-How | Windows Logo Key: Powerful keyboard shortcuts | Ted Phillips | |
|---|
| Windows 7 (Beta) | A preview of Microsoft's next operating system | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 1 April 2009 |
|---|
| OpenOffice.org 3.0 Impress | The Presentation Application available in OpenOffice.org 3.0 | Nicki Davies | |
|---|
| Sharing photos on the web | Picasa Web Albums | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| Freeware Highlight | Find that file with Agent Ransack | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| Smart Searching the Web | How to search the web in order to find what you want as quickly as possible | Pete Moss | |
|---|
| Which display is right for you? | A comparison of flat-screen and glass-tube (CRT) monitors | Pete Moss | |
|---|
| 4 March 2009 |
|---|
| Annual General Meeting | | All | |
|---|
| OpenOffice.org version 3 Part I - Writer | A look at the Wordproccessing component of this powerful free software suite | Nicki Davies | |
|---|
| Smart Searching the Web | How to search the web in order to find what you want as quickly as possible | Pete Moss | |
|---|
| Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 (Beta) | The latest version of Microsoft browser due for release real soon | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 4 February 2009 |
|---|
| Searching the hidden web | Finding information beyond the reach of traditional search engines | Mary Bruce | |
|---|
| Syncback | Backup and synchronsie files in different locations | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Manage your disk with EASEUS Partition Manager | Copy, move, delete, resize, etc. your disk partitions | Pete Moss | |
|---|
| Fiddler web debugging tool | Access the HTTP traffic to debug your web | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 3 December 2008 |
|---|
| Google Chrome | Google's free browser | Mary Bruce | |
|---|
| Favourite sites | Members share their favourite sites | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Windows Freeware | Paint.NET and FreeOCR.NET | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| End of Year Party | | | |
|---|
| 5 November 2008 |
|---|
| Bushman Art Project | Digital documentation of the rock art of the Drakensberg and a web-based management system | Carl Grossman | |
|---|
| Is your website readable? | Measure how easy it is to read and comprehend a web page | Nathi Ndlovu | |
|---|
| Video on Security (Part 1) "It's 11 PM -Do you know where your data is?" | Popular speaker on information security | Steve Riley (on video) | |
|---|
| 1 October 2008 |
|---|
| Adobe Buzzword | Online Word Processor | Nicki Davies | |
|---|
| Freeware Highlight: CDBurnerXP | A free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including recent formats | Guy Dewar | |
|---|
| Windows Know-How: Defragmentation | Defragmentation improves hard disk performance | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Sql Server 2008 Express | Microsoft's free Database server | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 3 September 2008 |
|---|
| Microsoft Movie Maker | Home movie editor bundled with Windows | Ina Koen | |
|---|
| Protecting your children from Facebook dangers | Facebook Security | Mary Bruce | |
|---|
| Directory and File Compare | Utilities to manage copies of files and directories | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| FireFox 3 | Popular Open Source web browser | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 6 August 2008 |
|---|
| Protecting your children from Facebook dangers | Facebook Security | Mary Bruce | |
|---|
| Does your Word Spike and Calc? | Secret features of Word | Nicki Davies | |
|---|
| Are deleted files really gone? | "Recuva" files you thought were gone for good | Ted Phillips | |
|---|
| Web browser of choice | Opera | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| 2 July 2008 |
|---|
| Easy creation of newsletters, invitations, pamphlets | Microsoft Publisher | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| CD content from your hard disk | Daemon tools | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Using online surveys | Getting information from data, question types ... | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| Automate finding and editing of text | Regular expressions | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| 4 June 2008 |
|---|
| Computer Faire | News from South Africa's premier computer exhibition | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Network Time Protocol (NTP) | Keep your computer time accurate | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Firewalls Part 2 | Demonstration of Firewalls using free ZoneAlarm | Pete Moss | |
|---|
| AVG v8 Free Antivirus | The latest free Antivirus replacing 7.5 | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 7 May 2008 |
|---|
| Facebook at work! | Social networking for business value | Mary Bruce | |
|---|
| Online Surveys | Surveys on the net with LimeSurvey, an Open Source web application | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| Firewalls and Security | Why you should use a firewall | Pete Moss | |
|---|
| Microsoft Virtual Server | Free application that allows multiple Virtual Servers to run on one computer | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 2 April 2008 |
|---|
| Facebook at work! (Postponed by ESKOM) | Social networking for business value | Mary Bruce | |
|---|
| Network Time Protocol (NTP) (Postponed by ESKOM) | Set your PC time to Atomic clock accuracy | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Online Surveys (Postponed by ESKOM) | Surveys on the net with LimeSurvey, an Open Source web application | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| Firewalls and Security (Postponed by ESKOM) | Why you should use a firewall | Pete Moss | |
|---|
| Microsoft Virtual Server (Postponed by ESKOM) | Free application that allows multiple Virtual Servers to run on one computer | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 5 March 2008 |
|---|
| AGM | Annual General Meeting | All | |
|---|
| Freeware Highlights | Google's Picasa for managing photos | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Firewalls part 1 | Implementing your own firewall | Pete Moss | |
|---|
| Windows KnowHow | How much memory (RAM) is enough? | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 6 February 2008 |
|---|
| Social Networking | A look at Facebook and Linked-In | MikeRobertson / Nicki Davies | |
|---|
| PDF Writer | Create PDF documents easily by printing to a PDF-creating Printer Driver | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| IrfanView | What's new in this brilliant freeware image viewer and manipulation program | Guy Dewar | |
|---|
| Firewalls part 1 | How do firewalls work | Pete Moss | |
|---|
| 5 December 2007 |
|---|
| Good destinations on the Web | Your favourite places on the web | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Your questions answered | Member supplied questions answered | Everybody | |
|---|
| New games | Games for you and your children | Mike | |
|---|
| Party | Snacks and refreshments provided; you're welcome to contribute some. | All | |
|---|
| 7 November 2007 |
|---|
| Google Earth | Online map of the world | Guy Dewar | |
|---|
| Freeware Highlight | WinDirStat to explore hard disk usage | Ted Phillips | |
|---|
| PDA and Cellphone in one | Demonstration of TYTN | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Freeware Highlight | Windows in a Box and others | Guy Dewar | |
|---|
| 3 October 2007 |
|---|
| Google Calendar | Keep track of and share events in your life | Wayne Evans | |
|---|
| VicMan Photo Suite | Photo retouching application | Guy Dewar | |
|---|
| Useful small utilities | Some small utilities and tips | Guy Dewar | |
|---|
| Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition (Beta 2) | The next version of Microsoft's free web development platform | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 5 September 2007 |
|---|
| Design a Usable Website | Usability issues encountered in a web site's development | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| Windows Know-How | Create your own symbols or font characters with Private Character Editor | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| Google Pop | Read your GMail email offline | Pete Moss | |
|---|
| Visual Basic.NET Express 2008 Beta | The next version of the free development application from Microsoft | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 1 August 2007 |
|---|
| Microsoft Office Accounting | Free accounting package | Margaret Meek | |
|---|
| Windows Know-how | Create self extracting compressed files | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| Freeware Highlight | Zoomit | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| Managing Removable Drives | How to find a missing USB storage device and changing the drive letter | Ted Phillips | |
|---|
| Omea Pro | Integrated Information Environment | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 4 July 2007 |
|---|
| Microsoft Virtual PC | Run Windows XP, Windows 3.1, MSDOS or Linux all on the same PC at the same time | Kerwin Basson | |
|---|
| Power Calculator and CalculatorPlus | Comparison of free Microsoft calculators | Ted Phillips | |
|---|
| Copernic Desktop Search | Index your hard drive for fast local and internet search | Mary Bruce | |
|---|
| Windows Media Player | What you can do with Microsoft's Media Player | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 6 June 2007 |
|---|
| Google Apps for Your Domain | Free, customised, web-based email, calendar, and office suite for your domain | Wayne Evans | |
|---|
| Video Demo | Microsoft's Surface Computing | on10.NET | |
|---|
| FutureX | A report back on the FutureX trade faire | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 2 May 2007 |
|---|
| 3G internet | Broadband cell phone internet access | Guy Dewar | |
|---|
| Ultimate Boot CD | Emergency XP boot CD | Guy Dewar | |
|---|
| Freeware Highlight | Synctoy to synchronise files between two locations | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Visio 2007 | Microsoft's new version of the charting application | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 4 April 2007 |
|---|
| What do Google Apps' online office applications offer? | Is the Google generation becoming Google dependent? | Nicki Davies | |
|---|
| SMART | Monitoring your hard disk drive's health | Guy Dewar | |
|---|
| Freeware Highlight | Artrage : Painting and drawing programme | Guy Dewar | |
|---|
| Building a new PC | Deciding on and purchasing components, assembling the PC etc. | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 7 March 2007 |
|---|
| Annual General Meeting | | Chairperson | |
|---|
| Windows Vista | Overview of Microsoft's new operating system | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Freeware Highlights | Time, date & memory utility | Ted Phillips | |
|---|
| Freeware Highlights | Screencapture utilities | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| Hard disk drives | What you can get for your money today | Pete Moss | |
|---|
| 7 February 2007 |
|---|
| MS Publisher 2007 | | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| AVG | | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Creating a (free) wiki | | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| Hard disk drives | Held over ... | Pete Moss | |
|---|
| 6 December 2006 |
|---|
| Latest games | Need for Speed: Carbon - and others | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Most memorable IT ideas of the year | Share what the worst or best information technology ideas of the past year were in your opinion. | All | |
|---|
| Party! | Bring some snacks and refreshments and party with us until your connection times out ... | All | |
|---|
| 1 November 2006 |
|---|
| PayPal | Now available in South Africa | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Microsoft Excel & Powerpoint 2007 | What's new | Nicki Davies | |
|---|
| Irfanview | More than just an image viewer | Guy Dewar | |
|---|
| Intelligent searching | Find what you want on the internet | Pete Moss | |
|---|
| 4 October 2006 |
|---|
| Secure Email | Ensuring that your mail correspondence is not tampered with etc. | Mark Heyink & Maeson Maherry | |
|---|
| Irfanview | More than just an image viewer | Guy Dewar | |
|---|
| Microsoft Word 2007 | What's new | Nicki Davies | |
|---|
| 6 September 2006 |
|---|
| Wiki | Collaborative web publishing | Mary Bruce | |
|---|
| Freeware Highlight | Using Irfanview | Ted Phillips | |
|---|
| Visual Web Developer Express | Microsoft's Free Web Developer Application (Part 2) | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 2 August 2006 |
|---|
| Open Source Software | What is it? How does it work? | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Open Source Examples | A Demonstration of some Open Source software | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Hardware trends | Processors (CPUs) | Pete Moss | |
|---|
| Visual Studio 2005 Web Developer Express | Microsoft's Free Web Developer Application | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 5 July 2006 |
|---|
| Online socialising - holiday project 1 | MySpace | Mary Bruce | |
|---|
| Online socialising - holiday project 2 | Blogging | Mary Bruce | |
|---|
| Freeware Highlight | SharePod - copy music from your Ipod to your PC | Guy Dewar | |
|---|
| Game news | New game selection | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Visual Basic Express | Free programming software from Microsoft | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 7 June 2006 |
|---|
| ADSL Overview | What to consider if you want a faster, dedicated ADSL internet connection. | Janine Gerson of First Technology | |
|---|
| Portable Freeware | A selection of freeware can be used without installing on your hard disk. | Guy Dewar | |
|---|
| Futurex 2006 Report | Noteworthy and interesting developments seen at the exhibition. | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 3 May 2006 |
|---|
| The Linux alternative - Live! | A guided tour of Linux alternatives to common Windows desktop applications for small office/home use | Matt Erasmus of DcData | |
|---|
| Internet Explorer 7 preview | What's new in Microsoft's redesigned web browser? | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Google utilities | Google's specialised searches, services, and tools. | Mary Bruce | |
|---|
| 5 April 2006 |
|---|
| The Linux alternative | Introduction to Linux as a replacement for Windows as a server as well as on the desktop | Matt Erasmus of DcData | |
|---|
| Yankee-Clipper | Powerful clipboard extender | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Snagit | Screen capture and print utility | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 1 March 2006 |
|---|
| Annual General Meeting | | Chairperson | |
|---|
| Freeware Highlights | Overview of the 2006 Pricelessware CD | Guy Dewar | |
|---|
| MS Office Document Imaging | OCR tool bundled with Office | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| Free antivirus software | An overview of AVG and ClamWin | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 1 February 2006 |
|---|
| What's new for computing in 2006 | Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show and beyond | Mary Bruce | |
|---|
| MS Redaction tool | Censoring text from Word documents | Nicky Davies | |
|---|
| Partition Magic | Rearranging hard drive space without losing data | Pete Moss | |
|---|
| Need for Speed - Most Wanted | The latest game | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 7 December 2005 |
|---|
| PC Game | Age of Empires III | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Gadgets | Gift ideas | Various | |
|---|
| Party | | All | |
|---|
| 2 November 2005 |
|---|
| Physical PC Security | Secure your PC, Laptop or LCD Monitor | Willem van den Brink from SecuPlus | |
|---|
| Freeware Highlight | File recovery part 2 - Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery | Ted Phillips | |
|---|
| Phishing, Phaxing and Pharming | How vulnerable are you? | Nicki Davies | |
|---|
| Microsoft SQL Server 2005 | The latest Database Server from Microsoft | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 5 October 2005 |
|---|
| 3G | High-speed Internet access via your cell phone | Vodacom | |
|---|
| Freeware Highlight | Disk Rescue - attempts to recover deleted files on Media Memory (FAT) | Ted Phillips | |
|---|
| PC Security | Zone Alarm personal firewall | Pete Moss | |
|---|
| SQL Server 2005 | Microsoft's latest heavy duty database | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 7 September 2005 |
|---|
| Skype Internet Telephony | Free calls over the internet between Skype users | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Virus History and Types | | Pete Moss | |
|---|
| Windows Freeware | Various Image Enhancing applications | Guy Dewar | |
|---|
| PC Security | Windows XP Firewall | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 3 August 2005 |
|---|
| RSS Feeds | Putting the 'current' in current awareness | Mary Bruce | |
|---|
| Windows KnowHow | MSConfig to control system startup for troubleshooting | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| Freeware Highlights | Startup Monitor | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| JavaScript 101 | Introduction to Javascripting | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| 6 July 2005 |
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| Weblogs or Online Diaries : Part 2 | Creating your own online journal | Mary Bruce | |
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| Windows Know-How: Netstat | See who is connected to your PC - and to whom you are connected | Mike Robertson | |
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| Freeware Highlight | Deep Paint | Guy Dewar | |
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| Game: Need for Speed (Underground 2) | No Seat Belt required | Mike Robertson | |
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| 1 June 2005 |
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| FutureX | A report-back on South Africa's Premier Computer and Business expo | Nicki Davies | |
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| Freeware Highlight | WinMerge: A utility to compare files and directories | Martin Voges | |
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| FireFox web browser | An open source browser alternative | Guy Dewar | |
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| Blogs (weblogs, or online diaries) | What value do they add to the Internet? | Mary Bruce | |
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| 4 May 2005 |
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| Worldwind | NASA's online interactive world explorer | Guy Dewar | |
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| Windows Know-How | Defrag to keep your disk up to speed | Mike Robertson | |
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| Freeware Highlight | To be decided | Guy Dewar | |
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| Database Normalisation | Making efficient database structures | Mike Robertson | |
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| 6 April 2005 |
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| MS Project 2003 | Help with managing a project including listing tasks, resources, tracking and reporting | Nicki Davies | |
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| MS Word 2003 | Avoiding gotchas | Nicki Davies | |
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| Freeware Highlight | Everest Home Edition system information and diagnostics utility | Guy Dewar | |
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| Microsoft SQL Server | How to manage large quantities of Data | Mike Robertson | |
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| 2 March 2005 |
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| AGM | Annual General Meeting | All members | |
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| Thunderbird Email Programme | Setup and Features of the free Mozilla email client | Pete Moss | |
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| Bluetooth demonstration | Effortless networking of gadgets (PDA, phone, etc.) | Ted Phillips | |
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| Gaming Feature | Tony Hawks Underground | Mike Robertson | |
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| Windows XP System Restore | Recovering painlessly from a faulty system | Mike Robertson | |
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| 2 February 2005 |
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| Searching the Web | Tips and shortcuts to refine your results | Mary Bruce | |
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| AVG anti-virus software | Overview of the new version 7 | Guy Dewar | |
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| Microsoft's Anti-spyware | Demo of the beta anti-spyware utility from Microsoft | Guy Dewar | |
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| Home Automation Project | Demonstration of using USB hardware & programming to control appliances | Mike Robertson | |
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| 1 December 2004 |
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| Holiday Freeware Selections | presented by committee members | Various | |
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| Party! | Bring some snacks and refreshments and party with us until your connection times out ... | All | |
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| 3 November 2004 |
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| Internet Shopping | Shopping safely online | Mike Robertson | |
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| The Pocket PC | Why you need a Pocket PC | Mike Robertson | |
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| Windows Know-How | Traceroute to check your internet connectivity | Martin Voges | |
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| How the internet works: FTP | The File Transfer Protocol | Martin Voges | |
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| 6 October 2004 |
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| Commandline power | Some old tricks and new features explained | Martin Voges | |
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| DVD and CD Media | What are the differences between the various formats? | Ted Phillips | |
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| FTP clients | Software to transfer files on the internet | Mike Robertson | |
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| 1 September 2004 |
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| PC electronic projects | Controlling gadgets with the parallel port | Pete Moss | |
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| Spyware part 2 | Free software tools: Adaware and Spybot Search&Destroy | Guy Dewar | |
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| Freeware Highlight | Multitrack sound editing and recording with Audacity | Pete Moss | |
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| Windows XP Service Pack 2 | What’s new and improved in this latest Windows update | Mike Robertson | |
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| 4 August 2004 |
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| Internet Searching | Current options and future developments | Mary Bruce | |
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| Language-learning Software | Instant Immersion Spanish Deluxe Edition | Mike Robertson | |
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| Spyware | What it is and how to deal with it | Guy Dewar | |
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| Windows Server 2003 | Microsoft's latest server technology with an XP interface | Mike Robertson | |
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| 7 July 2004 |
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| The Open CD Project | A compilation of Open Source software (CD available at meeting) | Guy Dewar | |
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| Index your disks in web pages | Using Dirhtml (freeware) to create a hyperlinked HTML index of a disk or directory | Martin Voges | |
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| Windows Know-How | Scheduler - starting tasks automatically | Martin Voges | |
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| PC electronic projects | A thermometer that you can read with your PC | Pete Moss | |
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| 2 June 2004 |
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| DTP with Publisher 2003 | Demonstration of desktop publishing with Microsoft's newest Publisher 2003 | Pippa Black | |
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| Windows Know-How | Automatically naming a file according to current time and date | Martin Voges | |
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| FutureX 2004 | Report on the premier computer & communication fair | Mike Robertson | |
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| 5 May 2004 |
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| Visio 2003 | Review of the new version of Microsoft's powerful charting/diagramming programme | Mike Robertson | |
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| Freeware Highlights | TreeSize discovers where your disk space has gone | Martin Voges | |
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| USB Lanlink | USB hardware and software for direct file transfer between computers similar to Laplink | Guy Dewar | |
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| Visual Studio.Net 2003 | New programming suite version - Part 1: VisualBasic.Net | Mike Robertson | |
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| 7 April 2004 |
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| WiFi networking at home | Setting up a wireless SOHO or home network | Mike Robertson | |
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| Freeware Highlights | Creating PDF documents with PrimoPDF | Guy Dewar | |
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| Scanning complex text | Optical Character Recognition (OCR) with pictures, formatting, and page layout | Pete Moss | |
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| 3 March 2004 |
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| Annual General Meeting | | Chairperson | |
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| Outlook 2003 | What's new and improved in the latest Office email application | Wayne Evans | |
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| Scanning text | Optical Character Recognition (OCR) | Pete Moss | |
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| 4 February 2004 |
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| Word 2003 | What's new and improved in the new Office suite and Word 2003 | Nicki Davies | |
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| Freeware Highlights | IZArc compression and archive utility | Guy Dewar | |
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| How the Internet Works | Email and the SMTP protocol | Martin Voges | |
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| 3 December 2003 |
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| Toys for the holidays | PDAs, wireless peripherals, digital cameras, ... Bring your own computing gadget to "Show and Tell" | Various | |
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| Party | Bring some snacks and refreshments and party with us until your connection times out ... | All | |
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| 5 November 2003 |
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| PC Club history | Recollections of a longtime member | Bill Abraham | |
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| Firewalls: ZoneAlarm | Using the free Zonealarm firewall to keep you safe from the big bad internet | Pete Moss | |
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| Freeware Highlight | Irfanview - image viewer and utility | Guy Dewar | |
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| Removable Media | Options for external data storage and transport | Guy Dewar | |
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| How the Internet works | How the World Wide Web works - the HTTP protocol | Martin Voges | |
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| 1 October 2003 |
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| Video editing on your home PC | The pleasure, power and pitfalls entailed in home video editing -- by an University AV Centre expert | Roger O'Neill | |
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| Freeware Highlight | Stardownloader | Ted Phillips | |
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| Searching the web revisited | Finding answers to YOUR questions on the web | Martin Voges | |
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| POSTPONED 1 month: How the Internet works | How the World Wide Web works - the HTTP protocol | Martin Voges | |
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| 3 September 2003 |
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| TV and FM Tuner card | Hardware which allows you to use your PC as TV/VCR/radio | Mike Robertson | |
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| UPS | Benefits of using an Uninterruptible Power Supply and demonstration of related software | Mike Robertson | |
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| Freeware Highlight | Comparing text files with Examdiff | Martin Voges | |
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| CSS page layout | Using Cascading Style Sheets instead of tables to lay out information on web pages | Mike Robertson | |
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| 6 August 2003 |
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| Purchasing a Notebook | Experiences of buying a laptop computer | Guy Dewar | |
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| Freeware Highlight | AVG antivirus | Guy Dewar | |
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| Finding Freeware | Where to find freeware on the internet | Guy Dewar | |
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| Searching the internet | How to search using Google | Pete Moss | |
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| 2 July 2003 |
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| Quickbooks 10 Review | A friendly accounting package for home and office | Margaret Meek | |
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| Windows Know-How | Display Settings : Keep your windows clear | Guy Dewar | |
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| History of the PC CPU | The Central Processing Unit's development from the XT to today's P4 | Pete Moss | |
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| 4 June 2003 |
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| New Venue | Discussion about moving to a new and improved venue | All | |
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| Computer Faire 2003 Report | | Mike Robertson | |
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| Windows Know-How | Defrag to keep your disk spinning smoothly | Ted Phillips | |
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| How the Internet Works | Newsgroups and the NNTP protocol | Pete Moss | |
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| 7 May 2003 |
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| Ins and Outs of CD Writing | Demonstration of CD writing options using Nero Burning ROM | Mike Robertson | |
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| Windows Know-How | Resource Monitor can help diagnose performance problems POSTPONED | Pete Moss | |
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| Scalable Vector Graphics | SVG - the future of internet graphics? | Martin Voges | |
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| 2 April 2003 |
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| How the Internet works 1 | The Internet Protocol and Domain Name System | Mike Robertson | |
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| Windows Know-How | Ping and Traceroute - tools to check whether the internet works | Pete Moss | |
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| USB Devices | The simplicity of connecting a variety of peripherals | Mike Robertson | |
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| 5 March 2003 |
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| Annual General Meeting | | Chairperson | |
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| How the Internet works : Overview | Basic outline of what the internet is and how it works. Subsequent talks go into details. | Mike Robertson | |
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| Windows Know-How | The CHKDISK and SCANDISK commands | Pete Moss | |
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| Graphics Resolution vs Size | Demystifying the raster graphics (Gif, Jpeg, etc.) concepts of resolution and size | Guy Dewar | |
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| 5 February 2003 |
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| Search the web from the comfort of your PC | Free search tools to help finding information on the web | Martin Voges | |
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| Windows Know-How | The XCOPY command | Pete Moss | |
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| CSS Style Sheets | Laying out your web pages effectively with style sheets | Mike Robertson | |
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| 4 December 2002 |
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| Megamasters Applied Information Technology Learnership Programme. | What is a learnership and how can you benefit? | Brian Moores-Pitt | |
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| Computers and Astronomy | | Rogan Roth | |
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| PARTY! | Bring some snacks and refreshments and join us all in the festivities. | You, and you ... yes, you! | |
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| 6 November 2002 |
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| Windows XP | What's interesting about Microsoft's new operating system | Mike Robertson | |
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| Windows Know-How | PING - the most basic network tool | Pete Moss | |
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| Free Utilities | Powerful tools to take charge of your PC | Mike Robertson | |
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| Unreal Tournament | Are you ready to play? Demo of one of the top multiplayer games | Mike Robertson | |
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| 2 October 2002 |
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| Intel Pentium 4 | Tips to make sensible buying decisions | Mike Robertson | |
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| Windows Know-How | The DIR command | Pete Moss | |
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| Website Promotion | Tailor your web pages for high search engine visibility | Mike Robertson | |
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| 4 September 2002 |
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| Getting answers from the web | How to get useful results from web searches | Pete Moss | |
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| Windows Know-How | Fdisk (Do you have a backup?!) | Pete Moss | |
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| Life in the Trenches | Long filenames, Short filenames and related issues | Ted Philips | |
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| 7 August 2002 |
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| The GIMP part III | Transforming images using layers, masks, selections in this powerful no-cost graphics editor | Martin Voges | |
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| Picture formats for the Web | When and why to use GIF, JPG or PNG | Martin Voges | |
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| Windows Know-How | Make full use of the Format Command | Pete Moss | |
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| Practical use of SQL in an Application | Using Microsoft Access forms and reports to filter data etc. | Steve Minaar | |
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| 3 July 2002 |
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| Managing Long Documents and Working Collaboratively using Microsoft Word | Work with documents containing many pieces possibly contributed by multiple authors | Nicki Davies | |
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| Visual Basic.Net | The latest version of Microsoft's programming language (i.e. Visual Basic 7) | Mike Robertson | |
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| 5 June 2002 |
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| The GIMP part II | Creative image editing | Martin Voges | |
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| Computer Faire 2002 | Report on the premier South African IT show | Mike Robertson | |
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| Home networking | How to set up a network at home | Alwyn Hugo | |
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| 1 May 2002 |
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| SPAM Prevention and Eradication | How to avoid getting SPAM Email and dealing with what you do get. | Mike Robertson | |
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| Microsoft SQL Server 2000 | What is MS SQL Server and why you would use it. | Mike Robertson | |
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| 3 April 2002 |
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| GIMP | Powerful image editing software at no cost | Martin Voges | |
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| Current Processors (CPUs) | | Pete Moss | |
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| 6 March 2002 |
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| AGM | The Annual General Meeting | All | |
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| Search Engines | A look at what search engines are and how to use them to find information on the Internet | Mike Robertson | |
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| Lesser Known Microsoft Utilities | A continuation of last months talk on built in utilities that are provided with your Windows operating system | Pete Moss | |
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| 6 February 2002 |
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| JavaScript 101 | An introduction to JavaScript - what it is and how it is used | Mike Robertson | |
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| Lesser Known Microsoft Utilities | Very useful utilities that you may not know you have. | Pete Moss | |
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| 5 December 2001 |
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| Morpheus Music | Share and download music from the Internet | Margaret Meek | |
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| Shopping on the Internet | Tips on how to safely shop on the Internet | Mike Robertson | |
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| 7 November 2001 |
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| Windows XP Experiences | Microsoft's new operating system | Mike Robertson | |
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| OCR | How to get the most out of Optical Character Recognition
to digitize printed text. | Pete Moss | |
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| 3 October 2001 |
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| Good Vibrations | Demo of Soundblaster Live with sound fonts etc. | Guy
Dewar | |
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| Creating your first web page | For ordinary people rather than experts. | Pete Moss | |
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| Internet maps | Finding your way around your neighbourhood from cyperspace | Martin Voges | |
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| 5 September 2001 |
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| Internet addiction | Surfer's liberation or slave to the wave (Counselling psychologist, Natal Witness columnist and publishing editor
of New Therapist) | John Soderlund | |
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| Your first web page | for ordinary people, not geeks | Pete Moss | |
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| The good, the bad, and the ugly | Examples of personal pages created by ordinary people | Martin Voges | |
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| 1 August 2001 |
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| Office XP | What's new in Microsoft's latest Office application | Nicki Davies | |
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| SQL | SQL queries using Microsoft Access databases | Steve Minnaar | |
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| 4 July 2001 |
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| 3D Modelling | Demonstration of visualizing three-dimensional objects | Mark Gutridge, Ramsay Engineering | |
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| HTML Anarchy | Part 4 in our HTML series shows you how to wreak havoc and have fun with HTML and stylesheets | Martin Voges | |
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| 6 June 2001 |
|---|
| Computer Faire 2001 | Report on the latest and greatest of the exhibition | Mike Robertson | |
|---|
| Palm PDA | Features and capabilities of the Palm Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) | Mike Robertson | |
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| 2 May 2001 |
|---|
| Digital Imaging II | Editing and Enhancement (Improving the images you learnt to acquire in last
month's talk) | Guy Dewar | |
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| Cascading Style Sheets | Part 3 in our HTML series informs you how and why to
use stylesheets | Mike Robertson | |
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| 4 April 2001 |
|---|
| Digital Imaging I | Acquisition - Making images with digital cameras and scanners | Guy Dewar | |
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| A user's experience with Windows 98 | 'Tips, tricks, etc.' for Windows 98 now that the shine of the new has worn off. Bring your own tips, tricks, and questions along! | Ted Phillips | |
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| 7 March 2001 |
|---|
| Annual General Meeting | | All Members | |
|---|
| Viruses and Hoaxes | Distinguish real virus threats versus hoax viruses | Pete Moss | |
|---|
| Browser Games | Playing games on the internet with your browser | Martin Voges | |
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| 7 February 2001 |
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| Computer User Stress | Derek will discuss the effects that computers have on us (including his
personal dealings with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome). | Derek Wang (University of Natal) | |
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| Linux | Origins of the Linux Operating System and a demonstration some of its features (Computing Centre
for Water Research) | Reinier de Vos | |
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| 5 December 2000 |
|---|
| Cleaning a PC Mouse | Do it yourself! | Pete Moss | |
|---|
| Internet.all.sorts | Internet tidbits for holiday browsing | Martin Voges | |
|---|
| Heretic II PC Game | Blast 'em sky high! | Mike Robertson | |
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