| 1 September 2010 (Current) |
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| Portable freeware part 2 | 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 |
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| To Do List | Organise your life with powerful freeware | Martin Voges |
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| Filters in Excel | Viewing data selectively with filters | Ted Phillips |
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| 4 August 2010 |
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| Alternate Search Engines | Other ways to find what you want on the internet | Mary Bruce |
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| Antivirus comparison | How do various Antivirus products (free and commercial) compare? | Mike Robertson |
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| Portable freeware | A selection of applications that you can run from your flash drive without installing them | Vic Hugo |
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| Paint.Net | Latest version of this powerful freeware graphic editor | Mike Robertson |
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| 7 July 2010 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Interaction between Microsoft Office applications | Reusing information from one application in another | Vic Hugo |
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| Internet performance problems? | Check the obvious! | Guy Dewar |
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| AVG USB Clean Boot Anti-Virus scan | Disinfect your PC from a USB stick | Ted Phillips |
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| 5 May 2010 |
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| Twitter Clients | Using Twitter Clients such as TweetDeck to manage Twitter messages (called Tweets) | Mike Robertson |
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| Creating graphics - does the software matter? | Open Source Gimp versus professional Photoshop | Martin Voges |
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| Free Download Manager | Multiple download, restart download and schedule downloads. | Mike Robertson |
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| Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2010 | The latest version of Microsoft's Development suite | Mike Robertson |
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| 7 April 2010 |
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| Creating ISO images | Free method to create ISO images | Ted Phillips |
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| Intel's new CPUs | The i3, i5 and i7 range of processors | Mike Robertson |
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| Who is connecting to your PC? | Windows Know-How: Inspecting network connections with Netstat | Martin Voges |
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| PC Wizard 2009 | What hardware does your PC have? | Mike |
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| 3 March 2010 |
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| AGM | Annual General Meeting | All |
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| Sniffing the concealed network | Troubleshooting network problems with sniffers like Wireshark and Network Monitor | Martin Voges |
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| Avira Boot Antivirus | Boot from CD and scan hard drive directly | Ted Phillips |
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| Windows PowerShell | DOS on steroids | Mike Robertson |
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| 3 February 2010 |
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| Windows 7 | The latest operating system from Microsoft - do you need it? | Mike Robertson |
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| KeepPass | Store username and passwords | Mike Robertson |
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| Prevent Autorun Infections | Stop viruses on USB storage devices | Ted Phillps |
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| Microsoft Security Essentials | Antivirus, Antispyware | Mike Robertson |
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| 2 December 2009 |
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| Readability | Say goodbye to superfluous stuff on your browser | Mary Bruce |
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| Alternate Character set ASCII | How to get non keyboard characters | Margaret Meek |
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| Browser Annoyances | What irritates you in the browser you use | Martin Voges |
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| Social | End-of-year party time | All |
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| 4 November 2009 |
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| Quickbooks Lite | Free version of Quickbooks accounting software | Margaret Meek |
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| Common Windows shortcut keys | Work more efficiently | Martin Voges |
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| PicPick Screen Capture | Save parts of your screen for manuals etc | Mike Robertson |
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| LTSpice | Electronic Circuit Simulation Software | Pete Moss |
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| 7 October 2009 |
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| Audacity (Held over from September) | Freeware Sound Editor | Pete Moss |
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| Batch to Exe | Convert batch files to executables | Ted Phillips |
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| Microsoft Expression Web | Create web sites with the new 'Frontpage' | Mike Robertson |
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| 2 September 2009 |
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| Social Bookmarking | Save your favourite websites online | Nicki Davies |
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| Download Accelerators | Leechget & Free Download Manager | Mike Robertson |
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| TrueCrypt | Encrypt USB Sticks etc to protect your data | Mike Robertson |
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| Microsoft Silverlight | Create Interactive applications for the internet | Mike Robertson |
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| 5 August 2009 |
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| Microsoft One-Note | Organizing thoughts and Data | Nicki Davies |
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| Twitter | Submit messages (tweet) to a social network service also known as Micro-Blogging | Nicki Davies |
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| Windows Knowhow - 7 ZIP | Free Unzip Zip utility | Mike Robertson |
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| Superimposing photos | Create your own desktop Wallpaper | Martin Voges |
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| 1 July 2009 |
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| Bing | Microsoft's new search engine | Nicki Davies |
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| Convert PDF to Word documents | Freeware | Nicki Davies |
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| Chrome security settings | Lock down Google's browser | Mary Bruce |
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| New developments from Google | | Mary Bruce |
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| OpenOffice.org Database | Opensource database | Mike Robertson |
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| 3 June 2009 |
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| BlogEngine.net | A free Blog for your website | Mike Robertson |
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| BBCode | How BBCode (Bulletin Board Code) is used to keep a blog up to date | Pete Moss |
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| Vector Graphics in IfranView | Lesser known capabilities of IrfanView | Pete Moss |
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| Chrome security settings | Lock down Google's browser | Mary Bruce |
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| Safari Browser for Windows | Apple's free Web Browser for Windows | Mike Robertson |
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| 6 May 2009 |
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| OpenOffice.Org version 3 Calc | The free spreadsheet component of this business suite | Nicki Davies |
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| Web Application Security | Threats and Countermeasures - Understand the issues and avoid the problems | Mike Robertson |
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| Windows Know-How | Windows Logo Key: Powerful keyboard shortcuts | Ted Phillips |
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| Windows 7 (Beta) | A preview of Microsoft's next operating system | Mike Robertson |
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| 1 April 2009 |
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| OpenOffice.org 3.0 Impress | The Presentation Application available in OpenOffice.org 3.0 | Nicki Davies |
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| Sharing photos on the web | Picasa Web Albums | Martin Voges |
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| Freeware Highlight | Find that file with Agent Ransack | Martin Voges |
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| Smart Searching the Web | How to search the web in order to find what you want as quickly as possible | Pete Moss |
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| Which display is right for you? | A comparison of flat-screen and glass-tube (CRT) monitors | Pete Moss |
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| 4 March 2009 |
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| Annual General Meeting | | All |
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| OpenOffice.org version 3 Part I - Writer | A look at the Wordproccessing component of this powerful free software suite | Nicki Davies |
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| Smart Searching the Web | How to search the web in order to find what you want as quickly as possible | Pete Moss |
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| Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate 1 (Beta) | The latest version of Microsoft browser due for release real soon | Mike Robertson |
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| 4 February 2009 |
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| Searching the hidden web | Finding information beyond the reach of traditional search engines | Mary Bruce |
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| Syncback | Backup and synchronsie files in different locations | Mike Robertson |
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| Manage your disk with EASEUS Partition Manager | Copy, move, delete, resize, etc. your disk partitions | Pete Moss |
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| Fiddler web debugging tool | Access the HTTP traffic to debug your web | Mike Robertson |
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| 3 December 2008 |
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| Google Chrome | Google's free browser | Mary Bruce |
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| Favourite sites | Members share their favourite sites | Mike Robertson |
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| Windows Freeware | Paint.NET and FreeOCR.NET | Mike Robertson |
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| 5 November 2008 |
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| Bushman Art Project | Digital documentation of the rock art of the Drakensberg and a web-based management system | Carl Grossman |
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| Is your website readable? | Measure how easy it is to read and comprehend a web page | Nathi Ndlovu |
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| 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) |
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| 1 October 2008 |
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| Adobe Buzzword | Online Word Processor | Nicki Davies |
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| Freeware Highlight: CDBurnerXP | A free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including recent formats | Guy Dewar |
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| Windows Know-How: Defragmentation | Defragmentation improves hard disk performance | Mike Robertson |
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| Sql Server 2008 Express | Microsoft's free Database server | Mike Robertson |
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| 3 September 2008 |
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| Microsoft Movie Maker | Home movie editor bundled with Windows | Ina Koen |
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| Protecting your children from Facebook dangers | Facebook Security | Mary Bruce |
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| Directory and File Compare | Utilities to manage copies of files and directories | Mike Robertson |
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| FireFox 3 | Popular Open Source web browser | Mike Robertson |
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| 6 August 2008 |
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| Protecting your children from Facebook dangers | Facebook Security | Mary Bruce |
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| Does your Word Spike and Calc? | Secret features of Word | Nicki Davies |
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| Are deleted files really gone? | "Recuva" files you thought were gone for good | Ted Phillips |
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| Web browser of choice | Opera | Martin Voges |
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| 2 July 2008 |
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| Easy creation of newsletters, invitations, pamphlets | Microsoft Publisher | Mike Robertson |
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| CD content from your hard disk | Daemon tools | Mike Robertson |
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| Using online surveys | Getting information from data, question types ... | Martin Voges |
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| Automate finding and editing of text | Regular expressions | Martin Voges |
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| 4 June 2008 |
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| Computer Faire | News from South Africa's premier computer exhibition | Mike Robertson |
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| Network Time Protocol (NTP) | Keep your computer time accurate | Mike Robertson |
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| Firewalls Part 2 | Demonstration of Firewalls using free ZoneAlarm | Pete Moss |
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| AVG v8 Free Antivirus | The latest free Antivirus replacing 7.5 | Mike Robertson |
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| 7 May 2008 |
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| Facebook at work! | Social networking for business value | Mary Bruce |
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| Online Surveys | Surveys on the net with LimeSurvey, an Open Source web application | Martin Voges |
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| Firewalls and Security | Why you should use a firewall | Pete Moss |
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| Microsoft Virtual Server | Free application that allows multiple Virtual Servers to run on one computer | Mike Robertson |
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| 2 April 2008 |
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| Facebook at work! (Postponed by ESKOM) | Social networking for business value | Mary Bruce |
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| Network Time Protocol (NTP) (Postponed by ESKOM) | Set your PC time to Atomic clock accuracy | Mike Robertson |
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| Online Surveys (Postponed by ESKOM) | Surveys on the net with LimeSurvey, an Open Source web application | Martin Voges |
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| Firewalls and Security (Postponed by ESKOM) | Why you should use a firewall | Pete Moss |
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| Microsoft Virtual Server (Postponed by ESKOM) | Free application that allows multiple Virtual Servers to run on one computer | Mike Robertson |
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| 5 March 2008 |
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| AGM | Annual General Meeting | All |
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| Freeware Highlights | Google's Picasa for managing photos | Mike Robertson |
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| Firewalls part 1 | Implementing your own firewall | Pete Moss |
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| Windows KnowHow | How much memory (RAM) is enough? | Mike Robertson |
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| 6 February 2008 |
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| Social Networking | A look at Facebook and Linked-In | MikeRobertson / Nicki Davies |
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| PDF Writer | Create PDF documents easily by printing to a PDF-creating Printer Driver | Mike Robertson |
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| IrfanView | What's new in this brilliant freeware image viewer and manipulation program | Guy Dewar |
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| Firewalls part 1 | How do firewalls work | Pete Moss |
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| 5 December 2007 |
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| Good destinations on the Web | Your favourite places on the web | Mike Robertson |
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| Your questions answered | Member supplied questions answered | Everybody |
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| New games | Games for you and your children | Mike |
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| Party | Snacks and refreshments provided; you're welcome to contribute some. | All |
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| 7 November 2007 |
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| Google Earth | Online map of the world | Guy Dewar |
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| Freeware Highlight | WinDirStat to explore hard disk usage | Ted Phillips |
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| PDA and Cellphone in one | Demonstration of TYTN | Mike Robertson |
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| Freeware Highlight | Windows in a Box and others | Guy Dewar |
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| 3 October 2007 |
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| Google Calendar | Keep track of and share events in your life | Wayne Evans |
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| VicMan Photo Suite | Photo retouching application | Guy Dewar |
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| Useful small utilities | Some small utilities and tips | Guy Dewar |
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| Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition (Beta 2) | The next version of Microsoft's free web development platform | Mike Robertson |
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| 5 September 2007 |
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| Design a Usable Website | Usability issues encountered in a web site's development | Martin Voges |
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| Windows Know-How | Create your own symbols or font characters with Private Character Editor | Martin Voges |
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| Google Pop | Read your GMail email offline | Pete Moss |
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| Visual Basic.NET Express 2008 Beta | The next version of the free development application from Microsoft | Mike Robertson |
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| 1 August 2007 |
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| Microsoft Office Accounting | Free accounting package | Margaret Meek |
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| Windows Know-how | Create self extracting compressed files | Martin Voges |
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| Freeware Highlight | Zoomit | Martin Voges |
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| Managing Removable Drives | How to find a missing USB storage device and changing the drive letter | Ted Phillips |
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| Omea Pro | Integrated Information Environment | Mike Robertson |
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| 4 July 2007 |
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| Microsoft Virtual PC | Run Windows XP, Windows 3.1, MSDOS or Linux all on the same PC at the same time | Kerwin Basson |
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| Power Calculator and CalculatorPlus | Comparison of free Microsoft calculators | Ted Phillips |
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| Copernic Desktop Search | Index your hard drive for fast local and internet search | Mary Bruce |
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| Windows Media Player | What you can do with Microsoft's Media Player | Mike Robertson |
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| 6 June 2007 |
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| Google Apps for Your Domain | Free, customised, web-based email, calendar, and office suite for your domain | Wayne Evans |
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| Video Demo | Microsoft's Surface Computing | on10.NET |
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| FutureX | A report back on the FutureX trade faire | Mike Robertson |
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| 2 May 2007 |
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| 3G internet | Broadband cell phone internet access | Guy Dewar |
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| Ultimate Boot CD | Emergency XP boot CD | Guy Dewar |
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| Freeware Highlight | Synctoy to synchronise files between two locations | Mike Robertson |
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| Visio 2007 | Microsoft's new version of the charting application | Mike Robertson |
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| 4 April 2007 |
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| What do Google Apps' online office applications offer? | Is the Google generation becoming Google dependent? | Nicki Davies |
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| SMART | Monitoring your hard disk drive's health | Guy Dewar |
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| Freeware Highlight | Artrage : Painting and drawing programme | Guy Dewar |
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| Building a new PC | Deciding on and purchasing components, assembling the PC etc. | Mike Robertson |
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| 7 March 2007 |
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| Annual General Meeting | | Chairperson |
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| Windows Vista | Overview of Microsoft's new operating system | Mike Robertson |
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| Freeware Highlights | Time, date & memory utility | Ted Phillips |
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| Freeware Highlights | Screencapture utilities | Martin Voges |
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| Hard disk drives | What you can get for your money today | Pete Moss |
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| 7 February 2007 |
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| MS Publisher 2007 | | Mike Robertson |
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| AVG | | Mike Robertson |
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| Creating a (free) wiki | | Martin Voges |
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| Hard disk drives | Held over ... | Pete Moss |
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| 6 December 2006 |
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| Latest games | Need for Speed: Carbon - and others | Mike Robertson |
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| 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 |
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| Party! | Bring some snacks and refreshments and party with us until your connection times out ... | All |
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| 1 November 2006 |
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| PayPal | Now available in South Africa | Mike Robertson |
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| Microsoft Excel & Powerpoint 2007 | What's new | Nicki Davies |
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| Irfanview | More than just an image viewer | Guy Dewar |
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| Intelligent searching | Find what you want on the internet | Pete Moss |
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| 4 October 2006 |
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| Secure Email | Ensuring that your mail correspondence is not tampered with etc. | Mark Heyink & Maeson Maherry |
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| Irfanview | More than just an image viewer | Guy Dewar |
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| Microsoft Word 2007 | What's new | Nicki Davies |
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| 6 September 2006 |
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| Wiki | Collaborative web publishing | Mary Bruce |
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| Freeware Highlight | Using Irfanview | Ted Phillips |
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| Visual Web Developer Express | Microsoft's Free Web Developer Application (Part 2) | Mike Robertson |
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| 2 August 2006 |
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| Open Source Software | What is it? How does it work? | Mike Robertson |
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| Open Source Examples | A Demonstration of some Open Source software | Mike Robertson |
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| Hardware trends | Processors (CPUs) | Pete Moss |
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| Visual Studio 2005 Web Developer Express | Microsoft's Free Web Developer Application | Mike Robertson |
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| 5 July 2006 |
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| Online socialising - holiday project 1 | MySpace | Mary Bruce |
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| Online socialising - holiday project 2 | Blogging | Mary Bruce |
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| Freeware Highlight | SharePod - copy music from your Ipod to your PC | Guy Dewar |
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| Game news | New game selection | Mike Robertson |
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| Visual Basic Express | Free programming software from Microsoft | Mike Robertson |
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| 7 June 2006 |
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| ADSL Overview | What to consider if you want a faster, dedicated ADSL internet connection. | Janine Gerson of First Technology |
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| Portable Freeware | A selection of freeware can be used without installing on your hard disk. | Guy Dewar |
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| Futurex 2006 Report | Noteworthy and interesting developments seen at the exhibition. | Mike Robertson |
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| 3 May 2006 |
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| The Linux alternative - Live! | A guided tour of Linux alternatives to common Windows desktop applications for small office/home use | Matt Erasmus of DcData |
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| Internet Explorer 7 preview | What's new in Microsoft's redesigned web browser? | Mike Robertson |
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| Google utilities | Google's specialised searches, services, and tools. | Mary Bruce |
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| 5 April 2006 |
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| The Linux alternative | Introduction to Linux as a replacement for Windows as a server as well as on the desktop | Matt Erasmus of DcData |
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| Yankee-Clipper | Powerful clipboard extender | Mike Robertson |
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| Snagit | Screen capture and print utility | Mike Robertson |
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| 1 March 2006 |
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| Annual General Meeting | | Chairperson |
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| Freeware Highlights | Overview of the 2006 Pricelessware CD | Guy Dewar |
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| MS Office Document Imaging | OCR tool bundled with Office | Martin Voges |
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| Free antivirus software | An overview of AVG and ClamWin | Mike Robertson |
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| 1 February 2006 |
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| What's new for computing in 2006 | Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show and beyond | Mary Bruce |
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| MS Redaction tool | Censoring text from Word documents | Nicky Davies |
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| Partition Magic | Rearranging hard drive space without losing data | Pete Moss |
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| Need for Speed - Most Wanted | The latest game | Mike Robertson |
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| 7 December 2005 |
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| PC Game | Age of Empires III | Mike Robertson |
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| Gadgets | Gift ideas | Various |
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| Party | | All |
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| 2 November 2005 |
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| Physical PC Security | Secure your PC, Laptop or LCD Monitor | Willem van den Brink from SecuPlus |
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| Freeware Highlight | File recovery part 2 - Zero Assumption Digital Image Recovery | Ted Phillips |
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| Phishing, Phaxing and Pharming | How vulnerable are you? | Nicki Davies |
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| Microsoft SQL Server 2005 | The latest Database Server from Microsoft | Mike Robertson |
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| 5 October 2005 |
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| 3G | High-speed Internet access via your cell phone | Vodacom |
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| Freeware Highlight | Disk Rescue - attempts to recover deleted files on Media Memory (FAT) | Ted Phillips |
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| PC Security | Zone Alarm personal firewall | Pete Moss |
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| SQL Server 2005 | Microsoft's latest heavy duty database | Mike Robertson |
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| 7 September 2005 |
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| Skype Internet Telephony | Free calls over the internet between Skype users | Mike Robertson |
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| Virus History and Types | | Pete Moss |
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| Windows Freeware | Various Image Enhancing applications | Guy Dewar |
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| PC Security | Windows XP Firewall | Mike Robertson |
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| 3 August 2005 |
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| RSS Feeds | Putting the 'current' in current awareness | Mary Bruce |
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| Windows KnowHow | MSConfig to control system startup for troubleshooting | Martin Voges |
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| Freeware Highlights | Startup Monitor | Mike Robertson |
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| JavaScript 101 | Introduction to Javascripting | Mike Robertson |
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| 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 |
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| Computer Faire 2001 | Report on the latest and greatest of the exhibition | Mike Robertson |
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| Palm PDA | Features and capabilities of the Palm Personal Digital Assistants (PDA) | Mike Robertson |
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| 2 May 2001 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Annual General Meeting | | All Members |
|---|
| Viruses and Hoaxes | Distinguish real virus threats versus hoax viruses | Pete Moss |
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| 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 |
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| Cleaning a PC Mouse | Do it yourself! | Pete Moss |
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| Internet.all.sorts | Internet tidbits for holiday browsing | Martin Voges |
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| Heretic II PC Game | Blast 'em sky high! | Mike Robertson |
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