Pulborough Computer Club
2004 Calendar
We meet on the first Tuesday of each month and (except in December) on the Wednesday two weeks later.
Unless otherwise stated, all meetings are in the Rother Hall of Pulborough Village Hall and commence at 7:30pm. The hall is available from 7pm for setting up equipment. Please click here for directions.
| 7:30-8:45ish | Tutorial |
| 8:45ish-9:00ish | Refreshments |
| 9:00ish-9:50 | Burning questions about any topic and hopefully, answers |
| 9:50-10:00 | Clear up |
2004 |
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Tuesday 6th January |
AGM and choosing meeting topics for the year. |
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Wednesday 21st January |
Genealogy software and resources - A demonstration of Legacy 5.0 (because it's free from here) and a look at the resources available on the internet. |
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Tuesday 3rd February |
Back to Basics - A refresher on standard operations such as resizing windows and copying and moving files. |
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Wednesday 18th February |
Scanning - How to operate a scanner to import images and documents with discussion about selecting an appropriate resolution. Includes a demonstration of Optical Character Recognition to convert a picture of text into an editable Word document or spreadsheet. |
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Tuesday 2nd March |
Future Technology - Another visit from Ian Greenslade of IBM who will describe his view of the future of computing and communications. |
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Wednesday 17th March |
Word Processing I - An introduction to the topic using MS Word 2000. This will cover basic operations and the use of tables and templates. |
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Tuesday 6th April |
Setting up a new internet account from scratch and how to configure and use the Outlook Express email program. |
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Wednesday 21st April |
Carol's Website - Updating the B&B website that we built a couple of years ago as a club exercise with revised text, photographs and no doubt prices. |
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Tuesday 4th May |
Spreadsheets I - An introduction to spreadsheets and using MS Excel 2000 (Peter Gregory). |
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Wednesday 19th May |
How to Surf - Using MS Internet Explorer 6 to access the internet with an introduction to search engines (Google rulez) and other useful resources |
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Tuesday 1st June |
Spreadsheets II - More advanced functions and capabilities of MS Excel 2000. |
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Wednesday 16th June |
Graphics Processing - Using Paint Shop Pro 7 to improve photographs (Marion Bruce of the Village Computer Club) |
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Tuesday 6th July |
Windows XP - A guided tour and a demonstration of the differences between it and previous versions of Windows such as Windows ME and Windows 98SE. |
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Wednesday 21st July |
Creating CDs and DVDs - A look at how the technology and economics are changing and a demonstration of Nero 6 to make your own data and music CDs |
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Tuesday 3rd August |
Internet Hygiene - How to keep your system safe from intruders and malware by using antivirus software and a firewall. |
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Wednesday 18th August |
Back to Basics - A refresher on standard operations such as resizing windows and copying and moving files. |
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Tuesday 7th September |
eBay - A demonstration of this internet based auction house with advice on safeguards, payments, buying and selling. |
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Wednesday 22nd September |
Word Processing II - A further look at MS Word 2000 with demonstrations of some of its more advanced features such as outlining and automated data fields. |
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Tuesday 5th October |
The Naked PC - The objective is to build a working PC from scratch without a case to show and explain its various
components and how they interconnect. We'll be using a TV camera to give a big screen view. This session has
the potential to go horribly wrong 
(Dean Smith on screwdriver with Peter Leeke on camera).
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Wednesday 20th October |
System Backup and Partitioning - How to arrange your hard drive so that recovery from disaster is possible. |
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Tuesday 2nd November |
Photoshop - Using this industry standard graphics program to improve and manipulate images (Peter Astley). |
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Wednesday 17th November |
Networking - How to link two or more computers together so that they can share resources such as files, printers and internet connections Read the notes (2.8MB)(Dean Smith). |
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Tuesday 7th December |
Alternative Browsers - You don't have to use Internet Explorer. A look at Opera and Firefox which both offer
tabbed windows and control by mouse gesture - followed by mince pies .
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2005 |
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Tuesday 4th January |
Downloading - Finding useful programs, many of them free, on the internet and installing them. |
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Wednesday 19th January |
Back to Basics - A refresher on standard operations such as resizing windows and copying and moving files. |
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Tuesday 1st February |
AGM and choosing meeting topics for the year. |