Pulborough Computer Club
2007 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 |
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Tuesday 2nd January |
PC Security. (Stuart Crump) |
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Wednesday 17th January |
PC tune up software - what's good, what's not and what's a scam. (Dean Smith) |
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Tuesday 6th February |
AGM and choosing meeting topics for the year. |
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Wednesday 21st February |
File management for beginners including different file formats and how to structure your data so that you can find it again. (Stuart Crump) |
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Tuesday 6th March |
Building a website in 60 minutes with no web skills at all. (Stuart Crump) |
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Wednesday 21st March |
Home finance - contrasting the use of a spreadsheet and a program such as Microsoft Money or Quicken. (Dean Smith) |
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Tuesday 3rd April |
Little used Windows XP features such as fax and custom toolbars. How to creat an Acrobat .pdf file. (Jim Noble) |
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Wednesday 18th April |
Web 2.0 and thin clients - how the internet is evolving to become more pervasive with net based applications. (Dean Smith) |
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Tuesday 1st May |
Future Technology - Ian Greenslade of the Village Computer Club will describe his view of the future of computing and communications and look at the success of last year's predictions. |
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Wednesday 16th May |
Guide to the club website with an emphasis on using its forum to ask questions or spread news. (Jim Noble) |
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Tuesday 5th June |
A closer look at Windows Vista, Microsoft's replacement for Windows XP. (Dean Smith) |
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Wednesday 20th June |
Overview and demonstration of Microsoft Office 2007. See some of its new features and how the user interface has changed significantly. (Jim Noble) |
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Tuesday 3rd July |
Informal. Bring your own system along to show off or have a problem solved. See demonstrations of other people's systems and applications. (All) |
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Wednesday 18th July |
Virtualisation - Running a virtual operating system (eg Windows 95+) within another (eg Windows XP). This technique can be useful for running older programs. (Stuart Crump) |
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Tuesday 7th August |
Using Adobe Photoshop Elements to process images and photographs. This is a budget but still very capable version of the full Photoshop. (Lesley Cutting) |
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Wednesday 22nd August |
Networking and network security (Rodger Hunt) |
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Tuesday 4th September |
Burning photos to CD or DVD to create slide shows that can be viewed using a domestic DVD player (Peter Picthall) |
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Wednesday 19th September |
Using Microsoft Outlook (a sort of software Filofax) to organise your life. Includes discussion of its email capabilities. (Jim Noble) |
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Tuesday 2nd October |
Demonstration of Microsoft Publisher to create newsletters, brochures and cards. (John Beard) |
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Wednesday 17th October |
Hardware update - what's new on the computer, peripherals and gadget market. (Dean Smith) |
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Tuesday 6th November |
A household security system using webcams. (Stuart Crump) |
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Wednesday 21st November |
Using VOIP (Voice Over Internet) to make free 'phone calls' to other users. Will include a demonstration of Skype and will mention some of its competitors. (Jim Noble) |
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Tuesday 4th December |
Linux update. Jim's experiences with using Ubuntu Linux - which 'just works'. Followed by drinks and nibbles . (Jim Noble)
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2008 |
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Wednesday 16th January |
Comparing the web browsers Internet Explorer, Opera and Firefox, with a closer look at some of Firefox's useful extensions. (Jim Noble) |
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Tuesday 5th February |
No meeting this week |
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Wednesday 20th February |
AGM and choosing meeting topics for the year. |
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Tuesday 4th March |
A demonstration of video editing. (Peter Leeke) |
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Wednesday 19 March |
Future Technology - Ian Greenslade of the Village Computer Club will describe his view of the future of computing and communications and look at the success of last year's predictions. |
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Tuesday 1st April |
Reducing spam - or at least, largely preventing it from reaching your inbox. (Jim Noble) |