Links to our Interest Groups below
OUR COMPUTER GROUP.
The Leader is Peter, 5623 2865.
Also assisted by several very
knowledgeable members.
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We meet on a regular basis on the 3rd Friday of each month at 10:00 AM. At the Warragul Lawn Bowling Club. Please remember to wear your Probus badge, and bring along your exercise book and pen. And $2:00 for Morning tea.
NEXT COMPUTER GROUP MEETING.
16th of March, We will have a look at some Websites and hopefully learn a few tips about viewing them.
FISH & CHIPS. The next night is on February 24th 2012 . (This is the Blue Lotus trip day) We have to book in, so please let Kath (5623 2865) know if you wish to go, Kath will book you in, Please contact Kath before Thursday night. We need to be there by 5:30 PM, the Bowling Club prefers bulk payments so if you book with Kath she will pay for you, then when you come inside go over and sit at the Probus Table pay Kath the $10.00. If Kath arrives very early we will receive our meal early.
It would be polite if some of us came along to their Fish & Chip nights. It is held every second Friday evening starting at 5:30PM SHARP. The bowling club use this as a fund raiser, they do not charge our Computer group anything, so this is our way of trying to pay our way. We often have a full table of Probus people there.
PREVIOUS COMPUTER GROUP MEETINGS,
17th of February 2012, Keith was the tutor at this meeting and had 8 happy students.
20th of January 2012. This meeting we finished up having it at Joan & Johns house as confusion happened at the Bowling Club. The meeting was another informal one, with no particular subject. Excepting that It started with a short discussion about Mice and Mouse mats. We had 2 visitors from the Warragul Probus Club who listened and observed us and also gave us some tips, it was another great meeting
18th of November. The meeting was revision of all the classes that we have had this year. We went through them all one by one and sorted a few small problems, everyone appeared satisfied.
21st of October 2011. Alan B was in charge of this meeting in my absence. Our meeting was to begin with some tips about using our Computers. Then our normal question time. Then I plan to go on with a simple discussion and demonstration on how I back up my Photos. So bring along your questions, laptop, exercise book and pen, and name badge, test us with your problems and we will try to help you. If you are not lucky enough to have a laptop don't worry you can still make notes and then go home and put what you have learned into practice, and if you still have problems sit by your PC (running) and give me a ring 5623 2865.
16th of September 2011, We had a VERY friendly meeting starting off with discussions about the experiences that we had with our computers in the past month. Then we tried to demonstrate Ebay, (sadly Telstra had a problem and the Internet was running painfully slow but we managed) signing up to and then my ideas of how to bid. Then how to put an item up for sale. Then signing up with PayPal, PayPal is the accepted way of paying and being paid. Then we had a demonstration of Facebook plus an extended discussion about it.
19th August 2011, We had another enjoyable informal meeting and it finished with a quick look at Ebay. Ebay caused enough interest for me to think that that is what we will do next month.
15th July 2011, As planned we had an informal meeting, we had a few guru's that wandered about the room giving personal help. Every one appeared happy, in fact this is what the majority want to do next meeting.
17th June 2011, Alan Bell, conducted a survey of the members of their computer knowledge, after that he did a very interesting class on using spreadsheets. He used planning a childrens birthday party as the example.
20th May 2011, Alan Bell will be doing a presentation, Genealogy using an application called Family Tree Maker.
15th April 2011,We had a very good morning even though we had some problems with the scanner, but we did manage to scan a scribbled signature and 1 old photo. The main subject was simple picture manipulation. Kath demonstrated stitching 5 photos of the Dunedin Railway station together automatically using a program called Autostitch, the results were amazing. Kath then went on with the demonstration showing how pictures can be brightened and darkened or certain colours added or removed. We had a good discussion about Malware and the way it is received and continued on with the uses of Windows games to give computer operators mouse practice. Click on this to see the agenda for this meeting.
18th March 2011, We had very successful and happy meeting. We started with question time only very small easy questions. Many of us put a shortcut on our desktop's, this enabled us to click on it and then go straight into our the Probus WebPages. We then finished the meeting off with a bit more on e-mails. Sadly I had the WiFi working but it was not accessing broadband. That evening we went back to the Lawn Bowling club for a lovely meal of Fish & Chips. We are going to try to make make this a regular outing.
18 February 2011, We had 18 happy members come to to our first meeting at the Warragul Lawn Bowling Club. We were made very welcome by the Bowling Club members. They have 2 government supplied PC's for use by Seniors, they are connected to broadband. We had a laptop set up on our data projector so that everyone could see. Many of our class had laptops to practise on and demonstrate their problems. We started the meeting off with question time. We did not get many questions this time, but hopefully our next meeting will have more questions. We then went on to have a lesson on e-mails, this caused a lot of interest and I am sure we will have to do another one about e-mails.
25 January 2011, Our new Computer help group had its first meeting.
We had a round table discussion at Glenice & Peter Ridsdale's residence 9 interested members attended. At this meeting we discussed the advantages of computer house keeping.
Computer Help pages courtesy of Forresters Beach Probus Club. Extremely well done helps with most computer problems.
Many documents that you get from the Internet are written using Adobe Acrobat, some computers come without a reader installed, and thus you can not open them. To get yourself a reader, this is a Link to Adobe so that you can download a free copy of it, to do this, simply click on this blue writing then click on download now. This is a BIG program you will just have to be patient with it. on the Adobe screen their is a box that is ticked by default, for you to also to download, it is a McAffee program. Unless you understand it please this box.
TO PUT A SHORT CUT TO OUR PROBUS WEBSITE ON YOUR DESKTOP. Right click on this and save it to your Windows desktop for a quick shortcut to this webpage. This short cut will have a name Probus Website.url (some computers add .txt to the shortcut name, if it does you will need to remove it). This can be done by right clicking on it and selecting rename, then delete .txt.
