Diary 2010

Today's meeting was attended by 13 committee and 28 members.

This month Howard Hall showed a video demonstrating how to print 2 pages onto one A4 sheet. This was followed by a video from Brett Harris deomonstrating how to install and use Easy Poster Printer.

After the coffee break Michael Welby showed us a video demonstrating how to make a booklet, mainly looking at the use of text boxes.

All of these videos are availabel to view or download on our Downloads Page.

25th May 2010

Today's meeting was attended by 12 committee and 30 members.

This month Howard Hall showed us how to use the function keys on a Laptop. The video for this demo is available to view or download on The Downloads Page.

After the coffee break Howard showed us a very impressive video on photographic composition and how to make your photographs more profesional.

27th April 2010

Today's meeting was attended by 11 committee and 34 members.

The Clubs 3 laptops have now been sold to the members that won our auction.

The meeting went well with books and inks available for members to freely have.

Our chairman asked members to bring forward ideas for future demonstrations.

This month Howard Hall showed us how to use Abbyy Fine Reader, a program that can transfer a document from a peice of paper to an editable document on your computer.

Brett showed us two videos, the first showing how to use Money Manager and the second demonstrating PC Wizard.

A copy of all the Videos can be viewed or downloaded from The Downloads Page.

23rd March 2010

Today's meeting was the 12th A.G.M., which was attended by 51, this included 9 committee members and 3 visitors.

The meeting went very well with our Chairman, Michael Wellby giving a good Chairmans report. Our committee was elected and now consists of Michael Wellby as Chairman, Howard Hall as Vice Chairman, Debra Hall as Secretary, Jim Eaton as Treasurer. We also have 10 other willing volunteers to serve on the Committee, including Margaret Lillywhite who decided to stay on the committee, Brett who although not doing the demonstrations will still be a committee member and a new committee member Bryan Varnam.

After all the formal meeting, Howard Hall showed us some tutorial videos from the hp website. To visit the website shown click this link Hp Tutorial Website.

Brett showed us a video on voice recognition in windows 7.

A copy of

23rd February 2010

Today meeting was attended by 55 people, this included 11 committee members and 4 visitors.

During the business part of the meeting the Chairman announced that Brett Harris will not be doing demonstrations and Margaret Lillywhite will be standing down at the A.G.M.

The first part of this month’s demonstrations was a video presented by Howard Hall showing an overview of Productivity on the computer and what things will be covered in the year to come. The second video was presented by Brett Harris and showed members how to backup their files using Comodo and also how to put their files onto CD using CDBurnerXP.

A copy of all the Videos can be viewed or downloaded from The Downloads Page.

26th January 2010

Today meeting was attended by 56 people, this included 12 committee members and 2 visitors.

During the business part of the meeting the Chairman announced that he would be standing down at the A.G.M.

This month’s demonstrations were done in a different format with the members watching a video presentation followed by questions arising from the videos. The first video was presented by Howard Hall and showed beginners how to install a program using Microsoft Works as the example, this video is the first in a series for helping beginners. The second video was presented by Brett Harris and showed members how to put together a DVD of there pictures using Picasa. The format went down very well and members could hear the videos clearly using the new sound system.

A copy of all the Videos can be viewed or downloaded from The Downloads Page. Also on this page are two links to pages to download the software packages used in Bretts video.