Plugit

27th March 2012 Meeting

Debra Hall — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:40:18 +0000

Todays meeting was the A.G.M and it was attended by 32 members, 2 of which were new members. This was Plugits 14th A.G.M. and the club is still going strong. The chairman gave his report in the form of a video which went very well. He thanked all the committee members for their hard work through out the year. He also gave thanks to Graham Betts who has Auditing the Accounts for Plugit now for many years. All the normal formalities were carried out like electing the committee for the following year and viewing Audited Accounts.

Howard Hall showed a video on installing and using a small program called a Virtual Magnifying Glass which works better than the one available on window. After the break Howard showed a set of three videos on using the Junior Icon Maker program and also on how to use the icons after you have created them.

All the videos from this meeting are available on our download page.

Lets Celebrate Sutton

Debra Hall — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:25:51 +0000

On the 17th March 2012 Plugit had a table at the Lets Celebrate Sutton event at the Meridale centre in Sutton on Sea. There was plenty of interest in Plugit and the event went very well. Thank you to all the members who helped out with their time.

28 February 2012 Meeting

Debra Hall — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:32:03 +0000

Todays meeting was attended by 8 Committee and 29 members. We also had one welcome visitor. Bob Lightsey called for volunteers for the “Lets Celebrate Sutton” event that is being held at the Meridale on 17th March, were Plugit will be having a table in the event.

Howard Hall showed a video about WordPad which everyone has free on their computers. After the break Bob Lightsey gave a talk on what happens to your computer information and files after you have died. This was followed by a quick demo from Howard about a free icon program.

Todays demos are available on the Downloads page.

24 January 2012 meeting

Debra Hall — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:59:19 +0000

Todays meeting was attended by 9 committee members, 27 members and we had 3 visitors.

We had some items that had been donated to the club and where sold to the members, also the clubs very old Laptop was sold off.

All members received a gift Plugit Folder to hold their demonstration DVDs and handouts from the meetings.

After the formal side of the meeting Howard showed the members how to use a memory pen to extend the usable memory of their computers.

After the break Brett showed a video on downloading, installing and using Rainmeter, a free software package that displays information about your computer on your desktop.

Plugit Christmas Lunch

Debra Hall — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:55:26 +0000

Plugit held there Christmas Lunch on 8th December. Click here to view some photos of the event -> Christmas Lunch Photo Album

22 November 2011 Meeting

Debra Hall — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:07:48 +0000

Todays meeting was attended by 9 Committee, 21 members.

After the formal part of the meeting Brett showed us how to copy our records onto the computer using the clubs own record player.

After the break Brett showed how to customise your Desktop Wallpaper followed by a few videos showing a new alternative program to Ccleaner called AppCleaner for cleaning up your computer.

Links to all the demos and for the Desktop Snow program shown by Howard during the meeting, are available on the downloads page.

25th October 2011 Meeting

Debra Hall — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:35:02 +0000

Todays meeting was attended by 8 Committee, 32 members and 2 visitors.

After the formal part of the meeting Brett showed us how to make our own Christmas Cards using Open Office.

After the break Brett showed a new program that can run applications from a USB pen drive. The program was PortableApps and a link will be available from the downloads page plus the videos from the meeting.

27th September 2011 Meeting

Debra Hall — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:51:50 +0000

Todays meeting was attended by 9 Committee and 26 members.

Frances has arranged for the Christmas Lunch to be held at Dave’s Restaurant Mablethorpe on 8th December, please get in touch with her as soon as possible to book your place.

Howard showed a video on the Kindle for PC, which enables you to read thousands of books on your computer. Followed by a demonstration on how to install and use Wordweb, a small dictionary that sits on your task bar.

After the break Brett showed a video on Windows 7 shortcut keys followed by a vidoe on Soluto, a program to speed up your computers boot time.

All the videos for the demonstrations are available on the download page.

23rd August 2011 Meeting

Debra Hall — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:42:35 +0000

Todays meeting was attended by 7 Committee and 31 members.

Frances Hitchcock is organising a couple more social events, the first being a Beetle Drive on 5th October, tickets £1 and the other one being the Christmas Lunch.

Brett Harris showed a demonstration on text to speech in Crazy Talk and how to make the file sizes smaller in order to send them to friends or family. Howard Hall showed a video on downloading and installing a program called Virtual Box.

After the break Howard showed how to download and burn to disc Ubuntu, a free operating system. He then showed how to install the operating system into the Virtual Box software.

At the end Howard showed a quick demonstration on how to make a little booklet.

All the demonstration videos are available on our downloads page.

26th July 2011 Meeting

Debra Hall — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:04:42 +0000

Today meeting was attended by 9 Committee and 34 members.

Howard Hall had some more of his bargains for sale, including Multimeters, Data Pens and Windows 7. If anyone is interested in purchasing any then please email Howard at hdcomputers@btinternet.com. Also if anyone has any ideas for demonstrations for future meetings please email these ideas to plugitdemos@aol.co.uk

After the official part of the meeting had finished Brian Cooke showed a video that he had created using Microsoft Movie Maker using photographs and music.

After the break Brett Harris showed some videos on downloading, installing and using Crazy Talk, the software that he used to make the talking Koala that we saw last month. After this he showed a short video on FotoSketcher.

Todays Demonstrations are available from our Downloads Page.