24 January 2012 meeting

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.

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Plugit Christmas Lunch

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

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22 November 2011 Meeting

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.

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25th October 2011 Meeting

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.

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27th September 2011 Meeting

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.

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