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East Preston Silver Surfers Computer Club

Reg, Charity No. 110682

New Link (Lionel)

I have added a new link under "Other Stuff" called "Past Items".   Some members have commented that I have removed information (and Tips) from this page to quickly.  I will now move them to the 'Past Items'  link for an indefinite period.         
                  

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What's on Thursday   26th November, 2009

REMINDER, BRING YOUR FLASH DRIVE EVERY WEEK

Paul will demonstrate how to use Power Point to create Slide Shows with different effects. In the side room we have Margaret's one hour discussion on how electronic communications have (in most cases) affected our lives.   See directly below          After tea the side room will be available for an informal session

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Next Week  26th November, 2009

Synopsis

"Since the 1980s, the use of electronic communications has increased in an amazing way. Government, business and organisations have increasingly trained their staff to use IT communications as part of their daily routine. Following close behind, leisure use of the internet, e-mail, chat rooms, social network sites, blogging, and recently 'Twitter-ing', has multiplied the amount of electronically transmitted information and messages streaking around the globe with unimaginable speed.
"Unintended consequences" is a chance to spend a short time thinking about how this information revolution has affected all our lives, and not always in the ways that were expected or wanted."

You are invited to bring examples from the media, from work and friends, and your own experience, to give us a chance to consider the new pitfalls, (and also unexpected opportunities) this electronic information age has brought."
The discussion will be led by Margaret.

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Summary of Items for Sale (More info)

Latest Tip 18th Nov, 2009 (Paul)

Default Text Size In Firefox And Webpages Too Small

If you find the default text size in Firefox and webpages too small (or possibly too large) it can be changed easily as follows:

Open Firefox,  click on 'Tools', 'Options'
On the window which opens, click on the 'Content' tab
In the 'Fonts and Colours' panel, change the value in the 'Size' box and then click 'OK'

The normal default is 16 points but it can be changed to any value by highlighting the figure in the box and typing in the required new value or by clicking on the down arrow at the right end of the box and selecting one of the values (8 to 72) listed.

Sending Emails With Large Attachments

I have had several requests recently from some of our members who have had trouble sending emails with large attachments exceeding 10MB and the following could help resolve the problem

ISPs in general will not permit the total size of an email plus attachments to exceed 10MB. To overcome this problem and to be able to send large attachments(s) to someone, there is a very good free web-service called TransferBIGFiles.com. It enables you to send files of up to 1GB to an email recipient. It is exceptionally easy to use and although still in Beta, appears very safe and reliable.

(This link has been added to our interesting websites).

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Regarding Swine 'flu' (The Committee, dated 22/07/09)

During the current situation, certain guidelines have been offered to the population when in public places:   e.g. washing of hands, using wipes before you use equipment (if you wish). But most is common sense; please do not attend the club if you have  a bad cold or "'flu  type symptoms.

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For Frank's Website see 'Try Linux' in the sidebar.

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Don't Throw Your Old Postage Stamps Away (Ray)

Please continue to collect your used postage stamps, British or foreign.The last lot were gratefully received