Update 2nd December 2018 There will not be a meeting in December 2018. Keith emailed all regular attendees on 2nd December to confirm.  The next meeting will be on 2nd January 2019. Update 22nd November 2018 Christine, Janet and Keith came to yesterday's meeting. Most of the time was spent setting up email groups in Outlook for both Christine and Janet. A task which took much longer than expected due to the vagaries of Microsoft's email system. We also looked at BBC iPlayer and used Beacon for checking a Lostwithiel U3A Interest Group membership list.  The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday 5th December. However with various Christmas lunches taking place in early December this meeting will not take place. Keith will email all regular attendees in early December to confirm. Update 7th November 2018 Another week in which most of the meeting was spend undoing "improvements" recently introduced by Google and Microsoft. We made changes to settings on Ann's PC to restore Chrome as her default browser and home page. We also made changes so that her copy of GMail resembled as closely as possible an earlier version by changing background themes and viewing options. Janet uses Outlook.com for reading emails and again we made changes to the layout to make viewing of messages easier. Carol's PC had been "enhanced" by Avast's special anti-Virus free trial offers and their new browser and we made changed to ensure that only the free version of Avast anti-virus was operating.  The next meeting will be on Wednesday 21st November at the usual time of 2pm. Update 17th October 2018 Only Janet and Keith reported for duty today.
Update 3rd October 2018 Janet, Jenny and Keith were at today's meeting.
Christine and Anne joined Keith for today's meeting. Most of the time today was spend undoing "enhancements" that had automatically appeared on our PCs since the last meeting in June.
There will not be a meeting on the third Wednesday in September. The next meeting will be on Wednesday 3rd October. Update 8th June 2018  In the last week or so I've received several messages from Group members advising they will not be able to come to various forthcoming Computer Group meetings. Combining these messages with plans that Lindsay and I have for summer holidays, I have decided to take a break for the next couple of months. I plan to hold the next computer group meeting on Wednesday 5th September 2018 at the usual time of 2pm at my house. In the meantime if you have any particular questions don't hesitate to get in touch with me and I will try and help. assuming I'm not on holiday! Have a great summer, Keith   Update 17th May 2018 Keith was joined by Janet and Sue at yesterday's meeting. An interesting range of topic were explored, and as usual we shot off at several tangents during the course of a couple of hours.  Here is a brief summary - We started looking at how to create and send to a distribution list in Outlook.com / Hotmail; which led to a discussion about hiding email addresses using the bcc function; which led to a conversation about why Sue and Janet could see lots of adverts down the side of webpages and these weren't visible on Keith's PC; which led to Sue and Janet installing adblock ! The other topic covered was about reading and printing pdf files. Janet had recently been sent a pdf denouement with over 50 pages but she was only interested in one page. This resulted in a discussion about how to print a single pages from pdf docs. The next meeting will be on Wednesday 6th June starting at 2pm. Update 3rd May 2018 A full house this week with Sally, Janet, Christine, Carol and Keith at Wednesday's meeting. Again a wide range of topics discussed including:-
Update 20th April 2018 A very warm and sunny afternoon, which coincided with Bowling Club practice,resulted in only Janet and Keith being at Wednesday's meeting.  A wide range of topics covered were covered including
Update 4th April 2018 Effects of Easter holidays resulted in only Carol and Keith being at today's meeting. An interesting, but not entirely successful, afternoon with most of the time being spent investigating "Access violation at address xxxx"messages appearing on Carol's PC.
Update 21st March 2018 Today we looked at the following:
We also had an interesting diversion looking at Cornwall Council's On-Line Planning Register to check status of new buildings in the Lostwithiel area.
Update 7th March 2018 Jenny, Carol, Christine, Janet and Keith were at today's meeting. A real potpourri of topics today:-
The next meeting will be on Wednesday 21st March at Keith's house starting at 2pm. Update 21st February 2018 Only Christine and Keith were at today's meeting. We discussed a wide range of topics today, including
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The second part of the meeting was an interesting diversion from the norm. Janet has noticed a recent change to the way local weather is displayed on the BBC website has made the information less user friendly. We then spent an interesting hour comparing various weather sites including AccuWeather  Weather Underground and The Met Office. The consensus of opinion was that the Met Office site provided the best overall weather information for Lostwithiel. ******************** Update 17th January 2018 After the packed meeting last week only Janet and Keith were at today's session. At the start of the meeting we made small changes to the settings on Janet's PC so she could easily return to Google Home Page and also access BBC Weather and BBC iPlayer using shortcut icons on the Desktop.  ******************** Update 3rd January 2018 A bumper attendance at today's meeting, the first one since early December. Eight of us squeezed round the kitchen table looking for answers to various questions that had arisen over the past month. Among today's practical topics we looked at:-
We also discussed the advantages and disadvantages of using an iPad compared to a conventional PC.  At the end of the meeting Keith demonstrated and enthused about the wide range of magazines available for free download from Cornwall Libraries. More information here. |
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