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Club Email: pvscc@internode.on.net Website: http://www.users.on.net/~pvscc/pc_index.htm

Penrith Valley

Seniors Computing

Club Inc.

86 Station St

Penrith

NSW 2750

November 2014 Spring

Committee:

President:

George Bell 47213681

Vice President:

Bryan Blake 47218878

Secretary:

Lorraine Brown 47365541

Treasurer:

Bert Foster 47543008

Members:

David Byrne 47326358

Zillah Warner 47293096

Robert Collins

Alan Lees 47365541

John Craft

Bruce Soane

Webmaster:

Tom Lehane 47215375

Weekly Course Sched-

ule:

Monday 0930-1100

Basic Computing

Tutors: Zillah Warner,

Lorraine Brown, Alan Lees

& Bryan Blake.

Tuesday 0930-1100

Basic Computing

Tutors: Bert Foster, David

Byrne, Denis McAdam &

Bryan Blake

Tuesday 1115-1245

Movie maker

Tutor: Bryan Blake

Wednesday 0930-1100

Basic Computing

Tutor: Lorraine Brown

Thursday 0930-1100

Basic Computing

Tutor: Zillah Warner

Friday 0930-1100

Basic Computing

Tutors: Zillah Warner,

Alan Lees & Denis McAdam

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Editor: Bryan Blake 47218878 Email: doreen.blake@bigpond.com

All articles and comments in this newsletter are not associated with the Penrith Valley

Seniors Computing Club Inc and are intended as opinions and items of debate only.

Information gained over the Internet from many Web sites.

Life Members: At the Clubs AGM, Life Membership was awarded to Bert Foster

(Treasurer) and Tom Lehane (Webmaster) for their service to our Club.

Both were presented their Certificates in early October.

Tom and Bert each receiving their Certificates from our President George

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Life Membership cont.:

Bert Foster – Treasurer

Bert was Treasurer of Hurstville Computer Club for 10 years.

He moved his family to Winmalee in 2002 and was look-ing around for a Computer Club. He dropped into the Penrith Seniors Centre where the Computer Club was conducting a Committee Meeting. It was there he was appointed Treasurer in 2003.

Bert was always a bit of a “Tech Head” and during his working life was involved in the installations of phone systems in large companies and also Hospitals.

Tom Lehane – Webmaster, Newsletter Editor and

Tutor

In 1999 the company Tom was working for closed down and he worked for other companies prior to retiring. His initiation into computers really started in 1982 when his daughter came home from school and said she required a computer for school work. Tom of course complied and the best buy at the time was a Tandy Colour Com-puter or COCO for short. Tom learnt to use it from the Tandy manual and also joined a small computer group located over the railway line in Penrith. One day a fel-low came into the Club to have a chat with Tom indicat-ing he wanted some programmes to put in the Comput-er Magazine and Tom and another fellow learned how to do this. Payment was by way of free subscription to the Computer Magazine, no such thing as copyright or patent. He produced a programme called Linemaster and it was accepted worldwide. His interest in comput-ers brought him to the Penrith Valley Seniors Computing Club via an item on the Community Radio in Penrith. When he came along they wanted to know what experi-ence he had but being the modest man he is, he just mentioned 3.11 but by this time Windows 95 was the current system. He joined the Club and at one of the Club Christmas Parties someone asked him to conduct a class which he did. The initial class was “People Us-ing Software”. At a later date he conducted classes us-ing “Gimp” which was extremely popular.

Spring Penrith Valley Seniors Computing Club

November

Rose Barbaro

Carol Booth

Terry Camilleri

Vivian Cutler

Suzanne Freeman

Barry Leavett-Brown

Liam Nangle

Our Christmas Party is on

19th December 2014

1000-1200 Attendance list in the Computer Room

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More Windows 8.1 Tips:

Take & Save Screenshots Instantly Windows 8 has a new hotkey combination that lets you take and save screenshots instantly. To take a screenshot, hold the Windows key down and press the Print Screen key. Your screen will flash and Windows will save a screenshot to your Pictures folder as a PNG image file.

Disposal of unwanted Equipment:

You would like working equipment that you no longer use to go to a new home. The Club does not object to you placing this equipment on the first table in the room with a sign saying availa-

ble for FREE.

BUT please remove your equipment if it has not been taken after 3 weeks.

The Club is not a dumping ground for outdated Equipment.

Better still contact your local Council about their E Waste Recycling Policy.

Example Penrith Council: FREE E-WASTE DROP OFF DAYS AT JAMISON PARK

Council holds regular free e-waste drop off days at Jamison Park, Penrith - usually each March and September.