Access your computer remotely with LogMeIn

Seth Shaw from LogMeIn gave an extensive presentation of the LogMeIn products at our last Main Meeting and also donated five LogMeIn Pro licences for members to enjoy. Seth took us through the "ins & outs" of LogMeIn Pro and showed us how limitless the applications of his software are. Because it enables remote access it can be used by every piece of hardware that connects to the internet. Read the full story...

Corel introduces Home Office for just $99

Corel® Home Office is a fresh, new office suite for word processing, spreadsheet and presentation projects. Designed to make working at home simple, Corel Home Office features a clean interface and Tabbed Toolbars that put essential tools at your fingertips. Microsoft® Office compatibility and built-in PDF publishing make it easy to share files and information. Enjoy doing it all in a workspace that you customise yourself so you feel comfortable instantly. Learn more about Corel Home Office.

Firefox 3.5 released 30 June

Firefox 3.5 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past year. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use. One of the best new features is speed with Mozilla claiming that Firefox 3.5 is more than twice as fast as Firefox 3. Read more and download Firefox 3.5 now.

Dell reveals it's latest Notebook range at June meeting

Michael Townsend made a welcome return to demonstrate a number of Dell's latest, compact, lightweight notebooks at our June Main meeting. One, the Dell Latitude 2100 which makes an ideal low-cost entry to the growing school student market was given a good workout. This new netbook has a sturdy rubberized design that is easier for children to carry and comes in a variety of bright colours. Read more...

Graham Grant reports on the Tuesday Senior's Meeting

Loopy IE, movie DVDs, file transfer between computers, Acronis, Humyo offers free online stotage, Magical Snap 2 screen capture and reducing spam emails were just some of the many topics discussed at this meeting. Read the full report here...

Microsoft's Bing - a challenge to Google?

At the latest Friday Seniors' SIG, Colin Bolton presented an overview of Microsoft's new search engine "Bing". Though still in it's beta version, the consensus was that it seems to produce more specific results than Google. Microsoft claims it is increasingly capturing market share from Google. See the full SIG report incliding Colin's summary here...

 

Toshiba release their Mini-Notebook NB200

With the current trend towards smaller, lighter and stronger notebooks, Toshiba has just released their new Mini-Notebook NB200. Read more...

No more forgotten Names

At the latest Digital Photography meeting, members trialled the latest large print name tags. With First names set in 72 point bold text on disposable labels, members' names were easily identified across the room.

The next version may be a more permanent clip-on model and include our club's logo. These could be kept at the club for use at all meetings to help promote a friendlier atmosphere. Retired teacher and keen photographer Don Estell who regularly travels to meetings from Wollongong models the new large print name tag.

Access to site widens

Those switched-on members with the latest handheld computers and mobile phones can now view this site without the need for continuous horizontal scrolling to see the full width of the page. And the small screen display is much clearer than the highly compressed screen-capture image from an iPhone suggests. You can also zoom into any items of interest for a closer look if you wish.

Now, when you are away from you main computer, you can click-on to check weather forecasts, view the latest news updates or connect quickly to any of the familiar "Quick Links" on your favourite SIG page. There are also hundreds of interesting links and SIG reports accessible from the "Favourites" button.

This site is also now backwards compatible to allow viewing by those who are slower to embrace change and are still using an old Internet Explorer 6 browser. Perhaps it's a good time for updating to either IE 7 or IE 8.