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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 2015 Spring

Committee:

President:

Bryan Blake 47218878

Vice President:

Alan Lees 47365541

Secretary:

Lorraine Brown 47365541

Treasurer:

Bert Foster 47543008

Members:

David Byrne 47326358

Zillah Warner 47293096

Robert Collins

Alan Lees 47365541

John Craft

Bruce Soane

Ann Elliot

Webmaster:

Tom Lehane 47215375

Weekly Course Sched-

ule:

Monday 0930-1100

Basic Computing

Tutors: Lorraine Brown,

Alan Lees & Bryan Blake.

Tuesday 0930-1100

Basic Computing

Tutors: Ruth Cox, 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

Card making

Tutor: Violet Roffe

Friday 0930-1100

Basic Computing Paint

Shop Pro

Tutors: Bob Collins

Editor: Bryan Blake 47218878 Email: bryananddoreen@outlook.com.au

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.

New Courses Windows 10 Operating System

1.00PM to 3.00PM on Tuesdays and Wednesdays

During December 2015 Starting on 8th December 2015

For four lessons Learn how to operate and the Personalization

of Windows 10 Cost: $ 3.00 per Lesson

Inquiries Contact John Craft Ph: 0413267993

Learn Basic Computer Skills

1.00PM to 3.00PM on Tuesdays and Wednesdays During February and March 2016 Starting on 2nd February 2016

Learn how to operate a computer. Learn how to surf the internet

Learn how to use Word, Excel and PowerPoint Learn how to send and receive emails.

Learn how to use Skype. Learn how to transfer your photos from a

camera to your computer Cost: $ 3.00 per Lesson

Inquiries Contact John Craft Ph0413267993

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Making your desktop icons and taskbar icons bigger on Windows 10 Recently we’ve had several people who asked how to make desktop icons and taskbar icons larger. This is for those who want to know how to resize desktop icons and taskbar icons. Desktop Icons Make your desktop icons huge or tiny with your mouse scroll wheel. It’s really easy to change the size of your desktop icons… left-click anywhere on an empty place on your desktop, then hold down the CTRL key and move your mouse wheel forward (to increase the size) or backward ( to decrease the size). You can make the huge or very tiny – it’s up to you. Taskbar and Notification Area Icons Notification area and taskbar icons cannot be resized in Windows 10 without changing the display properties. Keep in mind if you change the display setting so the icons look larger, you’re going to change your display so everything looks larger text, menus, etc. This may be what you want if you’re continually squinting to see your screen. Here’s how to do it: First, make sure that “Show small taskbar icons” is not checked in taskbar properties. Right-click on an empty ar-ea of your taskbar, choose “Properties” and make sure that item is not checked. If it is, uncheck it. Now if they are still not big enough, read on. Click Start/Settings (or press Windows Key + i ). In set-tings, click on Sys-tem, then choose Display in the left pane. Under “Change the size of text, apps and other items” move the slider to the right (try 125% and 150%). And don’t forget to click “APPLY” to save your settings. You’ll get a notice (but not a warning) that things will look better after you restart. You can either choose to restart then or later. Hope this helps make things nice and big for you

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

Thursday 17th December 2015 11:00 - 2:00pm

If you want to attend please add your

name and partners name to the At-

tendance list in the Computer Room

Kris Kringle’s gift box is now open.

If you would like to contribute please

leave a gift in the box.

There is no price limit per gift.

Please do not leave out of date food

items in Kris’s box

Thankyou

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A Tip from Denis:

Audacity is an open source, cross-platform audio editor and recorder. Audacity

can record and play sounds and import and export WAV, AIFF, MP3, and OGG files.

Edit your sounds using cut, copy, and paste features (with unlimited undo functionality), mix

tracks, or apply effects to your recordings. Audacity also has a built-in amplitude-envelope edi-

tor, a customizable spectrogram mode, and a frequency-analysis window for audio-analysis

applications.

Download from here http://audacityteam.org/download/

I used this program to delete some bad language from a music file that I wanted to use in a

Movie maker project for my grandchildren.

How I done it:

1. Open Audacity Program

2. Go to File / Open (browse (find) the music you wish to trim)

3. Left click and drag right to highlight the section of music you wish to save

4. Click on the “trim Outside Selection”

5. Go to File / Export as a Wav or MP3

File from the dropdown window

Note:

Audacity program is also used by music buffs

to erase unwanted scratch sounds and other

blemishes from vinyl records that have been

converted to a digital form.

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Netiquette - Turn Off All Caps!

Here’s a quick tip.

I’m going to discuss what I call “netiquette” – proper etiquette for using the Internet, e-mail and forms of electronic communication.

Now, the etiquette that applies in face-to-face communication applies to online communication.

One rule of face-to-face communication: There’s no

need for shouting.

Typing in all caps is the equivalent of shouting.

You might do it occasionally for emphasis in a comment or an e-mail, but unless you really do intend to SHOUT YOUR WHOLE MESSAGE, take off the caps lock.

Or

I will take it away from you