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www.ausom.net.au AUSOM News April 2009 v 9
10am Wednesday
Retirees and Others
Pat Tasker ([e-mail])
April 8th Presentations:
Steve Cooper will present: ‘A
Voyage around a Digital Camera’.
and ‘What To Consider For Taking
The Perfect Photo (and ways of
correcting it if it isn’t quite ...).
March Presentations:
1. Geoff Wallace continued ‘Setting
Up Apple Mail.’
Setting up a specific Mail Box was
demonstrated and then setting up
Rules, handling Spam and putting
the program through the filtering
training course were also discussed.
The method of hovering the cursor
over a URL to bring up the Email
address — useful for detecting a
suspect Email — could be very
handy.
Preset Templates, accessed with the
‘Show Stationery’ button in the
New Message options bar, and the
general handling of the Address
Book, including adding photos to
the lists, were described.
Methods for searching emails and
also flagging emails for further
notice (select the email and type
Shift-Command-L) were also
discussed.
2. Steve Cooper — ‘Time Machine’
The requirements for (an adequate
external Hard Drive) and the
process of setting up Time Machine
were demonstrated.
Setting up the preferences and
the back-up schedule for Time
Machine, the window being
accessed by clicking on the
Time Machine icon in System
Preferences, was shown together
with the method for discarding big
files.
The process of retrieving
information from Time machine
was demonstrated.
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AUSOM’s Special Interest
Group Coordinators
welcome your ideas for
topics for discussion and
offers of assistance with
running of the SIG.
Stephen Withers
Avril Mitchell
Alan Brown
Pam Doughty
Dick Johnson
Steve Cooper
Ivan Radywonik
Barbara Moriarty
Pat Tasker
Barbara Gibson
Peter Emery
Geoff Wallace
Ron Webster
George Wright
Damian Vuleta
Chris McQuillen
Judy Young
Peter Maloney
The lab is also available for hire*
*Subject to conditions
The lab is also available for hire*
*Subject to conditions
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of Mac’s
of Mac’s of Mac’s
of Mac’s
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in
Greensborough
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Greensborough
With 13 brand new
iMacs at Diamond
Valley Learning
Centre
DVLC is proudly offering training courses for
beginners to more advanced users, facilitated
by Joel
Gladman.
The Mac Lab is
also available
for hire*
*subject to conditions
Diamond Valley Lear
Diamond Valley LearDiamond Valley Lear
Diamond Valley Learning Centre
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ning Centre
Cnr St Helena & Diamond Creek Rds Greensborough
www.dvlc.org.au Tel: [phone] [e-mail]