Weekly Meeting April 23 2014

Speaker: Peter Moate

Topic: Using Windows Live Movie Maker

Tutorials:

Weekly Meeting April 16 2014

TOPIC: Using Audacity to record audio - part 2

Speaker: John Tuffs

Summary:

1. Editing and Exporting your recording
2. Using Audacity to record your old vinyl records or tapes

Tutorials:

1. Editing and Exporting your recording

2. Using Audacity to record your old vinyl records or tapes

So you think you have the Audacity to record your vinyl records! Go ahead, make my day.

Weekly Meeting April 9 2014

TOPIC: Using Audacity to record audio - part 1

SPEAKER: John Tuffs

SUMMARY:

1. Installing Audacity on Windows
2. Main functions and tools for recording audio

TUTORIALS

1: Installing and using Audacity for Windows

2: Main functions and tools for recording audio

AND Remember, when recording audio:

“PATIENCE YOU MUST HAVE my young padawan”

- Yoda

Weekly Meeting April 2 2014

TOPIC: Skype refresher for Windows 7 & 8

SPEAKER: Peter Moate

MAIN POINTS:

Sending live pictures and talking to people OS.

Skype name is a nickname not an email address. Plus a password.

The name is set up when you install skype. If you want to create a new one then hit xxx and create an account.

After you sign in you can test your video and audio settings by clicking Echo / Sound Test Service

You can change your ring tone in Skype options and sounds. You can adjust the video settings with webcam settings and change your profile picture.

Drop down next to name to set you availability

Contacts

Recent - Shows who you have accepted calls or messages from

Search allows you find other contacts and you need to request to be added

To call someone choose a contact and press Video Call

See who is currently online. An empty cloud means they are not contactable, a tick means they are.

You can subscribe and use Skype  as a telephone.