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Monthly Newsletters, each with details of the previous month's meeting and much other useful information, can be found by clicking on the relevant month. Most of them include Leslie's Puzzle Page to stretch your mind!

2013
April Networking - chaired discussion, Puzzle Page
March Using Access 2010 and Excel 2010 together, Passport HD Drives, AGM 17/04/2013 Agenda.
February Talk on the subject of search engines in general and Google’s PageRank in particular, by Chris Rosenberg. Also warning on Foistware!
January EGM to agree the new constitution followed by Open Forum - much discussion about email problems, and many other topics.
2012
December Presentation on Passwords by John Steel - how to create a good one. Also securing your WiFi, and some information on Hybrid disc drives.
November A discussion on External Security led by Guy Meakin; Threats to Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability, and how to deal with them.
October A discussion on Internal Security led by Guy Meakin; Improving security inside the computer, disc encryption and corruption; Wireless security; Email threats.
September The Cloud - advantages and problems with offline storage and programs, including webmail. Anti-malware was also discussed, with suggestions.
August Domestic (heating) Control systems, A "Madam" with unpredictable tendencies - 7th July 1951 - Alan Turing.
July TV Interconnections, New PC with Windows 7 or 8? Windows 7 keys
June Ladies Lunch, Windows problems, Leslie's puzzle page
May AGM 2012 chairmans report, Assemblers, Interpreters and Compilers, Solid State Drives
April The CPU by Seb Welford, small device purchase decisions, AGM 2012 agenda and AGM 2011 Minutes.
March PowerPoint presentations by Brian Arthur, Defragging and Cloud storage.
February Web site creation by Jan Spencer including editing, registering a URL and uploading the text.
January Open forum including anti-virus, long term storage, deleting troublesome emails.
2011
December Spreadsheets (continued) by Chris Rosenberg, Energy suppliers and Hybrid Hard drives
November Network Encryption by Guy Meakin, PC to TV connection and Cloud based antivirus
October Digital Cameras – from photon to jpeg by Chris Rosenberg
September Open Forum - Spreadsheets (cont'd) by Guy Meakin, also VMWare, colour matching, QR codes, driver updates and personal VPN's.
August Spreadsheets by Seb Welford
July Talk on the Open Source software called Gimp given by Don Andrews
June Ladies Lunch with talk by Tony Barnes on New Zealand
May AGM Minutes and Open Forum
April Tables in Word, Excel and Access by Leslie Haddow.
Also Windows 7 Hard Drive errors.
March Computer communication by Chris Rosenberg.
Also How to complain.
February The technology behind Digital Terrestrial Television by Keith Hayler of Arquiva.
January Mince pies and Open Forum with Tablet computers. Also proposal to visit the British Computer Museum at Bletchley Park - please contact Tony Barnes if interested.
2010
December The evolution of radio and TV transmitter systems and their masts and the move from analogue to digital transmission, by David Goddard.
November How to get the best out of MS Word by Seb Welford.
October Graphics processors by Tony Barnes.
September Open forum including a look at the iPad.
August Video editing by Ron Everitt and members of the Epsom Cine Club.
July Windows XP and the features of Windows 7 by John Steel and Leslie Haddow.
June Ladies Lunch and talk on Ironstone mining by Cecil Ives.
May AGM and Open Forum.
April Windows 7 by Seb Welford.
March Kubuntu, the latest incarnation of Linux by Alan Cocks.
February Serif Photoplus by Peter Dulley.
January Open Forum, the iPlayer, digital radio and IP numbering.