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The group will meet ONCE a month on Friday afternoons from 2.00pm to 4.00pm, in the
NCFC IT Study Centre, Carrow Road, (Free Parking) there is a single cost of £30 (£3.00
per session) for the year to cover room hire & equipment costs. Running from October
to July, this group is for people that share a common interest in PC's. Each meeting
will consist of a short chat amongst members about topical IT subjects/news, followed
by a presentation on a subject chosen by the group (e.g. moving to W7, making a movie
etc.) & end with a self-
If interested in joining this Group contact:
How computing all began:
History Lesson
A revelation with an Incredibly Big Message (IBM):
Well, you might have thought that you knew how the Internet started,
but here's the TRUE story ....
In ancient Israel , it came to pass that a trader by the name of Abraham Com did take unto himself a young wife by the name of Dot. And Dot Com was a comely woman, broad of shoulder and long of leg.
Indeed, she was often called Amazon Dot Com. And she said unto Abraham, her husband: "Why dost thou travel so far from town to town with thy goods when thou canst trade without ever leaving thy tent?"
And Abraham did look at her -
And the sale can be made on the drums and delivery made by Uriah's Pony Stable (UPS).". Abraham thought long and decided he would let Dot have her way with the drums. And the drums rang out and were an immediate success. Abraham sold all the goods he had at the top price, without ever having to move from his tent.
To prevent neighbouring countries from overhearing what the drums were saying, Dot
devised a system that only she and the drummers knew. It was called Must Send Drum
Over Sound (MSDOS), and she also developed a language to transmit ideas and pictures
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But this success did arouse envy. A man named Maccabia did secrete himself inside
Abraham's drum and began to siphon off some of Abraham's business. But he was soon
discovered, arrested and prosecuted -
And the young men did take to Dot Com's trading as doth the greedy horsefly take to camel dung. They were called Nomadic Ecclesiastical Rich Dominican Sybarites, or NERDS. And lo, the land was so feverish with joy at the new riches and the deafening sound of drums that no one noticed that the real riches were going to that enterprising drum dealer, Brother William of Gates, who bought off every drum maker in the land. And indeed did insist on drums to be made that would work only with Brother Gates' drumheads and drumsticks.
And Dot did say: "Oh, Abraham, what we have started is being taken over by others." And Abraham looked out over the Bay of Ezekiel , or eBay as it came to be known. He said: "We need a name that reflects what we are." And Dot replied: "Young Ambitious Hebrew Owner Operators." "YAHOO," said Abraham. And because it was Dot's idea, they named it YAHOO Dot Com.
Abraham's cousin, Joshua, being the young Gregarious Energetic Educated Kid (GEEK) that he was, soon started using Dot's drums to locate things around the countryside. It soon became known as God's Own Official Guide to Locating Everything (GOOGLE)
And that is how it all began.
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January 2012
See ebuyer sale bargains:
Minature Vigital Video Camera £17.99, HDMI Media Player
£14.99, 14MP Camera £39,99 etc etc see: http://www.ebuyer.com/special/2663
October:
Nokia launch smart phone using Windows.
5/10 -
Apple iPhone 4S launched, mixed comments
Take your PC applications with you see Portable Apps: http://portableapps.com/
(All
your programs on a USB stick)
Want to send BIG files to another PC try this: http://sendoid.com/
Want to try out iPhone Apps before you buy then use:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/free-
Amazon now selling 2TB (yes TWO) external drives for £64.95
September:
Windows 8 due to release 2011/2012:
See: http://www.christianpost.com/news/windows-
July:
Apple launch new Operating System OSX Lion & new Airbook, Mac Mini & Thunderbolt
display.
May -
3/4/2011
Ebuyer Hitachi 1TB external drive £39.95.
See: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/179773
31/3/11
Great compact laptop deal from ebuyer, 13.3”, Dual-
See: http://www.ebuyer.com/special/2663
30/3/11
Tesco spl. printer offers:
Epson SX425 W All-
HP 1050 All-
11/03/12
Maplin’s Spring Sale Click Here
New Apple iPad 2 launched, more facilities,
less weight
11/02/19 -
11/02/10
The Register for all the techy/IT News:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/
11/02/04
Free screen capture tool -
Greenshot is a light-
Create complete or partial screenshots quickly.
Easily annotate, highlight
or obfuscate parts of the screenshot.
Send the screenshot to a file (JPEG etc), the
clipboard, a printer or as e-
11/02/03
PC World Western Digital 1TB external Hard Drive £49.99 in sale see: http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/wd-
PC World WD Media Player (needs external hard drive, cheap & cheerful) only £24.97
in sale see: http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/media-
BBC:
BBC Technology News see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology/
BBC Click programme see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/ default.stm
BBC First Click PC training for silver surfers see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/connect/campaigns/first_click. shtml
