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ROM August — September 2007

Monday 8th October 2007 at 7.45 pm

Latest Printer / Scanners on demo.

Monday 12th November 2007 at 7.45 pm

In arrangement.

Monday 10th December 2007 at 7.45pm

Christmas Quiz

ROM is now only available as a full-colour .pdf download from the Group web page at:

www.guildfordpcusergroup.co.uk

NEXT MEETING — Monday

10th September 2007 at 7.45 p.m.

Meetings are held on the 2nd Monday

of each month at 7.45pm at the

Stoughton Youth Club and Community

Centre (opposite “The Royal” — Pub)

Worplesdon Road (A322), Guildford.

Seagate & Maxtor

External Hard Drives

Portable Hard Drives from Seagate and

possibly Maxtor.

When you read the review of Symantec’s

Norton Ghost 12 on page 6 and if you have

a Maxtor OneTouch external hard drive con-

nected, you’ll realise that Ghost 12 has a

neat back-up touch up its sleeve. So finger’s

crossed we’ll have a Maxtor OneTouch drive

on demo to show how it well it works.

Spread the word and please bring a

friend — coffee, tea & chocolate biscuits are

free.

Editor’s &

Secretary’s Notes

Contact Details

OmniPage 16

Ulead Video Studio

11 Plus

Norton Ghost 12

Lexmark X4550

Samsung Cameras

Pinnacle Studio 11

Plus

Monday 9

July 2007 - Survey Results and DVD

Home Moviemaking. The first part of the evening on

Monday 9

July was devoted to a presentation by Laur-

ence Fenn of his ROM Survey of how members use

their PC’s. The result of the Members Survey can be

viewed on the Group Web site.

This was followed by a tutorial DVD presented by

Tony Hawes on “DVD Home Moviemaking - A Begin-

ners Guide”. Tony explained that the DVD was appli-

cable to all the main home moviemaking programs

including Pinnacle Studio Plus, Ulead Video Studio

and Adobe Premiere Elements. The tutorial covered the

subject from basic concepts to a professional standard

in episodes covering such subjects as, DVD standards,

shooting your video, transferring home movies from a

camcorder to PC, video editing, adding sound and spe-

cial effects, adding stills, and burning to disc. I am sure

that this introduction to the subject will encourage

members to think seriously about acquiring a camcor-

der.

Defra

Having followed the correspondence in the papers

about the recent outbreak of Foot and Mouth disease

down the road from here, I was struck by some of the

comments in the media of farmers who suffered (and

those not afflicted) by the last outbreak in 2001. Those

who had not been affected, i.e. those with disease-free

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Sorry for the short notice about the August

meeting not taking place, but given that tradition-

ally the August meetings because of holiday

commitments etc are poorly attended and turn

out to be fairly “dead” meetings it was agreed we

should give the August meeting a miss in future.

However don’t despair as we’ll be back to

normal in September with some interesting talks

and demos lined up for the autumn season.

Secretary’s Meetings Notes

Monday 11

June 2007 — Paint Shop Pro

Tutorials. Tony played some of the Lynda.com

tutorials that come with Paint Shop Pro XI Photo.

They covered everything from the basics to the

more complex of photo editing procedures. We

saw how to rotate your image, adjust the levels to

compensate for lack of flash, correct skin blem-

ishes, whiten teeth, remove objects and crop

images ready for printing. The woman doing the

voice over had a strong American accent which

took a while to get used to but she didn’t use too

many technical terms in her descriptions.

Some of the subtle changes were lost when

viewing the files via the projector (as opposed to

watching it on screen), but the techniques will be

of tremendous help to those who use this cheaper

alternative to the more expensive and complex

Photoshop. An informative evening

Summary of content (12 pages)

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Editor’s & Secretary’s Notes Contact Details OmniPage 16 Ulead Video Studio 11 Plus Norton Ghost 12 Lexmark X4550 Samsung Cameras Pinnacle Studio 11 Plus Sorry for the short notice about the August meeting not taking place, but given that traditionally the August meetings because of holiday commitments etc are poorly attended and turn out to be fairly “dead” meetings it was agreed we should give the August meeting a miss in future.
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CONTACT DETAILS If you have any queries or questions about the Guildford PC User Group and its activities please contact the following members of the committee: (Continued from page 1) cattle, said almost without exception that they were envious of farmers with infected cattle who had had their herds slaughtered and received mega-bucks compensation. So I was amused by this letter that has been doing the rounds about the anomalies of agricultural compensation — read on.
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(Continued from page 2) ness, so please send any information you have on that too. Please could you also include the current Defra advice on setaside fields? Can this be done on an ecommerce basis with virtual fields? Provided the financial rewards are worthwhile I am quite prepared to set aside several thousand hectares of virtual fields in order to meet departmental and EU Common Agricultural Policy targets when applied to set-aside schemes.
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(Continued from page 3) sand words with OmniPage Professional 16. While others have tried to support converting documents captured using digital cameras, the accuracy and results have disappointed. Through the addition of 3DC, or 3D Capture, OmniPage automatically corrects for the distortion of the angle and rotation of the camera, as well as for the curve of the page in an 3DC (3-Dimension Capture) at work as it copies deep into the spine of open books etc.
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Ulead VideoStudio 11 Plus Reviewed by Laurence Fenn artefacts, didn’t substantially improve the quality of the blocky clips I tested. I tried this with some poorly encoded VCD clips (the VCD frame size is a quarter of DVD) and some good VCD clips. Like with picture editing programs, there is only so much you can improve on. You cannot create a perfect clean video from a badly encoded original, just as you can’t make a perfectly sharp image from a blurred photo.
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(Continued from page 5) HD DVD optical drives. As I don’t have any high def equipment I was unable to test this. Another new feature is the ability to create HD DVD–compatible discs on legacy DVD-R/+R drives, but as I have stan- dard DVD players and a standard television, I couldn’t test this feature (I do have a DVD player with a HDMI output and a projector with an HDMI input, but I’ve never bothered to get the cable to connect standard DVD resolution at the moment).
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(Continued from page 6) Symantec are a big enough company to call their program features what they like, in use one soon gets used to the “recovery points” rather than “image” terminology. In Use Installation is easy. You can let the program use its default features or use the customise option if you want to be different and install it to another location or drive etc. Following a reboot you are asked to activate the product, or you can leave it unactivated.
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(Continued from page 7) • Any user logs off of Windows • The data added to a drive exceeds a specified number of megabytes This option is unavailable for file and folder backups. • The Maxtor OneTouch external hard drive button is pushed Note: This feature only appears if you have a Maxtor OneTouch drive installed, and you are running a Windows XP 32-bit platform.
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Colour (#24), Photo (#31), High Yield Black (#34), High Yield Colour (#35), Black (#23A) and Colour (#24A) (Continued from page 8) • • • • gaki, L, 2L, 4”x6”, 10x20 cm, 10x15 cm, 5”x7”, 13x18 cm, banner, custom and multiple envelope sizes Input capacity: Up to 100 pages; Output capacity: Up to 25 pages Unit weight: 12.5 lbs. Unit dimensions: 6.9”x 17.8”x 12.8” (trays retracted, HxWxD); 11.3”x 12.
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New Samsung Cameras — Left to right: S85, i85 and NV20. New Samsung Cameras — Left to right: S85, i85 and NV20 (we don’t have page 3 girls in ROM, but these will do!) (Continued from page 9) ages remain crisp and detailed even without a flash. The i85 also features Samsung’s Intelligent Face Recognition Technology, which detects the subject’s face, automatically adjusts auto focus and auto exposure to ensure better composition and image quality in portraits.
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Pinnacle Studio Plus 11 Video Editing Software Reviewed by Tony Hawes detection appear as thumbnails at the top left and centre of the Album screen; top right is the preview screen of the currently running clip and below is the Storyboard showing clips you’ve dragged down from the imported clips at the top. At last I’ve had a chance to review Pinnacle Studio 11 Plus, the middle edition of Pinnacle’s latest editions of their well known video editing program.
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(Continued from page 11) When it comes to Titles Studio’s Title Editor can quickly and easily produce attractive titles to introduce the movie or new sections, or show final credits. Other title features let you create DVD menus and buttons and the menus needed to navigate through and around your DVD titles. The Title Editor can produce Overlay titles, positioned on the Title Overlay track, which display over your videos. These are useful for adding logos or descriptions to enhance the video.