Zoomers - What's it all about?

OK – You can’t walk down the street or have a quiet drink at the local without everybody asking ‘Just what happens at the Zoomers group on a Monday morning?’

So this is the first of a series of reports on the groups activities from an inside source.

It was a quieter than normal session last Monday with Ken L and John R away on tour ( Ken S away as well – Oslo again?) but still busy enough. Vivian created some notes on using email, printing them out at font size 26. When she has finished them, we’ll make them available through the Zoomers weblog.

Meanwhile, Graham has had a problem with his bank. So, he ran an internet search for the name of the Chief Executive of the bank and composed a letter of complaint to him. It was posted on Monday afternoon and we await a response.

Elaine mastered the Henshaws scanner, saving loads of photos which she emailed off to the family as attachments. We all think this was practice as she has since flown off to Spain for two weeks with several cameras.

Don has had a problem with his home PC with the Word ‘normal’ template being altered or corrupted. This happens to everyone sooner or later and is really irritating. David (the Tiger) has produced some notes on how to fix it. Stay tuned for an update.

Big Bad John has been at it again – set up his third weblog, this time with pictures of his collection of Trade Union related pottery. The site is at: http://jbscoll.blogspot.com/

and just has three plates at the moment. When all three hundred are loaded, we’re all going round to his house for a Greek meal.

This highlights an improvement to Blogger as a weblog tool. When we started, we had to use the program Hello to upload pictures, which was OK but needed a bit more work. Now you can upload straight from the Blogger Posting page which is much easier. Expect notes on how to do this form someone in the near future.

Speaking of notes, the absolutely complete, total, final set of notes on Zoomer’s Windows shortcuts is loaded below. Well laid out and in large font size, (Tiger’s fingerprints all over this one), it covers most commonly used Windows programs and will give your mouse a rest. Just click on the link and then save or print. Makes an excellent Christmas present!

See you next week.