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About us
How to join SeniorNet
Courses
Timetable
Club Days
Links
Freeware
SeniorNet Federation of N.Z.
The Tauranga SeniorNet Club Inc.,
Box 15382,
Tauranga,
New Zealand.
Our Learning Centre is in 17th Avenue. |
Dates for your 2010 Calendar
| Term | Starts | Ends |
| One | 2 Feb | 9 April |
| Two | 26 April | 2 July |
| Three | 19 July | 24 Sept |
| Four | 11 Oct | 17 Dec |
Buying a Computer?
► Check these guidelines first.
Newsletters
► August 2010 – 210KB
► May 2010 – 265KB
► March 2010 – 220KB
► November 2009 – 127KB
► August 2009 – 228KB
► May 2009 – 397KB
► March 2009 – 209KB
► November 2008 – 125KB
► Read Newsletters from the
NZ SeniorNet Federation.
Free Quick Reference Cards
Free Quick Reference Cards for Microsoft programs are available in PDF format. Download and print them yourself.
► www.customguide.com.
Click on a title to open it. Then save it to your Documents folder.
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Course Prerequisites for 2010
► View a chart of the course structure.
Q&A Session
for Members of the SeniorNet Club
Friday 3rd September: 2pm - 4pm – $2.00
"PicPick" – A newcomer to the freeware Screen Grabbers.
Also your computing questions and other computing items you may wish to contribute, and the usual social time for a cup of coffee or tea.
A Shortlist of Freeware programs
For details and download files of these free programs,
click on a program name.
Utilities
Memento - a Post-It Notes program
Allway Sync - synchronize files between your computer and your USB Flash Drive or removable hard drive, or between two computers.
AM-DeadLink - checks links in your Favorites list to test whether they are still functioning websites.
PC Inspector : File Recovery - recovers (undeletes) deleted files. Good for rescuing deleted files on a USB Flash Drive or other external drive.
Eraser 5.8 - erases unwanted files completely and scrubs clean the selected area.
Pictures and Drawings
FastStone Image Viewer – an excellent photo viewer and editing program.
PhotoFiltre - a fully featured drawing and photo manipulation program
Paint.NET – an excellent image editor handling multiple image layers.
MW Snap – a screen-grabber program
Office programs
OpenOffice – an excellent full office suite that can read and write MS Office files, including being able to read files produced on the 2007 versions of Word and Excel and PowerPoint.
Spread 32 – an Excel compatible spreadsheet program.
pdf995 – converts document files to the universally used PDF format.
Thunderbird – an excellent e-mail program with a plug-in calendar / appointment scheduler.
Updated on 28th August 2010.
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