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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 2012 Calendar
| Term | Starts | Ends |
| One | 30 Jan | 5 April |
| Two | 23 Apr | 29 Jun |
| Three | 16 Jul | 28 Sep |
| Four | 15 Oct | 20 Dec |
Newsletters
► January 2012
► September 2011
► July 2011
► April 2011
► January 2011
► November 2010
► August 2010
► May 2010
► March 2010
► November 2009
► August 2009
► May 2009
► March 2009
► November 2008
Email Address
Our email address is
taurangaseniornet@clear.net.nz
TelstraClear is a significant sponsor
of SeniorNet in NZ.
Free MS Office Tutorials
Free tutorials for all Microsoft Office applications are available on line.
GCF Learn Free tutorials for Word, Excel, etc. include text, pictures and video instructions starting from the simplest items to more advanced layouts.
► Visit the GCF Learn Free website and check this out.
Buying a Computer?
► Check these guidelines first.
Free Quick Reference Cards
Free Quick Reference Cards for Microsoft Office 2010 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.
► Use an on-line Facebook Tutorial
It's is a great way to learn about Facebook, the popular way of communicating and sharing information, photos and videos with friends and family around the world.
The Omanu Bowling Club website
has all sorts of information and pictures about the events and the bowlers.
Click to find a product, service, business or organisation for the elderly in Tauranga, Mt Maunganui and Papamoa.
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Course Prerequisites
► View a chart of the course structure.
Photo and Image Editing –
Special Interest Group
- Most Fridays during school terms, 1pm-3pm
Emails are sent regularly to inform members about the week's topics.
- Group Leader is Bob Callcut.
- No enrolment necessary
- You must be a Member of the Tauranga SeniorNet Club to attend.
- Weekly attendance fee is $2. Pay each time you attend the group session.
- This is not a set course of instruction. It is an opportunity for members who have an interest in photo editing to meet together to share knowledge and skills and to seek solutions to photo editing issues.
Removing the "Ex"
The task in this exercise is to remove the "Ex" from the family photograph.
The "Ex" could simply be cloned out, leaving a large gap in the back row.
There is a much better way to do the job.
► Read illustrated instructions.
Cutouts
During 2011 the Friday afternoon Special Interest Group learned how to make framed cutouts, as with the Morris Minor shown here.
The idea is to make the image appear to be extending out of its frame.
Having two or more frames allows you to link images together in interesting ways.
The example below links a photo of a fisherman with one of a trout. Each image extends out of its frame as is more clearly seen in the separate images below the complete picture.
The cutouts of the "Ex", the Morris Minor and the Fishing Expedition were all created with Paint.NET.
FastStone Image Viewer can be used to add text to a picture.
- You can add labels, callouts and descriptions.
- The text can be on a transparent background so that the image is visible through it, or you can choose to have the text on a plain coloured area, adjusting the opacity of the area to suit.
- A border to the area can be added – colour and thickness of your choice.
- The font styles available depend on those already installed on your computer.
- ► Get a PDF document with detailed instructions.
PhotoStory PhotoStory is a free Microsoft program which enables you to link a series of photos together to produce a slideshow that will run on a computer or on a DVD player. It is very easy to use. Click here to read and maybe print the illustrated instructions for downloading and using PhotoStory.
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 - 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.
PhotoStory – makes slideshows with transitions, panning and zooming, background music and commentary.
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 and 2010 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 and appointment scheduler.
Updated on 4th January 2012.
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