Erik talks ‘SkyDrive’

Windows Live SkyDrive Logo

To all Members: Thursday, 17 May at the Q & A session t 9.30 – 12.30 Erik will be talking about Cloud Storage and specifically how you can make use of Microsoft’s SkyDrive online storage. Erik will show you how to register for Skydrive yourself and then he will demonstrate some of the ways you can use Skydrive while also explaining the benefits and pitfalls.

Don’t miss this session Erik is passionate about all things “Cloud” and we know this will be an interesting and entertaining session.

See you at SeniorNet Kapiti.

Update: We had a great morning with 25+ members learning about Cloud storage offerings, the what, where and how. Questions that followed showed a keen interest in modernising and extending free storage and sharing opportunities. Don’t miss the next Q&A session.

GIMP is free, image manipulation, desktop application software

Update 07.05.2012. And GIMP 2.8 is done. Yay :-)
GIMP 2.8 is done
Latest news from the official GIMP home-page. Including GIMP 2.8 release notes and GIMP download linkage and the official GIMP roadmap. And unofficially the web-sphere is buzzing with latest GIMP 2.8 news, views and reviews including Bring out the GIMP! GIMP 2.8.0 Final ~ download for Windows. Hands-on testing the GIMP 2.8 and it’s new single-window interface. Six good reasons to try GIMP 2.8. GIMP 2.8 image software adds single-window mode.

And now we return to your all-about-GIMP introduction . .

Gimp Logo ☛ Read the 'GIMP is free, image manipulation, desktop application software' post

“Wilbur is the official GIMP mascot. GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.”

“Meet Wilbur GIMP.”

Allow us to quickly fill you in on Wilbur GIMP’s life and times, to-date. Ahem.

GIMP explained with back-story and history (including linkage @ wikipedia.org) is the BOSS a FOSS ☛ Free Open Source Software (explained, including linkage @ wikipedia.org), desktop application, image retouching and editing tool, available for use by everyone on Microsoft Windows, Apple MAC OS X, Linux, and more computer operating systems.

Remind me. How’d you get that name again, Wilbur? GIMP.

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The 9th July – death of the internet?

Hundreds of Thousands of internet connections may cease on July 9, 2012 according to CNBC.

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virus (Photo credit: jiparis)

A nasty virus that has been planted in various advertisement on the internet by hackers will when clicked redirect the internet traffic from your normal net-address to the hackers’ own servers.

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Nightmare or the Future?

“We believe technology should work for you — to be there when you need it and get out of your way when you don’t” according to Google.

Project glass 1So Google has unveiled a prototype of their eyeglasses that can stream data to the wearer’s eyes as part of the latest trend in wearable computing, defined as mobile computing where both computer-generated graphics and the real world are seamlessly overlaid in your view; there is no separate display that you hold in your hands”. Furthermore

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How I got into computing

Margaret Butterfield

Margaret Butterfield

In the mid nineties we bought our first computer – and it was all foreign to me.  I was a trained shorthand typist and just could not get my head around using the computer.

But by 1997 I decided to go to the local polytechnic to learn  the basics.  It opened up a whole new world for me.  Suddenly I was learning how to use a spreadsheet (Maths wasn’t my strong point), making calculations and creating charts.  I also learned to use the computer to create documents, produce tables, to draw, and so many other things.

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Concluding GoogleFest ~ Relevancy, trust, money and your Google life and times

Google Apps for all ☛ Read the 'Concluding GoogleFest ~ Relevancy, trust, money and your Google life and times' post

“Google Apps for all ~ Around 150 services and products and counting . .”

Concluding GoogleFest. You have been deliberately thoughtfully guided (opinion is mine) to a handful of free Google ☛ offerings that I use regularly and that you may want to use too, immediately if you choose. And frankly we have only, really, just begun exploring the many free Google ☛ services and products (including linkage @ wikipedia.org) available to you, right now, on your desktop and on the world wide web. Continue reading

April 2012 Newsletter

Hello again to all our Supporters!Brian Milne

We begin the next series of courses on 23 April and we urge members to consider enrolling as there are still a few places available for Introduction to Computers and Publisher starting on Continue reading

A Cautionary Tale

Ian, Tony and I run the monthly “How Do I…?” Workshops and while we’ve been able to solve most problems and issues so far, we recently had to assist one of our members out of a real pickle. This is a story we want to share and one which I urge everyone to  Continue reading

The Terror, the Dread and the Fear

Garden lunchI had lunch with some old friends yesterday in their garden on a lovely sunny day. As we are all in our dotage it was a bit surprising that during the lunch the conversation should  turn to technology and computer use.

What was perhaps less surprising was that

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Rallying Call – You are Needed!

Recruitment Poster  SENIORNET NEEDS YOU!

Tutors and students are the life-blood of SeniorNet— one cannot exist without the other!

Many tutors start their SeniorNet experience as students, and through their interest in extending their knowledge base, and a wish to help others who are starting out on their “journey”, volunteer their time to help tutoring others.

Tutors are always

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