SeniorNet Glenfield. Newsletter January Welcome to Open House 2019 at SeniorNet Glenfield Inc

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1 SeniorNet Glenfield Newsletter January 2019 Mahurangi - photo by Tanya Matthews. Welcome to Open House 2019 at SeniorNet Glenfield Inc Wednesday, January 30 th, 2019 from am to 2.00 pm 5 Mayfield Road, Glenfield Join us to explore how our members take charge of their computer technology. There will be samples of members handiwork, handbooks, and demonstrations. A schedule of demonstrations is on our website under Timetables Next Month s Timetable Phone: seniornet_glenfield@xtra.co.nz Website: Full contact details, office hours and committee details are on page 6

2 From the Tuition Manager. If you belong to the group of computer users that browse the Internet you might be aware of problems that often arise. I often go to open a website in Firefox, get to the second level and it sticks. A copy of the address pasted into Internet Explorer keeps going beyond the second level. There have been so many developments in the material that travels on the world wide web, that it appears browsers have trouble keeping up. The scripting language now seen as the standard is HTML version 5 (hyper text mark up language) introduced in But I ve just seen the comment that Chrome defaults (works) with HTML5 on most sites. Chrome will not work on all sites. One aim of introducing HTML5 was to overcome the need to have Adobe Flash on a system. Yet many computers still update Flash and some websites still need it in order to function. Most of us have a system that does what we require of it even though there is a war going on out there. Firefox is doing wondrous things with your system if you let it For example it will tell you if you are looking at a dubious website. Just a subtle? as against a (green tick). But my recommendation is that you have several browsers on your task bar. One of these could be Opera, a very friendly browser I have started to use. Microsoft is in the process of changing its flagship browser Edge because it has so few users. In the not too distant past, Microsoft Internet Explorer was used to find most places on the web. Internet Explorer was added to Windows 95 and reached a peak of about 95% browser users by Its use has since declined with the launch of Firefox (2004) and Google To page 3 Tutors Jim Air Peter Ashley Christine Bibby Sean Campbell xxxxxxxx Tony Fowlie Dando Francis Liz Godfrey Rob Gordon Barbara Heath David Helas Les Howe Jim O Hara Linda Pinder Dick Richards Allan Rouse Doug Turner If you are unable to attend a class please advise the office.

3 From page 2 Chrome (2008). Microsoft introduced a new browser - Edge with Windows 10. The news in December was that Microsoft is going to re jig Edge to use the basic engine called Chromium which is the open-source engine that powers Google Chrome browser. It will still be called Edge but being in the open-source world, much of the hard work of fixing bugs etc will be carried out by volunteers!! The same source engine is used by the browser Opera and it has a very clean appearance but all the bells and whistles are available and some unexpected buttons. Some members don t see the point of browsers because they use Google. Google works inside a browser, and started as a search engine helping you find information on the web. Nowadays it is an advertising company the world s largest. When you are on many websites you will be offered advertisements which are very difficult to stop. An alternative search engine is called duckduckgo.com and this search engine does not gather your information and hence does not offer tours to North Italy up to 6 months after you get home from N duckduckgo.com working in Opera does make a great combination. I look forward to seeing you make the most of our new charging model free courses and workshops for members, and I will be running a workshop on these two applications. Doug Turner One small amendment to the February Timetable: On Thursday morning a Course of Genealogy is offered for new students. This indicates the Course will be for the 4 weeks, however the 4 th week will be an open session when both those who have attended the first 3 lessons as well as more experienced students will be invited to a general discussion session. Last month we offered 3 options to increase the size of your fonts. Whilst this enabled changes to be made for reading Internet information, it may not have changed the default size of fonts for your s. Whilst individual messages can be altered from the font group, the following process can enable changes to be made to the default Outlook correspondence. From the ribbon options, click on File then from the drop-down options click on Mail. This opens a new window from which choose the 4 th option Stationary and Fonts. Click on Font and the familiar options of font type, style and size can be altered. Once you have made your new choices click OK at the foot of that window, OK again at the foot of the Signatures and Stationery window and once more at the foot of the Change Settings window. Send an to yourself to see if the new settings are to your liking Peter Ashley

4 Our next Members Afternoon will be on Monday 18 2pm Senior Citizens Hall Glenfield Details in the February newsletter. This is a workshop - You may enrol for all of the sessions or any number you chose. Workshops - What is covered session by session. To access the description of each of the four sessions of any of our workshops click on the link below which will take you to our website. If you have received the newsletter by hard copy you will need to type the link into a browser. Remember that each session of a workshop is a stand alone session whereas the sessions of a course build on earlier sessions. In the Course/Workshop schedule on page 7, if the title is highlighted in yellow it indicates that it is a Workshop.

5 Full contact details. SeniorNet Glenfield Inc P O Box Glenfield Auckland 0747 Telephone seniornet_glenfield@xtra.co.nz Website: Clubrooms 5 Mayfield Road Office Hours 10am to Noon Monday to Friday Member of the Federation of NZ SeniorNet Societies Inc. Computer Technician - Anthony Hi, my name is Anthony, I m a qualified computer technician with many years of experience helping home users and small businesses. I m honest, trustworthy and patient, happy to help out with any computer problems big or small. My services include: * New PC s * PC upgrades * Virus & adware/malware removal * Laptop repair specialist * Backup setup and plans * Printers * setup * Diagnosing slow PC problems Etc... Feel free to call me anytime; advice is free! I charge $50 per hour Free Quotes Anthony Phone or anthony@anthonyscomputerservices.co.nz Disclaimer We try to ensure that information you are given in our newsletter and/or our classes is correct. However, no responsibility will be taken by any club member if any problem ensues. Likewise, tutors and/or assistants give information to you in good faith and will not be held responsible should you encounter a problem. Committee: Chairperson: Jim Air Deputy Chair Bob Oldnall Secretary/Office Mgr: Anne Simpson Treasurer: Rosslyn Jeffery Newsletter: Richard Palmer Tuition Mgr: Doug Turner Communication Mgr. Christine Bibby Committee: Dando Francis Barbara Heath Outside committee; Property: Manager John Watts

6 You may choose one or more workshops that would be useful for you. The workshops that are requested the most will be scheduled for the next month, others will be scheduled in following months. or phone your requests to the office ( between 10 and 12 weekdays.) Indicate the workshop code and title and let us know if you have any preferences for the day and time for the workshop to be timetabled. If there are other subjects that you would like covered record these with the office also. 6

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