Background

SeniorNet Eastern Bays Inc., Auckland is a voluntary organisation for people over 55 with active minds and who want to keep up with the computer age. Complete novices through to more advanced users are welcome while new topics are constantly being added. We always like to hear from members as to what they would like to have taught. Experienced users are welcome as tutors and every one is encouraged to help with the running of the club.

How to Contact Us

For detailed information about us please call the SeniorNet Eastern Bays voice mail, (09) 578 0994. An information pack is available. This is the main route of communication to the club. Be sure to leave your name phone number and contact address especially if you want an information pack mailed to you. Someone will call you back, and you can proceed from there. We would love to hear from you. more

Forum Also Available

You can have now your say on our own Forum/Bulletin Board/Discussion Group! Click here for more.

Handy Reading Over the Holiday Break

During the teaching year, this spot typically carries a write-up of the last monthly meeting lecture from a guest speaker. These lectures, together with the best articles from all the years since the start of SeniorNet Eastern Bays are all there in our Archives page.

Prospective members might want first to visit the Overview page. As next year's courses get finalised, you'll see increasing detail appear on the Courses and Calendar pages. The Calendar page, always five months ahead, is a handy general planning guide in itself.

The News page contains the latest reports from Chairman Eddie Hagen, together with regional and national SeniorNet news. You can also download copies of the e-Newsletters that Eddie has been producing since June

The Useful Links page is actually 10 pages in one! The Auckland Focus page answers gives links to what's happening, when and where and should be very handy over the break be as could well be the Holidays and Travel page. And you'll now have more time to peruse the Wider Interest and Consumer Related pages to find out where all the good help and advice is. The Genealogy page is the latest one added and should really come with a warning against spending longer browsing it than the grand kids spend on their computer games! The same applies to the Search Engines and Reference sites. Try them all out - there's a lot more to finding quality information on literally any subject than just simple Googling! Then there are collections of links for PC Information and Tips and plenty of amazing sites for all you Photography and Camera fans (who seem to be everyone!). Finally in the Useful Links collection, there is the News Sites page. You'll be amazed how much quality general and technical news and topical information is now freely available on line!

Back on the Main Menu, the General Tips and Technical Tips pages carry articles contributed by our own members to help you understand and troubleshoot your computer hardware and software. Many of these tips were first expounded in our popular Q&A monthly forums.

The Texting Tips page is another recently added one, which addresses the problem that all the various makes and models of mobile phone have their own particular menus and detailed instructions for sending and reading text messages. Even the grand kids might learn something here!

The Windows Vista page is also a recent addition and an obvious "must-visit" for all who have this latest operating system. It includes links to Microsoft's very friendly teaching videos

Then there is the Forum gateway page, also recently added. Hosted by Google Groups, your forum complements this web site. Its live, its immediate and you can be happily adding travellers' tales, tips and any and all other items of possible interest to members throughout the holidays and beyond!

Finally, we return to the Archives page where, as indicated above, you can browse or bookmark all the best articles culled from our newsletters and other printed and on-line material for each month since we started in 2000. The Archives contain about 80 pages in themselves(!)

So there you have it!. No match for healthy outdoor activity on a fine day (but handy for planning such days!) the 100+ pages comprising this site can keep you and yours absorbed and enlightened otherwise. As always, keep sending articles, tips, links, updates, additions and corrections to me as you collect them or, just as good, post them directly to the Forum.

Wayne Power