Friday 17th September, 2010
Deborah Martin and Peter Grove will demonstrate websites to help you plan your travel.
Our monthly member meetings are held on the 3rd Friday of the month in the Gwen Logan room on the second floor of the Council Chambers Building. This is the room next to our regular computer training room.
All meetings start at 9.30 am until 11.30 am, and include a morning tea break, an update on club activities and course plans, and a presentation, either by one of our members or a visiting speaker. After morning tea we have a Q & A session.
Some of the topics presented so far have been:
- Using the resources of the Parramatta Local History Centre (for family research online or for local history)
- Freeware and open source software applications
- Internet etiquette
- Easy Computing Pty Ltd on their "Take the Teacher Home" computer training CDs and DVDs for beginners
- Discussions about our training courses, and
- Useful websites, including the Seniors Portal.
- Games older people play - on the Net or CD
- Parramatta Council's website
- Windows Vista and Microsoft Photo Gallery
- Online banking
- Creative writing
- Effective use of Google
- Using E-bay
- Scrapbooking
- You-Tube
- WebShots
- Skype
- Professor Teaches CD
- Creatacard
- Land maps
- Yahoo lists
- Getting rid of unwanted applications
- Computer parts
- Apple Computers
- Travel tools
- Parramatta Library
- Social networking
- e-Parra Strategy and ParraConnect
- IT in Ireland
- Technology for a hearing lifestyle
Friday 15th October, 2010
This is our annual general meeting. Our guest speaker will be Paul Wallbank from PC Rescue, on ABC Local Radio's Nightlife and in Sydney on the ABC 702 weekend show.