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Important
Management Contacts
for 2017-2018 President:
Jane Eggins, 0408 025 798
Vice-President:
Rex Dowle, 4659 6197
Secretary: Liz Kennedy, 0407 220 775
Treasurer:
Anne Zamudio, 0414 864 314
Course Coordinator: Anne Bartyn,
4647 2512
Dialogue Box editor: Bill Reilly,
The next meeting of the Carrington Computer Club for Seniors
will be held on Monday 26th February 2018
The Official Newsletter of
Carrington Computer Club for SeniorsCarrington Computer Club for SeniorsCarrington Computer Club for SeniorsCarrington Computer Club for Seniors
Volume 17
Issue 06 TheTheTheThe Dialogue Box
Editor: Bill Reilly
February 2018
NEXT MEETING
10 am Monday 26th February 2018
in the Acacia Room,
Recreation & Leisure Centre
Carrington Retirement Village
Morning tea from 9 am.
DISCLAIMER:
This newsletter is provided “As
Is” without warranty of any kind. Each reader of the Car-rington Computer Club for Seniors, Dialogue Box newslet-ter, assumes complete risk as to the accuracy and subsequent use of its contents.
A brief outline of courses available to members of Carrington Computer Club for Seniors.
Introduction to Windows 10: cost $20
This course presumes that you have a little or no experience using a PC and covers, starting & stopping the com-puter, using the mouse together with some basic texting. This course is once a week for 8 weeks.
Word Processing: cost $20
Word Processing is used to create, edit & print documents. After completing this course it will enable you to create a document, display it on a screen, modify it by entering commands & characters from the keyboard & printing the document on a printer. This course is once a week for 6 weeks.
Files & Folders: cost $10
Internet & Email: cost $20
In this course you will learn how to use the Internet to seek information, download from a site. You will also learn all the aspects of sending and receiving emails and lots more. This course is once a week for 6 weeks.
Windows 10: cost $10
In this course you will learn all about Windows 10, you will look at the Control Panel, Computer Settings to-gether with how to take care of your Computer. This course is once per week for 4 weeks.
Greeting Cards: cost $20
In this course you will learn how to make professional looking Greeting Cards for any occasion. 6 weeks.
Power Point: cost $20 This course is once a week for 6 weeks. Power Point is primarily used as a presentation of your pictures.
Digital Scrapbooking: cost $20
Digital Scrapbooking involves the use of digital photos, clip art, graphic textures & various objects as embellish-ments. This course is once a week for 6 weeks.
Excel: cost $20
Excel is a spreadsheet program that allows you to store, organise and analyse information. This course is once a week for 6 weeks.
Guest speaker for
February. Our guest for February will be Sister Mary from Mater Dei school near Camden. Sister Mary will be entertain-ing us with a summary of the history of the local area and some of the characters who created this wonderful prop-erty which is now primarily a school for very special chil-dren with very special needs. You can learn lots more about this wonderful place by visit-ing their website. materdeicamden.org.au
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Please take note Some contact details for Carrington Computer Club for Seniors have changed:
Street Address Carrington Village
90 Werombi Road Camden NSW 2570
Postal Address C/- Carrington Village
90 Werombi Road Grasmere
2570
Email Address
Telephone 4655 6283
leave message if unattended
NEW Website
Address
ccc4s.org
Recognizing fake emails:
M ention was made at the January meeting about fake emails, purporting to represent Reputable com-panies and asking the recipient to click on various links or to provide certain private information.
For my personal email provider, I use gmail and when I shadow the address with my mouse, before I click it to open, it shows the address of the sender. I have included a couple of examples below. A small dialogue appears with the blue icon and it shows the address, which in one of these examples reads: [email protected] Such a convoluted address always indicates something totally undesirable. I am not sure that other email providers have the same facilities for checking security. I did check my bigpond account and it does not give any similar indication. Perhaps others have some form of checking so it would be wise for you to in-vestigate and find out what, if any safety measures they provide.
If you have some suggestions which you have found on another email providers program, I would
look forward to you submitting a short article for publication in a future issue of the Dialogue Box.
My gmail screen looks like the image below
The warning dialogue boxes show up as you see below here in the right-hand column
Handy hint:
H ave you ever been able to get all the product out of one of those plastic tubes which have almost taken over the world? Well here is a very handy suggestion to solve the problem and enable you to
make the last 30% of its contents usable before you throw it away and buying another tube.
3: Insert the top half into the bottom half and store standing up so it does not make a mess if it leaks when laying down
1: Cut the tube at about half of its length. Clear the content from the bot-tom half into the top half.
2: Use the required amount of content, preferably from the bottom half first.
Editors apology:
Last month I omitted this accreditation and explana-tion from Les Langston’s article, “I HAVE FOR WANT OF BETTER KNOWLEDGE” Reflecting back I realise I do not include this for lack of space.
Accreditation:
For the past three years
Seniors Card have spon-
sored a competition for sen-
iors to submit writing arti-
cles for judgement, from
which what they consider to
be the best 100 entries are
used to compile a publica-
tion, such as this issue Vol-
ume 3 - 2017.
Articles are grouped by pre-
determined categories and
not by order of merit from
the 2000 odd entries re-
ceived for Volume 3.
My entry, ‘I Have For Want
of Better Knowledge’ was
considered warranted for
‘the ‘Health and Wellbeing’
category, indexed as page
37.
Sincere apology,
Bill Reilly, Editor:
19th Australian Com-
puter Conference for
Seniors: Eric Dixon prepared this report of day 2 of November 2017 ASCCA conference.
A t the November 2017 Aus-tralian Computer Clubs As-
sociation, ASCCA, annual con-ference a range of well selected speakers provided useful infor-mation. These were some of the topics from the second day of the con-ference. Mark Young, ASCCA Technical officer, proposes to prepare a re-port for the ASCCA web site later this year.
Department of Social Services
– Be Connected:
This program aims at im-proving the digital literacy of older Australians. The Good Things Foundation provides grants starting at $1,500 for or-ganisations to give free face to face training on basics of using computers, digital devices and online shopping. www.beconnected.esafety.gov.au
Australian Communication
Action Network, ACCAN: This is Australia’s peak communications consumer advo-cate body. It is a not for profit organisation focussed on repre-senting communication systems consumers. It gives tips on NBN, internet of things, scams and staying con-nected. It provides advice on making a complaint , what are your rights and how to claim compensation. There is a weekly b u l l e t i n o n W e b [email protected]. www.accan.org.au
The Rural Fire Service:
In a period of bush fires the RFS web site shows location of fires and situation awareness.
A satellite image displays type of vegetation nearby.
www.rfs.nsw.gov.au
Department of Industry, Inno-
vation and Science – The Digi-
tal Economy:
This is a forum open to the public for sharing ideas and gen-eral discussion on the digital future of Australia. The Govern-ment is seeking ideas, insights and feedback to develop the Na-tional Digital Economy Strat-egy. www.engage.industry.gov.au
Avalon Computer Pals – Digi-
tal Legacy:
Anyone with an email ac-count and other digital records has digital assets. It is important to provide your executor and family with means of accessing email addresses, passwords, banking, photos, accounts, online payments and all your digital devices so that your ex-ecutors may finalise affairs. Australian Communication Ac-tion Network, ACCAN, Has published a useful guide, Your Digital Legacy. www.accan.org.au
New Technologies and Cool
Tech Tips – Alex Zaharov-
Reutt www.youtube.com/alexontech
The iPhone 10 has face ID
password contained within the
phone and is therefore secure.
Choose from 9 Animojo characters that use your voice and mirror your facial expres-sion. An updated camera pro-vides new time lapse, portrait and lighting effects. The Close Comfort portable air conditioner weighs just 17Kg and costs $469. It has 1.6litre condensed water storage capac-ity and power of 300watts It is reported to cost less than $1 to operate overnight.
www.closecomfort.com.au
The Battery Boost:
Is a miniature voltage boost regulator. A thin reusable stainless sleeve fits over a single cell alkaline or rechargeable bat-tery to increase its useful life. www.batteroo.com Thank you to Eric Dixon for volunteering to attend the con-ference on behalf of our club and for preparing this excellent report.
3 The Dialogue Box February 2018
Does this bring back
loads of memories?
I t does to me. (sigh). I used to snigger at my Mum when
she said “oh how I wish I could go back to those good old days, they were the best.” … Now I am saying the same thing and I wonder what our kids will be saying when they are our age? Somehow I don’t think they are going to have the pleas-ant memories we had….. do you?
WE WAS BRUNG UP PROPER!
"And we never had a whole
Mars bar until 1993!" CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1930's 1940's, 50's, 60's First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and or drank while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos. They took aspirin, Bex, ate blue cheese, raw egg products, loads of bacon and processed meat, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes or any cancer. Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright coloured lead-based paints. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabi-nets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention the risks
w e t o o k h i t c h h i k i n g .
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags, or in the back of a Ute. We drank water from the garden hose, or a bubbler in the street or
school yard and NOT from a bottle. Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops, McDonalds , KFC, or Subway . Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the weekends, somehow we didn't s t a r v e t o d e a t h ! We shared one soft drink with
four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this. We could collect old drink bot-tles and cash them in at the cor-ner store and buy Toffees, Bub-ble Gum and some ‘crackers’ to b l o w u p f r o g s w i t h . We ate copious biscuits, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks with heaps of sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because, WE WERE ALWAYS O U T S I D E P L A Y I N G ! Out of school we would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the street lights came on.
No one was out looking for us
all day. And we were O.K. We would spend hours build-
ing our go-carts out of old
prams. Or fruit boxes and ball
bearings and then ride down
the hill, only to find out we
forgot the brakes. Our bikes
had back pedal brakes, but
only for as long as the chain
stayed on. We built tree
houses and dens and played in
creek beds with matchbox
cars. We did not have Play-stations, Nintendo Wii, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 999 c h a n n e l s o n S K Y , No video/DVD films,
No mobile phones, no personal
computers, no Internet or
Internet chat rooms. WE HAD FRIENDS and we
went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no Lawsuits from these a c c i d e n t s Only girls had pierced ears! We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever. You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Cross Buns at Easter .
We were given air guns or cap
guns, and catapults for our
1 0 t h b i r t h d a y s , We rode bikes or walked to a
friend's house and knocked on
the back door or rang the bell,
or just yelled for them!
Mum didn't have to go to work to help Dad make ends meet! FOOTBALL and CRICKET had try outs and not everyone made the team. Those who did-n't had to learn to deal with dis-appointment. Imagine that!! Getting into the team was based on MERIT !!! Our teachers used to hit us hard with canes, straps and gym shoes or wooden rulers. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! Our parents didn't invent stupid names for their kids like 'Kiora' and 'Blade' and 'Ridge' and ' V a n i l l a ' a n d ‘ L o t u s ’
We had freedom, failure, suc-
cess and responsibility, and we
l e a r n e d H O W T O DEAL WITH IT ALL!
And YOU are one of them! C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S !
You might want to share this
with others who have had the
luck to grow up as kids, before
the lawyers and the govern-
ment regulated our lives for
our own good. PS -The big type is because your eyes are not too good at your age. Can you remember these times too? Taken from an email circulated by an acquaintance of your editor.
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