3D Design and 3D printing course in Spreydon Christchurch

Join the revolution of 3D printing

To fundraise for addington.net , a Community Computing Centre, we have setup a

                            

3D Design and Printing course.

5 sessions Starting Monday 23 February at 4.00 pm to 5.30 pm

$50 plus material cost

For more information call 9627244

or email info@addington.net.nz

Angelo's Kodu Disco

A game designed in Kodu by one of the children in the IT Kids Club at addington.net

New session to learn computer skills at addington.net

addington.net is a community computing centre in 314 Selwyn Street in Christchurch
 

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Owing to high demand we started an additional session on Monday afternoon for people who want to learn computer skills.
In the addnet-team sessions we offer personalised learning where, people set their own goals and receive assistance of knowledgeable volunteers.
You can decide to learn about the internet, get to know the operating system, setup a CV and apply online, anything. You can choose to come in once or on an on-going basis.
You can bring in your own laptop or tablet.

Sessions
Monday to Thursday 10.30 a.m. to 12.00 Noon
and
Monday 1.00 p.m. to 2.30 p.m. (new)
 

Android Club

If you want to learn more about your phone/ tablet
come in on Monday 1.00 p.m. to 2.00 p.m. for the Android Club.
 

Digital Art Club

Bring in your photos on Wednesday for the Digital Art CLub and you can enhance your photos and/or turn them into art.
1.00 p.m. to 2.00 p.m.

Bookings essential for all sessions
Gold coin donation

addington.net, 314 Selwyn Street, Christchurch

Calling all Adults in Christchurch
who have kids and grandies scattered around the globe!

 

Are you keeping up with the latest electronic communication technologies? Are you? Or do you keep checking the letterbox every time the postie comes and being disappointed because they haven’t written? Do you miss them? Maybe they sent you a text or an email. Would like to learn to be comfortable sending texts and pixts, using computers to email and Skype? We can help you with that!

We can also help you to become familiar with Android phones and tablets or guide you in the use of electronic books: how to download free books or purchase them; how to get the best out of your personal, hand-held library.

We do computers too. We can help you become familiar with Google, Trade Me and other useful applications. Would you like to trace your ancestry? Get involved in genealogy? Build a family tree for your descendants? Now there’s a fascinating hobby; finding your roots and writing a history for your children and grandchildren, a story that can be passed on to future generations and even added to, making a unique family archive. We can help you with that too.

Call us on 9627244 for information on sessions and times

or email info@addington.net.nz

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Picasa Web Albums

In Picasa web albums you can create online photo albums. You can sign into Picasa at http://picasaweb.google.com using your Gmail account.

If you already have Picasa on your computer, you can upload photo’s straight from there to Picasa Web albums using the Upload button. You can also upload photo’s from you web album site or you can change the settings to allow uploading photo’s from your email.

Photo’s can be uploaded in 3 sizes. If you want to keep the original size choose the biggest size. Be aware that you will use up your storage space more quickly. Picasa Web albums offers 1Gb free space.

When you upload photo’s an option will appear to add people who share with contributing photo’s. The people you add can login to your web albums with their account and add photo’s to an album.

You can choose to make your albums listed or unlisted. Listed or public albums can be viewed by anyone. Unlisted albums are like unlisted phone numbers. Only if you know the web address you can find it.

There are several features in Picasa Web Albums, for example;

• You can turn your album into a slideshow by clicking the slideshow button
• You can add captions and tags to your photo’s
• You can add name tags. When you named a few photo’s, Picasa will automatically scan all your pictures and finds the pictures with the same person
• You can add a map with the location where you took the photo’s

Get ready to create your online album to share with family and friends anywhere in the world.

Google Tips

10 great Google tips

1. If you type words into Google, Google will find websites which contain all these words. Use the word OR if you want to find one term or another, or use the symbol (shift \). For example Apple|Epson|Philips means find Apple, Epson or Philips
2. If you want to find an exact phrase use quotes , for example “get connected to addington.net” You can also use quotes for a part of your search, for example “Bichon Friese” breeder Christchurch.
3. If you type the word Define into Google you get a definition of the word you are looking for, for example define computer
4. You can use Google as a calculator Type in 10 + 20 and the result will be shown underneath. You can use the following symbols + - * /
5. You can search for a range of numbers. For example if you want to find computers in the price range of $700 to $1000, you type into Google; computer $700..$1000. Make sure you type two dots between the two values.
6. You can do a site specific search. Google will search for the specific term inside the website. For example type into Google; Picasa site:addingtonnet.blogspot.com and the pages with Picasa in it will be shown.
7. You can use Google to convert units of height, weight and volume e.g. type 5cm in inches
8. You can use Google to convert currency e.g. type in 100 NZD in EURO
9. To find an online book click the arrow next to More, than go to even More and select Google books. Type in for example Word Microsoft 2007 and there is your free online book about Word.
10. Find the weather of today by Typing weather followed by a zipcode or city. For example weather Christchurch New Zealand

Interview with Gary

Addington.net cares for people with disabilities and provides free internet for them. One of our regular clients who visits about twice a week is Gary. Gary is 49 years old and is partially blind and deaf and doesn’t have the internet connection at home.

Gary used to work in engineering and these days he helps people when they have problems with their computers. He helps them with the memory and CPU and sometimes with software problems.

He also used to help the Salvation Army fix computers so they were able to be sold in their shops.

Gary has a lot of experience with computers. He did a business computer course in 1990. However, now most of his knowledge is self attained. When he talks about computers it makes me almost feel like a novice.

Gary knows Addington.net almost from when it opened in 2001. He used to come in to download software, such as Java and virus protectors, from the internet and now gets our staff to check if there are any updates for these. Gary has a USB flash drive which he brings to the Centre and we download any updates onto that. He then takes it home and transfers the updates to his laptop. These days Gary loves to play PS2 games and comes in every week to get some cheats from the internet.

A wish Gary has for Addington.net is to see software on our computers with voice synthesizer and a reader. Such an application is able to enlarge the text and it will read the text for you as well.
Gary really enjoys coming to Addington.net, because he feels welcome here and we hope he will visit us for a long time to come.