FINAL POST - YEAH RIGHT!

This is the final post for this blog. But as they say - Yeah Right!

We have decided to align the address of our blog with that of our website by inserting a hyphen into our name. This addition makes the name much easier to read.

To do this we have started a new blog with that name. So the new address for you to put into your Favourites is -

http://www.seniornet-huttcity.blogspot.com

Please delete the old address and insert the above new address now. Thanks!!

Goodbye from this site.

But don't forget to visit us at least every week at our new site.

NEWSLETTER, AGM, ANNUAL REPORT AND TUTORS MEETING

Newsletter - The June Newsletter has been emailed and we hope to have the hard copy posted this week, depending on the availablility of volunteers. This time the email copy has gone out in Word rather than PDF. Our original thought was that sending in PDF would enable a faster down load time however, we believe that the difference is very small so we have reverted to a Word document. We would appreciate any feedback.

AGM - Within the Newsletter is the formal announcement of the AGM to be held on the Wednesday 16 July next. It will be held at the Avalon Pavilion starting at 2 PM with the Guest Speaker to be Grant Sidaway. The Annual Report is also almost ready to be sent.

Tutors Meeting - A Tutors Meeting will be held this Friday from 9 AM - 12.30PM at the Lower Hutt Womens Bowling Club.

SADLY OUR SECRETARY HAS RESIGNED

Sadly Louisa who has been our Secretary for several years has had to resign.
So we are looking for someone to take her place. An email has been sent asking for a volunteer and an advice will be in the June Newsletter.

We urgently need someone to fill this position.

Louisa says the jobs is easy; with the basic duties being:

Taking applications from the public
Sending emails to Tutors and members
Liaising with chairman and administration staff.
Assist with AGM & various meetings as required.
General Secretarial duties
- The usual typing – the odd letters and ensuring forms are updated.

The Secretary is a member of the Executive Committee and would need to attend the monthly meeting.

If you can help please phone Louisa. She will be pleased to answer any questions about the job.

DISCOUNTS AND SENIORNET MERCHANDISE

As you know the Federation Website has many discounts including magazines, books, travel, software/hardware, Telstra offers and more. They have now arranged for a supply of SeniorNet branded Flashdrives as well as some SeniorNet branded merchandise.

Some photos of the items and brief details are below :

SeniorNet Branded Flash Drive

Flashdrives -

Available in two sizes 1GB ($12) and 4 GB ($25) and each is Vista “Ready Boost” enabled and has a guarantee of 12 months.

SeniorNet Branded Merchandise -

Caps at $14 and $15 with Hutt City name.
Poly Fleece Vest at $35 and $36 with Hutt City name.
Polo Shirts at $25 and $24 with Hutt City name.

SeniorNet Branded Polo Shirt

SeniorNet Branded Poly Fleece Vest

SeniorNet Cap

If any member is interested please contact the Centre and we shall email you an order form. The form is to be returned to us to enable a bulk order to be made. Orders must be in by the end of June.

FEDERATION NEWSLETTER

Some highlights from the latest Federation Newsletter are :

The AGM, held in Wellington on the 7th May, re-elected all the current Committee except for the Wellington area where Colin Young replaced Brian Nelson who did not stand. The Minutes and associated documents are available on the Federation Website.

SNAP - Thanks were extended to Hutt City and the authors etc for the provision of this program which has been requested by two thirds of member Centres.

Contact details - Because of Spam only an address and phone numbers will be shown on the Website in future.

Telstra Group sponsorship - this is growing and members are reminded to register through their Centres.

Funding - After a lot of hard work over many months an agreement has finally been signed with the TEC which secures funding for the remainder of 2008 . However, more changes means the Federation will need to complete another Investment Plan for funding in 2009 and beyond.

CARD MAKING & CD BURNING - CLASS VACANCIES

We have spaces in :

Cardmaking -
Monday 16 June 9 - 11 AM 3 spaces

CD Burning -
Tuesday 10 June 2 - 4 PM 2 spaces

Interested? Phone Jeanette today.

NEW VERSION OF FREE AVG

Grisoft, the company who produce the free AVG anti-virus are currently introducing a new version - Version 8.

Although it remains free, it can be hard to locate the free version on the Grisoft site. Therefore we suggest you go to http://free.grisoft.com to obtain the free version. It can still take a bit of care to ensure you are in fact downloading the free version. Also they will ask you to download the AVG toolbar - we suggest you don't by unticking this option.

You may notice that after installing the new Version 8, every email you receive shows a paperclip indicating that an attachement is present, although in fact it isn't. This is called a Ghost Attachment which is caused by AVG certifying the email has been checked.

When you download an email you will find something along the lines of "No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus."

To do away with this Ghost Attachment just turn off the email certification. Messages will still be scanned but the attachment glitch will not occur. To do this go to the AVG control centre, click on "E-mail scanner", select the "properties" button, then deselect "certify mail".

For a further explanation go to our website (you can use the link on the right of the Blog) and read our Newsletter of December 2006.