Newsletters Latest edition FEBRUARY 2026 Click on newsletter image to the left to open our latest newsletter. From there you can just view the full newsletter, or print or save. Inside you will find a variety of news, discussion groups & tutorials, sunday speaker reviews, outside visits, up-coming events, humour and tips'n'tricks on a wide range of topics. Our Editors Lois Kay & Campbell Stanford "A newsletter is intended to connect writer with reader; the role of the editor is to mediate." John Barton Newsletter Archives Click on any thumbnail image then click on "READ ISSUE" to read a previous issue of our newsletter Jan 2026 Dec 2025 Nov 2025 Oct 2025 Sep 2025 Aug 2025 July 2025 June 2025 May 2025 Apr 2025 Mar 2025 Feb 2025 Jan 2025 Dec 2024 Nov 2024 Oct 2024 Sept 2024 Aug 2024 July 2024 June 2024 May 2024 April 2024 March 2024 Feb 2024 Jan 2024

Schedule Our Monthly Meetings Monthly meetings are held in the hall at 10 am on the 2nd Sunday of the month. Come along and listen to some interesting speakers. Gold coin donation appreciated and everyone is welcome. We provide free refreshments at all Discussion Groups, Tutorials and monthly Sunday meetings. Please wear your name tag to all sessions so we know who you are. Session Times AM sessions 10:00am to 12:00 noon PM sessions 1:00pm to 3:00pm (unless stated otherwise) Our Schedule We have a diverse schedule of events, tutorials and discussion groups planned every month. Click anywhere on schedule to download a copy for viewing or printing How To Book A Class Check out the TUTORIALS tab and select a topic which appeals to you. Look at the Schedule below to see whether it is a Tutorial or Discussion Group. T's & D's T = TUTORIALS FIRST email or phone tutor at least a week ahead Pay $5 at the door D = DISCUSSION GROUPS Just turn up! All welcome Pay $3 at door Anchor 1

Contact SENIORNET NORTH SHORE St John Centre North Shore, 2 Shea Terrace, Takapuna, Auckland (09) 486 2163 email us Parking Guide Directions: Take Northcote exit on Northern Motorway Head east towards intersection at Taharoto Road The Vodafone Building will be on your left Proceed straight ahead through traffic lights Veer left at first corner Veer right at second corner into Shea Terrace Seniornet is in the brick St John Building on left (Sushi cafe at front) Enter building then turn left down corridor to last room Parking There is street parking in Shea Terrace and a limited number of parks in the St John Centre both on the level next to the club rooms and on the lower level in front of the ambulance garage. The 3 SeniorNet parking spaces are for Tutors and their Helpers. You can often park in spaces marked "St John" but NOT in the "St John and Fed" parks as they are forHospital shift workers. Send Success! Message received. Buses to SeniorNet North Shore 803 - Bayswater, Pupuke Loop via Takapuna, Milford, Smales Farm Station, North Shore Hospital (outside Hosp. stop No 3998), Takapuna. Runs all week and weekends. 804 - Bayswater, Pupuke Loop via Takapuna, North Shore Hospital (stop opposite Hospital), Smales Farm Station, Milford, Takapuna. Runs all week and weekends at roughly hourly intervals-see timetable or contact MAXX. 858 - Long Bay to Takapuna via Smales Farm and North Shore Hospital (stop 3998) Please note that NSH buses run from 8.40 am to 14.20 but after that time, run along Wairau Road which is very close by. Runs all week and week-ends at roughly hourly intervals. 913 - Glenfield Mall (stop 4010), Windy Ridge, Smales Farm Station, North Shore Hospital, Takapuna. Runs all week incl. Sat and Sunday . at hourly intervals - Return Bus caught on opposite side of the road. Some Buses 975 and 976 travel from Beachhaven, Verrans Corner, Highbury Shops thru NS Hospital en route to Takapuna - 8.30 am till 14.30 just weekdays only at 30 min. intervals.

iPad & iPhone Apps IPAD TIPS AND TRICKS List of great iPad and iPhone Apps Click on App name to learn more ... MORE IPAD TIPS IPHONE TRICKS Vivino Take a photo of any wine label to uncork pricing, ratings, reviews, food paring suggestions and recommendations from the biggest community of more than 10 million wine lovers. My Script Calculator Easy, simple and intuitive, just write the mathematical expression on the screen then let MyScript technology perform its magic converting symbols and numbers to digital text and delivering the result in real time. Flight Radar 24 Turn your iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch into an air traffic radar and see planes around the world move in real-time on a detailed map. Or point your device at a plane in the sky to find out where it’s going and more. Discover today why millions are already tracking flights with Flightradar24. Air Transfer + Air Transfer moves what you're seeing or playing on Mac/PC to your iPhone/iPad with just single drag&drop! It moves whatever you want; text memo, website address, photo, music, movie, document and so on. Google Earth Fly around the planet with a swipe of your finger with Google Earth for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Explore distant lands or reacquaint yourself with your childhood home. Search for cities, places and businesses. Browse layers including roads, borders, places, photos and more. See the world at street level with integrated Street View. Magic Plan MagicPlan quickly creates professional floor plans & work estimates. It measures rooms and draws floor plans just by taking pictures. Simply add objects, annotations, photos and attributes to generate reports or complete estimates. WPS Office World’s most popular FREE mobile office suite (over 500 million installs). Fully compatible with Microsoft Office, PDF and dozens of other document formats Shazam dentify music instantly and share in the thrill of music discovery with the artists you love. Frax HD Frax is an art program that puts the “equations of nature” in the palm of your hand. Frax is powered by fractal geometry, the same principle that creates patterns of self-similarity in our natural world. SayHi SayHi Translate is an award winning app that helps you break down language barriers. Talk face to face in over 100 languages with our magical technology. Put an interpreter in your pocket. TuneIn Radio Pro (Black label) Listen to your favorite radio stations for free with TuneIn Radio. With over 100,000 radio stations, TuneIn has the largest selection of sports, news, music and talk radio from around the world. TuneIn Radio Pro is free of display ads and lets you record what you are listening to and listen later offline. Wifi Photo Transfer Easily access your photo libraries via wifi from any computer with a web browser! Just start the app and enter the displayed address into the address bar of your browser. Works with any computer that has a modern browser (like desktop or portable computers, iPads, or even an other iPhone) and is on the same wifi network as your phone, iPod or iPad. FamViewer FamViewer allows you to view GEDCOM genealogy database files on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. GEDCOM files can be transferred to FamViewer with iTunes file sharing or uploaded or downloaded to and from FamViewer with a web browser on a desktop computer. Bright Puzzles Bright Puzzles HD is a wonderful jigsaw puzzles with beautiful pictures and 4 levels of difficulty, 64, 100, 196 and 324 pieces. Google Translate Translate between 103 languages by typing. Instant camera translation: Use your camera to translate text instantly in 29 languages, Camera Mode: Take pictures of text for higher-quality translations in 37 languages. Conversation Mode: Two-way instant speech translation in 32 languages. Handwriting: Draw characters instead of using the keyboard in 93 languages TVNZ On Demand The only way to watch TVNZ OnDemand on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch Windy Windy - is a handy application for wind-addicted people, providing accurate and clear worldwide wind forecast. A must have for kiteboarders, windsurfers, yachtsmen, skydivers, paragliders, bicyclists, fishermen and rc-pilots. PS Express Photo editing made fun, fast and easy. Touch your way to better-looking iPhone pictures using slide bar adjustments, or let automatic one-touch fixes do it for you. Share with friends and family via Facebook, Instagram or text/email. Puffin Browser Pro Puffin Web Browser is a fast browser that supports Flash and content or videos that requires more bandwidth than the normal usage. It is the only iOS browser that acts like a normal Windows-based browser. Molecules Molecules is an application for viewing three-dimensional renderings of molecules and manipulating them using your fingers. You can rotate the molecules by moving your finger across the display, zoom in or out by using two-finger pinch gestures, or pan the molecule by moving two fingers across the screen at once. Colour Therapy Colour Therapy is an adult colouring App/Book. It is a stress-relieving, digital colouring book with more than 400 of exclusive & stunning adult colouring pages. IMDb Find movie showtimes near you, buy tickets, watch trailers, read critic and user reviews, get personalized recommendations, browse photo galleries, entertainment news, quotes, trivia, box-office data and more! My Stuff 2 Organize your collections, music, movies, books, video games, electronics, wine lists, jewelry, appliances, office supplies, or anything else in your possession with this easy to use but powerful database and inventory application. iTeleport iTeleport is the most fully featured, easy to use and robust remote desk top app that gives anytime access to multiple computers (PC, Mac, Linux) from your home, office or anywhere in the world TED Explore more than 2,000 TED Talks from remarkable people, by topic and mood, from tech and science to the surprises of your own psychology. Caligraphy Art Calligraphy Art replicates the strokes of the pen in real life: angle, thickness and colors. You can really enjoy calligraphy with this app for its learning ability, then draw beautiful letters on papers with the same easiness. Pottery With Let's Create: Pottery making ceramics has never been more simple and fun! Become a true artist and create "one of a kind" pottery items and share them with your friends! QR Code Maker QR Code Maker is an application designed to create QR barcodes swiftly and easily. QR Code Maker offers many different types of QR barcodes that it can generate: URL, Plain-Text, Emails, Contact Information,Phone Number and SMS Message barcodes. Keynote is the most powerful presentation app ever designed for a mobile device. Built from the ground up for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, it makes creating a world-class presentation — complete with animated charts and transitions — as simple as touching and tapping. Starwalk Star Walk is the most beautiful stargazing app you’ve ever seen on a mobile device. It will become your go-to interactive astro guide to the night sky, following your every movement in real-time and allowing you to explore over 200,000 celestial bodies with extensive information about stars and constellations that you find. Keynote Music Studio Music Studio offers a complete music production environment for the iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch with features and a sound quality previously only known to desktop applications and expensive audio hardware. ProjectM projectM is the most advanced music visualizer available in the App Store. It has the smoothest graphics, the most presets, and is the most responsive to music. projectM's built-in media player supports visualizing your iTunes Library! When no song is playing, projectM will automatically switch to visualizing microphone input. 3 NOW Watch your favourite TV3 Shows live or on demand. With the 3NOW app you can enjoy full episodes and video extras from your favourite TV shows for free. You can AirPlay shows to your biggest screen using any Apple TV. NZ Herald The New Zealand Herald app for iPhone & iPad, designed to deliver the latest and most relevant news to you in the best way possible. Access the very latest in news, sports and entertainment from our award-winning journalists, plus specialist content from Viva.co.nz, Driven.co.nz, Spy.co.nz, Bite.co.nz, WatchMe.co.nz and other sites within the NZME. network. One News ONE News Now gives you the latest news, with live updates as they happen. With a fresh new design and features, the app is easy to use so you can quickly get the stories that matter to you. You Tube See what the world is watching in music, gaming, entertainment, news and more. Explore the hottest videos on YouTube with the new trending tab. Subscribe to channels, share with friends, edit and upload videos, and watch on any device. Calculator The #1 calculator on app stores around the world. The calculator free combines the standard and scientific calculator for free! Features include history tape, quick equation preview, basic calculation buttons in portrait view, advanced mathematical/scientific buttons in landscape view and memory buttons. Goodreader GoodReader is the super-robust PDF reader app that millions of users and reviews worldwide hail it as “essential,” “the best,” “magnificent” and “the killer app”. With GoodReader on your iPad or iPhone, you can read virtually anything, anywhere: documents, books, movies, maps, pictures. Printer Pro Lite Print attachments, documents, web pages and more right from your iPhone and iPad to any Wi-Fi or USB printer.Once installed, Printer Pro appears in the "Open In..." list on your device. This lets you print documents from Mail, PDF Expert and many other applications on your iPhone or iPad that support this function. Photoshop Fix Built on Photoshop technology, Photoshop Fix empowers you to do serious image retouching and restoration on your iPad or iPhone. Heal, smooth, liquify, lighten and make other edits and adjustments that give you the precise look you’re after. ISSUU Discover the world’s best content with an endless variety of magazines on issuu. 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Computer Chat Session Links 7 May 2024 GROUP ACTIVITY Computer Chat Group Links IAN'S AI LINKS Create a YouTube Channel Uploading a video into YouTube Subscribing in YouTube YouTube Keyboard Shortcuts YouTube - The Basics CHATGPT for YouTube Active Brain Searching Photos on iPhone Take a Note using SIRI Converting HEIC to JPG Windy Printable Paper Paper Toys Nitch The Photo Society Wearable Which Book Documentary Heaven Timeline of History Dictation Extension for CHATGPT CHATGPT Manual Movie Posters Manuals Library Tips Collection Spirograph Behind the Name Engrish Alexa & Siri SIRI Commands SIRI Commands (Full list) How to set up SIRI Fun things to do with SIRI SIRI Tips and Tricks ANDROID Equivalent Systems to SIRI ALEXA Commands ALEXA Commands 2 How to set up ALEXA Fun things to do with ALEXA ALEXA & ECHO Tips and Tricks How to set up ALEXA on your Windows PC Moving Files Moving Files Document AirDrop Photo Albums on iPhone How to organise your digital photos Downloading email Attachments Android File Sharing About Google Photos Metadata Photo Searching On-Line Shopping Tips'n'Tricks How to save money Saving money while on-line shopping About Google Shopping How to use Google Shopping Saving money while on-line shopping Session Notes 7 May 2024 VARIOUS TOPICS All Topics Campbell Stanford Microsoft OneDrive Fences Video Editing Default Apps Anchor 1

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Tutorials and Discussion Groups Card Playing Group Tutor: Campbell Stanford What a fun time playing cards can be! For raw beginners and cardsharps alike. Beginners are appreciating the comfortable pace at which they can learn and hone their skills. Great camaraderie in a very friendly group that is much more than just card playing. Learning and developing strategies combined with luck and great humour alleviates stress and keeps your mind sharp and active. Currently our most popular game is “Oh Hell” which goes down well with all players with winners switching around from session to session. Depending on the number of participants, we also play 500 and Euchre and have dabbled with cribbage, one of the best games for as little as 2 players. We have sessions twice a month on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays between 12:30 and 2:30pm. Please come and try it. You are also most welcome to bring a guest with you for a free session. iPad & iPhone Tutors: Various Learn skills and share experiences of the iPad in a friendly atmosphere and be part of a group that offers instructions and practical applications. You will learn tips and tricks along with links sent to you by Bill as answers are found to your questions. IPAD APPS Genealogy Workshop Tutor: Lois Kay Lois both teaches and co-ordinates the abundant talent and experience in the club to present well-constructed and informative sessions. Guest speakers are a frequent feature of this very popular session and if you are looking to build on your genealogy research – then this is the session for you. Tips and Tricks Tutors: Various A tutorial and discussion forum where you can ask questions and get answers and also learn tips and tricks for a wide range of computer/ipad/iphone/laptop situations. Ian will endeavour to provide solutions for your questions and will introduce you to a bevy of useful tips, shortcuts, hidden features, useful tools, actions and ways to achieve results on your computer and technology devices. Each session, Ian will provide you with a hot list of new ideas, tips and tricks to explore and use. Digi Photos Tutor: Rex Oddy This is a non-competitive and casual get-together to look at and be inspired by each other’s photos. We show our successes and failures and, in the process, learn some new tricks so we can capture better images. Simple photo enhancement is demonstrated using Photoshop Elements 9. A friendly and supportive group. Genealogy 1st Friday Tutor: Various First Friday of each month - genealogy topics and a chance to discuss your family research issues. and the opportunity to share family heirlooms. Recording Our Stories Tutor: Glen Plaistowe Discussion groups of shared trips down memory lane as we recall the unique experiences of our lives and learn how to record them for our descendants. A way to honour the people no longer with us by recording their stories. Our stories also document the phenomenal technical and social changes that have happened during our lives and create a living history. Anchor 1 Film Appreciation Tutor: Marina Sanderson Experience the magic of cinema at SeniorNet North Shore's newest session, "Film Appreciation." Join us in the cosy clubrooms as we transport you through time with a curated selection of timeless classics and contemporary masterpieces. Dive into the world of storytelling, cinematography, and emotion as we explore the art of filmmaking together. Discover the rich history of cinema and share your thoughts and insights with fellow film enthusiasts. Whether you're a cinephile or just looking for a delightful movie night, this session promises to be a reel treat for all. AI in Practice Tutors: Various A workshop where you'll delve into the fascinating world of artificial intelligence. A chance to discover the inner workings of AI, explore practical applications, and get hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies like ChatGPT and other AI applications. This interactive session offers a unique chance to ask questions, engage with experts, and gain valuable insights into AI's impact on our lives. Don't miss this opportunity to unlock the potential of AI in a welcoming and informative environment. Nostalgia Host: Various Join us for thought-provoking conversations, fun memories, and interesting insights. You'll have the opportunity to share your own experiences and hear from others in a friendly and welcoming atmosphere. Watercolour Painting Tutor: Glen Plaistow Join our relaxing and creative Watercolor Painting Workshop, led by experienced artist Glen Plaistow. Whether you're a beginner or have some experience, Glen will guide you through techniques to bring your artwork to life. Enjoy a friendly, supportive environment where you can explore colors, brushwork, and composition. Unleash your creativity and develop your painting skills in a fun and inspiring setting. All skill levels welcome! Cryptic Crosswords and Sudoku Host: Bridget Taylerson Sharpen your mind and have fun with our Cryptic Crosswords & Sudoku Workshop, led by puzzle enthusiast Bridget Taylerson. Whether you're new to these brain-teasing challenges or looking to refine your skills, Bridget will guide you through solving techniques, strategies, and tips. Enjoy a friendly, interactive session where you can improve your logic, pattern recognition, and problem-solving abilities. All levels welcome – come and challenge yourself! Handcrafts Tutors: June McCullough Discover the joy of creating with your hands in our Handcrafts Workshop, led by the talented June McCullough. Whether you enjoy knitting, embroidery, paper crafts, or other handmade projects, this workshop provides a warm and social environment to learn, share ideas, and develop new skills. Perfect for beginners and experienced crafters alike, come along and get creative with like-minded people. All skill levels welcome! Book Ends Host: Patricia Lough Love books? Join Book Ends, a lively discussion group led by Patricia Lough, where we talk about books in general—no set reading list, just great conversations! Share your favorite reads, discover new authors, and enjoy engaging discussions in a friendly, relaxed setting. Whether you're a lifelong book lover or just getting into reading, all are welcome to join the conversation and explore the world of books together. Computer Chat Tutors Melson Lee Curious about computers? Join Computer Chat, a friendly discussion group led by an experienced tutor, where we talk about all things tech! Whether you want to share experiences, ask questions, or explore the latest digital trends, this relaxed and interactive session is the perfect place. No technical expertise needed—just bring your curiosity and enjoy insightful conversations in a supportive environment. All levels welcome! FamilyTree Maker Host: Bernice Hyde Unlock the power of FamilyTree Maker in this hands-on tutorial session led by genealogy expert Bernice Hyde. Whether you're new to the software or looking to refine your skills, this workshop will guide you through building, organizing, and enhancing your family tree. Learn how to add records, photos, and research links with ease. Perfect for beginners and experienced users alike—come and grow your family history knowledge!