Avalon Computer Pals in Avalon, New South Wales, Australia | Non-profit organisation

Avalon Computer Pals

Locality: Avalon, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 2 8064 3574

Address: MARIA REGINA CHURCH HALL, 7 Central Road, AVALON, and NEWPORT COMMUNITY CENTRE, NEWPORT. 2107 Avalon, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.avpals.com/

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25.01.2022 Avalon Computer Pals for Seniors calling...Seniors...and well, everyone. IT'S STAY SAFE ONLINE WEEK In 2015 Australians lost $229 million to scams. Nearly 40 percent of scam approaches occurred through email, over the internet or through a social network platform and accounted for 44 percent of losses.... Taking care of your safety online is no more complicated than the steps you take in other aspects of your life. We all do things to safeguard our physical belongings such as locking our doors and keeping hold of our wallets. By taking the same care of your devices and when engaging online, you can protect yourself and your online assets. Best to read the facts from the government's own document and you can do that HERE. With thanks to the federal government's website https://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/

20.01.2022 Christmas party was enjoyed by all.

17.01.2022 Crikey! Where has the year gone? Here we are about to begin term FOUR of 2019. It is time to invite you to visit Avpals at our rooms beneath the Catholic church in Central Avenue, Avalon to secure for yourself one of the 'Rare as Hen's teeth' spots in our one-to-one training. If you are new to this process, here is how it works: Visit us on the morning of Friday 4th October between 9-10am. Speak to one of our very friendly volunteers and find a spot for training with a volunt...eer trainer. Lessons are 45 minutes long and run once a week for the full term for the princely sum of $30. How come it is so cheap? A small sum to cover rent, insurance and power. Everyone is a volunteer at Avpals. Invite your friend to come along on Friday and find a spot that would suit you. DAY Friday 4th October 2019 TIME: 9-10amm More information by ringining 8064 3574

16.01.2022 Avpals have some quite outstanding presentations at our Newport address through the term, including our FREE presentation on February 4 - a seniors expo! Our first such event and much work is going into making it something special. I am sworn to silence about the program but can assure you that it will be of great interest to anyone with a passion for all that is new. We will give you all the information within a week! And a full copy of our term activities at Newport.... Stay tuned. And don't you love these wicked old ladies?!!!

11.01.2022 Avalon Computer Pals Call Out - Current Courses: May we particularly commend our seminar on the 16th June presented by Sue Martin - former teacher at Barrenjoey High. Your digital legacy is vital and has been carefully researched by Sue. Plenty of time for questions at the end of the 20 minute presentation. Below is our program for the next month. Always on a Tuesday starting at 1.30pm or 2.30pm 16th June Sue Martin - Your digital legacy in Covid19 times. Taking the opportuni...ty of self-isolation to organise your digital assets. 23rd June Paul Purvis - Irfanview - the world's most popular free app! It has been installed on more than 50 million computers since 2003. Described as the Swiss army knife of image viewers. Learn how to get the best from this brilliant free program. 30th June Saskia Zaitzieff - Get Social - the 4th in Saskia's group of seminars introduces social media, cooperative, games, etc 7th July Jim Carmichael - 1.30pm - Which Cloud services should you use? 7th July Jim Carmichael - 2.30pm - Set up One Drive on your Windows PC 14th July John Dickson - Sing To Your Computer - See a music notation editor in action using a few bars of O Sole Mio. We will input the notes and lyrics, save, print and playback 21st July Jim Carmichael - 1.30pm - Set up Google drive on your Windows PC 21st July Jim Carmichael - 2.30pm Get more from iCloud on your Apple devices. Peter Marshall, AvPals Coordinator for info 0406 132 463A

10.01.2022 Here's next term's classes - we look forward to seeing you!

10.01.2022 Always a pleasure to attend the Manly Computer Pals AGM and hear all about BeConnected, a wonderful youth teaching initiative. Congratulations to all Board Members being re-elected. Big shout out to Judy Elias for all her wonderful work.

10.01.2022 Over 55's - got your attention?!! ZOOM! AVPALS is expanding the number of seminars we plan to present, using Zoom. If you would like to know more, please visit the Avpals website and find a list of courses and how to enroll or you can phone our coordinator, Peter, on 8064 3574. No charge of course! Our trainers are glad to help in getting you connected. Many of you have already added ZOOM to your PC or MAC. Peter is there to help and can put you in touch with a trainer, by p...hone or email, who will get you on track. Already more than 50 people have enrolled already - why not join in the fun? See more

09.01.2022 The Avalon Computer Pals Christmas tree is up! All ready for our party on Friday, December 13. See you there!

04.01.2022 Merry Christmas from all of us at Av Pals to all of you, our students and their familes. Stay safe and see you next year with a whole lot of new stuff to learn and experience....as we all know, it's not too old to learn new things and you CAN teach an old dog new tricks! Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

01.01.2022 The sign-on morning for one to one training in Term one is at our training room beneath the Maria Regina Catholic Church in Central Avenue, Avalon on Friday morning THIS WEEK from 9 am until 10.30 am. That is January Friday 17th. As the first term of every year is our most popular we recommended that you arrive near to 9am. When you arrive you are handed a number and you are allocated a time slot and a trainer based on your needs and the time you arrive! My tip is to get to t...he room as near to 9 am as possible. Our volunteer trainers can help you in most areas involving technology. From setting up your smart phone to editing your photo memories. From safely banking online to cleaning up your laptop. From writing your memoirs to saving your photos in the cloud. There are about 10 weeks in a school term and you get to attend for 45 minutes on 10 occasions during the term. And all of this for the princely sum of $30! (The money helps us pay the rent)