Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Computing for Newbies

How to be Good at Computing

If you need more help or information, type the topic in a search box and you will find thousands, if not millions, of other sites.


1
Hardware

www.howstuffworks.com


2
How to email

http://edit.europe.yahoo.com/config/mail?.intl=uk


3
How to format computers

http://www.whitecanyon.com/how-to-format-computer.php


4
How to search the Internet

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html


5
How to update files

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ork2000/HA011364061033.aspx

6
PowerPoint

http://www.actden.com/pp/

http://www2.umist.ac.uk/isd/lwt/apt/ppclass/home.htm

7
Building a website

http://www.tripod.lycos.com/

http://www.2createawebsite.com/

8
New devices, e.g. ipods

www.howstuffworks.com

9
Computer viruses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus

http://www.howstuffworks.com/virus.htm


10
New operating systems

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system

11
Photoshop

http://www.good-tutorials.com/

http://www.adobe.com/products/tips/photoshop.html

12
Photos

http://picasa.google.com/
Can be downloaded from Google website

13
Access

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/access/default.aspx

http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/default.aspx

14
Copyright issues

http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Copyright/

15
Computing terms

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/computers/data/m0044494.html

http://yourdictionary.com/

http://foldoc.org/

16
Creating blogs

http://www.blogger.com

17
Learn the net

http://www.learnthenet.com/english/animate/animate.htm

http://www.learnthenet.com/english/section/intbas.html



©Dot MacKenzie Nov 2006