Everybody is talking about Zoom. Before this pandemic, I can’t say I ever heard of it. Years ago I used Skype a few times and more recently I used Google Hangouts for an online computer class when I was out of town. Then I found […]
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I am seeing more seniors getting computers and moving from flip phones to smartphones. They realize they need to embrace the new technology or they will fall way behind. And many new computer users feel as if they need to have some special skill to
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Many years ago I worked for a bank and the calculators were mechanical and huge. There was no such thing as electronic ones. They had many buttons and a roll of tape that recorded every calculation. We would use them to balance the ledgers for
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I use keyboard shortcuts all the time. There are many lists out there and this list is not all there are. These are many that I find useful. Let me know of ones you use that I have missed. Some of these have been around
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I was working on a list of Windows shortcuts in Google Docs. Docs is my app of choice for word processing as I use it on any of my devices even spending a lot of time in it while on the road using my iPhone.
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Most know how to use a spreadsheet to do basic operations like add, subtract, multiply, and divide. We know some basic functions like =SUM and =AVERAGE. These simple operations are good for lots of useful spreadsheets. We can keep track of our checking account, track
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As a former programmer, I use the term “Julian Date” to mean any serial date integer from any arbitrary beginning, but usually from the beginning of the 20th century. The Excel date code uses 1/1/1900 as the starting date as does Google Sheets. The date
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Have you ever had a key on your laptop stop working? I mean, no matter how hard you hit it, nothing happened. If you have an extra keyboard you can always plug it into the laptop and use it instead of the one missing a
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When I first started taking pictures it was with a film camera and my dad explained that the person I was focusing on should be in the middle of the picture. From that point on that is what I did. My pictures always had the
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When we get a new computer we think about what to do with the old one. In my county here in Florida, we have a club dedicated to refurbishing discarded computers for school children and veterans. We see on these crime shows how forensic experts
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For many years one had to be familiar with HTML, sometimes even proficient in learning HTML code to build a website. I still have links on my site to premade code for building pages in HTML. Microsoft had a program called FrontPage that I still
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Glary is easy to use and with one click you can clean out the junk. If you want more tools, they are available. This article covers the basics. I will not drill down into all the features of this program. However, as you move through
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It gets confusing when thinking about clicking. Is it right-click or left-click or even center-click? When do I double-click and when single? When I describe something a click means to point to the icon or item and click the left mouse button. Any instruction to
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Ever need to know how much space you have left on your hard drive, or a flash drive, or an external drive, or an SD card? Win+E to open File Explorer On the left, locate This PC to see the drives on the PC. Quick
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