INDEX OF TOPICS on this blogsite
~ click on the blue links for each month in the ARCHIVES on the
right hand side of this page
March 2010
Using eBay to sell your antiques
Using Open Office to create text documents & PDFs
February 2010
Using Flickr ~ sharing your photos with others
Using Powerpoint
January 2010
Converting Word 2007 to earlier versions of Word
December 2009
Screen capture
Using Launchy to launch programs / favourite websites
Flash drives and file management
November 2009
Free online IT courses
Creating an e-card using Gimp (free photo-editing software)
October 2009
Buying things on eBay (and a look at PayPal)
August 2009
Using Picasa 3
Designing your own website
July 2009
Emailing
June 2009
Online supermarket shopping
May 2009
Desktop calendar for Windows XP users
Dodgy emails & spam
Emailing queries
Improving visibility of the mouse pointer & text on your screen.
Google Chrome
March 2009
Website addresses, incl. TinyUrl, Bit.ly and Multimap
.....plus a brief look at Google's Streetview, domain names & Webs.com.
The new AVG 8.0 anti-virus software
Looking at your photos with XnView and Flickr
Jan 2009
Backing up your stuff (onto CDs, etc.)
How to dispose of, or recycle, an old hard drive
Buying house insurance online
Dec 2008
Xmas e-cards
Moving photos & folders around (& tidying up)
Pre-Christmas bargains
(Moneysaving Expert site)
Nov 2008
Longevity of CD-Rs
Backing up your emails
Oct 2008
An update on how to use a flash drive
Researching your ancestors online (about 40 websites)
How to disable the Drawing Canvas in Word
Sep 2008
Click Online … the TV news programme for computer nerds
Two helpful websites for photography & photo-editing
Googlemail (yet again)
More on using a dongle
How safe is online banking?
Card readers (for photos)
Free capture (snipping) tool with Windows Home Premium Vista.
Premium rate phone numbers
Free webspace with Google sites
Jing
YouTube
Aug 2008
Taking over a second-hand computer.
How to dispose of the hard drive of a computer (prior to recycling it)
Free anti-virus cover (AVG & Avast)
Free spyware & firewall
Open Office ~ free stuff on this site
July 2008
moneysavingexpert ~ Martin Lewis' site
Yahoo email & Googlemail
June 2008
Using a dongle for Broadband internet
A look at Windows Vista
May 2008
Creating e-cards
Researching your ancestors online (part one of talk)
Using the PrintScreen key on your keyboard
April 2008
Organising your folders (& labelling them)
Taskbar shortcuts
Using Picasa to find all your photos
How to join and use Nottm Realcycle
Googlemail (JH thinks this is the best)
All about Shakespeare
Tin whiskers (leading to early demise of circuit boards in computers)
March 2008
Two money-saving websites
Creating a photo-montage for your Desktop
& a sketch from a photo
How to set up our audio-visual equipment
How to access the calculator on your PC
(& create a desktop shortcut for it)
Currency conversion (xe dot com)
Member's choices for digital cameras
Feb 2008
Zipping files
Using XnView & Flickr to see your photos
Creating a Restore Point (before downloading a program)
Choosing a digital camera
Using a flash drive
Multiple card readers
2 mouse tips
Residential courses at Higham Hall
"Listen again" to BBC radio programmes with RealPlayer
... please note that the BBC now uses I-Player (March 2010)
Jan 2008
The Left Lion
Diary of a dog portrait
Saving money when renewing home insurance
Building your own website
Hewlett Packard's free online IT courses
Dec 2007
Re-writable CD-Roms
A look at Wikipedia, PC Advisor, Silver Surfers, Yahoo Answers
Nov 2007
three money-saving ideas ~ Virgin Media, Alliance Leics., Sim card
tidying up your PC & "restore"
Oct 2007
Ordnance survey maps on Multimap
(now under "basic maps" on the Multimap site, & difficult to find)
Google Earth
How to create a restore point on your computer, before
downloading a program.
Introduction to blogging + link to separate site …
.........http://www.simplynot0007.blogspot.com/
Sep 2007
trainline dot com
PC Advisor website for any PC problems you have
Signing up to Hotmail or Googlemail
Local library service online
Local transport services
Cinemas, etc, in Nottm
Post-it notes & currency exchange
How to change a keyboard, set up for US users
Online ancestor research - long list of websites for this
(PS ~ the Mormons are a separate group from the LDS)
Aug 2007
"More on photos" ~ viewing, storing, printing, sharing (Flickr) & editing
Shopping online ~ sites, payment, keeping receipts,
Copying text from a web page (for your personal use only, as it's copyright)
July 2007
blogging
organising your internet pages, searches & websites
~ making Google your home page
~ how to alter print size
~ how to use your address box
~ adding sites to your Favourites list + making folders
~ how to improve your searches on Google
~ other search engines
~ Wikipedia
~ online maps
~ a selection of other interesting websites
~ how to listen to the radio online, & look at TV listings
Outlook Express ~ deleting emails & putting emails into folders
How to add an attachment to an email
How to send a photo by email
Beware of bogus emails (especially from "banks") - never reply.
Nottingham Freecycle (later to become Realcycle) & signing up
with Yahoo in order to use a forum such as Realcycle.
Online storage with Box dot net
June 2007
U3A photography sessions with Stuart McIntyre
of Photo Nottingham + slide show of photos
How about using Re-writable CD-Roms?
May 2007
Photo-editing topic + photos to practise on
Apr 2007
bypass recorded phone instructions to speak to someone
~ try this link (as gethuman site defunct),
... or try pressing 0 or # on your phone keypad
Online discount codes
How to set up a Screensaver slide-show in Windows XP
Mar 2007
free online storage with mozy dot com
Mozilla-Firefox
A selection of favourite websites from our members
What can you do if your computer is struck down
with a virus … quarantine the virus & re-install Windows.
Feb 2007
check out this website for film reviews …http://imdb.com/
Nov 2006
Avoid using expensive phone numbers
Oct 2006
two keyboard shortcuts (using the tab key)
creating the © symbol
Character maps (for more unusual symbols)
oneacross dot com
Sept 2006
Computer tips from the Silver Surfer's website
(using the mouse wheel, clearing temp. files & history
& making Google your home page)
August 2006
Photo-editing course + sample photos
July 2006
Reference books from Age Concern & Amazon
