PC Class Notes for 2/23/10

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Cleaning up your messages in Yahoo

It is a new year, so perfect time to clean out/up your inbox.

Best practice if you have  more than 40 emails from previous years you don't want to sort through and want to keep, just in case. Create a new folder labeled "emails older than 2010" and move the emails into that folder as storage.

1.   Open Yahoo Email

2.   Log in to your email

3.   Click the add link beside folder on the left

4.   A new folder appears, TYPE out the new name of the folder, "emails older than 2010"

5.   Click the inbox

6.   Choose all the messages from previous years, by clicking the check box beside each email or…click the top most check box to check all the boxes (if needed do a few at a time)

7.   Click the black arrow above beside move and choose the folder to move your checked emails to

8.   Your inbox should now be cleared out

 

Changing the colors/contrast/brightness of the screen

Windows XP:

Go to the control panels

Choose Display Properties and if needed look for advanced settings which should show the display controls for your video/display hardware

Windows Vista/7

Go to the control panel

Go to the display setting

Choose on the left calibrate the color, follow the steps

OR

Go to the display/video hardware manufacturer's control in the control panel usually Nvida or ATI and look for settings that you can adjust there

Fun websites to try

www.onread.com – books that can be read online, includes modern titles

www.openculture.com – links to different sites where you can find downloadable ebooks and audio books

www.pandora.com – music online, search for your favorite song, create a custom list of songs/music that you can listen to anytime after you complete a simple account registration

 
Jason Dare
Computer Trainer
415/240.4843
learn@sfct.net
1617 Balboa St.
San Francisco, CA 94121
www.sfct.net

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