Computer Help for Seniors

Do you miss watching the baby falcons? Watch a Giant Panda and her 2 pound baby http://www.sandiegozoo.org/pandacam/index.html

http://www.humorsphere.com/fun/8787/colortest.swf Thanks for Sharing Teri!

Practice and test your knowledge while doing a good thing, donating food. www.freerice.com or click here for different tests including French, Spanish, German and even famous painters

The increased speeds now available on the internet have opened up a new and exciting way to distribute information. VIDEO is online and is so ever popular. With sites like www.youtube.com where individuals share video, you can search for videos of your favorite performers. You will be surprised at what you might find in their archives. Many Television shows are now viewable online...anytime go to www.hulu.com PBS is also online http://www.pbs.org/video News videos: http://www.cnn.com/video/ http://www.reuters.com/news/video http://www.c-spanvideo.org/ Obama's Weekly Address http://www.whitehouse.gov/weekly_address/ **note: When watching video, look for a button to watch the video in fullscreen or larger view in the lower right hand corner. Interested in something less serious, watch movies online www.netflix.com or have DVD delivered to you and watch them on your computer. Remember to turn up your volume! :) Enjoy.

What's the difference? Find out yourself by comparing the two search engines side by side. http://www.blackdog.ie/google-bing/ Includes comparing the search engines in different languages.

Don't know the perfect word for what you are trying to say...try this reverse lookup dictionary: http://www.onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml

These are two items that have been or will be the talk of the town. The two big players of the Internet and Computers are at it again. Microsoft vs. Google Microsoft just released it's answer to the google search, named "bing". http://www.bing.com/ Google has been promoting and improving its web browser, named "chrome". http://www.google.com/chrome (note. you will need to click on the download button and install the program & NOT available for Apple users, they are working on it though) Try them both and we will discuss them in the upcoming classes.

For a list of different online services that offer printing of your digital photos... CLICK here http://dealnews.com/How-To-Get-1-781-Free-Digital-Prints/298597.html look at each item listed for the name, link and introductory offers for new customers.

Once you download and register with either of these services, you can sync/backup files from your computer to the online service, for free. 2GB of storage space online and on your computer (Excellent tutorial) https://www.getdropbox.com/ 1GB of storage space online, syncs with files storage on your computer optional http://zumodrive.com/

Look at a few of these websites that compile news from different media sources and display them in new layout. http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/ http://newsmap.jp/ http://www.newser.com/ http://www.thedailybeast.com/

Here are a few of the blogs we found in class Art Blogs: http://allfinearts.com/ http://virginiamuseum.blogspot.com/ Travel Blog: http://www.travelblog.org/ Enviromental Blog: http://www.treehugger.com/ Misc. Information Blog: http://lifehacker.com/ Look for a blog you are interested in. Share what you found with me or the class

www.academicearth.org Here is a sample: www.youtube.com/edu Here is a sample: Innovative Ideas & Thinking www.ted.org Here is a sample: