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Free Antivirus from Microsoft for windows XP, Vista and windows 7 http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/default.aspx ***Does not include firewall services like Norton or Mcafee might***   Companies are always working on new projects. Google has a few of them available for you to explore. Visit http://www.googlelabs.com/    ****Keep an Open Mind****   Creating a folder in Yahoo to organize your emails 1.      Click "add" beside folder on the left of your window 2.      A new folder appears, type in the name you want 3.      Done To move an email into the folder, from your inbox, put a check mark beside the email and then click move above and choose which folder to move it to. To rename the folder, Right-Click on the folder and choose rename and enter in the new name. How can I check to see if someone is listed incorrectly in my SPAM list? Yahoo 1.     ...

I am creating a word processing document, and when I print it, it doesn't print correctly. 1. before you print a document use "print preview" 2. Go to the file menu 3. Choose Print Preview 4. The page you see is what will print 5. If you like what you see, click the printer icon or print on the top right OR click close to close the preview and then make any needed adjustments or changes Frustrated about extra useless pages being printed when printing from the internet? 1. Print Preview will eliminate the waste 2. Go to File--->Print 3. At the print dialog window click the Preview button on the bottom left 4. A preview of what is to print appears 5. Look on the right to see how many pages will print and what content is on each page 6. Decide which page # to print 7. Click Cancel to exit print preview 8. Click on the page you want to print in the background 9. go to file and print again 10. in the window that appears below pages type which page you want ex. 2 to: 2 11. ...

I want to Justify my text in Word XP 1. Type out your document/paragraph 2. Click once or highlight/select the paragraphs you want to justify 3. Go to the format menu above 4. Choose paragraph 5. Beside Alignment choose "justify" 6. Click OK If justify does not work, make sure that the sentences that may appear like a paragraph are continuous and are not separated by paragraph marks 1. Turn on/off invisible formatting by click the backwards P or paragraph mark on top 2. If you see the paragraph mark at the end of every line you thought was part of a paragraph, remove them to connect the sentences Use Footers and Headers to add dynamic information that changes as the document changes. Like the date, time, page number, number of pages. 1. Click the view menu 2. Choose Header and footer 3. click above for the header or below for the footer on the document and press tab if you need to jump to the middle or far right 4. click on the correspo...

I can't find a bookmark that I saved in Firefox 1. Open the list of bookmarks by clicking the bookmark menu--->choose organize bookmarks 2. All the bookmarks will be listed 3. On the top right is a search box that allows you to search based on the name of the bookmark Downloading and installing software by copying the files to your computer 1. download the software onto the desktop 2. open the folder or image (looks like a white disk) 3. Graphics or instructions should appear explaining what needs to be moved where with an arrow indicating moving 4. find the folder to where the file is to be moved to ( you can search for it by name by opening the macintosh hd and typing in the name on the top right white search box) 5. Once you see the folder double click to open it 6. then move the files into that folder Create a folder to store/organize emails on Macintosh Mail 1. click the mailbox menu 2. choose new mailbox 3. choose on my mac 4. type in the name of the new folder/mailbox 5....

My printer is not printing First, make sure there are no error messages or lights blinking on your printer which indicates that paper may be jammed, more ink may be needed, or another printer error. If that is fine, your printer queue may have been stopped. To fix the queue 1. Click the apple menu 2. click system preferences 3. print and fax 4. double click on the printer that is displayed to open more information 5. in the window that appears look at the bottom for a list of print jobs that are stuck and are waiting to be printed 5a. if you see duplicate names/jobs, click on the name and click delete above so you don't get multiple copies printed 6. Click above, start jobs 7. the printer will start printing all the jobs waiting in the queue I have os x version 10.3 and safari is not translating websites correctly. ***Download a different web browser, BUT make sure that the version you download is compatible with your operating system 10.3 Opera http://www.opera.com/browser/downlo...

Using Clipart in Microsoft Word 1.    Open word 2.    Go to insert 3.    Picture 4.    choose Clipart 5.    a window on the right side will appear 6.    in the search, type in what you are looking for (be sure the pull down menus are on All collection and All media file types) 7.    the pictures will appear 8.    click once on the picture to add it to the document   Changing the way the picture interacts with your document 1.    double-click on the picture 2.    click the layout tab 3.    click square to have the text wrap around the picture like in a newspaper 4.    click hold and drag on the picture to move it   To get a picture from google 1.    go to google 2.    search for what you want 3.    click images 4.    click the image you want 5.    right click on the ima...

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

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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

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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.