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TIP OF THE WEEK: BUTTERSCOTCH
www.butterscotch.com/tutorials.html
Almost everyone likes butterscotch, right? Well if you do you will like it even better now. Butterscotch is now online, you cannot taste it, however you can use this website to get free video training on hordes of subjects, programs and more.
How about free tutorials on MS Word 2007, Blackberry [...]

eHow To Do It EASY

Here is a website that shows you HOW TO in many areas.
GREAT HOW TO DO THINGS WEBSITE

I find this site http://www.ehow.com/guide_5-computers.html very useful in the latest computer tips in PLAIN ENGLISH.
If you like video tutorials this site has them too:
http://www.ehow.com/videos.html – scroll down where it says: More Featured Videos and use the slide bar on [...]

Tim Hortons Documentary
Tim Hortons is NOT a Canadian OWNED company and if someone ever had to drink one of their coffees black they would NEVER go back. And if you get a chance, just watch the A&E documentary on Tim Horton to see how the family got devastated and ended up [...]

Windows 7 Upgrade or Stay With VISTA?

A recent report in the Globe and Mail warns: Stay with VISTA unless…
“Unfortunately, upgrading an existing PC from XP to 7 is not easy.

After upgrading, users will have to reinstall all their programs and find their files in the folder where Windows 7 tucks them away.

However, if you bought a Vista-based computer after June [...]

Google Calendar on Cell Phones

If you use Google’s live calendar (if you don’t you are missing out big time), you can now connect to that calendar via your cell phone.
Here’s how: (I use it and it only took a few minutes to set up)
Just go to http://www.google.com/calendar in your phone’s web browser to access Calendar
(Google Apps users can go [...]

NEW: YouTube – How to Use It

YouTube has made a major change in that you can now have your own channel and watch what you pick without all the other junk.
Getting ready for when TV goes online and away from the old way of viewing a show via TV set. Imagine the landfill sites with old TVs?

Book Review – Windows Vista

Review: by Gregory West
gregorywest(at)bell.net
Member of the Computer Operators 
of Marysville & Port Huron (COMP)
www.bwcomp.org
Windows Vista
The Missing Manual
David Pogue
Published by O’Reilly Media Inc.
ISBN-13: 978-0-596-52827-0
Pages: 827
USA: $34.99 / CDA: $45.99
missingmanuals.com
This book is designed for basic users to advanced users and everyone in between. If you want to learn everything about Vista, the easy-to-follow way, this book [...]

Problems Playing Some Video?

NO MORE PROBLEMS on your Mac or PC while wanting to view a video…
Join the over 52 million other people who have downloaded the FREE video player called: VLC
When I was trying to play one of my hundreds of videos on my Windows machine I came across several that Windows Media Player and Quicktime would [...]

Mac How-To Videos FREE

New to a Mac? Want to learn more about your Mac?
Maybe, just maybe, you want to “tap into your potential” with your Mac…
Look no further – CLICK HERE for the FREE VIDEOS

FREE STUFF – Over 3000 Sites

Not much to say about this website other than check it out for yourself. They offer over 3000 sites giving away free software such as:
Busines and Office – Address books, Calendars & Schedulers, …
Desktop enhancements – Notes, Screen savers, Tray tools,…
Development tools – Editors, Tutotrials and Reference,…
Education and Science – Languages, Unit conversion, …
Games and [...]

What’s New at Google Laboratory?

Google Labs is an exciting place to see what is happening in the future…

Add LIFE to your Computer SCREEN

ADMIT IT, YOU OFTEN GET SICK OF THE PHOTO ON YOUR DESKTOP AND WISH IT WOULD CHANGE EVERY SO OFTEN.
NOW YOU CAN DO IT…
Do you want something new to jazz up your computer screen? Try using rotating wallpaper photos.
Here are some excellent space photos, but of course you can use ones you like from any [...]

FREE Computer Software Daily

You won’t believe this but here is a website where they “giveaway” free computer programs daily.
Don’t believe still? How about a reputable review from CNet:
“The software doesn’t expire after 24 hours. Rather, you have a one-day window in which to download it and install it. But once that’s done, it’s yours to keep forever…” FULL [...]

Free Computer and Internet Lessons

FREE – FREE – FREE

Come out and see how easy it really is.

Computer & Internet lessons. This is open to the public and is held at Central United Church, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada.
For more information go  HERE
Please bring your questions and a friend.

Get All Your Local News FREE

Did you know that “Google News has 5 to 10 times the reach of MSNBC, the Guardian UK, the New York Times and Digg“
BUT NOW YOU CAN GET LOCAL NEWS FROM WITHIN YOUR HOME TOWN WITHOUT BUYING THE NEWSPAPER (that offers news that is well over 12 hours old) OR HAVING TO WAIT FOR THE [...]

More Tips Sites

Click on the head on the right for more very helpful websites.
Any questions please email me:
prospector16@gmail.com

New Tips Discussion Group

Are you wanting more for free in the line of learning computers and the Internet at the basic level and up?
Check out my newest social networking site that I created simply to help computer users like you. It is free, just like everything else that I do with computer training in groups.
Go to this site: [...]

VISTA TIP: Photos onto DVD

How To: Make DVDs in VISTA

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Gindick’s New “Summertime” Solo
I know this is not computer related haha, however I have taken up the blues harp after a 20+ year hiatus. I am now learning the “old style” 1920’s & 1930’s southern style blues harp methods. Never tooooo old to learn eh?

Fall LineUp for FREE Computer Training Seminars

FREE COMPUTER & INTERNET TRAINING
By Gregory West
This is our 3rd. season for our Basic Computer and Internet Training Seminars. It is a FREE program open to the public.
Free Computer / Internet Training
The only catch is that you can bring one canned goods product for a donation to the Sarnia Food Bank.
Here is our proposed lineup and [...]