Use Google Groups, or Yahoo! Groups
If you want to read up on a particular subject, see what others are saying about it, maybe even 'chat' to them about it, etc, then dip into Yahoo! Groups or Google Groups (click on the tab on the Google page). There are literally thousands of groups centred on countless subjects, and if you can't find one for the subject you're interested in (highly unlikely!) then you can start your own. Simple, straightforward, free. You might want to join a group dealing with computers for newcomers (or 'newbies' as they're often known). Some very kind and knowledgeable people operate these groups (or are just members) and provide free help and advice on computer-related problems. Shop for stuff! I wouldn't know where to start about shopping on the internet, except to mention such well-known names as ebay, Amazon, Groupon and Craigslist. If you tried to put a list of the best shopping sites you'd have a list that would go on virtually forever. A few years ago, it was a bit unusual for a company to have a website. Now it's almost unheard of for a company not to have one! Free Kittens!
![]() It sounds like an internet joke, but it's for real!!
Everyone likes a free kitten, it goes without saying. Well now's the perfect time to cash in on a great new feline-based web opportunity. More and more of the major computer companies are jumping on the free kitten bandwagon, according to the latest edition of the National Enquirer. It started with one small company taking advantage of the obvious business opportunity and then it went global. It may have seemed like a crazy idea at first, but once they started giving away free kittens so folks could make funny and cute YouTube clips, the idea spread like wildfire. Here (above) we see the CEO of Google, no less, delivering a veritable bucketload of the little critters (fresh out of the company's breeding farm in Michigan) to a lucky young lad from Scunthorpe, England. He reckons he'll have enough there to make shedloads of YouTube funnies with his mobile phone (he's even planning to rent some of the excess kitties out to other entrepreneurial dudes like himself!), and he's already cannily (no pun intended) arranged a deal with his local pie shop to take them off his hands when they've outlived their usefulness. "Dis way dey'll re-enter da food chain real quick y'know? An' best of all, y'know, dey'll have been famous for a while ... innit ... y'know?" the young man told our reporter. Keep your inbox empty It's good practice to keep as few emails as possible in your inbox. Remember, the inbox is just a place for emails to land when they reach you. Once there, they should be acted upon, filed or binned, preferably the same day. If you don't have some sort of system (whatever works for you), you'll soon find yourself drowning in a sea of unsorted mail. If you need to keep an email to deal with later, you can create a folder specifically for the purpose. You could name it 'Action' or something similar, to remind you that you need to deal with it, take action on it, make a decision concerning it, or whatever. Incidentally, you can create as many folders as you like for mail and call them whatever you like. Just be aware that the whole mail folder thing is to help you organize your mail - too many folders and you'll end up worse than when you started. You don't need to worry about whether to keep an email or not – long gone are the days when you had only a very limited amount of email storage space. Email providers nowadays generally offer enough space to allow you to keep every email you receive, and those you send. You can archive them and always have them on record. Just be sure to organise it well so that it makes sense to you. Even regardless of that, you can easily search for an email by inputting the subject of it, or the sender's name, and scanning through the list the search brings up. If you sign up with a site for information, be aware that they will probably send you more than you requested, and the mail will likely start to dribble in (or gush in) on a regular basis. Unsubscribe from any lists you find yourself on as soon as you decide you've had enough, or you'll soon get tired of the build up of unwanted mail. There's usually an 'unsubscribe' link at the bottom of every email (assuming it's one you signed up for), and the sender will comply – the last thing they want is to be reported for sending out spam. Fixya
FixYa is the easy-to-use, fast and free problem solving service that connects people with experts on every thing at any time, wherever they are. FixYa welcomes over 20 million visitors per month and already serves up solutions for nearly 3 million products. HowStuff Works
Ever wanted to ask a crazy question, like how much money if there in the whole world ... or What exactly is the Higgs boson ... or Who invented the Barbie Doll and why? How Stuff Works provides answers to these, and thousands of other questions, on hundreds of topics. It's a Discovery website, so it's linked to some of the most informative resources on the web. It's almost worth a visit just to see the fascinating links to the other sites! Computer Basics Tutorial
Are you new to using computers? Do you wonder what people mean when they say the Cloud, Windows, Blackberry, Lion, etc.? Perhaps you would just like to know more about how computers work? When it comes to learning today's technology, Computer Basics has all the basic concepts covered. And they couldn't make it more user-friendly, with short, easy-to-understand videos on all kinds of things to do with computers. Box
At some stage you might want to store your stuff online. You'll want something that's secure, easy to use, and reliable. Check out Box, You get 5GB storage space free. If you need more it's cheap anyway, but who needs to store more than 5GB online?
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Print Screen
There will be times when you want to take a 'snapshot' of your screen. This may be so you can keep a record of what was onscreen at that moment, or because you want to send someone an image of it, perhaps for troubleshooting purposes. Fortunately, your computer is equipped to do exactly what you want. Just tap the PrtScr key (usually at the top, above the 'Insert' key) and the image onscreen is immediately stored in your clipboard. You won't see anything, of course, which is why most people get frustrated with the whole Print Screen thing at this point. All you need to do though is open the Paint program (Start > Programs > Accessories > Paint), and when the program appears onscreen, press Ctrl+V to paste what's on the clipboard. You'll see an image of your screen. Now you can save it, clip it, do anything you want with it (well, that's not much in Paint really, to be honest). Actually, if you save it where you can view it in FastStone Image Viewer (or a similar program), you can manipulate it to your heart's conent. Use the arrow keys for precision
If you're having trouble getting the cursor positioned exactly where you want it, use the arrow keys to 'nudge' it slightly into postion. You can be much gentler and more precise by tapping an arrow key than by using the mouse. Hub Pages Hub Pages is your online space to share your advice, reviews, useful tips, opinions and insights with hundreds of other authors. HubPages is completely free and gives you the chance to publish and be an authority on whatever you're good at, or know about. WikiHow wikiHow is a collaborative effort to build and share the world's largest, highest quality how-to manual. Like Wikipedia, wikiHow is a wiki, in that anyone can write or edit a page on the site. Thousands of people from all over the world have collaboratively written well over 130,000 how-to articles. Over 35 million people a month read wikiHow according to Google Analytics and Quantcast ranks the site as the 150th most popular website. FAQ
You might have seen FAQ on various sites. In case you were wondering, it stands for Frequently Asked Questions, and provides the answers to ... guess what! Always worth a look, and should be your first port of call if you're not sure what a site is about or how a program works. BrainyQuote
Everyone appreciates a timely quote, and yet most of can't ever remember who said what about what! This site helps put that right. BrainyQuote is the world's largest quotation site. They educate and entertain audiences of all ages with family-friendly quotations from history's most prominent figures through to today's newsmakers - famous celebrities, athletes, politicians, authors, and everything in between. They are passionate about quotes, and on a mission to share their knowledge with the world. The Onion
No, not a specialty site about vegetables, but a spoof news site (and one that's been successfully spewing out funny garbage for years). Stuff like "Ground Beef contains Pink Slime - What Do You Think?" and "Could The Use Of Flying Death Robots Be Hurting America's Reputation Worldwide?". It's fun, but sometimes your sides hurt. Read The Onion at your own risk. Atlas Obscura The tagline for Atlas Obscura is, "A Compendium of the World's Wonders, Curiousities, and Esoterica." If that abstract made your spine all tingly, read on. If you fell asleep before "Esoterica," it's probably best to move on to the next site on the list. Atlas Obscura is a truly wonderful collection of the world's most oddly fascinating exotic locales, from raining fish to ancient churches to mummies right in your own New England backyard. If this site doesn't make you want to get out of the house, it's time to check your pulse. When I checked this out, the first thing I saw was a link to an article about The Ancient Chapel of Toxteth! Pin programs to your Start Menu If you have a program that you use often and you'd like to have it right there on your Start Menu, you can do just that.
Epicurious This cooking site has just about everything you need to become a kitchen wiz—well, everything except for the talent. Epicurious offers an extensive collection of recipes culled from editors, readers, and fellow Conde Nast cooking sites—Bon Appétit and Gourmet. There are also a ton of articles, guides, menus, and an active community to help you along your culinary journey. Learn Languages Online
busuu.com provides free language courses online ("bussu is an inovative online community for learning languages"). Leaning really is done in a community fashion - "Thanks to busuu.com, I have not only improved my language skills but also made a lot of new friends.." Users of the site are eager to show their gratitude - "I like busuu.com because it really motivates me to learn directly from native speakers..." WaterLife Learning about the state of doom of our planet never looked so beautiful. In a Flash-based animated interface that is nothing short of stunning, this companion site to the documentary film about the Great Lakes's decline shows information in a way that's far more interesting (albeit time consuming) than the average Web site. A stunning interface? That's an understatement. Starfall PCMag's hardware Managing Editor Laarni Ragaza swears by Starfall for her two young children. This educational site offers interactive learning for young readers created by a dedicated staff of educators, designers, and musicians. Project Happy Child More than 27.000 pages and over 100 million visits! This site must be doing something right. I really don't want to give myself writer's cramp trying to list all the stuff on this site, just click on the link and take a look for yourself. It's all colourful, interesting, varied, educational, fun, and it's doing all it can to bring together the children of the world. Some project! It's amazing. If I was about nine years old I think I'd want to live in this web site! We Choose The Moon NASA celebrated the 40th anniversary of the moon landing with this expertly-crafted multimedia site. The site was launched back in July (pun intended), as a "live" recreation of the Apollo 11 mission. While the updates are far less frequent, the site is still a great resource for students looking to experience that now-famous giant leap.
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