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We make a lot of videos on Picasa, Blogger, and Basic but Essential Computer Skills. Also a few on Safe Computing, Google Earth and Wi-Fi. On this page, you'll find those and more!

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ID Access Category Topic Description Date Recorded Minutes
14 Free Blogs Examples of Blogs Weblogs: Tioga and George, Odies' Roadies, Busbuilder, Milblogging, Dooce 8/5/06 7.5
15 Free Blogs Creating your first Blog with Blogger Using Blogger, create a free blog in 3 steps; 3/20/07 5.5
17 Free Blogs Posting Log in, choose the blog, create a post, Publish 8/13/06 3.5
18 Free Blogs Pictures Upload one photo to a blogger post. 8/13/06 5
21 Members Only Blogs Edit existing Blogger post Logging in and using the menu system to edit post. 3/20/07 3
19 Members Only Blogs Links How to create a link in a Blogger post. 2/24/07 5.5
20 Members Only Blogs More Pictures How to add several images and explore all the image options in Blogger. 11/23/06 11.5
22 Members Only Blogs Moderate Comments In Blogger, shows creating a comment and changing comment settings 2/24/07 6
52 Members Only Blogs Change your Template Want to change colors and design elements of your Blog? It only takes a couple clicks. 3/20/07 0
53 Members Only Blogs Settings for your Blog There are lots of settings you may want to change on your Blog. Examples in this video include changing time zone and adding Blog Authors. 0
54 Members Only Blogs Adding Photos using Picasa Web Albums If you have a Picasa Web Album, you can embed photos from there into your Blog. This is another way to add photos to your Blog and it's a good one. 7/26/07 5.5
72 Members Only Blogs Adding a Map to a Blog Post Using a Custom Map from your Google Maps, learn how to embed that into a blog post in Blogger. 3/17/08 5
64 Members Only Blogs Back up your Blog Using standard features of Internet Explorer to back up a Blog, including all the image files. 12/11/07 8
96 Members Only Blogs Adding a Link List to your sidebar Learn how to add a list of your favorite links to the sidebar of your blog. 6/17/08 6
95 Free Blogs Add a Photo to your Blog Header Your Blog's header is one of the many 'page elements' that you can customize. Learn how to add a photo to show at the top of your blog. 6/27/08 6
46 Free Email Get a gmail account How to sign up for a free gmail (google mail) account. 3/20/07 3.5
1 Free Essentials Mouse Basics How to Point, Click, Drag, Double-click, Right-click 12/8/06 6.5
2 Free Essentials Window Basics How to Open, Close, Maximize, Minimize, Move among Mulitple Windows 12/8/06 5.5
4 Free Essentials Basic Text Editing Using a Word Processing program to create a letter. Type, Erase, Insert, Wordwrap, and change fonts. 12/8/06 6
5 Members Only Essentials My Documents Learn how to navigate thru File Folders. Where to save your documents and how to find them again. 12/13/06 6.8
6 Members Only Essentials Cut, Copy, Paste How to Cut, Copy, Paste with text, pictures and between programs. Copy from the web, paste into your document. 10/4/06 9.5
3 Members Only Essentials Wallpaper Setting the Wallpaper 7/5/06 5
8 Members Only Essentials Creating Shortcuts How to create Icons, shortcuts and Quick Launch 7/5/06 5.3
61 Free Essentials Web Basics - Part 1 What is the Internet? What is the Web? How do you 'browse' around the web? 9/15/07 7
62 Members Only Essentials Web Basics - Part 2 Using Internet Explorer to browse the web. Using the Back button and using Tabs. Setting your home page. Creating a 'Favorite'. 9/15/07 6
9 Members Only Essentials Saving your work Using WordPad, how to Save, Save As, File Open 12/13/06 8
25 Members Only Essentials Using 'My Music' Playing music CDs and copying music to your computer. 3/8/07 5.8
24 Members Only Essentials Using 'My Pictures' The My Pictures folder is where all your digital photos should go. Learn how to navigate and how to email and backup your pictures using the help feature. 3/8/07 7
105 Members Only Essentials Web Basis Part 2 - using Firefox Using Firefox to browse the web. Using the Back button and using Tabs. Setting your home page. Creating a 'Bookmark'. 9/15/08 6.5
48 Free Essentials Internet Explorer version 7: First Look Take a look at some of the new features of Internet Explorer 7 1/27/07 5.9
50 Free Google Earth and Maps Measuring a River with Google Earth Use Google Earth to get a preview of a river you may want to paddle. Find launch areas and measure your course. 12/29/06 4.2
51 Free Google Earth and Maps Trip-Planning with Google Earth Use Google Earth's directions and 'find businesses' to help plan your trips 3/22/07 7.5
71 Members Only Google Earth and Maps Custom Maps with Google Maps Using Google Maps to create a custom map and add placemarks with descriptions and links. 3/17/08 7.5
60 Free Google Earth and Maps Latitudes and Longitudes Understanding Latitudes and Longitudes. Finding the Lat/Lon of a place and, finding a place by the Lat/Lon 9/15/07 7.8
73 Members Only Google Earth and Maps Google Maps: Adding Lines How to add route lines to your custom map in Google Maps 3/30/08 5
76 Members Only Google Earth and Maps Google Maps: Adding picture URL from Picasa Web Album If you know how to add a photo to your custom Google Map, and you have photos in Picasa Web Albums - this video shows you how to get the URL needed from the web album to put into the map. 3/30/08 5
47 Members Only High Speed Internet for Rvers Connecting (and disconnecting)from a Wi-Fi network Using windows XP, how to connect to a Wi-Fi hotspot. And, if you unintentionally connect to one you don't want, how to disconnect. 3/16/07 3.5
57 Members Only High Speed Internet for Rvers How to turn off your Internal Wi-Fi How to turn off the Wi-Fi that is built in to your laptop, so you can save battery or plug in another Wi-Fi adapter. 8/4/07 3.5
67 Free High Speed Internet for Rvers Bandwidth Limitations (FAP) on Satellite Connections Learn why Satellite Internet has bandwidth limitations and how to know when you've exceeded them. 11/4/07 5
79 Free Photostory 3 Download and Install Photo Story 3 See the steps to download this free program from Microsoft's website to your computer. 5/1/08 5.4
80 Free Photostory 3 Quick Movie Instructions on how to make a short movie, starting with your photos and ending with a movie with motion and sound. 5/1/08 6.7
81 Members Only Photostory 3 Import Photos The first step of making your movie. Import and arrange the desired photos. 5/1/08 6.5
82 Members Only Photostory 3 Adding Titles Using the built-in Titling tools as well as creating titles in other ways. 5/1/08 5.5
83 Members Only Photostory 3 Adding Narration Learn to record your voice over the slides as they display. You will need a microphone for your computer. 5/1/08 3.7
84 Members Only Photostory 3 Motion - Ken Burn's Effect You'll think you're looking at film shot with a video camera rather than still photos after you add the zoom and pan motion. 5/1/08 6.5
87 Members Only Photostory 3 Transitions How to set fancy transition between slides; flip; swirl; or just plain old dissolve. 6/1/08 0
88 Members Only Photostory 3 Adding Music Photo Story can compose music for you, or you can use music files on your computer for background to your slideshow. 6/1/08 0
89 Members Only Photostory 3 Rendering your Movie In order to share your movie with others, you need to 'render' it to a final form. A .wmv file movie. 6/1/08 0
63 Free Picasa Downloading and Installing Picasa Where to get the free download of Picasa from Google, with step-by-step demonstration. 6/10/06 5
30 Free Picasa Basic Search How to use Picasa's search box to find photos 7/11/06 7.8
34 Free Picasa First time scan for photos The first time you open Picasa it will scan for your photos 7/11/06 5.5
41 Free Picasa Views Different ways of viewing your photos in Picasa 1/19/07 4.5
35 Members Only Picasa Import from Camera Import photos from camera to computer using Picasa. Then organize into folders. 7/11/06 6
39 Members Only Picasa Rename, Move, Delete Using Picasa to rename photos, delete, and organize in folders. 7/11/06 6.3
32 Members Only Picasa Email Emailing your photos with one click in Picasa. 11/24/06 4.5
38 Members Only Picasa Remove Folder Removing a folder from Picasa's view without deleting it 7/12/06 4
31 Members Only Picasa Improving photos How to use Picasa's basic editing features. Crop, Feeling lucky, Fill light, Straighten 9/17/06 6.8
40 Members Only Picasa Starred Album Marking your favorite photos and viewing them all in one 'album'. 1/19/07 7.3
37 Members Only Picasa Printing Using Picasa to print photos. Use your own printer, or order from the web. Print on tshirts, mugs, mouse pads and other gifts. 11/24/06 8.5
12 Members Only Picasa Gift CD How to use Picasa to make a Gift CD of a photo slideshow 11/24/06 3.5
33 Members Only Picasa Restoring a file Retrieving one picture from a Backup CD and using Picasa to restore it. 1/18/07 2
59 Members Only Picasa Resizing Photos How and when to resize photos using Picasa 8/12/07 6.5
13 Members Only Picasa Web Albums Uploading photos to your Picasa/Google Web Albums 11/24/06 9.5
29 Free Picasa Backups Backing up your photos to CD or DVD using Picasa 11/24/06 5
36 Members Only Picasa Nested Folders How to viewing the folder list in a 'nested' tree structure style usng Picasa. 1/19/07 6.6
58 Members Only Picasa How Picasa Handles your Edits Picasa does not touch your original file. Learn how it does it. 8/11/07 7
65 Members Only Picasa Viewing a photo received as an email attachment If you receive an email with a photo attached, how do you keep that photo and view it with Picasa? 11/4/07 5
77 Members Only Picasa Organizing photos by Date Using Picasa to rename photos with a sortable date and storing them in folders by month labeled with a sortable date. 4/20/08 5.5
70 Members Only Picasa Captions on Photos How to add captions to your photos in Picasa, and how they show up in Web Albums 11/23/07 7
69 Members Only Picasa Mapping Photos in Web Albums How to place your photo on a map in Web Albums 10/9/07 6.8
85 Members Only Picasa Preparing photos for other programs with Export Use Picasa to improve and resize your photos, then use Export to make new originals for use on websites or other programs like Photo Story, or MS Word. 4/1/08 3
86 Free Picasa Put a Picasa Slideshow in your Blog How to use Picasa Web albums to put a slideshow in your blog, or any other webste. 6/26/08 3
75 Members Only Picasa Using Web Album photos in other Websites Many websites let you add your photos if you know the 'URL.' This video shows you how to get that URL from a photo in Picasa Web Albums. 3/30/08 7
28 Members Only Safe Computing Defrag 0
49 Members Only Safe Computing Outlook: Keep it up to date There are updates to your software as well as to your operating system. Learn how to find and download updates to Outlook. 1/31/07 3.6
66 Members Only Safe Computing Backing up to External Hard Drive How to use Windows XP backup utility and an external, USB hard drive to back up all your data. 11/4/07 6.5
68 Free Safe Computing Avoid Email Scams Learn to recognize fake emails and not fall victim to their scams. 11/24/07 6.8
56 Members Only Safe Computing Scan with Microsoft OneCare Live How to use the free Microsoft system scanner to double-check for viruses, spyware and system performance issues. 8/3/07 4.5
55 Free Quick Tips Web Browsing - Ctrl-Enter shortcut Using Internet Explorer or Firefox. The Ctrl-Enter keyboard shortcut will save you typing when browsing the web. 7/27/07 2
90 Free Vista Versions of Vista What version do you have? Basic, Home Premium, Business, or Ultimate. Different features come with different versions. 7/7/08 3.7
91 Members Only Vista Aero colors and special effects A new look with transparency and Flip 3D. How to use it and how to turn it on or off. 7/7/08 5.3
92 Members Only Vista Desktop Tricks Use the scroll wheel on your mouse to change the size of desktop icons. Create multiple clocks for different time zones. 7/7/08 3
93 Free Vista No 1 favorite feature: Search Stop looking and start finding stuff with Vista's search feature. Don't get aggravated looking for things that have moved. Let Vista find them for you. 7/7/08 5.5
94 Members Only Vista Shut Down or Sleep Shut Down is OK, Sleep is better. For laptops, just close the lid. 7/7/08 4.5
97 Members Only Vista Sidebar and Gadgets Using Vista' sidebar with some useful desktop tools called gadgets. Add and customize Gadgets you want, delete those you don't. 7/15/08 3.8
98 Members Only Vista Overview of Files and Folders An overview tour of the new look and feel for Files and Folders, aka Windows Explorer 7/15/08 4.7
99 Members Only Vista Navigating Files and Folders The new Address Bar Navigation and toolbar options. 7/15/08 6.5
100 Members Only Vista Burning CDs - New Format Vista makes CDs like floppies again! Use the Burn command on the toolbar, then you can read, write and delete from the CD. 7/15/08 4.2
101 Members Only Vista Backup Backup has changed. You don't even need to know where your files are! You do need an external hard drive. 7/15/08 4.3
102 Members Only Vista Windows Mail No more Outlook Express, but Windows Mail takes its place quite nicely. 7/15/08 3
103 Members Only Vista Photo Gallery A little like Picasa (but not quite), Photo Gallery gives you a new way to browse your photos in Windows Vista. 7/15/08 4.5
104 Free Vista Speech Recognition Speech recognition is a built-in feature of Vista and it works pretty good! 7/15/08 4.5
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