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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 |
| 107 | free | Blogs | Adding a Map to your Sidebar | How to take a custom Google Map and add it to your Blogger sidebar using a Blogger Gadget. | 10/2/08 | 5.5 |
| 110 | Free | Blogs | Duplicate your Blogger Blog to WordPress | You can sleep better at night knowing that your blog exists in 2 places on the web. This video shows you how to duplicate your Blogger Blog on WordPress | 11/11/08 | 5.5 |
| 95 | Members Only | 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 |
| 154 | Members Only | Blogs | Adding Labels | How using labels can help you find and group your blog posts. Adding labels to a single post and adding labels to multiple posts using the dashboard. | 8/30/09 | 6.5 |
| 156 | Free | Blogs | Using Live Writer | Using the free Microsoft Live Writer as your tool for posting to Blogger. This is a quick demo of posting, adding a map, adding photos from Picasa Web Albums. | 9/1/09 | 6 |
| 155 | Free | Blogs | HTML Errors | If you've ever received a message from Blogger, "Your HTML cannot be accepted" Watch this video to understand what that means and how you fix it. | 9/1/09 | 3 |
| 157 | Members Only | Blogs | Backup with Blogger's Export Command | A quick and easy way to copy your blog to your computer is with Blogger's own Export command. It still doesn't get the actual photos though. | 9/1/09 | 6 |
| 158 | Members Only | Blogs | New Post Editor: Images | The updated post editor now allows adding images at the cursor position instead of at the top of the post. | 9/1/09 | 5.5 |
| 171 | Free | Blogs | Changing Templates | You can expand your choices of Templates by learning how to find, download, and install third party Blogger Templates. This video shows you how. | 2/16/10 | 6.5 |
| 172 | Members Only | Blogs | Edit a Custom Template | A follow up to 'Changing Templates' This video will show you how to use a Blogger 'Page' as the link to a custome menu. You will edit the HTML code for the template. This is advanced stuff! | 2/18/10 | 6 |
| 181 | Free | Blogs | Using Live Writer: Setup | How to set up Live Writer to be able to publish to your blog. | 12/11/09 | 5 |
| 46 | Free | Get a gmail account | How to sign up for a free gmail (google mail) account. | 3/20/07 | 3.5 | |
| 170 | Free | Import/Export Contacts | A Show Me How video from www.GeeksonTour.com: how to get all your email addresses from Outlook or Outlook Express and make a copy of them using Gmail. Even if you don’t use Gmail, this is a great way to have a backup of all your contacts. | 3/15/08 | 2.5 | |
| 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 |
| 9 | Members Only | Essentials | Saving your work | Using WordPad, how to Save, Save As, File Open | 12/13/06 | 8 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 149 | Members Only | Google Earth and Maps | Intro to Google Earth | An overview of Google Earth | 3/1/09 | 4.5 |
| 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 | Members Only | 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 | Free | Google Earth and Maps | Google Maps: Adding Lines | How to add route lines to your custom map in Google Maps | 3/30/08 | 5 |
| 152 | Free | Google Earth and Maps | Google Maps: Draw Lines along Roads | Google Map's line drawing feature on custom maps has added the ability to draw along roads, or even from directions. | 8/2/09 | 4.5 |
| 137 | Free | Google Earth and Maps | Emailing a Custom Map | How to use the placemark and path tools to create your own custom map, then send the image in an email. | 1/30/09 | 6 |
| 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 |
| 159 | Free | GPS | Let the computer do the Navigating | See samples of how we use Microsoft Streets and Trips to navigate while we travel. | 7/1/08 | 5 |
| 160 | Free | GPS | Send locations from S&T to Garmin Nuvi | Microsoft Streets and Trips 2010 new feature: using USB cable to transfer route stops from S&T to Garmin Nuvi 255 | 9/21/09 | 5 |
| 145 | Free | High Speed Internet for Rvers | Internet on the Road: 3 choices | Connecting to High Speed Internet on the road is, by necessity, wireless. There are 3 wireless technologies from which to choose: Satellite, Cellular and Wi-Fi | 6/4/09 | 5 |
| 146 | Members Only | High Speed Internet for Rvers | Satellite Internet | What do you need to get Internet by Satellite dish while on the road. | 6/4/09 | 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 |
| 147 | Members Only | High Speed Internet for Rvers | Intro to Cellular Internet | What do you need in order to connect to the Internet with a cellular service? | 6/6/09 | 8.5 |
| 139 | Free | High Speed Internet for Rvers | Broadband with Tethered Cellphone | This video will show you how to use a new cellphone, with Verizon's service, to get high-speed internet on your laptop computer. No separate contract, no aircard. | 3/10/09 | 4 |
| 57 | Members Only | High Speed Internet for Rvers | How to turn off/on 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 |
| 148 | Members Only | High Speed Internet for Rvers | Connecting with Cellular | Demo of using a data card and Verizon service to connect to the Internet. | 6/6/09 | 5 |
| 143 | Members Only | High Speed Internet for Rvers | Connecting to WiFi using XP | How to connect to a WiFi hotspot using Windows XP | 7/7/08 | 4 |
| 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 |
| 142 | Members Only | High Speed Internet for Rvers | Connecting to WiFi using Vista | How to connect to a WiFi hotspot using your laptop's built in wireless adapter and Windows Vista | 3/6/09 | 4 |
| 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 |
| 111 | Members Only | Photostory 3 | Preparing photo in Picasa for use in Photostory | Edit your photos in Picasa, then use the Export command before Importing them to Photostory | 4/1/08 | 3 |
| 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 |
| 118 | Free | Picasa | Picasa 3.5: Overview | A slide show explaining why Picasa 3 is the only software you'll need for managing your digital photos. | 11/16/09 | 6.5 |
| 117 | Free | Picasa | Picasa 3: Install Picasa 3 | Download and install Picasa 3 for free from Google. | 11/3/09 | 3.5 |
| 119 | Members Only | Picasa | Picasa 3: First time using Picasa | After downloading Picasa 3, you will open it and need to answer a couple questions the first time it runs. | 11/18/08 | 5 |
| 109 | Members Only | Picasa | Picasa 3: Folders | 10/28/08 | 6 | |
| 108 | Free | Picasa | Picasa 3: Orientation to the Library Screen | Understand that the position of command buttons on the screen informs you about what they do. | 10/28/08 | 5 |
| 114 | Members Only | Picasa | Picasa 3: Adding Text to Photos | Placing Text wherever you want on a photo, change the font, fill color and outline color. | 11/23/08 | 6.2 |
| 113 | Members Only | Picasa | Picasa 3: Tree Folder View | Understanding the difference between Flat Folder view (the default), the Tree Folder view, and when to use each. | 11/25/08 | 6.5 |
| 112 | Members Only | Picasa | Picasa 3: Move Folders to External Hard Drive | Use Picasa's built in commands to move a folder of photos to an External Hard Drive | 11/25/08 | 4 |
| 165 | Members Only | Picasa | Folder Manager | Use Folder Manager to include any folder in Picasa's View. Also to exclude folders from Picasa's view. | 11/4/09 | 4.5 |
| 115 | Members Only | Picasa | Picasa 3: Make a movie from photos | Select a group of photos and click the Movie button. Add music and you have a movie. | 11/30/08 | 4 |
| 116 | Members Only | Picasa | Picasa 3: Viewing and Sharing Video files | Picasa can manage video files as well as it manages photo files. One click will share a video either with Web Albums or Youtube. | 12/4/08 | 5.5 |
| 120 | Free | Picasa | Picasa 3:Individual Photo View | Navigating between the library and single picture view. Navigating within single picture view and using the different tools available. | 12/12/08 | 2 |
| 121 | Members Only | Picasa | Picasa 3: Search for pictures | Searching is fast! All text is searchable: folder names, Folder Descriptions, File Names, Captions, Keywords | 12/12/08 | 5.2 |
| 122 | Members Only | Picasa | Picasa 3: Selecting Pictures | Selecting pictures puts them in the selection tray, then there are many things you can do to all selected photos. | 12/12/08 | 3.5 |
| 123 | Members Only | Picasa | Picasa 3: Starrred Photos | Learn how to designate the photos which are your stars and group them together no matter what folder they're actually stored in. | 12/12/08 | 4.5 |
| 124 | Members Only | Picasa | Picasa 3: Importing from Camera | Use Picasa to import all the photos from your camera into your desired folders, then delete them from the camera. | 1/30/10 | 7 |
| 125 | Members Only | Picasa | Using Albums | How to use Picasa's Album feature. Store all photos in one folder and use multiple albums to create logical groupings. | 12/30/08 | 8 |
| 176 | Members Only | Picasa | Backup | How to backup selected folders to CD/DVD. Picasa will even burn the discs for you, and span multiple discs. | 11/16/09 | 5 |
| 132 | Members Only | Picasa | Picasa 3: Tags | Adding 'tags' or 'keywords' to photos helps you find and organize them. | 1/4/09 | 2.5 |
| 164 | Members Only | Picasa | Delete/Rename Files | Use Picasa to delete pictures or rename them. | 11/2/09 | 5.5 |
| 129 | Free | Picasa | Picasa 3: Redeye | Learn how to fix photos of people with red eyes. | 1/3/09 | 2 |
| 128 | Members Only | Picasa | Picasa 3: Basic Edits | Shows you how to use the most popular tools on the Basic Edits screen: I'm Feeling Lucky, Crop, Straighten ... | 1/3/09 | 6 |
| 166 | Members Only | Picasa | Import from Camera | Import pictures from your camera. Exclude duplicates. Create folders of your choosing. | 11/2/09 | 6 |
| 126 | Members Only | Picasa | Picasa 3: Retouching | Using the retouch tool to eliminate blemishes and other minor problems such as eyeglass glare. | 1/3/09 | 4.5 |
| 130 | Members Only | Picasa | Picasa 3: Sharpen and Batch Edit | Learn how to use 'Sharpen' to make your photos look better. And, 'Batch Edit' can work on many photos at once. | 1/3/09 | 3 |
| 133 | Members Only | Picasa | Picasa 3: Tuning | Adjust lighting and color tones on your photos with the tools on the Tuning tab. | 1/4/09 | 5 |
| 131 | Members Only | Picasa | Picasa 3: Cropping and Print Sizes | When you crop, you have the choice to constrain your cropping area to the size of the print you want. | 1/4/09 | 5.5 |
| 134 | Members Only | Picasa | Picasa 3: Web Albums Introduction | Picasa Web Albums is a photo sharing website, separate from Picasa but they are meant to work together. This video will explain. | 1/8/09 | 8 |
| 135 | Members Only | Picasa | Picasa 3: Intro to the 12 Effects | An explanation and demonstration of all 12 of the options on Picasa's 'Effect' tab. | 1/6/09 | 10.5 |
| 106 | Free | Picasa | Picasa 3: Collage | A quick look at the new, improved Collage feature in Picasa 3. Scrapbookers will love it! | 9/4/08 | 3.5 |
| 161 | Free | Picasa | Picasa 3.5 Geotagging | Picasa 3.5 integrates with Google Maps. View Google Maps in the 'Places' pane. View photos in place, place photos on the map. Geotags follow the photo to Web Albums. | 9/23/09 | 6 |
| 162 | Free | Picasa | Move Folders between USB Hard Drives | As your library of photos grows, so does your need for bigger hard drives and ways to move your photos to the disks with the most space. Picasa makes it easy. | 10/25/09 | 8 |
| 173 | Members Only | Picasa | Search and Temporary Albums | Albums are SO useful! This video shows you the quickest way to get the functionality of an album - just Search. Then use the search results like a temporary album. | 2/18/10 | 5 |
| 174 | Members Only | Picasa | Captions - Picasa 3.5 | Use captions as the fastest way to give your pictures some identification. With Picasa 3.5 they are now editable. | 11/8/09 | 6 |
| 175 | Members Only | Picasa | Email w Picasa 3.5 | How to email photos and let Picasa do all the resizing automatically. Includes discussion on which email programs work with Picasa. | 11/9/09 | 6 |
| 177 | Free | Picasa | Updating Picasa Software | How to see that you are using the latest version of Picasa and download any updates if necessary. Demonstrates version 3.6 | 12/11/09 | 3.5 |
| 178 | Free | Picasa | Create a Picture Fram with Collage | With a little creative thinking, you can use Picasa's Collage tool to frame a picture. | 12/29/09 | 3 |
| 179 | Free | Picasa | Webcam | How to use Picasa to capture video from your computer's built-in webcam. | 1/22/10 | 2 |
| 180 | Free | Picasa | Face Albums | When you're looking at the faces in a Person's album, you may want to see the whole picture that the face comes from. This video shows you how. | 2/8/10 | 3 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Free | Picasa | Rename, Move, Delete | Using Picasa to rename photos, delete, and organize in folders. | 7/11/06 | 6.3 |
| 32 | Members Only | Picasa | 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 |
| 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 |
| 40 | Members Only | Picasa | Starred Album | Marking your favorite photos and viewing them all in one 'album'. | 1/19/07 | 7.3 |
| 12 | Members Only | Picasa | Gift CD | How to use Picasa to make a Gift CD of a photo slideshow | 11/24/06 | 3.5 |
| 13 | Members Only | Picasa | Web Albums | Uploading photos to your Picasa/Google Web Albums | 11/24/06 | 9.5 |
| 33 | Free | 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 |
| 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 | Why you shouldn't Save: 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. revised Jan 2010 | 3/30/08 | 7 |
| 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 |
| 141 | Members Only | Picasa | Keep Pictures in Desired Order | You can put your pictures in any order you like with Picasa, but it takes a little trick to keep them in that order. | 5/11/09 | 5 |
| 153 | Members Only | Picasa | Saving Edited Photos | If you want to use a photo outside of Picasa, you need to save the edits. There are several types of Save commands. | 8/4/09 | 8 |
| 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 | Free | 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 |
| 136 | Members Only | Safe Computing | CCleaner | CCleaner is a free program to clean the unused files and programs from your computer. | 1/30/09 | 6 |
| 140 | Free | Safe Computing | Security Center | Window's Security Center is a great place to check that your computer is safe. | 3/17/09 | 2.5 |
| 144 | Members Only | Safe Computing | Use BCC to send email | When you send an email to multiple recipients,it's important to put their addresses in the BCC field. This video will show you how. | 2/15/09 | 3 |
| 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 |
| 151 | Free | Quick Tips | Registering for GOT Forum | Shows how to register for the forum because it is a separate process from your Geeks on tour mebership. | 6/25/09 | 8 |
| 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 |
| 138 | Members Only | Vista | Performance | New utilities in Vista for monitoring and adjusting performance. | 7/1/08 | 6 |
| 150 | Members Only | Vista | Connecting to Wi-Fi | How to connect to a Wi-Fi hotspot using Vista | 3/10/09 | 3.5 |
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