Daily Archives: May 16, 2008

This is a starter post for computer basics. As family, friends, and fellow Deacon aspirants present computer hardware and software queries, they’ll be added to the “Computer Basics” category, and as resources are found to be helpful, they’ll be added to this post. Antivirus – http://www.avast.com/eng/avast_4_home.html GoodSearch – The search engine that gives back http://www.goodsearch.com/?charityid=843986 OpenOffice – the free and open productivity suite (an alternative to Microsoft Office) http://www.openoffice.org Firefox – a web browser that works (as opposed to Internet Explorer 4, 5, and 6) http://www.mozilla.com Safari – Another browser alternative http://www.apple.com/safari/ Large list of open source alternatives to Windows-based … Continue reading →

This is a starter post for computer basics. As family, friends, and fellow Deacon aspirants present computer hardware and software queries, they’ll be added to the “Computer Basics” category, and as resources are found to be helpful, they’ll be added to this post. Windows: Vista: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/ Windows: http://www.learnthat.com/courses/computer/windows/ Microsoft Word and OpenOffice Write  – Word Processors http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/default.aspx http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/category_index/wordprocessing.html http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org/Writer OpenOffice – a free alternative to Microsoft Office: http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/index.html