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New free download
How to Search more effectively with Google
As a service to our customers, Visual Steps provides useful information guides, computer tips, handy booklets and other supplemental content free of charge. These special documents are ONLY made available to the members of our free newsletter mailing list.
Available now on our Free Downloads web page is one of our latest guides:
How to Search more effectively with Google
The Internet has seen tremendous growth in recent years. An enormous amount of information is now available. Searching and finding the information you need however, can be quite a challenging and frustrating endeavor.
Lucky for us, many companies have tackled this problem and have built search engines to help us search the Internet. In this guide we will teach you how to use today's most popular search engine: Google. People all over the world use Google on a daily basis to find information and new pages are added every minute.
Take a look at this handy guide and good luck with your own searching!
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These handy information guides, booklets and supplemental content are offered to you in the PDF format. You can open, view, print or download these files with the program called Adobe Reader.
PDF (Portable Document Format) is a universal file format that preserves the fonts, images, graphics, and layout of any source document, regardless of the application and platform used to create it. Most computers already have this software installed, but if yours does not, you can download Adobe Reader for free from the Adobe website.
Click the "Get Adobe Reader" button below to download the free Adobe Reader:
Click here for more information about Adobe Reader.
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Check out handy information guides!
Learn more about:
searching with Google
or blogging,
USB sticks,
Windows Defender and more
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Test your knowledge
Would you like to test your knowledge of the computer, software and other related items?
You can do that by taking one of the online quizzes available on our special website Computer Certificates for Seniors.
Visual Steps offers a series of multiple-choice quizzes covering a range of different topics created specifically for seniors.
The questions embrace the knowledge and skills acquired by those who have worked through the Visual Steps books. There are quizzes about Windows XP, Windows Vista, Internet Explorer, Windows Mail and more.
If your score is sufficient, you can obtain our Computer Certificate by e-mail. You can than print your Computer Certificate or save it on your own computer to print or view later. Great to show to your family or friends!
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See how much you know about the computer...Do a quiz!
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The Internet celebrates its 20th anniversary!
On Friday March 13th, 2009, The World Wide Web celebrated its 20th anniversary. In 1989 a scientist by the name of Tim Bemers-Lee, presented a new technique that would make it possible to "surf" the internet. This resulted in the creation of the World Wide Web. There have been many changes since then, but its popularity continues to increase. The Internet has spread more and more into many aspects of our daily life.
Collecting information, shopping online, partaking in a virtual tour from your lounge chair; it is all possible because of the web. We communicate these days more and more by means of the computer and the web. An e-mail is sent within seconds. And blogs are incredibly popular. The easy-to-use online program called Skype makes it possible to talk to your grandchildren, friends and acquaintances on the other side of the world for free. You can even see them if you have a web cam. More and more people are discovering these free online applications that can be found on the web.
No wonder the Visual Steps book Interesting Online Applications for SENIORS is such a success.
This book covers applications such as Google Earth, Google Maps, YouTube, Skype, Facebook, Blogger, eBay, MyPhotoAlbum, Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live Spaces. |
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 Interesting Online Applications for SENIORS
Get acquainted with thirteen free internet applications
Author: Studio Visual Steps
ISBN 978 90 5905 285 7
Book type: Paperback
Nr of pages: 392 pages
Price: US $22.95, Canada $24.95
Where to buy
You will learn how to:
- explore the world with Google Earth
- make free long distance phone calls with Skype
- buy and sell your goods with eBay
- make new friends with Facebook
- chat with Windows Live Messenger
- put your videos online with YouTube
- useful online reference sites
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- plan a trip with Google Maps
- get the news you want quickly and easily with RSS Feeds
- create your own blog with Blogger
- use e-mail worldwide with Windows Live Hotmail
- put your digital photos into a web album with MyPhotoAlbum
- Windows Live Spaces: your own personal space on the Internet
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Interesting Online Applications for SENIORS
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Other books about Internet:
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 Did you know that Visual Steps offers RSS feeds? On our website you can subscribe to our Computer tips feed. This feed offers many handy tips and tricks about a range of different subjects such as Windows, Internet Explorer, Windows Mail, Word and many more. When you subscribe to a feed, it is automatically added to the list of feeds in your Favorites section for example in Internet Explorer 7. Updated information from the feed is downloaded to your computer and can be viewed in any modern browser program such as Internet Explorer 7 and 8, Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari. Would you also like to learn more about RSS feeds? Download our new guide called Subscribing to RSS feeds. You will learn how to subscribe and view your favorite feeds.
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The Visual StepsTM Concept
- Start rightaway learning in a friendly, fun, hands-on manner
- Each product features easy to understand, visually oriented, step by step instructions
- Extensive use of screen shots and illustrations
- Large print format, easy on the eyes
- Each book follows the same methodology
- More than one million copies have been sold
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The Visual Steps Catalog
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The Visual Steps books may be purchased online from any of the following booksellers:
in the USA
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
in Canada
Amazon (Canada)
Indigo Books & Music
in the United Kingdom
Amazon (UK)
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