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Get Acquainted with Thirteen Free Internet Applications
Our book Interesting Online Applications for SENIORS is now available.
 Do you blog, scribble or chat? Have you ever listened to a podcast or uploaded a video to YouTube? Have you ever bought second-hand goods from the internet or used the internet to make phone calls? And wouldn't it be handy if you could see what the place looks like before you book your next vacation? These are examples of things you can do with applications available on the World Wide Web. These free programs offer new communication tools and many other fun and interesting activities that are definetely worth checking out. For instance, you might want to start your own blog, an easy and effective way of staying in touch with friends and family living far away. Or take a virtual tour from New York to Los Angeles with the aid of surprisingly sharp satellite photos from Google Earth. Get acquainted with popular programs such as Skype - where you can use the internet to make free long distance phone calls or eBay - where you can buy and sell just about any kind of item you can think of or Facebook and MSN Spaces - websites where you can create your own personal webpage. In this book you learn step by step how to use thirteen different handy and practical applications, all of which can be downloaded for free from the internet. Step by step – in your own tempo! This book is suitable for Windows XP and Windows Vista users.
You will learn how to:
-explore the world with Google Earth
-plan a trip with Google Maps
-make free long distance phone calls with Skype
-get the news you want quickly and easily with RSS Feeds
-buy and sell your goods with eBay
-create your own blog with Blogger
-make new friends with Facebook
-use e-mail worldwide with Windows Live Hotmail
-chat with Windows Live Messenger
-put your digital photos into a web album with MyPhotoAlbum
-put your videos online with YouTube
-Windows Live Spaces: your own personal space on the Internet
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Interesting Online Applications for SENIORS
ISBN 978 90 5905 285 7
Book type: Paperback
Nr of pages: 392 pages
Price: US $22.95, Canada $24.95
Visit the website www.visualsteps.com/online and download a free Table of contents and a Sample chapter.
In order to work through this book succesfully, you need basic computer skills. If you want to acquire these skills, you can work through one of these books first:
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Applications featured in the book Interesting online applications for SENIORS
Explore the world with
Google Earth |
Put your videos online with YouTube |
Make free long distance phone calls with Skype |
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Plan a trip with Google Maps |
Make new friends with Facebook |
Buy and sell your goods with eBay |
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Create your own blog with Blogger |
E-mail with Windows Live Hotmail |
Windows Live Spaces: your own personal space on the Internet |
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Chat with Windows Live Messenger |
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Put your digital photos into a web album with MyPhotoAlbum |
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Free Downloads
 As a service to our customers, we provide useful information guides available as free downloads. Subjects range from a short introduction to computers, quick reference guides to software programs and a short guide to digital photo editing. We add new documents regularly, so check this webpage back often! Here are some examples.
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 Create your own blog
Do you already have your own blog on the Internet? A blog is an easy and effective way of staying in touch with friends and family. For example, you can write your own stories about recent events such as a vacation, or a memorable celebration. You can also upload photos to your blog. This free guide is a preview chapter from the book Interesting Online Applications for SENIORS. The book and this free guide are suitable for Windows XP and Windows Vista users.
The guide contains 39 pages. You can open and print this PDF file using the free program Adobe Reader. You can read more about Adobe Reader here.
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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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Where to buy our products
Our books are distributed by Independent Publishers Group (www.ipgbook.com) and are available in bookstores across the USA, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. If a particular title is not available at your local book store, ask to have them place an order for you.
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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