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OpenOffice and LibreOffice Page Orientation Tutorial

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People used to Microsoft Office‘s Word will be used to seeing the Portrait versus Landscape decision about their documents in the File menu’s Page Setup dialog box. That’s me, so when a student asked about how to do this in … Continue reading →

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Mac iTunes Primer Tutorial

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If there was a questionairre asking what the two best catered for “concepts” in day-to-day computing are I’d pick: the “where” of life … geospatial applications … think of Google Maps and Google Earth and huge number of mobile apps … Continue reading →

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Windows Accessories Games of Old Tutorial

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Some of us remember when Windows had an All Programs->Accessories menu that had a Games submenu with all sorts of quite and useful (desktop) games. In modern Windows operating system incarnations this arrangement, that came with Windows, has disappeared, but … Continue reading →

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Web Browser History Export Primer Tutorial

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Yesterday, when we presented HTML/Javascript Units of Measure Game Tutorial as shown below, we showed you a big long list of web URL references embedded into our Javascript and commented out via the prefix “//” to explain where out there … Continue reading →

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LibreOffice Tabular Colour Reversal Primer Tutorial

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One of my students continues on her Word Processing quest for excellence with OpenOffice. We use LibreOffice to show similar ideas here for you, today, in relation to what my student is up to, ostensibly doing her best to mimic … Continue reading →

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Internet Explorer ActiveX Batch Quiz Primer Tutorial

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Hope you don’t find “intellectual exercises” a waste of time? If so, you may need to tune out now, from our HotKey Quiz web application (building on yesterday’s Windows Command Line Batch Quiz Primer Tutorial) discussion below. There are occasions … Continue reading →

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Windows Command Line Batch Quiz Primer Tutorial

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Readers who found Assembler Primer Tutorial interesting may well be interested in today’s tutorial where we construct a simple quiz made up of questions suiting a hotkey answer on the Windows command line, written in DOS (or Windows Command Line) … Continue reading →

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Mac Finder Copy Paste Move Rename Tutorial

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We’ve said before how similar and similarly useful are the Windows Explorer and Mac (OS X) Finder desktop applications on a desktop or laptop computer, when we presented Mac Finder and Windows Explorer Primer Tutorial all that time ago. So, … Continue reading →

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