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PDF on Mac OS X via Images and Finder and Preview Tutorial

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When presenting the recent Cocos Open-Source Game Development Primer Tutorial as shown below, we introduced another technique of presenting a series of images in a presentation format of some use. Putting it into context it’s the green bit of … … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio Express 2015 Install and Early Days Tutorial

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Today we’re creating a Visual Studio Express 2015 VB.Net Project for an Online Project called “Example of math variables and if statements” as an entry level project you could quickly try as your first Visual Studio 2015 Express project. We … Continue reading →

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Windows 10 Cortana Primer Tutorial

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In the area of robotics and artificial intelligence, perhaps the best known concept to we “mere mortals” is “voice recognition”. Perhaps because research into it goes back to 1932, before the Second World War … and 66 years before the … Continue reading →

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Windows File History Backup Primer Tutorial

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Before and after major upgrades of operating systems, it is tempting to backup your systems. With Windows, before Windows 8, the word to look for was “Backup”, but from Windows 8 and up, the term “File History” will be encountered … Continue reading →

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Windows 10 Upgrade Primer Tutorial

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This coming Friday, 29th July 2016 marks the cut off day for free upgrades to Windows 10 from Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows Phone 8.1 or Windows 9 operating systems, as you can read about here. Why do this? Read … Continue reading →

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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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