Computer Basics

Introduction to GMail

Here’s a little introduction to using gmail through the web interface (“webmail”).

This is for those folk who have a gmail account, but are used to using it via regular email software like Thunderbird, Outlook or Windows Mail. When you leave home and want to check your mail at a friend’s house or internet cafe this is what you’ll need to use. (continue reading…)

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1.3 Picasa to OpenOffice

There seems to be no elegant way of transferring a picture you see in Picasa into an OpenOffice document.

This tutorial shows a quick, but not very intuitive, way of doing just that. It’s worth remembering as it’s very simple to do. This example shows OpenOffice Draw, but same will apply to OpenOffice Writer documents too, and probably any application which opens a file dialog to insert a picture.

Full size video here


1.4 Other attachments

In this tutorial we look at saving a picture attachment, and a word document attachment.  We also cover moving files between folders using drag and drop.

All in sub 2 minutes!  (Full size video here)

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1.3 Opening Attachments

If you’ve followed the previous article, you would have saved various attachments into folders.

This tutorial shows how to find the attachments you’ve saved and open them.

(Full size video here)

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