Is This Thing On?, Revised Edition: A Computer Handbook For Late Bloomers, Technophobes, And The Kicking & Screaming
by Abby Stokes /
2012 / English / EPUB, Mobipocket
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Now updated and revised, the user-friendliest, most reassuring,
jargon-free, smartest, and most comprehensive nuts-and-bolts guide
for seniors, who are the fastest-growing demographic among social
networks.
Now updated and revised, the user-friendliest, most reassuring,
jargon-free, smartest, and most comprehensive nuts-and-bolts guide
for seniors, who are the fastest-growing demographic among social
networks.
Abby Stokes is the perfect guide to the digital domain: She’s
taught more than 140,000 seniors how to use a computer. In an
easy, authoritative, hand-holding way, she covers it all: how to
choose, buy, and start using a computer. How to connect to the
Internet, sign up for e-mail, and use search engines. Plus, how and
why to get digital in the first place: the ins and outs of online
shopping, banking, travel planning, dating, research; how to take
and share digital photographs and videos; how to discover online
communities, and use social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and
YouTube; the world of apps, online music, and streaming movies;
and, importantly, online security and “netiquette.” There’s
information on iPads, smartphones—including the Blackberry,
iPhone,
Abby Stokes is the perfect guide to the digital domain: She’s
taught more than 140,000 seniors how to use a computer. In an
easy, authoritative, hand-holding way, she covers it all: how to
choose, buy, and start using a computer. How to connect to the
Internet, sign up for e-mail, and use search engines. Plus, how and
why to get digital in the first place: the ins and outs of online
shopping, banking, travel planning, dating, research; how to take
and share digital photographs and videos; how to discover online
communities, and use social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and
YouTube; the world of apps, online music, and streaming movies;
and, importantly, online security and “netiquette.” There’s
information on iPads, smartphones—including the Blackberry,
iPhone,
and Android—and e-readers like Nook and Kindle. A companion
website—www.abbyandme.com—plus a Facebook page and Twitter feed
provide easy and safe access to this brave new world.
and Android—and e-readers like Nook and Kindle. A companion
website—www.abbyandme.com—plus a Facebook page and Twitter feed
provide easy and safe access to this brave new world.