Web Search Strategies introduces the best ways to use search engines to find information on the web. The video uses real-world examples that illustrate ways to reduce useless results. The video includes:
How search engines work
Picking the right key words
Using quotes and the minus sign
Combination’s of strategies
“Blogs in Plain English” introduces the concept of a blog as a way for every person to have the power to share news. The video includes:
How blogs are changing the idea of news in the 21st century
How blogs are created and organized
The role of blogs in bringing like-minded people together
How blogs facilitate conversation
“RSS in Plain English” introduces RSS as a way to subscribe to websites and save time on the Web. An “old vs. new” theme illustrates how RSS differs from visiting web sites. The video includes:
The new and old ways of reading news on the web
An introduction to RSS Readers (using Google Reader as an example)
How [...]
“Twitter in Plain English” introduces the popular micro-blogging service Twitter. The video focuses on Twitter’s ability to connect people in new ways, using short messages. The video includes:
Why answers to the question “what are you doing” are interesting.
The mechanics of Twitter — signing up, sharing and reading messages
How a skeptical person fell in love with [...]
An explanation of the basic parts that make computers work: hard drive, RAM and micro-processor. This video is perfect to understand how computers are built and why it is sometimes expensive or time consuming to put them together or fix.
SEO is the active practice of optimizing a web site by improving internal and external aspects in order to increase the traffic the site receives from search engines. Firms that practice SEO can vary; some have a highly specialized focus, while others take a more broad and general approach. Optimizing a web site for search [...]
We usually talk about removing programs and processes from starting up at boot. But what if you want something to load each time you startup your computer? It is a scientific fact (not really) that humans have a predetermined amount of clicks in their index finger. If we exhaust that amount by doing redundant tasks each day, [...]
Microsoft Windows has been in the news a lot lately and not for good reasons. Computer security is once again in the forefront of Windows-bashing commercials and other negative propaganda. Conficker is the latest in the wave upon wave of viruses and malware devastating the PC community. Just how can normal people protect themselves if [...]
If you receive the error “Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage” there are several things you can try to resolve the issue. We first need to decide if the problem is related to your network connectivity, the website, or a problem with your browser. This is why we often recommend users have at least two [...]
How to improve computer speed is one of the top questions technicians get asked. There are numerous factors that affect your PC’s performance, and there’s a lot you can do to speed things up. Most of these suggestions would fall under the normal computer maintenance category, but some include optimizing settings and improving the hardware [...]
Web Search Strategies introduces the best ways to use search engines to find information on the web. The video uses real-world examples that illustrate ways to reduce useless results. The video includes:
How search engines work
Picking the right key words
Using quotes and the minus sign
Combination’s of strategies