My moms poems as read by a client

A client walked into my shop and started reading my book - I published my mom's poetry for her 70th birthday this past October 2016. This was so nice to see someone appreciate her work - this woman sat and read the whole book cover to cover - here is a clip of when I started recording. Computer Tutor West Melbourne Florida - yes, we help you write and publish books too!

How to open windows side by side

I have been working with screen recording and "How To" vidoes - to create my own orginal content - what do you think?

How to login to Google.com on a public PC

Its been so long blogger where have you been!

How to Make a Sway Presentation - Part 2 How is Sway Utilized?

How to Make a Sway Presentation - 

Part 2 

How is Sway Utilized?

This is part two of a five part series on How to Make a Sway Presentation.  Here we will discuss the many ways that one can use Sway software in the working or personal world.  We will look at examples given by Microsoft such as Story Telling The Sway Way, Create a tutorial in Sway, and Create a Newsletter in Sway.  

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Story Telling The Sway Way

Learning about the structure of the Sway.  How to create emphasis on words and styling on paragraphs.  All that and more to come in future posts about this Sway software.  If you have a story to tell and information to go along with it Sway is the right place for you.  You will be able to post photos connect those photos to web sites and those to videos and other multi media to make your entire Sway and educational interactive story with your content, your flare, your customization to make it your own.  

Just as story telling can be made amazing so can learning.  Tutorials are a lot like story telling and here we are going to look at how to make tutorials  using Sway to teach just about any topic! 

Newsletters are also a great way to get information to a group.  Often times people from different locations collaborate to create one finalize newsletter.  With Sway all of the people involved can work together at their own time to create their own pieces of the Sway. Because Sway is an online software you can never 'loose your data'  you are always backed up and always protected from your own mistake.  Watch this video on how you could make an awesome newsletter using Sway.  

These are just a few ways that we have come up with for one to use this software.  I personally have found it to be useful to realtors who want to show their homes to perspective buyers.  By making a Sway i can get out all of the same information and presentations that I would want to show on a web site but I do not have to have a web site.  This is perfect for someone who needs a 'temporary web site among many other uses.  So what ideas do you have?  We would love to hear form your - contact us at ComputerTutor321@Gmail.com or visit us on the web at www.ComputerTutor321.com

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How to make a Sway Presentation

How to Make a Sway Presentation -

A Five Part Blog

This past July 2015, I went on a trip.  When I came home I had all these great stories to tell and these photos that I wanted to share with everyone.  At about the same time I was working on my email when I found a letter talking about a new software that Microsoft had released named Sway.  I clicked the link and investigated further to learn more.  This software was so much fun that I decided to take the photos from my trip and my stores and meld them together into one amazing piece of work now called a "sway" .  Here is a link to view the final release of my presentation:

Tonight I was working with a local realtor to organize some photos when i remembered this Sway software and I started putting the two together.  That is when I decide that I need to share this with others and show them how easy it is to create amazing presentations using Microsoft's Sway. I am a long time user of Office software and I have been using Publisher & Power Point since the 1990's. Sway software is much like software you've used before but then again it is 100 percent different.  This blog is going to be a five part series on how to create a Sway presentation. 

Our Five Part Series will Consist of this Blog and the following:

1. What is Sway - Learn what it is where to get it and how
2. How is this used? -  The different ways to utilize Sway software 
3. Making our Sway the basics - Start a basic layout, insert 5 - 10 cards
4. Customizing our Sway - Layout Design & Lingo
5. Sharing your Sway - Learn how to share your finalized presentation

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 "What is Sway"  According to a quick Google Search I find: "Sway makes it quick and easy to create and share polished, interactive reports, presentations, personal stories, and more. Add your content, and we'll do the rest. Bring your Sway to life with interactive content. Include a video to talk about your idea or add an interactive chart to let others dive into the details."

Sway is a free app from Microsoft Office that helps gather, format, and share your ideas, stories, and presentations on an interactive, web-based canvas that looks great on virtually any screen. You can easily create a new Sway by adding text, pictures, documents, videos, charts, or any other type of content, and Sway will make it look great in just a few easy steps. When you’re ready to tell your story, Sway makes it easy to share it with others.

NOTE   To use Sway, sign in at http://www.sway.com with your Microsoft account. If you don't already have an account, visit http://www.microsoft.com/account to sign up for free.

Once you have your Sway account.  Check back here for our next Blog where we will start to make our very first Sway together.  To create the first Sway you will need to have some text in mind, a creative side and a series of photos ready to be used.  These photos can be on your Microsoft One Drive or they can be on your local PC.  If you have learned something new today please share this with a friend!

Take a Picture of Your Screen

'This is a photo of my desktop, known as a screen shot.  Knowing how to do this can be key for those pesky error messages and other anomolies in tech life that cause alarm and make you want to ask for a friends advice. You know those boxes that pop up with messages like “imminent failure” and “contact your network administrator.”  Today's tip is about the fast method in Windows OS to share those error messages with others who might not believe what you’re saying.  Just take a "screen shot" and email it to them.  Here’s how it’s done: 

Simply press the Print Scrn/SysRq  in the upper right hand corner of your keyboard:

Next press the Start menu button on the keyboard:

Now without clicking on anything else simply type the word "PAINT" then press the enter key.  - What should occur is the MS paint program should open right up for you.  If this doesn't occur you did something wrong - add no extra steps to these instructions, they are - very simple.  At this point you've pressed 2 keys and written the word paint, then hit the enter key - 

Hold down CTRL and tap the V key - this is Paste and the screen shot will appear.  That's it that simple!  

Googles New Logo - Makes me feel weird!

Googles New Logo - Makes me feel weird!

OK, is it just me or do a lot of us feel strange looking at that new logo? 

 I mean all these years it's been out old faithful logo now it's different!  What does that mean for us?  Will Google become "different"?  A quick search of Google and you'll see I am not along in my feelings about the change:

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New Google logo makes me feel weird. Like rearranging furniture in your house. Takes a while to get used to the new setup. #newgooglelogo. 0 retweets 1 

Google has changed its logo and we don't really like it

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Cosmopolitan

2 days ago - The search engine giant has revamped its logo with a brand new font, but users of the internet around the world have taken to Twitter to ...

How does the logo make you feel?  Did you even notice that it had changed?  Do you no even know what all the hub bub is about?  

You see some of us have been using the Internet since before there was a Google.  Once again to pull from Sara's article "When Google first appeared, in the late nineties, it distinguished itself with a combination of intelligence and friendliness. Other search-engine sites were as cluttered and garbagey visually as they were inefficient functionally, simultaneously trying to sell and inform and bamboozle. AOL, with its goofy mailbox, bulky structure, and overpriced hand-holding service for the terrified, was obviously up to no good. Others—Yahoo!, HotBot, Netscape, Ask Jeeves, and so on—seemed well intentioned but were harder to parse. 

Google’s design, in comparison, was a revelation. It had true confidence. It didn’t need to pretend to be the post office or a butler. The white glow of a clean, bare screen, the brightly colored, old-fashioned letters, the name that came from math and whimsy—it was all very promising, and its brilliance spoke for itself. The logo was a key part of this. The letters’ literary old serifs were subtly authoritative. The design, like the site, didn’t patronize or manipulate—it said, Relax, we’re reasonable geniuses"  (OK, the Logo change was one thing, please don't change the site design!) The entire article can be found here:  Why We Hate Google's New Logo

"You will very soon notice that Google has a new logo that’s sleeker, brighter, and for the first time, animated. And then, you probably won’t notice it at all." Starts the article written by Mark Wilson of fastCo Design.    Mark has a really in depth article showing the changes on the logo and talking more about the font type.  You should read the whole thing here: Google's new Logo - Biggest Change in 16 Years

Google went from being the way we find trivia to becoming the digital infrastructure of our lives.  And in turn, they’ve created a new logo and brand identity, out today. The bold new logo preserves the old logo’s most recognizable element—the famous blue-red-yellow-blue-green-red color sequence—but presents the company’s name in a bespoke typeface called Product Sans inspired by schoolbook letter-printing. The new word mark will replace the one that’s appeared above the search box since 1999.  I personally think it looks just like the G from the Golf Channel so I had to pull both pages up on my PC at the same time only to find out Golf Channel has changed to the NBC logo!

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 Some web sites even went as far as to say "Google's new logo was "ALL Wrong".


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Sara Larson's article on "Why We Hate Google's New Logo" helped explained to me why it was I hate the log each time I look at it.  She says of Google's new logo " it sheds the grownup curlicues: it now evokes children’s refrigerator magnets, McDonald’s French fries, Comic Sans. Google took something we trusted and filed off its dignity. Now, in its place, we have an insipid “G,” an owl-eyed “oo,” a schoolroom “g,” a ho-hum “l,” and a demented, showboating “e.” I don’t want to think about that “e” ever again. But what choice do I have? Google—beneficent overlord, Big Brother, whatever you want to call it—is at the center of our lives. Now it has symbolically diluted our trust, which it originally had for all the right reasons."

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