What is an App?

Today’s How-To Guide for the computer beginner we are going attempt answer the question, ‘What is an app?”Today I will briefly explain:What is an App?What is the difference between a Native app and a Web app?Don’t worry – the difference is easy to remember!What is an App?App is short for ‘application’. ...

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What is a Hashtag?

Today’s How-To Guide for the computer beginner  We are going to talk about Hashtags!Topics Covered today are:What is a Hashtag? What does Hashtag Mean? How do you use Hashtags? What is a hashtag?In a nutshell it’s the number sign on your keyboard.  See my picture?  That symbol is used...

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What is a Cloud?

What is the Cloud? Today we are going to write about the term ‘The Cloud”. No doubt you have heard the term before either in print, or in the media. What is the Cloud?  Its basically a fancy word for online storage space. Storing something in the cloud is basically storing something on what...

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How-To Close a Browser Window

Today’s How-to Guide for the Computer Beginner is going to cover:  How-to Close a browser window If you look at the top right hand side of your web browser?  You will see something similar to this: One way to close a web browser window is clicking on the “x”.  Your browser windows...

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What is a web browser? Browser window?

When I speak to my friends about computers I sometime forget they may not know the basic terms, since  they are a computer beginner after all. I get these confused looks and questions like: What a browser? What is a web browser? What is a browser window? I think to myself, “Oh boy! ...

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How-To change mouse cursor or pointer

In the last couple of lessons we have spoken about the mouse options.  We started with right click, left click, double click, etc. The last time in our tutorial I spoke about the mouse pointers, or computer pointers. Today’s How-To Guide for the Computer Beginner lesson is normally asked...

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