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More fiddling with Photos

By popular demand, this Thursday, March 28th we’ll continue fiddling with photos and start getting creative with filters, templates, stickers and whatever else tickles our fancy. We’ll look at several free on-line photo editing apps […]

Playing around with PIXLR – a free image editor with AI

On Thursday 21st March we took a look at both the mobile smartphone and online photo editor PIXLR. This editor is free to use though you can only use the AI tools for a limited […]

Playing with Pixlr – creating collages and composite images (with a little help from AI)

Last Thursday we looked at easy photo enhancements using standard tools and filters. This week, Thursday 21st March we will delve a little deeper and see what we can create with the free online photo […]

Click and tap instant photo editing

On Thursday March 14th we played around with some tools to improve (or at least change) photos with a few clicks or (on a phone) taps. Quite a few members still use cameras to take […]

Fiddling with photos

With the advent of smart phones more people are taking more photos of more things. There are also more tools to help us turn a so-so snap into a really good photograph using the minimum […]

Fonts are complicated !

Microsoft recently changed its default font from Calibri (which had been the default for years) to Aptos – so on Thursday, March 7th we took a closer look at computer fonts in general. By the […]

What’s in a Font? (.. no not something in a Spanish fountain – a Typeface !)

Microsoft has just changed its default font from “Calibri” to “Aptos” – what does that mean for me? This Thursday, March 7th, we will plough through the confusing mess of print and web fonts. When […]

Getting started with LibreOffice

On Thursday, Feb 22nd we had a look around LibreOffice – here are some links to get you started:Introduction and Getting Started Guide : https://documentation.libreoffice.org/assets/Uploads/Documentation/en/GS5.2/HTML/GS5201-IntroducingLibreOffice.html Download: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/ ; Two versions are available – the latest, […]

Exploring LibreOffice – a free, fully featured alternative to Microsoft Office/365

LibreOffice is Free and available for everyone to use, share and even modify. It is produced by a worldwide community of hundreds of developers. The software is tested and used daily by a large and […]

No, you can’t (quite) do everything in a browser – yet

On Thursday, February 15th we discussed whether you could do all your computing tasks in a browser. A quick survey indicated that most people used their laptops and phones to deal with email, messages and […]