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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 […]

Can you do everything in a browser?

Internet browsers such as Edge and Chrome are becoming more feature-filled these days, while at the same time there are web-based tools for creating documents, editing images, music and even video -. Tasks which were […]

Edge and Chrome – Playing around with the latest versions

On Thursday, February 9th we looked at the latest versions of Edge and Chrome for the desktop and had fun finding our way around. Chris had to update Chrome during the session, which didn’t take […]

Chrome and Edge – latest versions compared. What’s new ? …and What’s useful?

The Desktop versions of Google’s Chrome and Microsoft’s Edge browsers have recently had updates. This Thursday, February 8th we will explore the features of these latest versions and discuss which tools we are likely to […]

Playing around with Google Docs

On Thursday, February 1st we took a look at Google Docs which is one of a suite of online office editing tools provided free to everyone who has a Gmail account. To get to Google […]

What can I do with Google Docs and the “Google Docs Editor’s suite” ?

Everyone who has a Gmail account has access to Google Docs which is an online word processor included as part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite. This includes Google Sheets, Google Slides, Google […]

Machine translation perils

On Thursday, January 26th we discussed the failings of machine translation and put Google Translate, https://translate.google.com DeepL https://www.deepl.com/en/translator and ChatGPT https://chat.openai.com through a series of challenges. Translation fails pre-date machine translation of course. The following […]