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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 to see what they can … Read more
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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 editor Pixlr. Perhaps you’d like … Read more
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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 of skill, taps and clicks. … Read more
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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 I … Read more
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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 devoted user community and it … Read more
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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 traditionally carried out by programs … Read more
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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 long. Both browsers are continually … Read more
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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 find useful and which browser … Read more
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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 Drawings, Google Forms, Google … Read more
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Don’t fall into the machine translation trap!
AI has improved translation on the fly for web pages, emails, even the spoken word. However these tools have their limitations and are prone to bloopers. This Thursday January 25th we’ll take a look at how we can spot dangerous … Read more