The best Free Smartphone Camera apps
I want to install a better camera app on my phone.. Which one should I choose? How do I know if it's legit and that they will not be spying on me? Will it work on my old phone? This Thursday, May 2nd we hunt for good, free camera apps for Android and iPhone and put a couple of them ...
Gmail Q&A – and how to create Google Alerts
Have you got questions about Gmail? - This Thursday, April 18th we'll try to answer them for you. We'll also demonstrate how to set up "Google Alerts" - which are e-mails created for you when new results for a topic you have chosen show up in Google Search. For example, you can get info about news, products, your home town...just ...
Can you shoot a cinematic movie using a mobile phone?
The capabilities of mobile phones never cease to amaze, and this goes for their cameras too. This Thursday April 11th, Chris will share a short film shot on Apple iPhones by an internationally renowned director. As a follow-up we'll see a "making of... " clip to see something of how it was made. We'll discuss the impact of modern technologies ...
Finding out about Facebook
Most of us use Facebook to some extent but we want to know more So our next workshop on Thursday 4th April will be about how to use it. Come and ask all your questions about Facebook and find out how to correctly reply and comment to posts you see on the groups you belong to' by Margaret ...
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 offer, and what stunning creations we can concoct! ...
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 to create a composite image of family members - past and present - when they can't all be together? How ...
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. This Thursday, March 14th we will experiment with some of the photo tweaking apps and see what stunning images emerge ...
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 copy and paste text from one app to another, why do the fonts and spacings all get mixed up? Why do some web pages ...
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 works on Windows, MacOs and Linux and there are apps for Android too. It is similar to, but not the ...
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 installed in a PC. This Thursday, February 15th we discuss how much can we do within a browser and the ...