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Cynthia Willerth wrote about her experiences with our first computer. |
Kidtastic The City Computer Center Help in using Windows and Macs like How do I turn it off?
If you still struggle with your mouse, get a friend to help you download Mouse Trainer to become a pro at clicking, double-clicking and dragging, without paying someone to teach you.
WebWise Ask Bruc! Help from BBC for Internet newbies. Covers downloading, browsing the web, E-Mail, Chat, Message Boards... You'll soon be an expert on the Net.
Making Technology Work for You
You invested in a computer so you could spend less time with white out, and rearranging your masterpiece with scissors and scotch tape.
Freeware for Writers
This section is to assist you with a host of technical difficulties, so that you can solve your computer woes, and get back to more interesting things, like writing a story.
If you spend time writing short stories, poetry, articles, one act stage plays, or web pages, and you are reading this, you already own everything you may ever need to write. However, if
you write novels, three act plays, screenplays, or newsletters, then you may be experiencing technical difficulties.
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Smatterings: Word Processing How-To Page covers problems you may be experiencing using Microsoft Word or Word Perfect. Lists freeware alternatives and tutorials for Open Office. |
The Right Software for the Job
If you had trouble finding a reasonable answer to your problem in Smatterings: Word Processing How-To section, perhaps you do not have the right tool for the job you are trying to accomplish.
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This page helps with format solutions. Reviews Word Processors, scriptwriting freeware, free Word and Open Office add-ons, and templates. Includes desktop publishing and other freeware programs to aid in creating a chap book. |
Freeware Sites and Internet Safety
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Read Smatterings Freeware links. Some of the best collections of freeware found on the Internet are listed on this web page. |
Freeware computer protection programs, (better known as freeware anti-virus, adware or spyware programs) popup stoppers, firewalls and cookie control to make your time on the Internet a pleasant experience.
Writer's Block?
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Smatterings: Writer Block? page contains links and programs to relieve authors from the dreaded writers block. Journals and note organization freeware to sort it all out afterwards. |
Research Using Searchable Documents
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A guide on getting results; plus Biblical researching links and freeware bible study tools. |
Once you master a concept, you can apply it anywhere. Try what you learned here, on something written by Shakespeare. Bartleby.com Here are some more searchable references; including the Bible, Shakespeare, quotations, dictionaries, and poetry.
Writing Web Pages
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Smatterings Web Page Authoring section gives a step by step approach. This is the story of how this website was created. |
It contains: the best how-to links, the free software I used to make this web page, free background music, free clipart and links to websites I've created. I like when a story has a happy ending.
Search the Web
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The truth is out there. Pulling info off the web, a directory of webrings, Christian and General directorys and related freeware utilities. |
Pages that contain a long list of links to other sites on the web often have exactly the information you are interested in.
Often the link page has what you wanted, if the page the search engine
directed you to did not. This page features online dictionaries, libraries, newspapers, encyclopedias, general writing research links and educational freeware.
Oh, No! Something's Wrong with the Computer.
Here is a quick check list to see if your problem is computer related:
Hard Drives: Answer this question: Did I use up all that space already?
Maintenance Have you cleaned your registry lately?
Software Tools: Are you using the right one?
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To see some of the problems I have encountered take a gander at my Aaaagh It's Not Working page. |
Inscribe Christian Writers fellowship Computers & Writers has easy to follow directions for saving files so you can find them, computerese definitions and a writers software list (mostly exspensive).
Tech Support Alert This is an awesome computer help directory. Windows how-to, and tips on using freeware and shareware mega-directories like ZNET.
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Like many other computer users, your first computer might not be the computer you really wanted. The computer you really desire in the advertisement promises everything you dreamed. |
Now you have a choice: Do I upgrade the computer I own, or do I save my money and invest in a new one? Can I fix my problem by simply upgrading a driver or two?
Marketing Links
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Your computer works. You mastered your word processor. The tricks and tips change to a demanding market; including freeware dictionarys, thesaurus, and free data based programs to keep track of where you sent what. |
Anything I've written for my site is rewritten and tailored differently, and read by friends and rewritten before I send it to a publisher in another market like a magazine.
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The best jewel you ever wrote has been, rewritten, read by friends, line edited and rewritten. You are ready to start looking for a publisher. |
Other Writer Resources Websites
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