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Did you know that Senior citizens can get 10% discount on Thursdays
at ATS Euromaster for tyres, exhausts and brakes ?
BT has extended its free line connection (normally £122.50) To
get it you need to ring 0800 800 150. Ask for the 'New line free connection
offer'.
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To read PDF files you need a PDF file reader. Acrobat 8 is now
a 22Mb download and even bigger when installed. The
Foxit Reader
(3.1) is a good alternative at just 5Mb download and under 10Mb when installed.
To create PDF files from a word processor you can install
a program called PDF995 or use the Open Office word processor
Internet Explorer allows you a print preview of web pages and an option
to print at 50, 60, 70, 80%. No more cut off pages
Picasa 3.6 is new; (click to download from
the Google Pack) is so simple and has an excellent
on-line photo album. It now includes some excellent new features.
No photographer should be without Picasa !
Try its amazing face finding facility
Awesome sites : These have been moved to the bottom of
the page on Web Searching
Easy Access Please note that, with Vista, access
to these facilities are all available by pressing the Windows Key + U
For people with poor vision I suggest that the EASIEST way
is to make the text larger by holding down the Ctrl key and pressing the
+ key. To reduce it press Ctl and the - key You may find that the setting
remains even after you have shut down. Press Ctl + Zero
(at the top) to return the page to normal size. Alternatively, use CTL and
a scroll wheel on a mouse.
OR you can change the size and style of web page type. In a web page
see Tools, Internet Options, Fonts and also View, Text size.
With Start, Settings, Control Panel, Accessibility Options you can
experiment with the Display Settings and High Contrast. The shortcut to turn
this on or off is LEFT ALT+LEFT SHIFT+PRINT SCREEN.
Internet Explorer 7 & 8 also have a zoom option on
the bottom right of each website screen.
In addition, Windows XP and Vista provide a magnifier which is
turned on by going to Start, Run and typing Magnify and clicking OK.
You can try setting the screen resolution is set no higher than 800
x 600. Right click a space on the desktop, Properties, Settings and move
the slider to the left. Everything will be bigger.
Vista has a Speech Recognition program. See Windows Key + U then 'Using
the PC without a mouse or keyboard' It needs to be trained and requires
practice and quit a bit of know how as to what you can do. Start by printing
the list of commands. It can even be used to open and run programs.
Vista has an on-screen keyboard, which can be operated with mouse clicks
or even by using one key or a joystick. It even has a 'hover' mode (instead
of click)
It is suggested the Blind and partially sighted people should get a
page reader. Vista has a tolerably good 'narrator' with adjustable voices,
pitch and speed. Or you can download one from
www.browsealoud.com or
a new one called Thunder from
www.screenreader.net (XP, NT and
Windows 2000) You may find that downloading the WebbIE browser helps these
programs. Free from www.webbie.org.uk
And, if you use Firefox as your browser take a look at
http://www.firevox.clcworld.net/about.html,
the developer of Fire Vox, the screen reader for Firefox.
For this reason all graphics on this site have alternative text, if you hover
the mouse over a picture.
Some of the 'pages' on this site are very long indeed. If you wish to
print a small section of a page just 'select' that section with the mouse,
then go to File, Print. When the printer page is displayed make sure you
click 'Selection'. Otherwise you may find the 'page' is actually 15!
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