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Bargains of the week (One would think
I get commission from Ebuyer ! No, I just get their emails)
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Vivitar V8400 8 Megapixel, 3 x zoom at £43 at
Ebuyer QF Code 119010. Or a
Hitachi from Argos only £64.99
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O2 and Carphone Warehouse have just knocked £100 off the Apple
iPhone (Now a mere £169) and reduced the tarrif.
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Self Catering in May from £2 a room per night See
http://www.thomson.co.uk/editorial/hotel-only/apartment-beach-deals.html?ito=APR05
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Fast Fujitsu laptop - Vista Basic. 32 enthusiastic feed backs. 2Gig
RAM, Wireless. £279 delivered
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/139119
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Navigo GPS Sat Nav with MP3 player £60 delivered Ebuyer QF Code
131349 Dozens of 5 star customer comments
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Fast desktop PC :The Zoostorm 3364-2354 has 2.4 Ghz QUAD-core
processor. £499 from
www.pcnextday.co.uk. A Buy it! Award
from Computer Active and five stars
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Freeview recorder (80gb) from Ebuyer £55. Get many more channels
and record them for later playback.
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Canon 7.1 Megapixel camera with 4 x optical zoom ££82
delivered . Amazon. I got one. Super. See a review
HERE
Useful Tips
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Internet Explorer 7 now allows you a print preview of web pages and
an option to sprint at 80%. No more cut off pages
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Silver Surfers Day is on the 23rd May. See their site at
http://www.digitalunite.com/ssd/
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New Health tips see HERE
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You can ask your water company to install a meter. The chances
are that you will pay MUCH less. If you find that your bills have gone up
rather than down as a result, you have the right to ask your water company
to switch you back to an unmeasured charge within the first 12 months of
installation.
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Lots of TV from the past week viewable at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/.
But you need broadband. And Mac uses are out of luck until later this
year.
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Lots of free, useful software from Google. Click on the links
at the top of pages Photography or
Web searching
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If you click on one of the adverts (or any link) and wish to return
to this site, just touch the back arrow on the top row of your keyboard
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If Internet explorer starts behaving badly you can return it to its
original state by going to Tools, Options, Advanced and clicking Reset.
But, if that doesn't help, I recommend Firefox as a better alternative,
especially for Vista. To download it click on the link at the top of
Here
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The easiest way to make a website bigger is to use a scroll mouse and
hold down Control but Internet Explorer also has a zoom facility at the bottom
right of the screen
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Picasa (click to download) is so simple and
has an excellent on-line photo album. No photographer should
be without Picasa !
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Windows Live Photo Gallery is Microsoft's alternative to Picasa. Beta
indicates that it is still under development. See
http://get.live.com/betas/photogallery_betas
Awesome sites : These have been moved to the bottom of
the page on Web Searching
Easy viewing : Several ways
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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 will find that the setting
remains even after you have shut down.
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Or Start, Settings, Control Panel, Accessibility Options and experiment
with the Display Settings and High Contrast. The shortcut to turn this on
or off is LEFT ALT+LEFT SHIFT+PRINT SCREEN.
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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.
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Internet Explorer 7 also has a zoom option on the bottom
right of each website screen.
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In addition, Windows XP provides a magnifier which is turned on by going
to Start, Run and typing Magnify and clicking OK.
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Lastly, 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.
It is suggested the Blind and partially sighted people should get a
page reader. You can download one from
www.browsealoud.com or
a new one called Thunder from
www.screenreader.net (XP, NT and
Windows 2000 - NOT Vista !) 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.
Other help for people with disabilities who wish to use a computer can
be found at
www.abilitynet.org.uk/myway
Some of the following 'pages' 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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