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HOW TO PUT A SHORTCUT ON YOUR DESKTOP

1	Log onto www.buy.at/culterschool
2	Reduce the size of the web page by clicking on the middle button at the top right of your screen (this will make part of your desktop visible)
3	Move to the URL address bar at the top left of your screen.  Once your cursor has changed to the hand symbol, using a left click, hold down and drag onto your desktop.
4.	You now have a desktop shortcut to	www.buy.at/culterschool

 

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Want to brush up on your ICT skills?  I came across this site and had a look around.  It offers 180 free and simple tips (hence the name) on using the Internet, E-mail, Word, Powerpoint, Excel and your Operating System.  Click on the link below to get to the index page, there you can easily find what you are looking for.  It also offers free 5 minute, daily lessons.  Let me know what you think. 

http://www.180techtips.com/index2.htm

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 Want to do something exciting with your digital photographs?  Photostory 3 is a free download from Microsoft and enables you to create  slideshows using your digital photos.  Effects, soundtracks, voiceovers, titles and captions can be added to enhance your slideshow.  You can e-mail shows to family and friends, watch them on TV or computer.  A great way to store your memories.  I have tried and tested this and it is really easy to use, great fun and very impressive.  Here’s one I made earlier!photostory1.wmv

Download can be found here

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It’s not just for searching! 

Try putting some of these in the search engine box of a famous search engine

• 45% of 130
• 123.4 + 765.21
• area:scotland
• define:photosynthesis
• define:literary criticism
• 15 euro in gbp
• population:japan
• population:ireland
• one pint in teaspoons
• one uk pint in cups
• 160 pounds * 4000 feet in Calories
• 160 pounds * 4000 feet in kilojoules
• Click on the Preferences tab (just right of the search bos) and change the interface language to “Klingon”.  To change it back you need to know what’s Klingon for “English”! (divl’ hol).  There are a few other strange languages to try but a serious one might be to set the interface for German for a language class.

Thanks to Richard Elliot (Just Haiverin) for letting me pinch this from his blog

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 Todays tips:- KEYBOARD SHORTCUTSCTRL + C = Copy,   CTRL + X = Cut,   CTRL + V = Paste,   CTRL + Z = Undo,  CTRL + B = Bold,   CTRL + U = Underline,   CTRL + I = Italic

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Have you ever tried to e-mail photos to family/friends and because the file size is so big it takes ages to send?  That is because the photo file size is huge.  I have discovered free software which reduces the size of you photo but not the quality.  It works with single photos and multiple photos and reduces size but not quality.  If you click on this link Pixresizer you will be able to open up a .pdf file with step by step instructions.  If you have problems blog me back. (Be patient, the first time you try to open it, it may be slow).  Also, if you right click and ‘open in a new window’ that might speed things up.If you haven’t got Adobe Reader, click here to downloadHope you like it, I think it is great software!BLIP

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A tip from Christie Milne P5W - instead of checking your spelling and grammer by going into ‘Tools’ - ‘Check Spelling & Grammer’, just press F7 on the keyboard and ‘hey presto’ it appears on the screen like magic.

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Here is a tip from Alasdair in P6B.  If you have lots of documents open, instead of having to close each one click F4 and it will close down all the documents in one go.

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Hi,Here I hope to give you useful web links and ICT tips I find useful in school.  I haven’t got time to start today as this idea only popped into my head two minutes ago.  I hope it works as it is good to share things!Come back tomorrow as I will have added something by then.BLIP