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Steve Simpson, Glendale College Computer Instructor

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Steve Simpson, Glendale College Computer Instructor

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10 Wednesday May 2017

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Hours & Info

818-813-1720
simpsongcc@live.com
@slsimpson
M,W 7:00- 11:00pm
T,TH 10:00-11:30pm
SAT, SUN 12:00-11:00pm
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Commercial

  • Amazon – Great place to buy used textbooks. Just get the ISBN number for the textbook you need and do a search at this site. Great deals on used textbooks.
  • Dell Refurbished Computers Short on Cash? Here is the Dell site for refurbished computers. It changes frequently and you can often find good deals on computers!
  • Dragon Naturally Speaking – Control your computer with your voice. Control your computer with your voice and dictate into Word!
  • Music – Pandora Create your own radio station.
  • Music – Spotify Listen to anything you want as long as you want!
  • Slack Please join our team and get your questions answered and share info. Our team is GCCteach.slack.com.
  • SnagShout This is a discount shopping site that connects to Amazon. Some really good deals can be found here!
  • Speccy – Detailed computer information Tells you everything you would ever what to know about your computer.
  • TeamViewer A simple and extremely fast remote support and remote access free tool!
  • Twitter Don’t have twitter yet? Now might be a good time! You can follow me at @slsimpson.
  • VoIP Ooma This is one of the major Voice over IP providers.
  • VoIP Vonage This is one of the major voice over IP providers

Educational

  • Engadget's Tomorrow This is Engadget’s page that publishes articles based on tomorrow’s technology.
  • Khan Academy – Video tutorials Video tutorials on all kinds of stuff!
  • Kurzweil's Timeline to the Singularity This is Ray Kurzsweil’s timeline on technologies progress toward the singularity.
  • MIT Media Lab Check out what future technology they are working on!
  • MIT Media Lab — Research MIT Media Lab Research Projects
  • Personal Computer Information This is the Wiki site that has all kinds of information about the personal computer.
  • Ray Kurzweil's site about all things coming in the future Ray Kurzweil has been described as “the restless genius” by The Wall Street Journal, and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes. Inc. magazine ranked him #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States, calling him the “rightful heir to Thomas Ed
  • Sideways Dictionary A Dictionary that uses analogies and metaphors to help regular, non-techy people understand IT terms.
  • TED: Ideas Worth Spreading Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world
  • Texting Lingo and Abbreviations This site will help you decipher all those texting abbreviations your kids are using!
  • Wikipedia. The encyclopedia of the Internet! Here you can find info on just about anything and it is pretty accurate!

GCC

  • Class Folder – Project Class notes for Microsoft Project
  • Class Folder – Access Files for the Access class
  • Class Folder – Excel Class info for Excel
  • Class Folder – Integrated Technology Here you will find files for my Integrated Technology class.
  • Class Folder – Internet This folder contains information for my Internet Class
  • Class folder – Intro to Computers This is my class folder where I store information about the Intro to Computers Class.
  • Class Folder – Outlook GCC class folder for Outlook class materials
  • Class Folder – Power Point This is my public folder containing information for my Power Point students.
  • Class Folder – Windows Files for Windows class
  • Class Folder – Word This folder conatins all the info for my GCC Word class.
  • Creating your own website A good site that describes the different processes for building your own site.
  • Creating your website using Google This is googles answer to creating your own site
  • Dropbox Cloud storage Here is a free site that you can store data in the cloud. Useful for back ups as well.
  • FILExt – File Extension
  • For GCC Students – Cheap Microsoft Office Software You can get a great price on Microsoft Office at this site. You just need to be a student at GCC.
  • Get a Windows Live ID A necessary item to get free use of Windows Live Essential software and a number of other Microsoft services.
  • History of Computers This is the Wiki for all things related to the history of computers. Great info!
  • History of Computers — A Timeline Here is a nice timeline describing the history of computers.
  • Mac commands compared to Windows commands This will compare the Windows commands versus the Mac commands allowing you to more easily use both types of computers.
  • Measurements List of how we measure things in the computer world.
  • PCMags Top 100 Websites
  • Photo Sharing – Smugmug A photo sharing site dedicated more toward the professionals.
  • Picture Sharing – Flikr Share your pictures here
  • Picture Sharing – Photobucket Picture sharing site.
  • Podcasting This site helps you understand podcasting and how to do it.
  • Search the web – a tutorial This is an in-depth look at searching the web to find the information you are looking for.
  • Setting up a wireless network This should help you set up a wireless network.
  • Wordpress – Learn WordPress.com

Security

  • Comodo IceDragon IceDragon features privacy and performance enhancements over the Firefox core browser as well as many additional security features such as SiteInspector malware scanning, Comodo Secure DNS and improved social media functionality.
  • Epic Privacy Browser First web browser engineered to protect your privacy. Epic is in always-on “private browsing mode”, so on close of Epic all browsing data is deleted (while you’re browsing as little as possible is stored). Plus many other safety features!
  • Nod32 – Excellent Anti-Virus Software My recommendation if you need new anti-virus and malware software.
  • Password Manager and Password Protection This program will manage, store and help you create passwords.
  • Securing your wireless router This should help you make sure your wireless network is secure.
  • Security – Carbonite – Automated Backup for your computer at a good price This is a completely automated solution for backing up your files on your computer.
  • Security – Check to see if a virus threat is real or a hoax.
  • Security – Check to see if that virus is real or a hoax.
  • Security – Darik's Boot And Nuke – Erase Hard Drive! CAUTION! This software completely erases your hard drive. To be used ONLY if you want to get rid of your computer and make sure the hard drive is empty.
  • Security – Eraser – Permanently erase files on your Hard Drive CAUTION! This is a free file shredder software program. It is used to get rid of file(s) you no longer want or need. Use with caution.
  • Security – Malware Software This software finds and rids you computer of Malware.
  • Security – Online Virus Checker called VirusTotal This free service will analyze suspicious files and URLs.

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