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Plan now for the JPL Open House

26 Thursday Jun 2014

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“NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, invites the public to its annual Open House. The event, themed “Welcome to Our Universe,” will take visitors on a “ride” through the wonders of space. Highlights include a life-size model of Mars Science Laboratory, demonstrations from numerous space missions; JPL’s machine shop, where robotic spacecraft parts are built; and the Microdevices Lab, where engineers and scientists use tiny technology to revolutionize space exploration……”

The Link is: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/events/open-house.php

Welcome Excel Summer Students

26 Thursday Jun 2014

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Welcome to everyone taking my summer Excel Level 1 class. We do still have a few seats left for the Tuesday and Thursday 5:30-9:30 class available if you want to join us. It is a 6 week class and you will need a book. The ISBN numbers for the book are either 9780763843113 or 9780763843144. Amazon had a few used ones at a very low price. I look forward to spending my evenings with you!

Welcome Word Students!

07 Tuesday Jan 2014

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Welcome to the MS Word Level 1 2010! I am so happy you are attending this class. I know you will find it interesting, educational, and hopefully very enjoyable. Check back often at this website for any information or links that I may refer to in class. If I have any handouts, you will find them mentioned here or may be in the list in the Internet folders. The book for this class has an ISBN of 978-0-76384-297-0. I encourage you to check out some used books at Amazon or other stores. This is a six-week class, meeting every Tuesday and Thursday from 5:30 to 9:30.

Remember, your attendance is critical, so please attend if you can. I look forward to our time together. Thank you for coming!

Contract Information: (626) 256-0302 https://simpsongcc.wordpress.com ,  simpsongcc@live.com

Pictures, pictures, pictures!

11 Wednesday Dec 2013

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Tis the season for picture taking! So where do I put all those pictures?

If you want to save them along with any other files you might have, the cloud is a good place.

If you have a Windows device (especially Win 8), Skydrive is easy to use. You just need an account: http://www.live.com

Another good cloud service is http://www.dropbox.com

If you want to just have a place to save photos your Phone or tablet can be set to save to the following sites:

http://www.flickr.com/ (Now you get 1 Terabyte free!)
http://photobucket.com/ (You get 2 GB free)
http://www.shutterfly.com
https://www.facebook.com/  (Unlimited storage of photos)

With flikr and shutterfly you can make books, pillows, blankets, mugs, etc.. with your pictures on them. Great for gift-giving!

If you take a lot of pictures….check this tool out! http://www.eye.fi/

Remember, MS Word has some good photo editing tools but one of the best is a free tool from Google called Picasa. http://picasa.google.com/

Here is some info on cameras you might find useful and a site that reviews them.
http://www.digital-photo-secrets.com/tip/333/do-more-megapixels-mean-better-photo-quality/
http://www.dpreview.com

Have fun!

Welcome Internet Students

02 Saturday Nov 2013

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Welcome to the Internet Class! I am so happy you are attending this class. I know you will find it interesting, educational, and hopefully very enjoyable. Check back often at this website for any information or links that I may refer to in class. If I have any handouts, you will find them mentioned here or may be in the list in the Internet folder on the right. There is no book for this class. But I encourage you to check out some computer books at local book stores to supplement what we will be discussing in this class. This class is 4 Saturdays from 8-12. Remember, your attendance is critical, so please attend if you can. I look forward to our time together. Thank you for coming!

Contract Information: (626) 256-0302 https://simpsongcc.wordpress.com simpsongcc@live.com

Differences between the Office Suites

11 Friday Oct 2013

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I often get asked what the differences are between different versions of Microsoft Office. Here is a couple of websites that gives you some of that information….

http://www.microsoft.com/business/en-ie/Whats-new/Pages/Article.aspx?cbcid=75

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc178954.aspx

http://blogs.gartner.com/guy-creese/2012/07/17/office-2013-vs-2010/

 

 

 

Welcome Excel Level 2 Students!

11 Friday Oct 2013

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Welcome to Excel 2010 level 2! I am so happy you are attending this class. I know you will find it interesting, educational, and hopefully very enjoyable. Check back often at this website for any information or links that I may refer to in class. If I have any handouts, you will find them mentioned here or may be in the list in the Excel folder on the right. The book for this class has the ISBN number of 978-0-76384-315-1 and I encourage you to check for used ones on http://www.Amazon.com . There is a Level 1 and Level 2 book, ISBN 9780763843106. It might be cheaper. I look forward to our time together. Thank you for coming!

Contract Information: (626) 256-0302 https://simpsongcc.wordpress.com simpsongcc@live.com

 

Welcome Windows Students

05 Saturday Oct 2013

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Welcome to Windows! I am so happy you are attending this class. I know you will find it interesting, educational, and hopefully very enjoyable. Check back often at this website for any information or links that I may refer to in class. If I have any handouts, you will find them mentioned here or may be in the list in the Intro folder on the right. There is no book for this class. But I encourage you to check out some computer books at local book stores to supplement what we will be discussing in this class. This class is 4 Saturdays from 8-12. Remember, your attendance is critical, so please attend if you can. I look forward to our time together. Thank you for coming!

Contract Information: (626) 256-0302 https://simpsongcc.wordpress.com simpsongcc@live.com

Computer measurements

28 Saturday Sep 2013

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I often get asked what is a megabyte, etc…

So I added a link to the right called measurements that will take you to a nice list of a whole bunch of computer related measurments.

http://www.wu.ece.ufl.edu/links/dataRate/DataMeasurementChart.html

see also….http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Units_of_information

How do they relate?

  • 1 bit – answer to an yes/no question
  • 1 byte – a number from 0 to 255.
  • 90 bytes: enough to store a typical line of text from a book.
  • 512 bytes = ½ KiB: the typical sector of a hard disk.
  • 1024 bytes = 1 KiB: the classical block size in UNIX filesystems.
  • 2048 bytes = 2 KiB: a CD-ROM sector.
  • 4096 bytes = 4 KiB: a memory page in x86 (since Intel 80386).
  • 4 kB: about one page of text from a novel.
  • 120 kB: the text of a typical pocket book.
  • 1 MB – a 1024×1024 pixel bitmap image with 256 colors (8 bpp color depth).
  • 3 MB – a three minute song (128k bitrate)
  • 650-900 MB – an CD-ROM
  • 1 GB – 114 minutes of uncompressed CD-quality audio at 1.4 Mbit/s
  • 15 GB – number of bytes Google offers you for free.
  • 8/16 GB – size of a normal flash drive
  • 4 TB – The size of a $300 hard disk
  • 966 EB – prediction of the volume of the whole internet in 2015