Author Archive | chris

Microsoft Word/Office apps

Some people have problems with Microsoft asking for a subscription to use this app.  Here’s what they say: Sign in with a free Microsoft account to create or edit docs. A qualifying Office 365 subscription is required to unlock the full Office experience. Office 365 is also required to create or edit on tablets with […]

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Printing

Printing Printing with Epson iPrint   We are going to have to reconfigure the printer to work on our new network… The pub has an internet enabled printer whose email address is b—–t@print.epsonconnect.com Anyone can use this email address to print to… from anywhere in the world.  That’s why the email address has dashes in […]

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Cut, Copy and Paste

Make sure that the text that you want to copy is on the screen. You don’t need any fancy app to perform this task, so if it’s text from a website you need to have the web page open on your Android device. Press and hold your finger over the word where you want to […]

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Microsoft Office for Android

Microsoft is probably the most commonly used suite of programs used on PC’s.  There are versions of their different apps available on both the Android and the iOs platforms.  The main programs that people use are: Word Excel Powerpoint Outlook One Drive We are going to make sure that each of these is installed on […]

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General Committee minutes – 25/1/2016

PRESENT:      J.Fletcher (JF) Chairman; N.Spencer (NS) Secretary; Mrs. J.Toes (JT) Treasurer; A.Tennant (AT) Trustee; J.Shepherd (JS) PC; P.Strong (PS) member; B.Malin (BM) member; B.Furness (BF) member; C.Smith (CS) honorary member/tutor. APOLOGIES:  None DECLARATIONS of INTEREST: Nil MINUTES of LAST MEETING: The  Minutes of the meeting held 26th. October 2015 were read. JF proposed and AT seconded […]

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AGM 2016 meeting minutes

Boot-IT Club Annual General Meeting, held at the Boot&Slipper BarmbyMoor Monday 26th. January 2016 Present: J.Fletcher (JF) Chairman; N.Spencer (NS) Secretary; Mrs. J.Toes (JT) Treasurer; A.Tennant (AT) Trustee; J.Shepherd (JS) PC; P.Strong (PS) member; B.Malin (BM) member; B.Furness (BF) member; C.Smith (CS) honorary member/tutor. Apologies; None Declarations of Interest: None Minutes of AGM 15th. January […]

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Jenni-in-the-mud

Social media and Pinterest

Jenni Tulip is coming along to run a special session which will focus on some aspects of social media. You can find out more at: http://socialrocks.co.uk/ or: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jennifertulip and can you find out anything else…

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File Extensions and managing your files

An underused and often misunderstood aspect of any digital device is file management.  The ability to organise files enables them to be found faster which does not matter if you only have a few, but over time they can mount up and a lack of organisation can make it hard to find them.  Different systems […]

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Create a new email address from mail.com

Mail.com is a very large provider of email addresses.  Download the app from the playstore.  When downloaded, simply complete the details to set up a new account (using a browser), making a note of them. When this has been accepted, logoff the browser, find the mail.com app and log in!  The settings and navigation for […]

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The Samsung Browser

Labelled Internet this is the browser which comes with many Samsung tablets.  It is not the only browser.  Find out more about browsers at www.whatbrowser.org Google’s Chrome is a very common browser. Edge is the new browser from Microsoft and Firefox is a freely produced one. The Samsung browser is a lightweight and efficeint browser […]

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