This is the most commonly used software product in the world (for office work- over a billion users) and a new version is now produced every 3 years. The next version is due in 2016. The next version of Windows, version 10 is due in 2015. Microsoft Office come in a number of versions, defined […]
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Securing an App
Sometimes you may wish to make an app available to you alone. For example, if you do your banking on your tablet you might want an additional level of security which prevents access to the banking app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.morrison.applocklite&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sp.protector.free https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.enlightment.appslocker
Microsoft OneDrive
OneDrive is free cloud storage provided by Microsoft. It allows you to save anything to the cloud, but is also ideal for saving tablet Office apps. It is available on all platforms. Android iPad
Microsoft Office for tablets
Microsoft Office is available for tablets free – but there is a catch. For editing you need an Office 365 subscription on an iPad and you need a business subscription for business access on Android and you need a Microsoft account for home use. In other words, you need a One Drive (Microsoft Cloud) account […]
Email and Google Drive
This session starts with a continuation of email practice. Each tablet will have received an email. Your task is to follow the instructions in the email. Before looking at Google Drive it is useful to understand something of “the cloud” and some of the services that are available. Each of the tablets is set up […]
Email on the tablet
how email works IMAP POP SMTP different email setups on the tablet the built in email apps setting up gmail temporary email addresses
Downloading photos from Flickr
Flickr provides everyone with a terabyte of disk space to save their own images. There are billions of photos on Flickr. All images on the internet are subject to copyright and Flickr makes it easy to to assign a variety of copyright licencing options to photos. so if you need an image which you can […]
Using the Samsung browser
A browser is a program which allows you to access the world wide web. There are many different browsers you can use on an Android device such as Dolphin, Chrome and Firefox. The Samsung browser works very similarly to all other browsers. Browser settings incognito settings (see below) sharing find on page Bookmarks Tapping the […]
October 2nd catch up
This session will give you the chance to catch up and test your skills. 1 Make sure every tablet has all the other tablets on their Skype contact list. 2 Look at the display settings on the tablet – Display Settings 3 Shopping!
Image management
Digital Images are simply images captured by an electronic device such as a digital camera or scanner. On an android tablet there is normally a camera, a photo app (which may have some editing capacity) and a gallery management tool. Picasa is a tool for managing photos, not editing them. You can upload to Picasa […]
