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Newbie resources

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  1. Newbie resources
    1. Online tutorials
      1. How to learn almost anything on the Internet
      2. Tutorials for Beginners
      3. Reference
    2. Recommended free software program applications
      1. Web browser basics
      2. Security
      3. Documents
      4. Manage digital images
      5. Create digital audio files
      6. "Burn" CDs/DVDs
      7. Hard disk drive file management

Online tutorials

How to learn almost anything on the Internet

Video tutorials about Windows 8.1 (or any other technical topics you specify)
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=windows+8.1+tutorial

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Tutorials for Beginners

Senior's Guide to Computers - A Beginner's Tutorial for the Microsoft Windows PC, hardware, software, security, accessibility, internet, backup and email
http://www.seniorsguidetocomputers.com/

125+ Free Tutorials at GCFLearnFree.org
http://www.gcflearnfree.org/topics

Technology Training Classes - Wichita Public Library Programs
http://www.wichita.lib.ks.us/Programs/Pages/TTClasses.aspx

Reference

Windows 8.1 Quick Reference
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8vTm8lejtSKVi1SalFmVWh3UWc/edit?usp=sharing

Windows Keyboard shortcuts
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/keyboard-shortcuts

 "How to Tweak Photos" presentation
/mhgs/tweakphotos.html

Recommended free software program applications

Lists of trusted free software

Open Source Windows software
http://opensourcewindows.org/

List of free and open-source software packages - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_and_open-source_software_packages

Web browser basics

How to set your home page | Firefox Help
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-to-set-the-home-page

Create bookmarks to save your favorite webpages | Firefox Help
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/create-bookmarks-save-your-favorite-webpages

Delete cookies to remove the information websites have stored on your computer | Firefox Help
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored

Security

Use KeePass password management software to choose and remember strong passwords
http://keepass.info/

Remove temporary files once a month with CCleaner Free
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=CCleaner&l=1

To remove pop-ups and unwanted toolbars, install: MalwareBytes Anti-Malware
http://www.malwarebytes.org/mwb-download/var7/

Documents

Office Suites (Word Processing, Presentation, Spreadsheet, etc.)
LibreOffice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice

PDFCreator - virtual printer allows you to save any document as a PDF for sending via e-mail
http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator/download

Manage digital images

XnViewMP Software - Convert & organize photos
http://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/

Create digital audio files

CDex | Extract digital audio from music CDs
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos/

Audacity: Record audio from PC microphone
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

"Burn" CDs/DVDs

CDBurnerXP
http://filehippo.com/download_cdburnerxp

InfraRecorder
http://filehippo.com/download_infrarecorder_64

ImgBurn
http://filehippo.com/download_imgburn

Hard disk drive file management

Find the largest files using space on your drive using WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics
https://windirstat.info/

Windows Easy Transfer - Take the hassle out of migrating your files to a new PC
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Windows+Easy+Transfer&l=1
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