Basic computer stuff

sports_brah said:
No problem, simple payment can be submitted via visiting the link in my sig. ;)

Also a final point. If all she ever is going to be is the most basic of users, would you consider getting her a tablet? I say this because the closed nature of lots of them would mean that there is nothing to go wrong, along with a very intuitive interface. Could save a lot of heartache! :)
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Ahh she has an ipad and she get s all jittery with that! This is the person who thinks that my sister putting a photo on her laptop broke the internet! :(
 
Depends what she wants to do with it?

Use it every day to replace other tasks?
Communicate with people? Local? Abroad?
Research information?

Show her Wikipedia for learning about new things, any websites for hobbies she might have.
How to save/look at pictures, specially if people are emailing them or if she is taking them herself.
 
Is you mother into arts and crafts?? you could always introduce her to GIMP and then a publisher program like Microsoft's, Open Office's writer or PagePlus so that she could start making cards and stuff :)
 
File Management (Copy and Pasting files from one location to another, onto USB drives etc, file management/structure)

I'd say this is pretty important. I'm always shocked at the amount of people that save things and then have no idea where they are. Or just have hundreds or thousands of files in one folder.
 
Mrs Seabiscuit said:
Thats fantastic thank you she likes doin paper copies of all her spendin wven a loaf of bread! so I could see if that wiuld work for her thanks dude. :)
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Doesn't matter what I do, how much I teach or what technology I bring to the table my Dad will still and always has done the exact same. Prints absolutely everything too. Does my head in but that's older people for you.
 
Crowort said:
File Management (Copy and Pasting files from one location to another, onto USB drives etc, file management/structure)

I'd say this is pretty important. I'm always shocked at the amount of people that save things and then have no idea where they are. Or just have hundreds or thousands of files in one folder.
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Guys this is an old thread dont know why it was bumped.
Crowort thanks that is what I taught her in the end as she like many, downloads copied or whatever and had no idea what happened with it. :)
 
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My mom went on a short night course for a few weeks as she wanted to learn how to save images from her camera and then flip them around and crop them etc.

I struggled to explain to my mom the difference between IE, chrome and firefox. She gets mixed up with google. She thinks that google is a browser or something. Took me hours to explain it, tried all different types of analogies.
 
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