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"Is This Thing On?": A Friendly Guide to Everything Digital for Newbies, Technophobes, and the Kicking & Screaming
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Product Description A personal trainer for the digitally challenged. Abby Stokes is the hand-holding expert who knows how to teach the joys of technology to anyone who didn’t grow up using a keyboard or mouse. You’ll learn how to shop for a computer or tablet that’s just right for you. How to sign up for Internet and email access. How to understand and use search engines, and get started with word processing and text messaging. How to choose a smartphone. How to participate in social media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, and more. And, importantly, how to protect your online security, and what to do when things go wrong. Includes both Apple and PC keyboard shortcuts and more than 200 recommended websites and 100 free mobile apples. Learn to: Take and share digital photos Enjoy the convenience and bargains of online shopping Search for recipes and health and travel information Look up old friends and make new ones Manage your finances online Keep up with the latest news, sports, weather, theater times, stock quotes Watch movies, listen to music, read ebooks And do it all from a tablet, computer, or smart phone From the Back Cover A Personal Trainer for the Digitally Challenged Take and share digital photos and videos Enjoy the convenience of bargains of online shopping Search for recipes and health and travel information Look up old friends and make new ones Manage your finances online Keep up with the latest news, sports, weather, theater times, stock quotes Watch movies, listen to music, read ebooks And do it all from a tablet, computer or smartphone Abby Stokes is the hand-holding expert who knows how to teach the joys of technology to anyone who didn’t grow up using a keyboard or mouse. You’ll learn how to shop for a computer or tablet that’s just right for you. How to sign up for Internet and email access. How to understand and use search engines, and get started with word processing and text messaging. How to choose a smartphone. How to participate in social media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, and more. And, importantly, how to protect your online security, and what to do when things go wrong. Includes both Apple and PC keyboard shortcuts and more than 200 recommended websites and 100 free mobile apps. About the Author Abby Stokes has taken on the role of the Johnny Appleseed of technology, crisscrossing the country to help “digital immigrants” conquer their fear. She has visited more than 20 states, 120 public libraries, and 100 senior centers/computer clubs, and has hosted webinars across the country. She has taught courses at both Cooper Union and NYU’s School of Lifelong Learning, and has also taught private and corporate clients. Ms. Stokes divides her time between New York City and Niantic, Connecticut. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. There Is Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself Chapter 1 Bring the World to Your Fingertips Research, find, and buy anything you can imagine, and communicate with loved ones, without leaving home—what technology and the Internet offer My mother still can’t reset her clock radio after Daylight Saving Time. She just adds or subtracts an hour until I come home for a visit. And the first week after she buys a new car, she only drives it in the Stop & Shop parking lot. Once she feels comfortable enough to take it on the road, it’s still a few months before the windshield wipers stop being activated whenever she means to signal a right turn. Considering her lack of technical savvy and anxiety about new devices, I am incredibly proud of her for joining the community of computer users. Mom had never shown any interest in technology, but like so many seniors, she knew she was missing out on something when she began to notice that every article she read ended with “For more information, go to www.[insert almost anything here].com.” “Peach, what is a website?” she asked me. “Think of a computer
