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(Continued from page 7) 14) Checking your calendar for today’s activi-
ties or to see if you can make an appointment
using your computer in many ways, to accom- for 2 o’clock, in three weeks.
plish many different things, such as:
15) Reading or keeping up with the current
1) Keeping in touch with your friends and fami- news.
ly using email or social networking apps.
16) Checking on your financial accounts.
2) Watching movies or videos, (that you have
purchased, borrowed, or created), on your liv- 17) Checking on the stock market, or a partic-
ing room big screen TV. ular stock, or trading stock in your brokerage
account.
3) Watching movies that you are streaming
from the internet (Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, etc.) 18) Sharing 200 pictures of the wedding you
on your living room big screen TV. recently attended, with other wedding at-
tendees using your OneDrive cloud account.
4) Listening to music, from your local music
database of tunes that you have purchased or 19) Researching “hip injury” using Google be-
“ripped” from CDs or converted from older cause of a twinge you noticed when you woke
tapes or vinyl. up this morning.
5) Listening to music that you are streaming 20) Checking “The Computer Club’s” website
from a cloud music source (server) like iTunes, to see when the next “File Explorer” class is
Pandora, Google Play Music or Spotify. scheduled.
6) Organizing your picture database so you 21) Writing an article for the next month’s
can locate a particular event or specific pic- newsletter.
ture.
22) Creating a PowerPoint presentation to
7) Showing certain photos, from your picture give at the next club meeting.
collection, to your family and friends, on your
living room big screen TV. 23) Backing up your computer so your very
valuable data will never be lost.
8) Fixing the exposure on some of the pictures
you recently took with your smartphone. 24) Playing the latest shoot-em-up, or “brain
training” game.
9) Creating “Movies” of your latest vacation
from the pictures and video clips you took with And finally, 25) Shopping on the internet. One
your camera or smartphone, while on vacation. reason for knowing what you do with your com-
puter is to help you decide on what computer to
10) Managing your home family finances using buy, or more importantly, how much computer
a few basic financial spreadsheets, or a finan- you may want to buy, the next time you pur-
cial software App like Quicken or MSN Money. chase a computer. You don’t really need the
fastest computer around if all you are going to
11) Scanning old paper pictures to create a do is shop on the internet, a Chromebook might
pictorial family history. even be appropriate.
12) Scanning documents to create a database
of important documents for your estate or your
children.
13) Writing your own personal history to pass
down to your children or other family mem-
bers.
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