Blog Posts by Subject: Computers

The day has come, and the sound of cash register bells still ring in your ears. Or, the bells would ring if the cashier's computer had sound effects. But it doesn't matter, for you are riding the surging thrill of attaining the hailed product of the latest media bliss.

Many of us, use google for everything. We look up addresses, movie times, weather, admit it you know you have typed in your name too. In any case, google has become a search strategy, but many of us do not use all of the incredible features it has to offer.

Now we all have heard horrific stories about sexual predators preying on our kids online. Facts like this make it scary for parents and teachers to feel comfortable with social networking sites. It's extremely important and our responsibility as adults to provide safety measures to kids when using the internet.

The three laptops are operational and available for public use. Myself and Judy, along with computer pages Sarah and Kristen have been shown how they work.

We will loan out two at a time and keep the third one as a back-up to have as the batteries in the other two run down.

One of the most important things to know is that the laptops are not hooked up to the printer, so no printing can be done from the laptop.  Work can be saved to a flash drive which can be purchased at the circulation desk for $10.