Computer Basics | Internet Basics | Learn to Type
Welcome to our short, easy-to-master, web based education platform, dealing with: Acquiring Basic Computer and Technology Skills. Our goal is to give you a solid foundation. Once you have understood the basics, you will have a clear understanding to build your future knowledge on for the necessary skills to easily use and understand computers and technology in today’s technology-based world.
Computer literacy is the knowledge and ability to use computers and technology efficiently. The Computer Basics tutorials’ Range will give you the knowledge and confidence needed to understand just about everything you need to know to get started in the world of computers and technology.
Each section of our training directory contains a straightforward, self-paced introduction to these topics. To access information about any topic click on the topic's name you are interested in. There are thousands of lessons to choose from with easy to follow titles.
Internet Security | Cyber Safety | Cyber Scams | Cyber Bullying
Online Predators | Videos and Games
We know how important it is to protect and educate our young people on using the Internet and we want to provide all of our users with a safe experience.
This Module will help to provide parents and teachers with necessary tools to help them choose what content children see online … We offer tips and advice to families about how to stay safe online … Work closely with organisations such as charities, others in our industry and government bodies dedicated to protecting young people.
Social networking sites, chat rooms, virtual worlds, and blogs are how teens and tweens socialise online; it's important to help all parents, teachers and children learn how to navigate these spaces safely. Among the pitfalls that come with online socialising are sharing too much information or posting comments, photos, or videos that can damage a reputation or hurt someone's feelings, or worse!
Applying real-world judgment can help minimise those risks. We show you how in these training modules.
ICT Dictionary/Encyclopedia
Over the last six years TCS has developed an incredibly powerful, yet simple to use ICT Encyclopaedia/Dictionary containing thousands of quick-response answers to computer and technology-based ‘Names’ and ‘Terms’
There are an estimated 8,000 Links and Descriptions for Technology-related Terms.
Immediate, secure access - fast, accurate detailed answers covering virtually all areas of computer technology.
Every Entry contains: WIKIPEDIA Links, Images, related-terms and full Descriptions
Every Record Contains ...
A Detailed Summary Description
Links to Related Terms
Images
a one-click Wikipedia Link
IT’s fast, IT’s easy to use ...and IT’s incredibly informative!
Word | Excel | PowerPoint | Outlook | Access | Publisher | Project | One Note | Visio | InfoPath | Lync | SharePoint | Surface | Cloud | 365 |
Microsoft Corporation (founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975); is an American multi-national corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft Office Suite, and Internet Explorer web browser. Its flagship hardware products are Xbox game console and the Microsoft Surface series of tablets. It is the world's largest software maker measured by revenues.] It is also one of the world's most valuable companies.
The TCS Technology Training Directory contains thousands of Microsoft Tutorials covering virtually everything under the Microsoft Brand. Quick-access, easy to follow and understand.
MAC | Ipad | Ipod | Itune | icloud | apple-tv | ipad apps | iphone apps
Apple Inc., founded on April 1, 1976, designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software and personal computers. Its best-known hardware products are the Mac line of computers, the iPod music player, the iPhone SmartPhone, and the iPad tablet computer. Its software includes the OS X and iOS operating systems, the iTunes media browser, the Safari web browser, and the iLife and iWork creativity and production suites.
Apple is the world's second-largest information technology company by revenue after Samsung Electronics, and the world's third-largest mobile phone maker after Samsung and Nokia.
As of November 2012, Apple maintains 394 retail stores in fourteen countries as well as the online Apple Store and iTunes Store. It is the second-largest publicly traded corporation in the world by market capitalization, with an estimated value of US$414 billion as of January 2013. As of September 29, 2012, the company had 72,800 permanent full-time employees and 3,300 temporary full-time employees worldwide. Its worldwide annual revenue in 2012 totalled $156 billion.
In this area of our Technology Training Directory we have collated hundreds of Apple training lessons to help you understand the vast array of technologies developed by Apple.
SmartPhones | Tablets | Smart TV’s | Android Apps
Android is an operating system based on the Linux kernel, and designed primarily for touch-screen mobile devices such as SmartPhones and Tablet Computers. Initially, developed by Android, Inc., which Google backed financially and later bought in 2005.
Android was unveiled in 2007 along with the founding of the Open Handset Alliance - a consortium of hardware, software, and telecommunication companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices. The first publicly available SmartPhone running Android, the HTC Dream, was released on October 22, 2008.
The TCS Technology Training Directory contains hundreds of Android Tutorials covering virtually every popular SmartPhone and Tablet that’s been manufactured. Step-by-step simple instructions guide you through virtually all available tasks for each Model. Quick-access, easy to follow and understand.
TheComputerSchool MODULES
TheComputerSchool has developed a range of quick-lesson education modules to get you underway using a number of popular different computer programs; Hundreds of detailed tutorials covering an extensive and varied range of: HOW DO I ? Learning Topics.
Easy-To-Follow, Step-By-Step Coaching to get you started…
MS Windows 7 | MS Windows Vista | MS Excel 2010 | MS Word 2010 | MS PowerPoint 2010
Dreamweaver | Photoshop | Movie Maker | The Internet | Email | Internet Safety | e-Commerce Key-Board Shortcuts | Internet Research | MS Access | Web Design | FrontPage | MS Publisher
FaceBook | Twitter | Skype | Youtube
Gmail | Search | GooglePlus | CHROME | Maps | Google Earth | Images | Picasa | Translator | Scholar | Blogger | Drive | Groups
Google Inc. Founded and incorporated by Larry Page and Sergey Brin on August 19, 2004, followed by its initial public offering in 2006: has maintained rapid growth since incorporation triggering a chain of products, acquisitions, and partnerships beyond the company's core web search engine.
The Company provides Internet-related products and services, including internet search, cloud computing, software and advertising technologies. They offer online productivity software including email, an office suite, and social networking. Google's products extend to the desktop as well, with applications for web browsing, organizing and editing photos, and instant messaging ... they lead in the development of the Android mobile operating system, as well as the Google Chrome OS browser-only operating system.
Google has been estimated to run over one million servers in data centres around the world, and processes over one billion search requests and about twenty-four Petabytes of user-generated data every day.
December 2013: Alexa listed google.com as the Internet's most visited website and numerous other Google owned websites in the Top 100 (YouTube, Blogger etc.)
In this area of our Technology Training Directory we have collated thousands of Google Training Lessons to help you learn and understand the different technologies Google has available.
FaceBook | Twitter | LinkedIn | YouTube | MySpace | Skype | What’s App | LINE | Blogs | Bling | and much more
Social Media refers to the means of interactions among people in which they create, share, and exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and networks. Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define social media as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content. Furthermore, social media depend on mobile and web-based technologies to create highly interactive platforms which individuals and communities share, co-create, discuss, and modify user-generated content.
It introduces substantial and pervasive changes to communication between organisations, communities and individuals.
Social media differentiates from traditional/industrial media in many aspects such as quality, reach, frequency, usability, immediacy and permanence. There are many effects that stem from internet usage.
According to Nielsen, internet users continue to spend more time with social media sites than any other type of site. At the same time, the total time spent on social media in the U.S. across PC and mobile devices increased by 37 percent to 121 billion minutes in July 2012 compared to 88 billion minutes in July 2011. The TCS Technology Training Directory contains hundreds of Tutorials covering Social Media. Virtually all major Social Media Sites are covered. Step-by-step simple instructions guide students through a structured series of learning exercises for virtually all major Social Media Websites. Quick-access, easy to follow and understand.
ADOBE – Photoshop, DreamWeaver, Acrobat, Connect, Elements & LightRoom Open Office | Moodle | QuickBooks | MYOB | CRM: Sage (ACT) | SalesForce BlackBerry | Digital Photography | Brain Training And much much more ...
The TCS Technology Training Directory has evolved from nearly 15 years of development into now; The Largest Technology Training Directory In The World ... currently with more than 10,000 Lessons and Tutorials covering the most popular Computer and Technology; Programs, Apps, SmartPhones, Tablets and devices available anywhere in the world ... and we now boast more than 100,000 DAILY Page-Views (averaged over the last 3 Years)
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