I am reluctant to put the name in as most who want to join know by now
- I am amazed how the recent activity has brought out requests to join by what are clearly spammers.
Remember to mention this group in your application to join, it makes it very easy to simply approve.
I imagine spammers pay some people by the amount of harvestable names and addresses they bring them, there always seems to be a flurry of wrong names amongst the right.
Thank you for letting me in. I was interested in seeing the photos posted that were mentioned here. I am now in the process of trying to figure out how to post some of my work. I'm 71 and not too swift with the computer. I have a digital Kodak and use their Easyshare program. I don't know from beans what is a jpg file or if the Easyshare program is in that format. I'll keep on studying the directions.
Clarice in AZ/aka cattymisty
"scottnh" ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with
Just start by putting the pics you want to use in a folder by themselves. Then go to rctnp, click on the Post pictures and you will notice a slot, beside which it says Browse. Click there, find your folder and it is just as easy as that. The site itself will make your pictures smaller (less pixels etc) so they are acceptable.
When you start, name your album and then add the pics.
If you have difficulties, if you wish, if you send the pics to me, I will upload for you and make your album. Don't let 71 hold you back lolololol
Can you give Mom that speech, please?
She is basically afraid to even touch my computer, even to move it off the table to serve dinner.
Last time I was there, I'd gotten a loooooooooooong e-mail that I didn't feel like reading aloud in its entirety, and suggested they could read it themselves. Explained to scroll down with the arrow key. Mom (a former executive secretary who still types fast enough to get an office job if only she could find a place that's still using Selectrics) wouldn't touch the computer, so Dad (with no experience with anything with a keyboard) sat down and pushed the down arrow. At some point, she complained that he'd scrolled too fast, and all by himself he figured out to push the up arrow. From the other room, I could tell what he had done, because she started scolding him "she didn't tell you it was OK to push that button, what if you break it?"
Pointed out that her even-older cousins both have computers and e-mail (well, OK, at that point LM had only a MailStation, but still), so it can't be too hard if they can figure it out, and she just persisted in arguing that if she pushed the wrong button, she might break it.
You need to work on your father, your mother will follow. Talk him into getting one and offer to get him started, or point him to where they or he can do a course. They have masses of courses here for just that and it is said that in Canada we are one of the biggest users of the internet and the average age is high !!
Yup. Worked with my parents. Dad got a computer and at first Mom would only play Solitaire on it. Then he started chatting with people all over the world (as well as distant relatives) and she decided she could do that. Now they have separate computers and she will install and troubleshoot software stuff. She still won't open the case to install hardware, but that's ok. A lot of young, supposedly tech-savvy users won't do that either.
My wife did a course called "I.T. For The Terrified" when we lived in Scarborough in 2000. It consisted of about six sessions of two hours duration on a Saturday morning and "did what it said on the tin" - by the end of the course the people on the course could use a computer for email, simple letter-writing and they could seek out information via the internet.
It doesn't even have to be 'older' folks. My DH swore he would never use a computer. "Why would I ever need to do that? I'm a motorcycle mechanic." Then it became necessary for his work (diagnostics, troubleshooting, on-line training). So, since computer training was part of my job, I taught him some basics.
Yikes - I've created a monster! He now browses, e-mails, belongs to a number of on-line forums, etc. The worst part is that he has found motorcycle parts suppliers for expensive gizmos all over the world, and his credit card gets a work out (luckily, he pays for all his parts including stuff for his m/c racing through buying and selling used parts).
MargW
Take her to an Apple store if you have one nearby. Let her play with the simplest all-in-one type. They have great prices now, and are much less susceptible to the easy breakage problems that plague all the Windows systems. Seriously. And virtually just plug it in and it works.
Also, I've seen some community center or library programs designed to get older folks using a computer.
ellice
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