Thursday, April 3, 2008

Free Tutorials Online!


There is a popular teaching tool that is very popular training tool on the Macintosh. Sreencasting has become the rage. Visit the L4L Website for an examples of screencasts. There is also a free site that offers over 150 video tutorials dating back to 2005. ScreenCastsOnline is wonderful free resource that you can enjoy whenever you like.

You have a choice. You can watch the programs on the website or subscribe to the Podcast in iTunes, and watch them on your computer, or your iPod. ScreenCastsOnline offers additional programs for a fee, but there are plenty of free programs to keep you busy. Lets look at an example. Show 142 covers the Apple made word-processor Pages.

Pages is a very powerful word-processor. Pages can read and write Word documents (.doc, .docx Office 2007). Pages has been included in your L4L Macbook. Watch the Screencast and give Pages a try. If like Pages, you can change the association for .doc files to Pages. Then when you click on a document, Pages will load.

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