Foundations & Essentials
- Protect yourself from viruses and spyware
- Keep your system updated — operating systems, programs and peripherals
- Backup your data — and create a plan to keep it backed up, automatically
- Set up and manage printers, scanners, wireless networks or other peripherals
- Prepare for, learn to prevent, or recover from disaster (viruses, hard drive failure, lightening strikes)
- Learn how to avoid “phishing” or ID theft — and how to detect urban legends and scams
- Enhance your basic skills and build your computer confidence
Core Productivity Boosters
- Skills enhancement and advanced software training – learn to manage mail merges, spreadsheet formulas and more with style
- Learn about blogging, social networking (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace), and RSS
- Take advantage of "cloud computing" — share and synchronize calendars, documents, contacts and more across locations, organizations or families
- Become a Road Warrior — make the most of smartphones, virtual connections and cellular modems
Maximize Your Gadgets
- Video conference with business partners — or grandkids
- Organize and share your photos and videos
- Choose and learn to use mobile devices — smartphones (iPhone/Blackberry), eReaders (Kindle), cameras
- Manage and enjoy your music — on your PC, your iPod, or through your existing home stereo equipment
- Organize your recipes, your holiday cards mailing list, your genealogy research, you name it
