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Introduction to the Calendar App Use your tablet as a calendar that never run out at the end of the year. Use it to record the dates and times meetings and events, receive reminders before the events and even record repeating meetings for regular events in your life. Launching the Calendar app The icon for…
This lesson is an quick introduction and overview of the Camera and Gallery Apps. These two apps work together to allow you to take pictures, screenshots, etc. and then to edit and manage them. There is additional information on these apps in the Reference material if you are interested in using these utilities. Open the…
The Camera Application is a reasonable quality still and video camera you can use to record memories. It’s actually easy to use and provides reasonable results without knowing a lot about photography. You can take lots of pictures and easily delete them if you don’t like them. If you learn about the Shutter Button, the…
The Clock app on your tablet offers several functions that help you manage time effectively. Here is an overview of those functions: Here is a rundown of the four primary features of the clock app that are all accessed using the icons on the image above. Launching the Clock App The icon for the Clock…
Your 24 Hour Weather Source The Weather app can provide a weather forecast at any time 24 hours of every day. It starts with a summary of current conditions and expands to an hourly report on what to expect today and a ten day forecast featuring high and low temps with general sky conditions. Even…
Everyone occasionally needs a calculator. Whether you are doing basic math, conversions in the kitchen, or household budgeting and planning, a calculator is a handy tool. Your tablet can function as a calculator using the Calculator app. It can even perform a number of advanced or scientific functions if required. Alexa Tip: Alexa can also…
Do your travel virtually? One of the objectives of the Gifts for Seniors/Tech for Seniors training curriculum is to help our Cohort Groups find interesting ways to employ our tablet technologies to find a “spark”. We look for fun ideas that are interesting and can be used to entertain, learn and enhance your ability to…
Sudoku is a wonderfully engaging game for our community of learners. It is a global phenomemon with over 100 million users across the globe. You can find Sudoku games in newspapers, books and the internet. Sudoku is more engaging than many games that we might play. Consequently, we have assembled some extra information about the…
This is a short overview of how you can use the Silk browser and/or MapQuest to investigate locations in the world that you would like to explore. Never Stop Learning!
This post is an intro to MapQuest