Post by johnhowe on Feb 17, 2010 6:42:58 GMT -1
February 13th 2010
During the first session we looked at importing and exporting contacts from Hotmail to Outlook Express and the general principle of moving contacts between e_mail clients. More often than not the contacts are exported to a comma separated variable file ( the suffix for such a file is .csv). These files may then be imported into the new e_mail client. For specific information on this subject a useful web site is:
email.about.com/od/windowslivehotmailtips/qt/Export_Contacts_Email_Addresses_from_Windows_Live_Hotmail.htm
Also a definition and example of a csv file is as follows:
A CSV file is commonly described as a ‘Comma Delimited File’ or a ‘Character Separated File’. The second description is more accurate since any character including the comma, can be used to delineate each piece of data. It can be easily opened by Notepad.exe which is included in all versions of MS Windows. A typical CSV file, where a comma is used to distinguish each record, looks like this in Notepad.exe:
Name1,Address1,Telephone1
Name2,Address2,Telephone2
Name3,Address3,Telephone3
Name4,Address4,Telephone4
We then took a look at Windows Photo Gallery which is a photo editing and viewing application that omes with Windows Vista and may be downloaded from Windows Live for Windows 7. Of particular interest was the new feature giving us the ability to tag photos. Unusually when creating a tag the photo or photos must be dragged to the tag. Once a group of photos have been tagged they may be searched for from the search box using the name of the tag.
We looked at information for Windows Media Player and discussed the various versions.
Do not forget that if you wish yo know the version/release of a program that this is normally visible under Help and on this Menu under the About item. Windows Media Player help is found by right clicking on the top bar.
A demonstartion was given of a one click Restore point maker Quick Restore Maker. This can be found and downloaded from:
www.thewindowsclub.com
This web site has a large amount of useful information which is well written and generally easily understandable
During the first session we looked at importing and exporting contacts from Hotmail to Outlook Express and the general principle of moving contacts between e_mail clients. More often than not the contacts are exported to a comma separated variable file ( the suffix for such a file is .csv). These files may then be imported into the new e_mail client. For specific information on this subject a useful web site is:
email.about.com/od/windowslivehotmailtips/qt/Export_Contacts_Email_Addresses_from_Windows_Live_Hotmail.htm
Also a definition and example of a csv file is as follows:
A CSV file is commonly described as a ‘Comma Delimited File’ or a ‘Character Separated File’. The second description is more accurate since any character including the comma, can be used to delineate each piece of data. It can be easily opened by Notepad.exe which is included in all versions of MS Windows. A typical CSV file, where a comma is used to distinguish each record, looks like this in Notepad.exe:
Name1,Address1,Telephone1
Name2,Address2,Telephone2
Name3,Address3,Telephone3
Name4,Address4,Telephone4
We then took a look at Windows Photo Gallery which is a photo editing and viewing application that omes with Windows Vista and may be downloaded from Windows Live for Windows 7. Of particular interest was the new feature giving us the ability to tag photos. Unusually when creating a tag the photo or photos must be dragged to the tag. Once a group of photos have been tagged they may be searched for from the search box using the name of the tag.
We looked at information for Windows Media Player and discussed the various versions.
Do not forget that if you wish yo know the version/release of a program that this is normally visible under Help and on this Menu under the About item. Windows Media Player help is found by right clicking on the top bar.
A demonstartion was given of a one click Restore point maker Quick Restore Maker. This can be found and downloaded from:
www.thewindowsclub.com
This web site has a large amount of useful information which is well written and generally easily understandable
