Computer Issues

• Making friends with your faculty laptop (2010 edition)
• Using CDs and DVDs (pdf)
• Copying a CD
• problems downloading from Explorer
• user guide for IBM T60 laptop ( lots of relevant info for other models too) 
• installing an OC printer: go to http://klo-iprint/ipp (or yourcampus-iprint/ipp and choose from the list)
• turn off annoying sound every time a window opens

tablet PC

• user guide
• BuAd Professor Derek Cook talks about using the tablet PC (quicktime movie)
  

• docx and pptx issues? You can download and install the MS Office compatibility pack or the powerpoint viewer. Here's advice from Microsoft on opening docx files.
• Making pictures stay where you put them in MS Word (and turning off the drawing canvas)

Email

• forwarding a distribution list (MS Outlook)
• setting up myOkanagan to forward email to another email address (pdf)
  

Installing Software

• installing software when it gives you a drive F: error

Digital Imaging Software

• OC computers often have IrfanView installed. This shareware application is useful for cropping and resizing images. It does not have multiple layer capability. Consider upgrading to Adobe Photoshop Elements or Adobe Photoshop.
  

• OC computers generally have Windows Movie Maker installed. Usually it's found at Start | Accessories | Entertainment. Upgrades to consider include Adobe Premiere Elements, Adobe Premiere or Sony Vegas.
• embedding video on a webpage (pdf)
• When your video shows on your laptop screen but not on the LCD projector: Right-click on an open space on your desktop, pull down to Properties. Click Settings, then advanced, then Troubleshoot and slide your Hardware acceleration down a couple notches.

• Download and install Audacity. Be sure to also download and install the LAME MP3 encoder.

• My current favourite free WYSIWYG web editing software is Nvu or Kompozer

Creating PDF files

• Some OC machines include PDF Creator which acts as a virtual printer. You pull down file to print and select PDF creator as the printer. You end up with a PDF version of your document as a file on your computer. For serious PDF work, consider upgrading to Adobe Acrobat.
• Free online pdf to word conversion
  http://www.zamzar.com/