Now updated and revised, the user-friendliest, most reassuring, jargon-free, smartest, and most comprehensive nuts-and-bolts guide for seniors, who are the fastest-growing demographic among social networks. Abby Stokes is the perfect guide to the digital domain: She's taught more than 140,000 seniors how to use a computer. In an easy, authoritative, hand-holding way, she covers it all: how to choose, buy, and start using a computer. How to connect to the Internet, sign up for e-mail, and use search engines. Plus, how and why to get digital in the first place: the ins and outs of online shopping, banking, travel planning, dating, research; how to take and share digital photographs and videos; how to discover online communities, and use social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube; the world of apps, online music, and streaming movies; and, importantly, online security and “netiquette.” There's information on iPads, smartphones—including the Blackberry, iPhone, and Android—and e-readers like Nook and Kindle. A companion website—www.abbyandme.com—plus a Facebook page and Twitter feed provide easy and safe access to this brave new world.

Is this thing on?: a computer handbook for late bloomers, technophobes, and the kicking & screaming abby stokes ; illustrations by michael sloan and susan hunt yule

Stokes, Abby

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

New York: Workman Pub.

2nd ed., New York, New York State, 2011

United States, United States of America

Revised edition, New York, c2011

Updated, New York, ©2011

2nd ed, New York, c2011

Revised, FR, 2012

Includes index.

<p>Now updated and revised, the user-friendliest, most reassuring, jargon-free, smartest, and most comprehensive nuts-and-bolts guide for seniors, who are the fastest-growing demographic among social networks.</p><p>Abby Stokes is the perfect guide to the digital domain: She’s taught more than 140,000 seniors how to use a computer. In an easy, authoritative, hand-holding way, she covers it all: how to choose, buy, and start using a computer. How to connect to the Internet, sign up for e-mail, and use search engines. Plus, how and why to get digital in the first place: the ins and outs of online shopping, banking, travel planning, dating, research; how to take and share digital photographs and videos; how to discover online communities, and use social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube; the world of apps, online music, and streaming movies; and, importantly, online security and 'netiquette.' There’s information on iPads, smartphones-including the Blackberry, iPhone,<br> and Android-and e-readers like Nook and Kindle. A companion website-www.abbyandme.com-plus a Facebook page and Twitter feed provide easy and safe access to this brave new world.</p>

Now updated and revised, the user-friendliest, most reassuring, jargon-free, smartest, and most comprehensive nuts-and-bolts guide for seniors, who are the fastest-growing demographic among social networks.
Abby Stokes is the perfect guide to the digital Shes taught more than 140,000 seniors how to use a computer. In an easy, authoritative, hand-holding way, she covers it how to choose, buy, and start using a computer. How to connect to the Internet, sign up for e-mail, and use search engines. Plus, how and why to get digital in the first the ins and outs of online shopping, banking, travel planning, dating, research; how to take and share digital photographs and videos; how to discover online communities, and use social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube; the world of apps, online music, and streaming movies; and, importantly, online security and netiquette. Theres information on iPads, smartphonesincluding the Blackberry, iPhone, and Androidand e-readers like Nook and Kindle. A companion website(http://www.abbyandme.complus) www.abbyandme.complus a Facebook page and Twitter feed provide easy and safe access to this brave new world.

"The hand-holding guide to computers is now updated to show seniors how to use and enjoy the devices sure to be given as gifts, including tablets, e-readers, smart phones, and iPods--and to help them dip into social media and other sites for sharing, including Facebook, Skype, and YouTube. 'Is This Thing On?' is the friendliest, most jargon-free guide to the joy of using a computer. And the missing manual that every senior needs."--Amazon.com

The hand-holding guide to computers is now updated to show seniors how to use and enjoy the devices sure to be given as gifts, including tablets, e-readers, smart phones, and iPods - and to help them dip into social media and other sites for sharing, including Facebook, Skype, and YouTube

A jargon-free manual for novice computer users covers everything one needs to know to enter the computer age, including how to select and set up a computer, how to sign up for e-mail and Internet access, and how to navigate the Web

438 p. : 23 cm
Includes index

2023-06-28