Software Tutorials

Here are the streams of software used in School of Information Studies (SOIS) courses by Dr. Jacques du Plessis. Please let me know how your experience went. Tell me what OS you use, what type of Internet connection you have, and which file you viewed.

SOFTWARE DEMOS: CorelDraw, CorelPhotPaint, Irfanview, FileZilla, OpenOffice, Audacity, Camtasia, Flexitutor, HTML coding with Notepad

PantherFile

-- How-to Tutorials for all PantherFile Users

Login, Create Folder, Share Folder, Issue Ticket -- (Flash stream)


Vector Graphics

-- CorelDraw
&
-- OpenOffice 1.1.4 (Draw)


Corel -- The MENUS (as Flash)
Corel -- The ICONS (as Flash)
Corel -- PRESENTATIONS Example (as Flash)
Corel -- ALIGNMENT and DISTRIBUTION (as Flash)
Corel -- How to create a BIZCARD (as Flash)
Corel -- Multiply the BizCards (as Flash)
Corel -- Rotate Text (or any object) (as Flash)
Corel -- Vector-to-PDF w/ MP3 (as Flash)
Corel -- From CorelDRAW to PDF (as Flash)

OpenOffice1.1.4 -- draw BizCards (as Flash)

Bitmap Editing
-- CorelPhotoPaint
&
Irfanview


Editing an Image (Corel Photo-Paint) (as Flash)
Creating an Animated GIF (silent movie) (as Flash)
Creating an Animated GIF (talking movie) (as Flash)
Introducing Irfanview (as Flash)
Irfanview -- Split and reassemble an image (as Flash)

Sound Editing
-- Audacity
Multitrack Composition (as Flash) NEW!
Corel -- Audacity 1 (as Flash)

FTP (FileTransferProtocol)
-- FileZilla


Downloading the FreeWare Program (as Flash)
Installing FileZilla (as Flash)
Options, Settings, and Functions (as Flash)
Connect and Transfer to Student Account (as Flash)
Warning (as Flash)
Overwiew of Transfer (as Flash)

MM MovieMaker
-- Camtasia

Go to www.techsmith.com and view their superb online tutorials

HTML
-- Handcoding your own HTML file

Click on this Flash movie to view the demonstration how to bootstrap yourself in coding HTML.


INTERNET SECURITY
-- Practical suggestions to safeguard your machine and data

(by Kendrick Gardner -- used with his permission)

 Click on this FLASH movie to view any of the 7 training segments

Stream AUDIO
-- FTP and HTML Tricks


This demonstration shows how to create and stream audio (as Flash) (as AVI)

Student Demos

1. SER CD Rom Usage
2. SER Computer Basics
3. SER Keyboard Basics
4. SER Mouse Basics