Never Mind The Dingles
Computers & Dongles - Filing Cabinets and Drawers
Had Lady H (Or Computer lady as I call 'Er!) known that she was about to be dragged out of her comfort zone, she might 'Ave decided to join the dole queue rather than launch herself on the unsuspecting general public. She wos telling Lady P that starting a new business seemed like a good idea at the time cos, she felt that there was a genuine need for I.T Tuition in the home.
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What she hadn’t taken into account was that she would soon have a run in with The Dongles and there wireless Internet connection problems!
"OMG!!" she said, wot with that, printer problems, downloading, PC’s running slow and folk wanting to surf with no virus protection, Oh woe was she!!!
It seems so much for a computer beginner to learn...
One of her first clients was a very nice man who just wanted to surf the web, he had a rarely used laptop and a newly installed Internet connection.
Twenty minutes into the lesson, they lost the Internet connection, the very nice man contacted his ISP explained very briefly then passed the phone to The Computer Lady, who tried to resist, which was a natural reaction to a man having problems wiv 'is dongle "Yes but!! No but!!" she said "Oh OK then".
During the next hour a very nice foreign lady instructed her to check lights and cables, switch off router or unplug cable, wait thirty seconds then switch back on, followed by an intense tour through the control panel and C: drive, so phone in one hand and scrabbling on hands and knees under TV unit, she was trying to follow instructions, eventually connection was resumed by this time the one hour session booked, was well and truly over.
The Computer Lady being kind of heart, insisted on carrying on to show the very nice worried man how to use his, already set up by someone else, email account, she reassured him that the likelihood of him having to go through all that again was minimal and she was only going to charge him for the one hours tuition that they had agreed on, this took another length of time as he could not remember his password, which turned out to have been set up over a year ago and never been used.
The one hour session swiftly turned into over three hours and true to her word she only charged him for one hour, as she drove the eight miles home, she chuckled to herself and thought there has to be an easier way to make a living than this!! And what day could she sign on.
By the time she'd 'Ad this little tate r tate with Lady P over tea and scones, she was convinced she wos doing the right thing after all, and over a year later she is still helping so many people new to computers get to grips with the basics and much more, teaching them everyday things like, setting up email, online shopping, paying bills, selling on EBay, Facebook, Twitter, Skype and Microsoft office.
She always welcomes beginners and says "there's no need to struggle", The Computer Lady is user friendly and very patient.
Cos I've 'Ad a bit of training myself, I like to think of a computer like a filing cabinet with lots of drawers and folders in it!
Now a data dongle (stick) isn't much different! If you imagine a dongle as as an extra drawer for your filing cabinet, you can put lots more folders in it with lots more information and if I have lots of dongles I have lots of drawers and lots more room for hiding stuff.
Any way I'm sure
The Computer Lady can explain it all far better than me, she'll help you to organise and manage your content to suit your needs...
BTW My mate
Andrew can design, build and install you a
Content Management System into your own website. Once you have one of these you don't need to keep running back to your webdesigner every time you want to make a change because if you can use MS Word you can just change the information you display as and when you please and I'm sure
The Computer Lady will be happy to show you how to use it!
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