On Line Tutorials
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 Show-Me-Do - A superb website hosting free tutorial videos for Free Open Source Software, recently rebuilt to make access easier. The videos are uploaded and vetted by the webmasters team before being made available, as a result they tend to be better quality tutorials than those on (for example) YouTube.
Popular with DA2C clients are:
Show-Me-Do Open Office Tutorials
Show-Me-Do Gimp Tutorials
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Baycon Group Online Tutorials -
Baycon Group provides a range of free text based tutorials on a growing list of computer-related topics. These tend to cover current commercial titles such as Microsoft Office and Paint Shop Pro.
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Meet the GIMP - A website with a collection of free video tutorials for the popular Gimp graphics program.
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Baycon Group Paint Shop Pro v6 Tutorials - A set of free text-based illustrated tutorials for the popular Paint Shop Pro graphics program. Based on version 6 these tutorials are applicable from version 5 up to at least version 7.
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Computer World 'Quick Studies' Useful quick overviews of a wide range of IT related topics.
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Web Site Building, Validation & Accessibility Testing
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DA2C Assorted Validators - This page is an extract of a DA2C internal document and contains links to a collection of (mainly on-line) validators, link-checkers and the like for testing web pages.
Note this is a sub-set of the tools and utilities supplied to DA2C clients on the 'web building support disc'
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Computer Graphics
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Computer Video & Audio
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VideoHelp - This site will help you to make your own DVD, Blu-ray, DivX, XviD, HD etc that can be played on your standalone DVD Player, Blu-ray Player or Media Center from video sources like DVD, Video, TV, DV, Cam or downloaded movie clips like AVI, DivX, XviD, WMV, Flash, etc.
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doom9.com - This site provides a range of resources for people ripping DVDs.
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Other Charities & Related Organisations
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Direct.gov.uk - the Government web based information service - This page is the main portal for disability related information on the Government web service.
Of particular relevance for DA2C clients are:
Disabled Facilities Grant for home adaptations
Employment & the Disability Discrimination Act
Disabled Students' Allowances (DSAs)
Accessible technology products
VAT relief on products and services for disabled people
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Breakthrough - Breakthrough UK's mission is to promote the rights, responsibilities and respect of disabled people.
Breakthrough Links page:, a comprehensive set of links relating to disability.
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Royal National Institute for the Blind - This site provides a range of resources for people with a range of visual problems.
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Royal National Institute for the Deaf - This site provides a range of resources for people with a range of hearing problems.
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Possibly Useful Links
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WolframAlpha - Computational Knowledge Engine , a most interesting site
describing itself as 'Wolfram|Alpha's long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. We aim to collect and curate all objective data; implement every known model, method, and algorithm; and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything.'
We would suggest you watch the Introduction first:- Introducing WolframAlpha
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Amusing or Entertaining Links
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The Onion , one of the better on-line satirical magazines and a good example of a web site created and maintained with Drupal.
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The Hubble Telescope - See the big picture
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The Paperboy - Newspapers on line - This is an amazingly extensive index of international newspaper sites.
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The Visible Earth -
A library of nasa images, mostly from space
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New Scientist - Usually worth a look with lots of interesting extras.
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