U3A Signposts

Issue number ninetythree (September 2008) in a series of Signposts sent by WorldU3A and U3AOnline Australia, once a month, to any and all U3A members anywhere in the world. Please send snippets of possible interest to one of the editors. Feel free to copy this information in your newsletters.		April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 Web manager Vennela vennela@holloways.org 11th March 2009
	Social/local History Groups: The Mitchell and Kenyon collection is an amazing visual record of everyday life in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century. For a 1901 example see http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=duspZzvrIKo and "Unwanted Guests" at http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=IeBn60WWTDU&NR=1 is very educational!
	Health: WisdomCards make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic. Click on http://organizedwisdom.com/Home
	Tutorials and Demonstrations: See http://www.jingproject.com/ The video explains it nicely and you can see a very good demo of it at http://screencast.com/t/VnIGxR07
	Songza http://www.songza.com/ is a search engine that gives you easy access to streamable MP3s across the Web. Enter a song, artist, or both and Songza serves it up free of charge.
	TECHNICAL TOPICS Thinking of running classes in website design? For site design tips and web design tutorials see http://www.boogiejack.com/
	Drop.io - http://drop.io/ - is the simplest way to share files online. Simply set up a private space to drop any files by phone, email, web, widget or fax and then share them with whoever you want via a variety of outputs.
	Martin Lewis' free (and advert-free) money advice website has proved useful on many occasions. It now has a page devoted to reviews of free office software and utilities. Click on http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/ shopping/free-office-software (Thank you Peter Ridgway - U3A Spelthorne, UK).
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