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Looking for Your Valentine? Try Looking Online!

Wondering if you might find your Valentine online? Our online dating guide will help you get started.

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Internet Safety for Kids – New Lessons Now Available

We’ve just updated our Internet Safety for Kids tutorial with all-new lessons. It’s designed specifically for parents and guardians and focuses on ways that you can help keep your kids safe online.

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Backup Those Files!

Have you ever lost files, photos, or videos due to a computer crash? Learn how to prevent this happening again by backing up your data!

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Mac OS X Lion – Our First Apple Tutorial!

GCFLearnFree.og is excited to announce the launch of their very first Apple tutorial, Mac OS X Lion.

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Keeping Up With Facebook – New Lessons and Videos

The good news is we have finally completed updating our popular Facebook 101 tutorial this summer. We have added new lessons, interactives and accompanying videos covering all of Facebook’s new features like Groups, Video Calling and Facial Recognition. Yay! The bad news is we will likely have to do all of this again very soon. [...]

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Facebook’s New Facial Recognition and Privacy

As you may have heard, Facebook began rolling out its Facial Recognition feature to all of its users in the beginning of June. Currently, Facebook uses this feature to suggest tags to users when they upload photos. It will automatically recognize your Friends in a photo and allow you to tag them in just one [...]

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Beyond Email – A New Tutorial About Online Communication

On June 1 we launched our new Email Basics subject with updated topics on Email 101, Gmail and more. As we were revising this subject we realized that communicating online in today’s world is about so much more than just using email. For our learners to be truly skilled in the digital world they need [...]

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What is Cloud Computing?

You may have heard about cloud computing. There’s an ad campaign from Windows 7 where the characters exclaim “To The Cloud!“, a superhero-esque phrase that, when said, saves the day. People in your workplace may make reference to utilizing The Cloud for an upcoming presentation or the sales associate at your local tech store lists [...]

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New Email Basics Subject with Email 101, Gmail and More

Email Basics is one of our most popular tutorials and we have been hard at work updating it these past few months. Today’s email is so much more than it used to be, so we have decided to expand this tutorial into a subject that contains several topics. Our new Email Basics subject includes: Email [...]

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New Gmail Tutorial Now Available

Gmail is the second tutorial to be launched in our new Google subject, following the introductory Google Accounts tutorial which was launched in April. Gmail is a popular email service provided by Google and includes convenient features like grouping conversations and filtering emails for easier organization and management. If you are currently using another email [...]

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