Learning and Living in the Online World

All of our staff members are important but at the end of the day, for GCFLearnFree.org to be the site you know and love, it has to work! Our very talented web developer, Steven, is the person that makes it all possible but making sure the site is easy to navigate and always running smoothly. [...]

This weekend we launched all new lessons and content for our most popular tutorial Computer Basics. Computer and technology have changed quite a bit since we last updated this topic in 2008. The iPad has taken off, wireless technology rules the game and there is apparently an app for everything. In order to keep up, [...]

A few weeks ago we did a blog post about the staff at GCFLearnFree.org. I realized that we had never really talked that much about who the GCFLearnFree.org team is and how we all work together to create the educational content you know and love. In an effort to help you get to know us [...]

For the first time ever, we have launched a mobile tutorial app for Access 2010 and it’s made expressly for the iPad. This Access 2010 Tutorial guides you through the new features of Microsoft Access 2010 to help you easily manage a database including entering data into forms and tables, running queries to search data [...]

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. [...]

We are continuing to expand our Google tutorials with Google Docs 101. Google Docs is a free, web-based office suite that allows users to produce documents, spreadsheets and more. Google Docs is becoming more and more popular because it allows you to store your documents and files online in the Cloud which makes accessing and [...]

Lucky number 10! Today, our newest mobile app, PowerPoint 2010 Tutorial App for iPad, was launched, making it the TENTH mobile application we have created in only seven months. Based on the popular tutorials available at GCFLearnFree.org, the PowerPoint 2010 Tutorial App guides the learner through the features of Microsoft PowerPoint 2010. The application explores [...]

I hope you aren’t getting tired of us talking about launching new mobile applications because apparently we’re just getting started! Today, our newest mobile app, Excel 2010 Tutorial App for iPad, was launched, making it the NINTH mobile application we have created in only seven months. Based on the popular tutorials available at GCFLearnFree.org, the [...]

We’re excited to announce that we have had over 100,000 downloads of our mobile apps! That means that in only five months, we have reached thousands of people around the world through this new technology. When we first decided to design mobile applications based on our tutorials, we had no idea what kind of response [...]

Are you a current Mac computer user? Are you thinking of getting a MacBook or iMac? If so, you will want to know about the just-released OS X Lion, Apple’s newest operating system for Mac computers. Lion promises to change the way we interact with our desktops and laptops with new features for controlling how [...]