P.H.I.R.S.T. LINK Hardware and software available for instruction

THE BASICS

• Startup & Shutdown Procedures
• Peripherals & Troubleshooting
• Machine Hardware Concepts
• Mice & Mouse-Ware
• The Graphic User Interface
• Software & Program Management
• Disk & File Management
• Internet Netiquette & Safety
• Preventive Maintenance

OPERATING SYSTEMS

• DOS
• Windows
• Linux

WORD PROCESSING

• WordPerfect
• Write
• Word-Pad
• Word
• Open Office
• Abi-Word

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY

Screen Readers

• ZoomText Xtra Level 2
• Talking Web Browser
• Business Vision
• Read Please
• Win Vision
• Window Eyes
• JAWS
• HAL

Voice Input

• Dragon Dictate
• Simply Speaking
• Voice Pad

Scanning & Text Recognition

• Kurzweil OCR
• Neuro-Talker OCR

INTERNET

E-Mail

• Mail
• Pine
• Elm
• Eudora
• Outlook
• Outlook Express
• Hot Mail
• Yahoo Mail
• Web Mail

Web Browsers

• Lynx
• Mosaic
• Netscape
• Explorer
• Opera
• Firefox

News Group Readers

• Pine
• Trumpet
• Usenet
• Outlook Express
• Google Groups

Web Page Design

• HTML
• Spider
• Front Page

IRC, Conferencing, Chatting

• ICQ
• MIRC
• MSN

SPREADSHEETS

• Lotus
• Excel

ACCOUNTING

• ACCPAC
• Simply Accounting
• Quicken
• Quick Books

PRESENTATIONS

• PowerPoint

DATABASES

• Dbase
• Access

TYPING DRILLS & TUTORIALS

• Mavis
• Vfastype
• 1Hand

SCANNING, PICTURES & GRAPHICS

• CorelDraw
• Paint
• Irfanview
• Photo Plus
• Picture Publisher
• Photoshop