Northcountry News Tek Talk With Eli Heath

Eli Heath of Paige Computer Service in Woodsville, NH is here to help save the day!

Eli has a bi-weekly column in our newspaper edition of the Northcountry News, and now that column

can be seen right here on-line! "Tek Talk" will be updated on-line every other week as it comes out

in our print edition. Everyone who has a computer knows that there are lots of little quirks, gliches, melt-downs

and the dreaded empty blue screen error messages which we all face at one time or another. Eli is here to

help answer questions and give us helpful hints, advice and ideas on how to make the most of our computers.

If you have a question you'd like to see answered within one of our Tek Talk columns,

feel free to email Eli at: paigecs@gmail.com

Today’s economy with prices rising in everything we buy, would it be nice if we can get something’s for free. Here is what I found;

Free Online Games there are loads of Flash games available online here are a few sites. www.flashgames247.com, Zoopgames www.zoopgames.com, flash-games www.flash-games.net. The Great Games Experiment www.greatgamesexperiment.com, that site is worth checking out. If you are looking for something more exciting there are some commercial games you can try like TrackMania Nations Forever www.trackmania.com, Flightgear www.flightgear.org, Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe www.openttd.org. Grand Theft Auto 2 www.rockstargames.com/classics/index.html. America’s Army www.americasarmy.com.

Online Photo Programs you can download photo’s from various sites such as Flickr www.flickr.com, Stock.XCHNG www.sxc.hu it has over 350,000 images, you can also try OpenPhoto at http://openphoto.net and Stockvault at www.stockvault.net.

Free Novels There are hundreds of novels, short stories and non-fiction works available on-line. One of the best sites for free books is Project Gutenberg at www.gutenberg.org, it is home to 25,000 copyright free novels like Dracula, Moby Dick, Pride and Prejudice and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, other great sites for books are Wikibooks http://en.wikibooks.org.

Free Audio Books a collection of free public domain audiobooks can be found at LibriVov http://librivox.org and Project Gutenberg has free audio books also again the site is www.gutenberg.org. Audio Books for Free at www.audiobooksforfree.com has a great collection.

Free wallpaper and Clip Art if you are looking for wall paper to fancy up your computers desktop then at Flickr they might have what you are looking for www.flickr.com/groups/wallpapers. You can also go to Wallpaper Stock http://wallpaperstock.com. For Clip art go to www.openclipart.org and www.barrysclipart.com.

Free Advice something we all can use can be found at www.citizensadvice.org.uk. and www.adviceguide.org.uk for on line help and suggestions. NHS Direct www.webmd.com is useful for health matters.

Free Music can be found at www.mp3.com and http://calabashmusic.com, also http://soundroots.org is packed with information on the music world and posts free music downloads every Monday.

Free Videos you can spend your lifetime watching videos on YouTube www.youtube.com, you can also visit Dailymotion at www.dailymotion.com and Metacafe at www.metacafe.com or visit Funny or Die at www.funnyordie.com to name a few. High quality video you can get from Joost at www.joost.com.

Free Wireless Access Points there are wireless access points to be found almost everywhere, a site I recommended before www.free-hotspot.com comes in handy when you are traveling, it will display a list of all the free access points in the area you are traveling to. Another site is www.hotspot-locations.com and Jwire at www.jwire.com.

These are just a few freebies available on the internet, next issue I will list more sites I recommend.

I hope this is helpful, any questions please call me at 603-747-2201 or e-mail me at paigecs@gmail.com. You can also visit our forum at www.paigecomputerservices.com where I have all the past articles of Tek Talk posted. So until next time Happy Computing and Remember it is not your fault.

If anyone has a favorite program you would recommend e-mail me at paigecs@gmail.com I will put it in this article to let our readers know, also any suggestions on topics to talk about or computer issues please e-mail me, looking for suggestions .