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Personalizing Internet Explorer 8: Removing your Homepage
In the latest clip of our Windows 7 training Ammon Wiese will walk you through the steps of removing a website from your homepage.
Be sure to check back for more videos!
CS5 Contest- Be a part of our CS5 Training!
To all of our Photoshop users out there…
We’re having a contest in which YOU could be a part of our CS5 Training!
Here are the rules:
1- Create a piece of digital art using Photoshop and the 3 images that are provided below. You may incorporate other images as well, but the 3 provided images must be used in your composition to be eligible to win.
2- You must email your finished product to contest@learnkey.com by no later than July 5th at 12:00 pm
The winner of the contest will be selected by LearnKey and the winning digital art, along with the winner’s name, will be announced and integrated in our Photoshop CS5 training. The winner (and also the 2nd and 3rd place winners) will also receive a LearnKey t-shirt! The contest is open to anyone, but due to outrageous overseas shipping costs, t-shirts will only be awarded to residents of North America.
If you have any other questions about the contest, please email us at contest@learnkey.com or leave your question in the comments and we’ll answer promptly.
You may download the full-sized images by clicking here- CS5 Contest Pics
We’re anxious to see what you’ll come up with… GOOD LUCK!
LearnKey employees are welcome to join in the fun (on your own time of course), but will be ineligible to win.
Personalizing Internet Explorer 8: Changing Your Home Page
By default when you open Internet Explorer your homepage is set to msn.com however, if you don’t want your home to be msn.com, you can change or add to your home page. Watch and learn how.
Be sure to check back tomorrow for our next video clip!
Tricky Trivia- Raising the Stakes
I know you’re all thinking “what on this earth could possibly beat a sa-weet LearnKey lanyard for the trivia prize?”…
I know, I know- it’s a tough one to beat but, for this week’s Tricky Trivia Question, we’re adding a $5 Starbucks gift-card to the stakes!
Coffee and a LearnKey lanyard… What more could you ask for?
Please go to the original post (here) to participate.
Personalizing Internet Explorer 8: Color Settings
Part 3 of the Personalizing Internet Explorer section of our Windows 7 training clips, Ammon Wiese shows you how to personalize a web page’s color settings.
Check back on Monday for the next installment, and as always you can view all of our posted videos here
“Train the planet”
LearnKey is helping people to succeed all over the world!
In fact just today, as I was working on this post and preparing it to be published, I received this email from one of our clients. It fits perfectly with the promotional video I was uploading to our blog (see below) and expresses exactly what I was trying to convey, only this is from an actual student- probably in training as I type this.
Here’s what this person had to say:
Dear LearnKey,
I am really enjoying the LearnKey/ExamForce OnlineExpert on Microsoft Office 2007 program. It is awesome! What is really great is that I can do it from home. I don’t have to get dressed up, comb my hair, drive someplace and wait on an instructor (who is probably old, boring, with a long beard and bad breath!). All I have to do is walk into the next room and turn on my computer. How easy is that!?! I can learn in my pajamas, with my slippers on or however I want to be dressed…
LearnKey Giveaway
It’s that time again!
All you have to do is answer the trivia question correctly to be eligible to win. Once you’ve submitted the correct answer in your comment, we’ll have a drawing and randomly pick a winner. The winner, who will be contacted via email by a LearnKey staff member, will be posted next Thursday, along with a new trivia question for the week. Basically, we’re only posting trivia questions and results on Thursdays from now on. Make sense?
Alright then… Here we go!
Since we’re currently filming the Word 2010 training, our author Mandi Bergenfeld submitted today’s Tricky Trivia question. Here it is:
In one keyboard step how can you remove all formatting from a text without using your clear formatting button from the ribbon?
GOOD LUCK!
Contest run time: Thursday June 17th- Wednesday June 23rd
Winner posted: Thursday June 24th
This week’s prize: A sweet LearnKey lanyard and a $5 Starbucks gift-card!!
![LanyardB&W[1]](https://blog.learnkey.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/LanyardBW11.jpg)
*In order to receive prize notification, you must provide a valid email address with your comment*
Personalizing Internet Explorer 8: Font Settings
The customization of your web experience continues! This time we’re focusing on how to customize your font settings in Internet Explorer 8, as seen here:
Remember, if you want to go back and watch any previous videos, just click on that “Windows 7 Training” link in the navigation on the side. From there we are linking to all of the Windows 7 series videos we post. Also be sure to keep watch for new clips (almost) daily!
Look What Mandi Brought Us…
…. Goldberg’s Famous Bagels and they were so delicious! What a great way to start off our Word 2010 training! Thank you Mandi!
(left to right: Brad, Kendell, Mandi, Ammon, Brad)
Personalizing Internet Explorer 8: Your Home Page
Once you have installed Windows 7, chances are you’re now looking at your shiny new desktop wondering “now what?” If you’re like me you may just continue staring at your background, but chances are you’re going to follow up that question by opening up some web pages instead.
Today’s clip features tips on how to customize your experience with Internet Explorer 8, the default web browser that comes with Windows 7.
Stay tuned for another video clip tomorrow!