These are some good websites for kids:

1. Treehouse TV
2. Sesame Street
3. Yahoo for kids

Here is a great site that anyone can use for research, for homework, or just as a handy resource:

1. Kids' Search Tools

My son – who is almost 5 now – is very interested in computers so we have a log in just for him on the computer and we have showed him how to launch Internet Explorer and we have set up a list of his favorite sites to make it easy for him to go to the websites that are safe for him.

His favorites are:

1. Treehouse TV
2. All Things Disney
3. Toopy and Binoo

This way we know that he’s safe in the website he can figure out how to go to... At least until he is spelling anyways!

Change your password periodically. If possible, use an alpha-numeric password.

When using email, never click on an attachment or link unless you know the person sending it and that person has let you know that they are sending the attachment/link.

CTRL + ALT + Delete will lock your computer and prevent other people from logging on to your computer while you are away from your desk.

Don't post any personal information such as full name, school name, where you live, phone number, etc. online.

Be careful if you post photographs online that they do not give away information that would allow a stranger to find you - school or sports uniforms, recognisable landmarks etc.

Do not ever click on "remember my password"...

Build a separate document with your list of passwords and keep it off your computer.

When you are on a website, don't click on anything that says "you have won!!!" or "your computer may be infected". These are just tricks to get you to click on the flashy wording and if you do, you may end up getting spyware on your computer.

Are you a Multi-Language user? You can easily switch your keyboard between languages by pressing Left-Alt + Shift. You should also try this if your keyboard is producing unexpected characters.

When adding favorite website in your internet Explorer, I find it helpful to have a folder for each family member so that they can save their own favorites under their name and in turn locate their favorite websites much quicker than if they had to scroll through everyone in the families list. I know that my 6.5 and 8 year old daughters find this extrememly helpful when locating WebKinz World, Build a Bear, Disneyland etc. As well lots of the websites have a picture icon when saved and that as well helps my 6.5 year old as she is just starting to read!

I hope this is helpful. Have a great week!

When copying and pasting more than one file in a folder:

1. Click on one of the files that you want to copy.
2. Hold down the control key and click on the other files that you want to copy (they will all highlight blue)
3. Right click the blue part of one of the files.
4. Click copy
5. Go to the place that you want to copy the files to.
6. Right click and click paste.
7. All of the highlighted files should then be copied.

CD stuck in your drive and the tray won't open? Pushed the button a million times – nothing, de nada?

Before you get the screw driver or take the computer to the tech shop – get a paper clip and unwind it. Look for a tiny little hole on your drive tray usually near the eject button. Stick the paper clip in the hole – this is the manual release for the drive tray.

Good idea to make sure the disk isn't spinning when you do this – shutting the computer off assures this. (Make sure you check with your parents before attempting this!!!)

1. Ctrl + Enter - Auto-complete *.com address (Works for both IE and Firefox)
2. On modern browsers, such as IE7 and Firefox, hitting Ctrl + Enter will automatically fill in the www. and the .com part of the URL (for example, I just type in "paretologic" into the address bar of my browser, hitting Ctrl + Enter will automatically fill in www and the .com part of the URL for me)
3. Ctrl + Shift + Enter - Auto-complete *.org address (Works for Firefox Only)
4. Ctrl + Shift + Enter - Auto-complete *.org address (Works for Firefox Only)

My favorite keyboard shortcuts are as follows:

1. Control + "A" = Select all
2. Control + "X" = Cut
3. Control + "C" = Copy
4. Control + "V" = paste

My shortcuts are:

1. Crtl C for copying text
2. Crtl V for pasting

I also love right clicking on the mouse to get copy and paste too.

Or highlighting text and dragging it to its new spot.

One of my favorites – "Undo" from just about anywhere by using CTRL-Z to go back a step.

Left ALT + Left Shift + Num Lock: Toggles MouseKeys on and off (control the mouse with the number pad)

1. Windows Key + 'E': Open Windows Explorer.
2. Windows Key + 'F': Opens a File/folder search window.
3. Windows Key + 'D': Minimizes all windows and shows the desktop.
4. Hold Alt + hit Tab: Displays a list of running applications, hitting tab will cycle through the list, releasing ALT will switch to the selected application.
5. Windows Key + 'Break': Displays system properties.

This advanced tip makes it possible to run Firefox from removable media, such as a USB memory stick. This will allow you to run Firefox with your personal settings from any computer, even those that don't have Firefox installed. It has only been tested on Windows XP/2000. The basic instructions are as follows:

1. Copy the Firefox application folder and your profile folder to the removable medium. In this example we will use X:\Firefox for the application folder and X:\FFProfile as the profile folder, assuming the drive letter for the removable media is X:.
2. Create a simple batch file called X:\Firefox.bat with the following line:
3. Start \Firefox\firefox.exe -profile \FFProfile
4. Optionally, disable the disk cache to reduce the amounts of file writes to the removable storage by using about:config to set browser.cache.disk.enable to false.

The reason why a batch file is needed instead of a simple shortcut is that a shortcut uses absolute paths, and since the actual drive letter for the removable media may change depending on which computer it is plugged into, the relative path used in the batch file is guaranteed to work anywhere.