Smart Working-Great Sites for Tech Questions and Tech Tutorials
September 16, 2009 :: Steve FisherWe all wish we had enough time in the day to learn how to get the most out of the technology we buy and use every day. However, most of the time is that we do the best we can and many things we learn the hard way during a project or toward the end when it calls for it and some one shows us an easier way. So it got me thinking about good resources to ask a question and tutorials to get some video instructions.
5 Great Sites for Answering Your Tech Questions
I recently came across a post from Web Worker Daily called “5 Free Online Answer Sites for Tech Questions,” it outlines sites that can provide you with quick, good responses to tech questions at no cost. These can be valuable for people who don’t work out of a central office or have access to an IT department. They range from the broad to the specific.
Using WikiHow to Avoid Reading the Manual
Many software products have good help on their respective sites but when it comes to extended tutorials or specific uses almost every site falls short. This where wikiHow comes in. According to the site, “wikiHow is a collaborative writing project to build the world’s largest, highest quality how-to manual. With your contributions, we can create a free resource that helps millions of people by offering solutions to the problems of everyday life”. After surfing through the tutorials found at wikiHow, and they, in a similar vein, are excellent free resources for mastering tasks in software applications, and much more.
Its contribution model works alot like Wikipedia, so that anyone can edit tutorial entries, and there is a Writer’s Guide and Practice Page for learning how to edit entries. The site doesn’t cater only to tech tutorials, but runs deep with many articles on using applications that we all live with, every day. Here is the place to start with computer hardware and software. You can also search but this directory is a great place to start.
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