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Can the Video Professor teach you anything?
Nearly everyone who stays up past the Letterman and Leno should have seen at least one infomercial for the Video Professor. The enticing free CD lesson is sent to you for just postage and packaging seems like a deal, doesn’t it?
The Video Professor Infomercials started back in the early 1990’s when the Video Professor’s founder, John W. Scherer, appeared on television and offered computer lessons on VHS tapes with titles on the Windows operating system, Microsoft Word and Excel. The Video Professor Computer training titles were marketed to the hundreds of thousands of new computer users who were buying their first machines, but had little or no computer knowledge.
In the mid-90’s Video Professor started producing courses on CD-ROM as well as VHS tapes as new computers began shipping with CD-ROM drives installed as standard. Around this time, the Video Professor started offering a free course in their infomercial.
As the new computer users became more familiar with the basic operations, the Video Professor expanded the number of titles they offered. The new courses included personal finance software such as learn Quicken and learn Microsoft Money as well as courses to help you learn web design, including Microsoft FrontPage, and graphics software like Adobe Photoshop.
The Video Professor now offers their fifty or so courses through streaming video from their website as well as the traditional CD. The streaming video allows students to view the lessons without waiting for the CD to arrive and expedite the learning experience.
Despite Video Professor’s claim to have over eight million clients, there has been some criticism of the sales method used by Video Professor. This sales method, called the continuity sales model, starts when the purchaser receives the free lesson, as advertised on the infomercial. A subscription is then created where Video Professor send more courses periodically, either by CD or streaming video, until the subscription is cancelled by the customer.
The courses offered by Video Professor can cost upward of $60 for CD courses and $30 for the streaming video option. Complaints have generally been directed towards the difficulty in canceling these subscriptions rather than the quality of the courses provided. Our position is that the Video Professor is worth every penny in EVERY category.
So can Video Professor teach you anything? Well that depends on your level of computer skills. The average computer user may be familiar with most of the software that they use everyday, but a Video Professor course may be useful for unfamiliar products such as Adobe Photoshop. Of course for the novice computer user, the Video Professor courses would be of benefit. However, when you sign up for the Video Professor subscription it is advisable to monitor your payments and what products you receive.
The Video Professor Blog, its members, affiliates or staff are not resposible for, and does not provide customer service for, purchases made on the VideoProfessor.com website. The purpose of this website is to provide a medium for prospective Video Professor students and graduates to discuss learning strategies and product recommendations.
Hello and welcome to the www.videoprofessorblog.com. Although we are an unofficial blog, we wanted to create a medium in which those of you who may be interested in purchasing the Video Professor for targeted training and learning of various computer programs and applications can benefit from the advice and experience from those of us who have already purchased the video professor products and have learned from the tutorials firsthand. Please enjoy your experience in our “ramping up stages” of the website’s development and dont hesitate to post or send us an email!
The purpose of this post is to welcome you to the the Learn Vista® category of the Video Professor Blog. Please feel free to begin posting as we will be developing the website further according to your posts and activity.
Windows Vista (pronounced /ˈvɪstə/) is a line of operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, Tablet PCs, and media centers. Prior to its announcement on July 22, 2005, Windows Vista was known by its codename “Longhorn“.[1] Development was completed on November 8, 2006; over the following three months it was released in stages to computer hardware and software manufacturers, business customers, and retail channels. On January 30, 2007, it was released worldwide to the general public,[2] and was made available for purchase and downloading from Microsoft’s web site.[3] The release of Windows Vista comes more than five years after the introduction of its predecessor, Windows XP, to date the longest elapsed time between successive releases of Microsoft Windows.
Windows Vista contains many changes and new features, including an updated graphical user interface and visual style dubbed Windows Aero, improved searching features, new multimedia creation tools such as Windows DVD Maker, and redesigned networking, audio, print, and display sub-systems. Vista also aims to increase the level of communication between machines on a home network, using peer-to-peer technology to simplify sharing files and digital media between computers and devices. Windows Vista includes version 3.0 of the .NET Framework, which aims to make it significantly easier for developers to write applications than with the traditional Windows API.
Microsoft’s primary stated objective with Windows Vista, however, has been to improve the state of security in the Windows operating system.[4] One common criticism of Windows XP and its predecessors has been their commonly exploited security vulnerabilities and overall susceptibility to malware, viruses and buffer overflows. In light of this, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced in early 2002 a company-wide “Trustworthy Computing initiative” which aims to incorporate security work into every aspect of software development at the company. Microsoft stated that it prioritized improving the security of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 above finishing Windows Vista, thus delaying its completion.[5]
Windows Vista has received a number of negative assessments, criticism targets include protracted development time, more restrictive licensing terms, the inclusion of a number of new digital rights management technologies aimed at restricting the copying of protected digital media, lack of device drivers for some hardware, and the usability of other new features such as User Account Control.
The purpose of this post is to welcome you to the the Learn XP® category of the Video Professor Blog. Please feel free to begin posting as we will be developing the website further according to your posts and activity.
Windows XP is a line of operating systems developed by Microsoft for use on general-purpose computer systems, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, and media centers. The name “XP” stands for eXPerience.[2] It was codenamed “Whistler“, after Whistler, British Columbia, as many Microsoft employees skied at the Whistler-Blackcomb ski resort during its development. Windows XP is the successor to both Windows 2000 Professional and Windows Me, and is the first consumer-oriented operating system produced by Microsoft to be built on the Windows NT kernel (version 5.1) and architecture. Windows XP was first released on October 25, 2001, and over 400 million copies were in use in January 2006, according to an estimate in that month by an IDC analyst.[3] It is succeeded by Windows Vista, which was released to volume license customers on November 8, 2006, and worldwide to the general public on January 30, 2007.
The most common editions of the operating system are Windows XP Home Edition, which is targeted at home users, and Windows XP Professional, which has additional features such as support for Windows Server domains and two physical processors, and is targeted at power users and business clients. Windows XP Media Center Edition has additional multimedia features enhancing the ability to record and watch TV shows, view DVD movies, and listen to music. Windows XP Tablet PC Edition is designed to run the ink-aware Tablet PC platform. Two separate 64-bit versions of Windows XP were also released, Windows XP 64-bit Edition for IA-64 (Itanium) processors and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition for x86-64.
Windows XP is known for its improved stability and efficiency over the 9x versions of Microsoft Windows. It presents a significantly redesigned graphical user interface, a change Microsoft promoted as more user-friendly than previous versions of Windows. New software management capabilities were introduced to avoid the “DLL hell” that plagued older consumer-oriented 9x versions of Windows. It is also the first version of Windows to use product activation to combat software piracy, a restriction that did not sit well with some users and privacy advocates. Windows XP has also been criticized by some users for security vulnerabilities, tight integration of applications such as Internet Explorer 6 and Windows Media Player, and for aspects of its default user interface. Later versions with Service Pack 2, and Internet Explorer 7 addressed some of these concerns.
The purpose of this post is to welcome you to the the Learn Quicken® category of the Video Professor Blog. Please feel free to begin posting as we will be developing the website further according to your posts and activity.
Quicken is a personal finance management tool, with a vast array of features. There are several versions of Quicken including, but not limited to: Quicken New User, Quicken Basic, Quicken Deluxe, Quicken Premier and Quicken Home & Business. Each version of Quicken also tends to have the release year in the product name, (eg. Quicken Basic 2008). Other editions are listed below. Development of the UK version of Quicken was discontinued in January 2005.
The purpose of this post is to welcome you to the the Learn QuickBooks® category of the Video Professor Blog. Please feel free to begin posting as we will be developing the website further according to your posts and activity.
QuickBooks is a line of business accounting software developed and marketed by Intuit.
Intuit was founded in 1983 by Scott Cook and Tom Proulx in Mountain View, California. After the success of Quicken for individual financial management, the company looked to provide a similar solution to small business owners giving them a system that required little or no accounting experience, yet helping provide financial structure and compliance.
The purpose of this post is to welcome you to the the Learn eBay® category of the Video Professor Blog. Please feel free to begin posting as we will be developing the website further according to your posts and activity.
Microsoft Office Publisher (previously and commonly known as Microsoft Publisher) is a desktop publishing application from Microsoft. It is often considered to be an entry-level desktop publishing application, differing from Microsoft Word in that the emphasis is placed on page layout and design rather than text composition and proofing. Microsoft Publisher 2007 provides simple story editing with Microsoft Word 2007, but unlike Adobe InDesign & Adobe InCopy, it does not provide built in XML story board and copy-editing support.
Publisher has a relatively smaller market share in the desktop publishing market, which is dominated by Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress. [1] Publisher has historically been less well-liked among high-end commercial print shops, compared with other desktop publishing applications.[2] Publisher’s position as an entry-level application aggravates many issues (particularly in older versions) such as fonts unavailable and embedded objects not available on service providers’ machines (however, Publisher does come with tools to pack related files into a self-expanding application). Many higher end features like transparency, object shadowing, slugs, text on paths, built-in PDF output, etc. are either not fully-functional or simply unavailable (especially in previous versions). However, recent versions have greater capabilities concerning color separations and proper process coloring output. Publisher 2007 also includes the capability to output commercial press quality PDF with embedded fonts as an optional download from the Microsoft website.
Publisher is included in high-end editions of Microsoft Office. This reflects Microsoft’s emphasis on Publisher as an easy to use and less expensive alternative to the “heavyweights” and also its focus on the small business market where firms do not have dedicated design professionals available to make marketing materials and other documents.[1] [3]
Publisher’s proprietary file format, with the exception of Adobe PageMaker, is unsupported by most other applications. Markzware’s PUB2ID (Publisher to InDesign) plugin will convert Publisher documents from versions 2002 through 2007 to Adobe InDesign CS2 and CS3. Publisher supports numerous other file formats, including the Enhanced Metafile (EMF) format which is supported on Windows platforms.
The purpose of this post is to welcome you to the the Learn PowerPoint® category of the Video Professor Blog. Please feel free to begin posting as we will be developing the website further according to your posts and activity.
Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program developed by Microsoft. It is part of the Microsoft Office system. Microsoft PowerPoint runs on Microsoft Windows and the Mac OS computer operating systems.
It is widely used by business people, educators, students, and trainers and is among the most prevalent forms of persuasion technology. Beginning with Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft revised branding to emphasize PowerPoint’s identity as a component within the office suite. Microsoft began calling it Microsoft Office PowerPoint instead of merely Microsoft PowerPoint. The current version is Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. As a part of the Microsoft Office suite, PowerPoint has become the world’s most widely used presentation program.
The purpose of this post is to welcome you to the the Learn Photoshop® category of the Video Professor Blog. Please feel free to begin posting as we will be developing the website further according to your posts and activity.
Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems. It has been described as “an industry standard for graphics professionals”[1] and was one of the early “killer applications” on Macintosh.[2]
The current (10th) iteration of the program, Photoshop CS3, was released on 16 April 2007. “CS” reflects its integration with other Creative Suite products, and the number “3″ represents it as the third version released since Adobe re-branded its products under the CS umbrella. Photoshop CS3 features additions such as the ability to apply non-destructive filters, as well as new selection tools named Quick Selection and Refine Edge that make selection more streamlined. On April 30th, Adobe released Photoshop CS3 Extended, which includes all the same features of Adobe Photoshop CS3 with the addition of capabilities for scientific imaging, 3D, and high end film and video users.
