Easiest Way to Make Your Own Calendar

Today is a good day to learn something new about your computer, and you get to learn two new things, because I did! Courtesy of Mr. Modem (www.mrmodem.com), I found a very useful website called www.timeanddate.com. You can make your own calendar for any year, month, or groups of months, among other things. You don't have to register or sign in, and it walks you through the process of printing your calendar with ease. I found it very nice to be able to print a calendar with the 2009 holidays listed (see screen shot below). It also has several other interesting utilities, like a World Clock and Time Zone Calculator.

In the process of wanting to show this to you, I needed to learn how to do a "screen shot" of the website, so I googled a question and learned how. I made sure the screen was showing what I wanted to capture as a picture. I hit the Ctrl button at the same time as pushing the Prt Scrn button (upper right portion of your keyboard). Nothing will seem to happen at this point, but it has saved a picture of your screen on your clipboard for pasting. I then opened up the Paint program (hit Start, then All Programs, then Accessories, then Paint). When Paint is opened up, choose Edit, then Paste. The picture of your screen will show up in the window. Hit File, then Save As, choose where you want to save it, then name your picture, and save it as a .jpg file (choose from the drop-down menu called "Save as Type"). This will save your screen shot as a picture, and you can use a photo utility program to edit it any way you want. I resized mine to work well on this website. This can come in handy when something is wrong with your computer and you want to e-mail what is on the screen to someone who knows more than you do about it (like your kids). I think I'll also find some other good uses for this new skill.