One thing I did with a recently purchased computer (bought at a Circuit City's bankruptcy sale) is download OpenOffice, instead of paying for Microsoft Office or something similar (is there anything sold that is similar). OpenOffice is free, donations are asked for, and works. I've used the spreadsheet and word processing programs so far, without too many difficulties.

So far the only thing I have not figured out that I could do in Word and Excel is use the find and replace function; the function that looks for a specific word in a document and finds it.

The other things I often use the internet for are product reviews and to compare pricing.