About Mainstream Guides

Hi, I'm Darrell Icenogle, chief guide and bottlewasher of Mainstream Guides. The Guides are video tutorials on chosen pieces of software. The selected software is picked because it is:

useful to a mainstream audience
free, or very high value for the money

The idea of Mainstream Guides is that many of us would rather be shown than told how to do things on a computer. Software manuals can be great as reference to the more powerful features of a program, once you know the basics. But first you need to get the 'big idea' of the software:

What does the software do?
Would it be useful to me?
Will it work on my computer?
How do you do basic operations?

For the most part, Mainstream Guides are short and to the point, although there are some pieces of software that deserve a more extended look. More Guides will be added frequently, and you can be notified about new Guides by completing the Free Newsletter form in the right-hand column.

Please comment on the Guides and tell me how to make them better!

By the way...

This website is one of a few sites that are owned and operated by our company, Eisenworks, LLC.