The basics of Photoshop for anyone struggling, Lifehacker is pretty decent for this kind of thing :)
http://lifehacker.com/5758404/learn-the-basics-of-photoshop-the-complete-guide

Buying a laptop for Applied Psychology

There are three main considerations to take into account when buying a laptop for a college course and theses are:

1.      Size.

2.      Processing power.

3.      Cost.

Size

Small is good. The usefulness of being able to take your laptop into college to transfer work to and from it could be huge when you’re working on multiple CA’s at a time, all the time i.e. on campus and at home. As such I’ve limited my searching to notebooks (or “MacBooks” and “Ultrabooks”). Apple, Toshiba and Dell offer a wide array of options that fit the bill. The MacBook Air is the smallest with an 11” screen without a compromise on the screen resolution or performance abilities with the Toshiba Portégé series a close second at 13.3”. Dell was the worst for the size requirements a college student would be looking for with their smallest screen being 15.6” screen on the Inspiron 15.

Processing Power

In our Multimedia and Design module we use Photoshop extensively. This kind of programme requires an excellent graphics card and equally impressive processor to function at maximum efficiency. Being able to take work home and spend an evening perfecting skills on Photoshop could be invaluable for an Applied Psychology student. An impressive memory would then become necessary to store the large Photoshop files. All 3 companies matched each other for graphics using the Intel HD graphics 4000 across the board. However Apple and Dell pulled away by both using Intel Celeron 1.7 GHz i5 processor with Toshiba lagging behind with an i3.

Cost

Although I left this factor until last to consider, the cost of each laptop is probably the pivotal factor which a typical college student would focus on when choosing theirs. The simple fact of the matter is, between registration fees, accommodation, cost of commuting and feeding themselves, money is not usually something a college student will have in abundance. As such, the vast difference in prices of the notebooks produced by each company becomes vitally important. Dell waltzed into the lead when price was taken into consideration. Both Apple and Toshiba struggled to drop below €850 (excluding VAT for Toshiba) and averaged in the €1000 - €1500 price range. Dell on the other hand boasted a price range of €400 - €800.

Taking price and processing power into consideration, despite having the biggest screen, the Dell Inspiron laptop series appears the best choice for an Applied Psychology student.

http://ie.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/series/Portege-Z930-Series/1121045/banner_id/Portege_Z930/

http://www.dell.com/ie/p/popular-laptop-deals.aspx?c=ie&cs=iedhs1&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/family/macbook_air

Cell phone radiation - What the telecommunication companies don't want you to know. (NaturalNews.com, 2010) http://www.naturalnews.com/036411_cell_phones_radiation_exposure.html

            Contrary to the above article, this article deals with the negative effects of cell phone radiation on humans. In the opening paragraphs the main concern is outlined and clarified: mobile phone radiation has been stated to be a possible human carcinogen” by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. Derva Davis, PhD, is referenced several times in these paragraphs as she believes if the phone companies don't “make a positive move soon, we may have a global epidemic on our hands within the next two decades.” This startling prediction is backed up almost immediately by the upwards of 500 studies carried out around these theories. Despite all these concerns, there remains a problem with the efforts to correct the issue of the ill effects of cell phone radiation. According to the author of the article the funds necessary to properly research these effects is non-existent and unlikely to appear for the foreseeable future. The second half of this article deals with the CTIA, the International Association for the Wireless Telecommunications Industry, and the Right-To-Know ordinances. Such ordinance began in San Francisco in the summer of 2010. They stated that the members of the community who purchased a phone had a right to know of the possible health risks associated with cell phone radiation. The CTIA have brought the city and county of San Francisco to court over this claiming they breach the phone company’s first amendment. The industry hides behind 2 factors:

1. They maintain they have never said cell phones were safe.

2. The manuals which accompany the cell phones state in tiny wording that a cell phone should never be held next to the body in order to avoid exceeding the exposure limits set by the FCC.

These measures taken by the phone companies are simply not good enough in my opinion as the phone companies are well aware the customer is unlikely to ever read these warnings buried deep within their manuals. Also, simply never saying something is or isn’t dangerous doesn’t make it safe to sell.