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   >>> meredith faces her fears and gets a tech makeover.

   >> eye always been intimidated by technology. people say, ipad, ipod , and i say, i don't. with the help of a patient instructor and support of my coworker, i set out to learn a few new tricks.

   >> reporter: every day on the plaza we are surrounded by the greatest fans. they come here to preserve and savor the moment, using technology i can only dream of mastering.

   >> meredith , welcome to the 21st century .

   >> i'm not a gadget person to begin with.

   >> this is an iphone. this is an ipad.

   >> it's hard for me to figure that stuff out. my brain doesn't work out that way.

   >> this is a computer. this is a remote control. these are all things that we use now.

   >> i've rebelled against this stuff for years.

   >> meredith , you have to get hip to the program. you're still using that 16-millimeter film cameras for your home movies .

   >> i like home movies .

   >> it's the flip camera up. turn, you point, you download, you got it. you're done. you're still processing. get about the program.

   >> people like matt lauer thinks it's easy, then it must be easy.

   >> meredith , this is an ipod , okay?

   >> i have no idea how you download music .

   >> put down the eight-track tape player.

   >> hoda said i need to get rid of my eight-track? that's very nice word up

   >> what is she listening to on that ipod . sfchlt to stop and stare f do your dance do your dance

   >> yeah, exactly, filth.

   >> meredith , you're going to love this.

   >> it's not that i've never used a digital camera .

   >> you can do it. i have faith in you.

   >> but once the picture's trapped in the camera, i don't know what to do with that.

   >> oh, it's the sheep farm .

   >> al made a bock for me when we came back from ireland. this is one of the times i thought, i wish i could. i wish i knew more about technology.

   >> i decided to take the techto plunge and i meat are heather c c c cabbot.

   >> i have cheat sheets.

   >> i thought a connection with a usb cord was a good connection to make. heather had me create a folder to place my pictures in.

   >> right click on mouse and click on folder. you can title it whatever you want .

   >> reporter: by clicking and dragging, pie pics made the leap from my camera to a computer.

   >> click on the picture you want and drag it into your family photo.

   >> i'll click on matt.

   >> there you go.

   >> great.

   >> next lesson, scanning a print.

   >> i love this picture. my kids when they were much younger.

   >> so cute. go to start menu .

   >> don't talk too fast. click on start, go to -- don't say a word.

   >> you're going to hit scan.

   >> because it says the word scan. that's good. now i want to drag them into my folder.

   >> make it a little smaller. all the way down. the middle one. oops.

   >> what did i do?

   >> we're going to drag it into that folder again.

   >> don't say, don't say, don't say.

   >> doesn't that look great?

   >> that's great.

   >> she showed me a photo website called snapfish which i could use to make a book once my images were scanned and uploaded.

   >> you're doing it.

   >> this one i like.

   >> but before finishing a book, a managed to flip.

   >> red is record.

   >> green is stop.

   >> who is your favorite anchor on the "today" show?

   >> did you know that it was on? maybe you started it and didn't realize it was on.

   >> no, i was purposely --

   >> doing it upside down?

   >> was it upside down if?

   >> reporter: and even get acquainted with my ipod .

   >> harold king and james taylor i want on my ipod . i go to my itunes.

   >> reporter: and in no time --

   >> yes, i would.

   >> reporter: -- i was hooked.

   >> we've got our music. but it's too late

   >> reporter: maybe it wasn't too late for me after all. see the earth move under my feet

   >> thank you.

   >> thank you.

   >> thank you.

   >> okay, we didn't have to include that if the piece. yahoo! weblife editor heather.

   >> that was so fun.

   >> scale of one to ten?

   >> in terms of effort, definitely a ten. she wanted to do this. she wanted --

   >> i mean, you came in a little intimidated, i think. so i would say maybe confidentwise, you were like a two or three because you didn't are the confidence.

   >> a lot of people are like that.

   >> that's why we have the cheat sheets that will be on the website because, as you said, it's important to do it over and over .

   >> because i've already forgotten some of the stuff.

   >> i want to show you what you made. because you really did great. we actually took all those images we scanned and transferred from your -- the camera into a book. because you said you wanted to make one. and we did do that. there's video of us doing this together. meredith did this herself.

   >> how long did it take in.

   >> i don't know. half an hour.

   >> that's not bad.

   >> the big thing was going through the pictures.

   >> the hardest thing was picking them out.

   >> as we said, you could have gone on and on because there some choices.

   >> once you start, i didn't want to stop.

   >> that's lovely.

   >> that's a great offshoot.

   >> isn't that nice?

   >> we used snapfish but there are other companies, shutterfly, you were sayi ining iphoto.

   >> this is when i like technology, when you can hold something tangible.

   >> so many people think they're going to screw something up, like erase their family pictures. it's hard to make a huge mistake.

   >> right. you have to go into it knowing you're not going to break the computer. that's the main thing. aside from throwing it against the wall, you're not going to --

   >> this is what's on my ipod right now. you can teach an old dog new tricks but they're still an old dog.

   >> and you each have mugs and a mouse pad .

   >> great.

   >> congratulations.

   >>> just ahead, zac efron .

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