Tech Club Newsletter & Meeting Highlights — March 2013

1. basketball $338M lottery ticket DHS high school WebCam won’t work on one of my PCs Presenters by order of interest: best is first Credit card stolen; McAfee, 4x for $105.99 How many emails in your inbox?

2. March 27, 2013

4. Mar 27, 1998 FDA Approves Viagra March 28, 1979 3 Mile Island March 26, 1953 Salk Polio Vaccine

5. Past – Future Topics • Future: Torrents, Updates:Cloud, Tablets, Slide ShowBrowser buttons/add-ons, Raspberry PI, sound ed. • Mar 13 email scams Joe, Howard & Larry • Feb 13 Library Ann Jarvis • Jan 13 Win 8 Howard • Dec 12 Christmas Party (3rd Wednesday) • Nov 12 Latest Gadgets Joe (4th Wednesday) • Oct 12 APCUG Greg West • Sep 12 Fav. Programs Board Members • Aug 12 Picnic • Jun 12 YouTube Larry, Carol, Howard • May 12 Lightroom Bill • Apr 12 DisasterPlan Laura • Mar 12 Routers Howard • Feb 12 Cloud Larry • Jan 12 Tablets: Lynn – iPad, Al – Android • Dec 11 Christmas Party - 3rd Wednesday • Nov 11 Joe Holiday Technology Shopping List • Oct 11 Carol & Howard Skype • 5

6. Who Are Our Officers ? • President Larry Piper • Vice President Joe Lykowski • Treasurer Laura Hammel • Newsletter Carol Picard • Membership Gary Ensing • Webmaster Carol Picard • Publicity Al Adams • Program Co-Chairs Howard Lewis & Bill Tower • At-Large Board Al Adams

7. Board Meeting (Mar 7, 2013) • 27 members, $1,641 balance • Possible topics: • Browser add-ins, sound editor • Updates on: cloud, tablets, slide show • Torrents, PowerPoint, Windows 2013 • Feedback from Greg West on our meetings

8. General Comments • Membership Report • Treasurer’s Report • Status of Individual Members • 2 Lab Classes each month • Tonight’s Raffle Drawing Item ? Could use more members • On with the show …

9. Important S****

10. Club Website http://mcc.apcug.org 1 – added meeting agendas /piper 2 – 3 – newsletters: 2007 to present 4 – may add 2000-2006; pub format 5 – also have a utilities list /utilities

11. Current Newsletterhttp://mcc.apcug.org/newsletters.html Ponderings: News Sources - Virginia Tips & Tricks 2013 Int’l CES Show Extending life of XP PC Couch Potatoes Living in the past HDTV - Buying Look Back Tech Tablets: Performance, Capacity & Ports Banish Metro Bank to stash your Genome LastPass to remember passwords

12. General Questions • New Hardware? Tablets • New Software? Win8 Upgrade • Newsletter or Web Site? • Microsoft Updates? Other Updates? • News: Technical? • Personal Experiences? • Computer Repairs?

13. What I Have Learned Switchboard.com – best for finding phone, address, age Can batch watermark pictures in Adobe PhotoElem 9 Best 140 Twitter feeds (from Time) Cell phones hottest item to steal; lack of database PowerPoint – Publish to keep links; use PPT Viewer Quilt Show – in PPS Paste Bit.ly link into browser; add + to see actual link Make a TV calibration DVD

14. What Else I Have Learned • Proposed Internet sales tax • More people have access to cell phone than toilet • Cyprus is Russian tax haven • Resize a partition in Win 7 • Detroit has a city mgr.

15. Interesting Web Sites - #1 • Top 100 people of the millennium (biography.com) • Compromised emails • Sunrise, Sunset data by location • Google Keep • Who do you trust? (AARP) • Tom’s Hardware • Process Explorer • Calendars That Work

16. Interesting Web Sites - #2 • T-Mobile kills the wireless contract; iPhone • 100 richest people in the world • Mispot.net coverage map

17. Interesting Videos & Books • Indiana PI (c. 1898) • Calc PI with real pies • Jeff Gordon “test drive” • House of cards • Blackberry won’t work • Keep Calm & Carry On • A History of Mathematics, Boyer, 1991 • The Mountains of PI, New Yorker, 3-2-1992

18. My Personal Questions • Display & Printing PDF files in Firefox browser • State Income Taxes • Dual boot: Win 8, Win 7, Win XP, Linux • How to increase a partition size • Remove MS Word blocks, sections, lines • GoDaddy website

19. Time for the Raffle Drawing ?

20. Pipers-Place.net 10 different browsers • Wikipedia Article 44 different browsers

21. Online Backup Sites • IDrive www.idrive.com • Skydrive • Spideroakwww.spideroak.com • SugarSync http://spideroak.com • Dropbox www.dropbox.com • Mozy • CX.com • ADrive www.adrive.com • Cubby www.cubby.com

22. PC Repairs • Mall – Computers To Go • Circle – Compucon • SAMSA • Best Buy – Geek Squad • PC Knights • Staples • Mid Michigan Computer – Bill Church • Rich Holbrook • Airport Grocery • Frank Koenig • Ken’s Typewriter

23. Survey • GPS in car. Use it? • Backup Heating: fireplace, propane, etc • Browser: IE, Firefox, Chrome, Other • List of medications & doctors • System Info: Belarc, System • Generator; hookup to home wiring

25. Definitions • 1910-1960I.Q.1961 – P.C. era • Genius 145-164 • Gifted 125-134 • Above Avg. 115-124 • Normal 85-115 • Deficient 71-84 Mildly Retarded • Moron 51-70 Moderate Retarded • Imbecile 26-50 Severely Retarded • Idiot 0-25 Profoundly Retarded

26. Ads – What’s The Catch • Send in your gold • Free credit scores • Professor & free CDs • Geiko & Progressive Car Insurance • Body Building • Weight Loss • Pay shipping on 2nd item • Carnival Games – Magic Illusions –

27. What I Have Learned How to convert PPT to DVD’s to play on your TV? Camtasia Xilosoft Wink MovieMaker • yudkowsky.net/rational/bayes Bayes Theorem • Wason & Stroop Tests

28. Questions for Individuals • Laura: • Al: • Howard: • Carol: • Gary:

32. Membership List • Al Adams Frank Koenig • Jerry Arch Gust Kookootsedes • Larry Ault Howard Lewis • George Binder Joe Lykowski • Kathy Bohl Judy Vogel • Mary Branson Robert Miller • Terry Brown Harry Morton • Jim Carrier Frank Neeb • John Dashner Ron Picardi • D. Ducommon Carol Picard • Gary-Jan Ensing Larry-Judy Piper • Laura Hammel Shirley Salas • Rich Holbrook Bill Tower • Bill Kocher Lynn Walker

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