GGCS: Linking Tech Users

GGCS Newsletter, March 2018 Volume 37 No. 3, All Rights Reserved GGCS Welcomes Linda Siegel, Technology4Life 2 Membership —— 3 Community Room, 6 Research with Lynda.com 300 Drake’s Landing Road in Greenbrae, next to Jason’s Restaurant 7:15 p.m., Mon., March 26, 2017 TECHNOLOGY TIPS FOR MANAGING FAMILY HEALTHCARE Presenters: Linda Siegel & Babette Bloch 13 Special Interest Groups Technology can help you to be a partner, not just a patient, with 14 Calendar your medical team. 16 Member contact info In this presentation, Linda and Babette will share tools and re- sources to help you manage your own, or your loved ones’ healthcare. They will cover tips (and pitfalls) of technology that can help you manage chronic and difficult healthcare challenges, such as: How can you communicate effectively with your medical team and with the other family/friends providing care and making deci- sions? What are the key documents to prepare in advance? Where can you find reliable information online to help? How can you keep track of (and share) all the information without being overwhelmed? How can you keep others informed and get help that is truly helpful? And finally, dealing with healthcare is a life long process, so they will share some software applications to help take your mind off your health! Continued on page 15 GGCS: Linking Tech Users March 2018 Page 1 www.ggcs.org GGCS members volunteer to assist other members who have questions regarding software and hardware questions. Whether you are setting up an Internet connection, installing an operating system, or tackling a new project in Microsoft Office, someone in the group likely can help. Your membership entitles you to an array of products and services, including: Access to the current month’s newsletter via email link. Free classes and SIG meetings. Discounted hardware and software. Membership is $48 per year for a family membership. An introduc- tory six-month membership is $30. The full amount of membership is tax deductible under our 501(c)3 non-profit designation. Gift certificates are available. If you have questions about your membership, e-mail Heinz Scheuenstuhl at [email protected]. All members and non- members are welcome to attend the General Meeting or to attend the many classes and special interest groups (SIGs) offered. Non- members will be asked for a $5 fee to attend the session, amount to be credited toward a membership registration made at that time. To join GGCS, use the form below or email [email protected]. To join or renew, send your check to: Golden Gate Computer Society P.O. Box 151696 San Rafael, CA 94915-1696 March 2018 Page 2 www.ggcs.org February's General Meeting: Because not all bills are from companies Quicken Update from Eric Dunn, CEO with websites, Quick- en has added Billpay Eric's presentation (see Fig 1 for his agenda) com- Favorites. Billpay will menced with the information on Quicken's business, give you a choice of which has a total of about 300 people, distributed be- how to pay, but for tween the headquarters in Menlo Park, and offices in payments credit cards Tucson, AZ; and Bangalore, India. Intuit is owned by a are not favored. The private Equity Company, HIG Capital. Fig 2 illustrates top 50 billers will have Quicken's product line. When you purchase Quicken, pdf's, which will be you subscribe, like MS Office 365, for a one or two-year shared in the Quicken membership. Most of Quicken's efforts will be toward Cloud, and can be Quicken 2018, with more focus on the reliability of the downloaded. For Windows version, which sometimes crashes, unlike the Bank and credit card Mac version, which is very reliable. Quicken 2018 for download use Web Windows is already 40% more reliable than Quicken Connect. Capital One 2017. is a big problem in this Fig. 1 respect, but it works and is going to be improved in the next two months. All Quicken bank connections are shared with Intuit. Regarding investing, Quicken allows you to compare your account's performance with the Nasdaq, etc. and will allow you to compare a "buy-and-hold" portfolio on your account with a Financial Advisor, with indexes. See Fig. 4. A couple of small enhancements made to Planning. In Report- ing, there have been enhancements, including the ability to export to Excel. Communication with Quicken is now easier, via Quicken Screenshare and Quicken Cloud. Describing and fixing problems is now easier. Bugs are being cleaned out. A lot of effort has been put into Bills, Online Bills and As of now, the 2018 Mac Version 4 is much better, than earli- Billpay. which have been bundled with Premier, total er versions and getting closer to the Windows version. Mac $75/year for both, where, in the past it cost $120/year and Windows versions can synchronize. Keyboard shortcuts standalone. Reports and Budgets have been improved keep YRMH assist in getting to specific reports back in your in response to customer requests. The Online Bills fea- reports history. Category summary reports of transactions are ture is very good at going online to your websites to available in Mac. Mac now has the ability to get online bills. retrieve data from those who are billing you. See Fig 3. Investments now permits lot tracking, as in Windows. The reg- Fig. 2 ister tray "penalty box" in Windows via "C2R" will not be made available in Mac, mainly because new users do not require the holding bin. Mac 2007 is still regarded as a great product. Reports is one area in Mac that still needs some work. Some of the Mac's Investment features, such as the portfolio view, have been improved, however, some of the Win- dows features like Tax Planner and Life- time Planner have yet to be implemented. Quicken is now integrated across desktop, Continued on page 4 March 2018 Page 3 www.ggcs.org Quicken continued from page 3 associated with an organization as long as there is an email account, then log-in will be as the organization, all part of laptop, mobile device, and the Cloud. See Fig 5. A new Connected Services; but authentication will be required. A mobile App is coming soon, and Budgeting will be coming valid Quicken entitlement/membership permits you to open in a month or two. There is no limit to the number of com- any offline data file at any time. puters that can be used with your Quicken subscription; however, every 90 days or so you will have to verify that Quicken is quite secure, and uses 256-bit AWS (Amazon you own the account. Any Quicken data file can be Web Services) to encrypt data. In the future, Quicken will opened with Quicken 2018, as long as you do not exceed sync all computers on the same account via the Quicken 20 connected accounts. Also, the subscription is tied to an Cloud; at this point, however, you can use Dropbox to back- email address. up and restore files. The Web version of Quicken via Cloud will be available later this year. It is also possible, for $75, to have a Quicken membership To learn more about Quicken, please attend the Quicken Fig. 3 SIG. March 2018 Page 4 www.ggcs.org Quicken Review continued from page 4 Fig. 4 Fig. 5 March 2018 Page 5 www.ggcs.org ID YOU KNOW that the San Rafael of Completion can be posted to LinkedIn. (and county libraries) have pur- chased a pricy subscription to If you try it and like it, please tell as many as you lynda.com that is free for library can—also, for those who like to browse tech D stuff, the library has an e-book link to Safari cardholders? Renewal will depend on whether it is used enough to warrant the cost. (A per- eBooks. sonal subscription with downloadable exercis- es is about $37 monthly.) You can enjoy learning anything at any time of the day. It’s a simple sign-in. After you log on, (or ask a reference librarian for help) go to Re- search/Learning/Lynda.com and use your library log-on to get into the site and set up an account. Consider first watching the video “How to Use Lynda.com” (this subscription can be used on computer and iPad but not mobile). Certificates March 2018 Page 6 www.ggcs.org #1. Do a Bing search “How to use Windows 10 TIPS app.” #2 Scroll down until you see the following three choices: #3 Click any or all to learn about all the new features that have been added to Windows 10 and how to use them. The Windows Tip app icon looks like this: March 2018 Page 7 www.ggcs.org MAIL CAN BE SENT IN SEVERAL for- <em>lazy dog</em>.</span> mats the most common being plain text and HTML. HTML stands for HyperText You can see that the HTML format is quite a bit larger E Markup Language. It’s the way web pages than the plain text form. It has to be, to include all that such as this one are encoded to handle things like additional formatting information. bold, italics and even color text red. HTML and Email Plain text is, well, it’s plain. There are reasons and times you might want to use both. Switching’s not hard, if you know where to look. Of course, where you One thing that’s important to know about HTML for- look depends on how you send your email.

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