Hank Feinberg Webinar on Cloud Computing

Photo: Charles Hildebrandt

Vol 11 / Issue 4

Brookdale Computer Users Group • Lincroft, NJ

April 2012

Hank Feinberg webinar on cloud computing

By Joanne Grazide, VP - Programs

We are proud to announce our second of three spring webinars will be given by Hank Feinberg, from the APCUG Speakers Bureau. Hank is familiar with the needs of user groups and has extensive experience speaking on various topics at all levels of expertise.
Hank will clarify for us what the cloud is and how we can use it. He will talk about available applications, current providers and security. He will also discuss differences between public and private clouds, and more. delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, which means that “shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility (like the electricity grid) over a network (typically the Internet)” (from Wikipedia).
The term “cloud” has been in use, originally in the context of schematics used by network administrators, and later to describe the Internet. Currently, the cloud is used to describe any type of virtual computing which involves the Internet rather than your local hard drive. This conceptual

Hank Feinberg

One deﬁnition of “Cloud Computing” is the

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Future BCUG General Meeting Topics

When: 7 p.m. Friday, April 20 Where: MAS 100, Brookdale CC, Lincroft, near west end of parking lot #6.

• May: Bruce Fowler of BCUG’s Linux workshop on Linux Basics • June: Kathy Jacobs of APCUG – webinar on social media • July: Johnny Corbett on creating and marketing applications

CyberQuickies workshop series to debut soon

At the March General Meeting, we talked about CyberQuickies, our name for a series of workshops on the ﬁrst Saturday each month at 10 am in ATeC 224. The ﬁrst meeting will be either in April or May. We’ll announce it. The subjects will change from one month to another but will be things like Social Networks, Music,

President’s Message

By Sandy Rand

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Inside this Issue

GPS, Car Electronics, Battery Powered Cars, Panoramic Slides, Home Finance, iOS for iPads, iPhones, etc. and Genealogy. If you would like do a presentation at a CyberQuickie workshop, contact me or Rich Solomon at [email protected].
At the March meeting, we also talked about the BCUG Fan Page on
Facebook. Go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brookdale-Computer- Users-Group-BCUG/155483417839297?ref=ts to see it.You don’t have to be a Facebook member to read our page. Posting comments does require a Facebook account.
Do you know about the SCAN Learning Center? SCAN stands for Senior
Citizen Activity Network We’ve been holding our Graphics Workshop there for many years. BCUG member Andrea Tarr is the program director. Several of our members are also volunteers as SCAN. Anyone 50

“Do you know about the SCAN Learning Center?”

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Rand: CyberQuickies to debut soon . . . . . .1-2 Membership info & member application . . . . 2 Tech Support, Club & Bytes Info. . . . . . . . . . . 3 Workgroup schedule and topics. . . . . . . . . . . 4 Maybach: Parted Magic = many good tools 5-7 MacKeeper: Good, ﬂawed, or malware? . . .8-9 BBS Q&As: VLC codecs; getting Acronis 10-11 Reviews: 2 books on Mac OS X . . . . . . . . . . 11 Review: WeatherBug: Good or malware? . . 12 Marketplace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Review: Paintshop™ Pro X4 . . . . . . . . 13-14,16

Word Tips: Managing the “Autos” . . . . . . 15-16

Crime and conﬂict over the Internet. . . . . 17,20

CompuKISS: Choosing a Smartphone. . . 18,20 Q&A: Barnes and Noble Nook. . . . . . . . . .19-20

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President’s Message

New Members

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or over is eligible to join. Membership is quite reasonable, $25 the ﬁrst year and $15 a year for

SCAN Information

SCAN Learning Center at the Monmouth Mall, Eatontown, NJ

07764

Located down the hall from the food court [Johnny Rocket’s on the corner] Down the stairs, turn left, ﬁrst door on left Ofﬁce Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 9 AM – 4 PM.

Recruiting New Members has its rewards!

renewals.

Class

Bring in three new members within a year and win

a 16 Gigabyte SanDisk Cruzer Micro USB ﬂash drive (or equivalent brand). The new members must join at a general meeting and must write in on their membership application which member recruited them. The SanDisk Cruzer® Micro features: prices are low. I’m taking a class in Spanish for Beginners. Tuition is $39 for 13 one hour classes.
TheyofferclassesinArt, Computer, Dance, Music, Fitness,
Language, Literature and Photography. There is a PuppetMaking class, an Advanced Guitar Club and a Knitting and Crocheting Circle. SCAN currently produces 3 TV shows in their own studio! You can help with these productions by taking the TV Production Class. You can also attend FREE Health and Financial Seminars. Go to www.scannj.com and you’ll be able to ﬁnd their class schedules. Call them at 732-542-1326 for information about the upcoming SpringSummer semester.
USB 2.0 and 1.1 compatibility Windows/Macintosh compatibility Plug & Play Bright Amber LED Retractable USB Connector U3 smart enabled; loaded with U3 programs (Win)

Questions About Your Membership?

Contact Paula Greenberg at 732–739–2125

Email prgreenberg[at]comcast.net

Change in address or contact information? Let us know!

April speaker

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Brookdale Computer Users Group, Inc.
Membership Application

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change may be difﬁcult to understand at ﬁrst; Hank will enlighten us as to the usefulness (and safety) of this new technological advance.
In addition to the ease and usefulness of cloud computing, it has several characteristics: ➤ Empowerment of end-users; ➤ Application programming interface (API) accessibility; ➤ Cost reduction; ➤ Improved reliability; and ➤ Application maintenance
There are many more points to be made. Perhaps this partial list will engender some thought and discussion for you during the presentation.
Hank Feinberg has been involved with computers for more than 30 years. He is a member of the Rockland PC Users Group (RPCUG) for 25 years. He has presented at national and international conferences on a variety of computing and refurbishing topics. He is on the speakers bureau of the FACUG and APCUG. Some recent accomplishments and positions he holds are: President Rockland PC Users Group; Founder Director, PC Renew; Director, FACUG; Director, APCUG; Steering Committee, Trenton Computer Fair; consultant, National Cristina Foundation; recipient of President’s Distinguished Service Award.

Clip this application, ﬁll it out and send it with check to the membership chairperson.

BCUG is a non-proﬁt corporation organized under the laws of the State of New Jersey principally for educational purposes as speciﬁed in Section 501(c)(3) of the IRS Code.

❏ New ❏ Renewal ❏ PC User ❏ Mac User

Dues payable per year per family.

Please Check One:
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Afﬁrmation: I/We hereby make application for membership in BCUG, Inc. I/We certify that the information contained herein is correct.

Signed: __________________ Date __________

Make checks payable to BCUG and mail to:

BCUG Membership c/o Paula Greenberg
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Hank lives in Monsey, NY, and enjoys spending time with his four grandchildren.
We look forward to this presentation and anticipate a great turn-out.

Hazlet, NJ 07730-1128
Tel: 732-739-2125
Email: prgreenberg [at] comcast.net

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Editor.............................................................. Lee Maxwell Editorial Panel....Jean Laidig, Dick Maybach, Sandy Rand Distribution ...........................Paula Greenberg/Mary Byrne

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2012 BCUG Elected Ofﬁcers & Trustees

President...........................................................Sandy Rand VP-Treasurer...................................................John Corbett VP-Programs...............................................Joanne Grazide VP-Vendor Relations ............................................. [vacant] Corresponding Secretary .................................Steve Miller Recording Secretary...........................................Ed Shipley Trustee................................................................Fred Kagel Trustee............................................................. Ruth Lewart Trustee..........................................................Bill Silverman Trustee............................................................. Bob Shindel Trustee.......................................................... Rich Solomon

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Committee Chairs

Club Historian....................................................Fred Kagel Membership ..............................................Paula Greenberg Publicity .............................................................Fred Kagel Tape/Book Librarian ..................................Charlie Meehan Tape/Book Librarian ........................................Vic Ransom Scheduling...................................................... Jerry Lansky Webmaster........................................................Mary Byrne

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Editor’s Message

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Disclaimer

Views expressed herein are those of the individual authors and do not necessarily reﬂect the opinion of the Brookdale Computer Users Group, Inc. Articles may not be checked for technical accuracy, so please use caution when applying information found in articles. BCUG and the newsletter editors are not responsible for misspelled names, wrong addresses or incorrect references to any person.

This newsletter, especially the on-line version, would not be possible without the Association of Personal Computer User Group [APCUG] and its PUSH program. [PUSH apparently is not an acronym.]

Judy Taylour of APCUG collects articles

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Several of our own Dick Maybach’s Tech

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Topics for April & May

Workshop Schedule April & May

Access-VBA

Apr: Building a tabbed interface to display multiple subforms

Workshop Coordinator: Jerry Lansky – jlansky[at]att.net

Meetings are open to the public.

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May: Bring in your tired PC

Workshop

Word Processing Internet

Day Date Time

Location

BCUG General Meeting

Apr: Hank Feinberg: Into the Cloud – the Future of Computing

Thurs

Apr 5

6:30 PM ML

Fri

Apr 6

7:00 PM ATeC 220

May: Bruce Fowler: Linux Basics

CyberQuickies

Quickbooks Access-VBA

Multimedia

Linux

Sat

Apr 7 10:00 AM. Canceled

CyberQuickies

May: Joanne Grazide: Got FaceBook? – social networking made simple

Mon Tues

Apr 9

7:00 PM ML

Apr 10

7:00 PM Sandy’s Home

7:00 PM Canceled

7:00 PM ATeC-218
10:00 AM ATeC-224
6:45 PM ML

Thurs Apr 12

Excel

Fri

Apr 13

Apr 14 Apr 18

Apr: Something for everyone (beginners thru advanced): Sumif, Subtotals, Pivot Tables; screen capture to worksheet; Excel on steroids with CUDA

MacWaves

Sat

Wed

Excel

Graphics

Thurs

Fri
Apr 19 Apr 20
7:00 PM SCAN

Graphics

BCUG General Meeting PC Roundtable Windows
7:00 PM MAS-100

Apr: Joe Zugcic: LR 3 and PS 5 , JoAnn Grazide: PhotoShop Elements 10, Bill Silverman modiﬁers in Producer May: Mordy Weiss - 3D effects for photoalbums, Bill Silverman: after the show is put together - creating the introduction, Harvey Philips - voice overs in ProShow gold and Producer

Tues Wed Thurs Fri
Apr 24 12:00 PM ML Apr 25 May 3 May 4 May 5 May 8
7:00 PM HTHS-145
Word Processing Internet
6:30 PM ML 7:00 PM ATeC 220
10:00 AM. ATeC-224
7:00 PM HTHS-145

7:00 PM Canceled

7:00 PM ATeC-218
CyberQuickies Access-VBA

Multimedia

Linux
Sat Tues

Linux

Thurs May 10

Apr: Distro of the Month, Linux Q&A, Useful Open-SourceApplications, Secrets of the Command Line May: Distro of the Month, Linux Q&A, Useful Open-SourceApplications, Secrets of the Command Line

Fri

May 11

MacWaves

Sat

May 12 10:00 AM ATeC-224

Quickbooks Excel
Mon Wed Thurs Fri
May 14 May 16 May 17 May 18
7:00 PM ML 6:45 PM ML

Graphics

7:00 PM SCAN

7:00 PM MAS-100

MacWaves

BCUG General Meeting PC Roundtable Windows

Apr: Lee: How saving ﬁles has changed in Lion; Bob: How Apple Mail works May: Lee: iMovie in Lion; Bob: TBA

Tues Wed
May 22 12:00 PM ML May 23 7:00 PM HTHS-145

Quickbooks

Apr: Starting a New Business May: Tips and tricks

Meeting Locations

On the Brookdale Campus:

Off Campus Locations:

ATeC: Near satellite dishes, lots 5 & 6. HTHS: HiTech High School, lot 4. MAN: Main Academic Complex North, right in front of lots 4 and 5.
MAS: Natural and Applied Sciences. Lot
6, just behind the greenhouse.
ML: Middletown Township Library, 55
New Monmouth Road, 0.5 miles east of Rt. 35, Middletown.
SCAN: Senior Citizens Activities
Network, Monmouth Mall, lower level, entrance near food court

Word Processing

Apr: “Changing the Look of a Document in MS Word 2007” (Change a document’s background, change a document’s theme, work with templates, add headers and footers, control what appears on each page)

Workshop Leaders

Access–VBA Database Excel Graphics Internet
Sandy Rand Fred Kagel
732–576–6977 srand98[at]gmail.com 732–577–0606 fkagel[at]optonline.net

732–264–9541 rlewart[at]comcast.net

Ruth Lewart

Bill Silverman

Gilbert Healton

Bruce Fowler

Lee Maxwell Bob Shindel Steve Miller

Marv Smith

732-972-2728 732-863-9119 wmagman[at]optonline.net gilbert[at]healton.net

Linux

732–758-0596 brf531[at]gmail.com