The Dark Side of Technology
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http://groups/yahoo.com/group/WAUC/ !1 http://wauc.us WAUCWAUCtalk Wisconsin All-computer Users Club January 2018 Volume 35 No. 1 January General Meeting 18 Q&A SIG, Thur., 7:00 PM Speedway Station, 60th & Layton Ave. Feb. 1, 2018, 7:00 PM 24 InvestmentTracking SIG, Wed. 7:00 PM Wendy’s, 7707 W. Layton Ave. Jackson Park Lutheran 25 Tablets Plus SIG, Android, 7:00 PM, iPad 6:30 PM Clement Manor, 9405 W. Howard February 1 WAUC General Meeting, Thur., 7:00 PM Jackson Park Lutheran Church 4535 W. Oklahoma Ave. Presentation:Dark Side of Technology 1 Executive Board Meeting, Thurs. 6:15 The Dark PM 6 Deadline for submitting articles for WAUCtalk 8 Tutorial SIG: Thur., 7:00 PM Side of Speedway Station, 60th & Layton Ave. 12 WAUC Lunch, Mon., 1 PM, Old Country Buffet, 4902 S. 74th RSVP: [email protected] Technology 15 Q&A SIG, Thur., 7:00 PM Speedway Station, 60th & Layton Ave. 21 InvestmentTracking SIG, Wed. 7:00 PM Wendy’s, 7707 W. Layton Ave. 22 Tablets Plus SIG, Android, 7:00 PM, Table of Contents iPad 6:30 PM 1 Calendar, Table of Contents, General Meeting Announcement Clement Manor, 9405 W. Howard 2 General and Board Meeting Minutes: Cold Affects Meeting Attendance Future Presentations: 3 Q&A SIG: SIG Discusses Crossing Devices (continued) • March: TBA 5 Jim H. Demonstrates Roku 6 Freshly Squeezed Reviews: Elevate by Frank Petrie 8 CD of the Month for January 9 Masthead, How to Use CD of the Month, How to Communicate Abby Stokes: Is This Thing On? is with WAUC, Application/Renewal Blank still available for sale: $11.00 10 One-on-one Service, APCUG logo January 2018 !2 WAUCtalk Main Meeting—Business: The meeting was called Cold Affects Meeting Attendance to order. There were no guests or new members. Board Meeting; The board meeting was called to Attendance was only 12, lower than usual on account order January 4, 2018. The first topic discussed was of the extreme cold. In fact, the meeting room became APCUG and whether a VTC (Virtual Tech Conference, colder than anyone could remember. I believe) was coming up in February. Resolved to check it out once the club computer was on line. Bill Gierach gave the Treasurer's report, a beginning balance of $1701, total revenue (mostly from dues) of Gary reminded all that there is usually an annual audit $205, expenses of $164 for an ending balance of of the books some time in January or February. $1742 (all numbers approximate). Resolved to ask for volunteers at the main meeting. We took a look at the APCUG website and found no Gary then spoke about our "ad hoc" positions, in VTC scheduled soon. particular the need for a Refreshments Czar and a Raffle Manager. Resolved to ask for volunteers at the Gary mentioned the treasury audit and Dale Voit main meeting. volunteered to take a look at the books. Gary discussed the need for certain "ad hoc" positions to be filled. Bill Gierach reported on the net earnings of the raffle for the last three years. The raffle netted $36 dollars in 2015, $20 in 2016, and $69 in 2017. Gary brought up the Tablet SIG; Louise was not present. Terry Harvey volunteered to call about the status of the Tablet SIG iPad section. SIG Reports were given. Some highlights: the Tutorial SIG looked at some YouTube videos of tips for Windows 10. A brief poll indicated that a majority of those present now have Windows 10. We sort of knew that was going to happen eventually... During the Q&A SIG Richard Durand asked about drivers and the updating thereof. Bill Gierach described what was on the CD of the Month. Raffle prizes were described. There was no new business. Main Meeting—Discussion: Gary brought up some of the recent security flaws that have been in the news, particularly one that has been present on practically every microprocessor made over the last 20 years. Jim Hempel (with a bit of prodding from Richard Durand) announced he is conducting a class on smartphones at the Wilson Park Senior Center. We finished with a discussion of phone functions, particularly the use of the "1" key to call the voice mail number. Main Meeting—Presentation: Hewie Poplaw spoke to us about EverNote, showing us many impressive Richard Durand brought up the topic of the Tablet SIG features. The one that most amazed me is that it can and whether it will be able to continue. The board even find text inside of graphics. Has OCR (Optical meeting adjourned. Character Recognition) finally arrived? http://groups/yahoo.com/group/WAUC/ !3 http://wauc.us select "Get video URL at current time." Copy the link SIG Discusses Crossing Devices that appears and paste it into an email or on Facebook. When anyone clicks on the link, the video (This is a continuation of the articles in the will start at the exact spot you wanted. December issue.) Handy hint: Copying the link using the CTRL+C Unfortunately, if you have an unstable internet command doesn't always work. If you test the link connection that speeds up and slows down, it can and it doesn't start the video at the right time, do this throw YouTube for a loop. When your connection instead: Right-click the video and select "Get video speeds up, YouTube will try to push you to a higher URL at current time." Then right-click on the link and video quality setting, and then you're stuck buffering select "Copy." Then paste it and it should work. when the connection slows down again. The next site we looked into was on YouTube. It was Fortunately, if that starts happening, you can take sponsored by Britec.com and contained information control. Click the gear icon in the lower-right corner on the top ten programs every Win 10 computer of the video player and see what the Quality setting should have, as chosen by the presenter. Let’s is. summarize the sites described on the video, with a brief description of each. Try dropping it down one setting and see if that smooths things out. So if it's 1080p, make it 720p. If The first one is Handbrake. HandBrake is a free and you're still having trouble, drop it down another level. open-source converter for digital video files, originally developed in 2003 by Eric Petit to make ripping a film You can also use this to force YouTube to a higher from a DVD to a data storage device easier. Since quality setting than it would normally go for your then, it has undergone many changes and revisions. connection. You'll be waiting longer for the video to start playing, but it should be smooth once it gets The second program is Dashlane. Dashlane is a going. password manager app and secure digital wallet. The app is available on Mac, PC, iOS and Android. Want to share a video, but not the entire thing? This The app's premium feature enables users to securely is tip 5. You found a hilarious video but it doesn't get sync their data between an unlimited number of good until three minutes in. The first part is boring devices on all platforms. and you don't want your friend to stop watching too soon. At number 3, we have Audacity. Audacity is a free open source digital audio editor and recording Cue up the video to the start of the section you want computer software application, available for your friend to see. Then right-click the video and Windows, macOS/OS X, Linux and other operating systems. Media Player Classic comes in at #4. Media Player Classic is a compact media player for 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows. MPC mimics the look and feel of Windows Media Player 6.4, but provides most options and features available in modern media players This is a presenter favorite. On to 7-Zip. 7-Zip is a free and open-source file archiver, a utility used to place groups of files within compressed containers known as January 2018 !4 WAUCtalk "archives". Search Everything comes in a #6. Everything is a desktop search utility for Windows that can rapidly find files and folders by name on an NTFS volume. Number seven is a program called Space Sniffer. This is a freeWare program and portable application that lets you understand how folders and files are structured on your disks. By using a Treemap visualization layout, you have immediate perception of where big folders and files are placed on your devices. Pixlr Editor is similar to Photoshop. A robust browser photo editor, for all your editing needs. With Pixlr Editor you have full control over your images including layers and effects. WPS Office is an office suite for Microsoft Windows, Linux, iOS and Android OS, developed by Zhuhai- based Chinese software developer Kingsoft Treasurer’s Report Dec. 2017 That brings us to number ten, da Vinci Resolve. DaVinci Resolve is the world’s most advanced Beginning Balance $1,701.48 professional editing software. It’s both familiar and uniquely innovative, giving you the precision tools and Income performance you need to craft the perfect story! Dues 175.00 Donation 30.00 The presenter stated that all these programs have Total $205.00 free versions. I noted that many also have a premium version. These usually remove ads, provide support, Expenses and/or contain additional features. Newsletter 20.00 Internet Connect Fee 10.58 For more information on these, and to watch this Xmas Party 133.07 video, the link is provided.