Newsletter of the Pikes Peak Computer Application Society, Colorado Springs, CO Volume XXXIX January 2019 Issue 1 The Next P*PCompAS meeting: Saturday, 5 January 2019 Prez No topic has been announced. Sez by Joe President—Joe Nuvolini Nuvolini, Meeting Vice President—Jeff Towne President, Minutes Secretary—Cary Quinn P*PCompAS Treasurer—Chuck Harris by Pat Kreiger, Board of Directors—Harvey McMinn Well, here we are again (for the Secretary, 9th time). Since the society has P*PCompAS AROUND THE ROOM been in existence for 37 years, that means that I have been president President Toni Logan called Joe Nuvolini has a device 24.32% of its life. That means more the 1 December 2019 meeting to that will project a computer or embroidery on my shirt! order at 9:00 a.m. Coffee is still phone screen onto a TV. It doesn’t Last month we saw the story of compliments of Starbucks. necessarily need to be hard wired. an adopted computer with Linux OFFICER REPORTS Look up the model number of installed and some info on Portable your tablet or phone to connect Apps, a source I used some years VP Cary Quinn was not present to HDMI before buying a device ago. It was quite handy when for the start of the meeting. to be sure it will be compatible. If traveling as you could load your Treasurer Bill Gardner reported both aren’t the same brand, might favorite apps on a thumb drive we have $3583.01 in our savings need Bluetooth or some other aid and use them on any Windows account, and $4034.02 total in our to enable the connection. Samsung computer. It was great when one combined account. This year we is a good choice. There are various had to use cyber rooms back in the donated a computer to the church other brands. Ilene bought hers on days when not every storefront had in gratitude for letting us meet there Amazon. You might check with her Internet service. once a month. All dues for next year or Joe for advice. The January program will be are paid. Harvey McMinn lost much presented by Vice President/ APCUG Rep Joe Nuvolini will data on a drive and wonders if Program Chair, Jeff Towne. The take care of our APCUG dues for anyone knew how to retrieve it. subject will be Roku and Amazon next year. He thinks SpinRite will rewrite it, Firestick, alternates to Dish or BOD Chairman John Pearce but the charge is about $90. Cary cable TV, as is, by the way, Sling had nothing to report. TV. Should be an interesting Newsletter Editor Greg Lenihan Continued on page 2 program. One more item of interest: said the newsletter deadline was 22 HomeGroup has been removed December. from Windows 10 (Version 1803). Membership Chair Ann Titus In This Issue For more info, visit: had nothing to report. Articles https://support.microsoft.com/ Hospitality, Barista, and Audio en-us/help/4091368/windows-10- Chairs had nothing to report. Coming Soon: 5G ............................4 homegroup-removed Financial Software ...........................6 OLD BUSINESS Seems to me that with all the Interesting Internet Finds .................9 cloud options, like Dropbox for The annual Volunteer Luncheon Network Attached Storage ...............3 example, it shouldn’t be an issue. is scheduled for January 26th Win10 Update Available ..................5 See you all on the 5th! ☺ (weekend before the Superbowl) at Old Chicago on North Carefree and P*PCompAS Powers at noon. Meeting Minutes ..............................1 NEW BUSINESS The Prez Sez ....................................1 Our newly elected officers for 2019 are as follows: January 2019 Bits of Bytes Meeting Minutes (Continued from page 1) suggested contacting Acronis. Bob Blackledge said Acronis Bill Gardner wants to know through Gene Barlow sells for $25 how to use Acronis to restore an to user groups (www.ugr7.com). old program and make the backup visible on screen. Suggestions PROGRAM included going to the manufacturer who made the program and ask if they have a disk that might be used to restore. Usually the backup from an old computer won’t work, but Officers some do. Acronis might restore the President: Joe Nuvolini backup external drive faster. Greg [email protected] Lenihan said Oldaps.com might have an old version of the desired Vice President: Jeff Towne software. Other suggestions were [email protected] to go back to the source of the program (Internet) to see it they Cary Quinn Presenting Secretary: Cary Quinn have an old version of the program. [email protected] If so, install that using whatever Cary Quinn got a computer with they suggest. Usually they have an no hard drive and he installed a Treasurer: Chuck Harris installer you can download to install new one. He said if you ever have [email protected] it. Try running Acronis to see if it has to do that, be sure the size of the a backup copy of the program one new hard drive is adequate to hold can install from the Acronis backup. all the information from the old one. Staff Joe suggested booting Acronis from The power button would not work, APCUG Rep/Webmaster: Joe the backup disk. Use that portable but Amazon sells an external start Nuvolini backup to restore the application. button. Barista: David George Paul Godfrey said Fry Cary mentioned Calibre as Drawings: Bob Logan Electronics occasionally has sales a program that converts various Editor: Greg Lenihan on Acronis and sells it for $15. ebook formats. ☺ Librarian: Paul Godfrey Membership: Ann Titus Committees Audio: A.J. Whelen Hospitality: Ilene Steinkruger Programs: Jeff Towne Publicity: Jeff Towne Nominating: Vacant Board of Directors Joe Nuvolini Peter Rallis Members attending the December 2018 Membership Meeting. Paul Godfrey Ann Titus New officers were voted in for the upcoming year. Harvey McMinn The Pikes Peak Computer Application Society newsletter is a monthly electronic publication. Any material contained within may be reproduced by a nonprofit user group, provided proper credit is given to the authors and this publication, and notification of publication is sent to the editor. Any opinions contained in this newsletter are made solely by the individual authors and do not necessarily reflect or represent the opinions of P*PCompAS, its officers, or the membership. P*PCompAS disclaims any liability for damages resulting from articles, opinions, statements, representations or warranties expressed or implied in this publication. 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The editor reserves the right to reject, postpone, or edit for space, style, grammar, and clarity of any material submitted. 2 P*PCompAS Bits of Bytes January 2019 Network Attached Storage—It’s Like a Personal Cloud By Phil Sorrentino, Sarasota Technology Users Group, FL, philsorr (at) yahoo.com It seems like everybody is local area network (those indicated collections, but some people do; so, into, or onto, the cloud these days. under “Network” in File Explorer). if you are one of these people, you Most of the time, for the average And the NAS device drive acts as just might think of adding a NAS user, it means taking advantage of a cloud by allowing you to access device to your network. one of the cloud storage services it from any remote location over Aside from data streaming, it like OneDrive, Dropbox, Google the Internet, even if your home seems to me that the NAS device Drive, or Box. Many users even computers are turned off. The NAS can be used in two different ways. back up their data to one of these device installation is quite easy. All (Data streaming on a network cloud services. Cloud services it basically requires is an Ethernet might be a future article.) First, provide a great way to store a cable connection to the router and the files stored on the NAS device fairly large amount of data, like all the router password. could be copies of files from each your pictures, music, and videos. NAS devices are available of the computers on the network, OneDrive will give you 5 GB for from many of the same storage or second, the files on the NAS your own use, and Google will give companies that make the hard device could be a database to you 15 GB, and allow you to store drives we have in our laptops and be used by all the computers on an unlimited number of pictures and desktops, like Western Digital and the network. If the files on the videos, if they are within a limited Seagate. Western Digital has a NAS device are copies, then the size and resolution. With these line of “My Cloud” NAS devices NAS device is providing a backup services, your pictures and videos and Seagate calls their line the capability. If the files on the NAS are stored in some mass storage “Personal Cloud.” Qnap, Synology, device are the primary storage location somewhere on the Internet. and Buffalo also have NAS product files for all the network computers, You must have a connection to lines. The product literature boasts then the NAS device is providing a the Internet to access any of the that “Today’s NAS devices allow database capability. (By the way, data stored in the cloud, but a you to extend that file-sharing a much cheaper alternative to connection to the Internet is almost access to people outside the local installing a NAS device is to set up a given for most of us nowadays. area network, which essentially file sharing on one of the networked But there is another alternative, gives you the personal cloud computers and configure it to allow a personal cloud that you set up storage.” If you have only one other computers to use its files and in your home.