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Oct 21, 1779 Edison has a light bulb Oct 22, 1962 Cuban blockade Oct 23, 2001 iPod released
Past – Future Topics • Dec 14 Holiday Party, Videos? • Nov 14 Chromebook, Run Chrome OS on Win 8.1 • Oct 14 Windows 10, O’Reilly Books, Social Media Survey • Sep 14 Windows 8 • Aug 14 Picnic • Jun 14 Browsers • May 14 HGTV, How stuff Works, How-To, eHow • Apr 14 Joe on Budgeting with Technology • Mar 14 Linux on XP • Feb 14 Gadgets • Jan 14 Privacy • Dec 13 Christmas Party • Nov 13 Windows XP: What To Do • Oct 13 What’s Your Passion5 min for each person • Sep 13 Culinary Delights • Aug 13 Picnic • Jun 13 Internet: Good, Bad & Ugly 5 min for each person • May 13 Backups Carol, Laura, Howard, Larry, et. al. • Apr 13Favorite 5: Websites & Apps/Programs • 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 12APCUG Greg West • Sep 12 Fav. Programs Board Members • Aug 12Picnic • Jun 12YouTube Larry, Carol, Howard • May 12Lightroom Bill • Apr 12 DisasterPlan Laura • Mar 12 Routers Howard • Feb 12 Cloud Larry • 5
Board Meeting (none in August) • Treasure Report: $1,840 • Now 24 members Purchased HDMI cable for projector Now can use projector for sound Chrome OS, Chromebook in Nov How many icons on your screen?
Club Officer Nominations Nominations in October Election is November Nominating Committee submits: VP Office will become vacant
General Comments • Membership Report • Treasurer’s Report • Status of Individual Members • Other business to discuss ? • Tonight’s Raffle Drawing Item(s) • On with the show …
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Facebook: users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, exchange messages, post status updates and photos, and receive notifications when others update their profiles. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics,
Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called "tweets". Registered users can read and post tweets, but unregistered users can only read them.
LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking service. Founded in December 2002 and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking
Google Plus is a social networking and identity service. "social layer" that enhances many of its online properties.
Pinterest is a web and mobile application company that offers a visual discovery, collection, sharing, and storage tool. Users create and share the collections of visual bookmarks (boards). Boards are created through a user selecting an item, page, website, etc. and pinning it to an existing or newly created board. Users save and share pins from multiple resources onto boards based on a plethora of criteria, e.g., similar characteristics, a theme, birthday parties, planning a vacation, writing a book, interior decorating, holidays
Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, and share them on a variety of social networking platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr.[8] A distinctive feature is that it confines photos to a square shape
Tumblr is a microblogging platform and social networking website founded by David Karp and owned by Yahoo! Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog
Membership List - 24 • Al Adams Jerry Arch • Gus Kookootsedes Lynn Walker • Larry Ault Howard Lewis • George Binder Joe Lykowski • Kathy & Roger Bohl Robert Miller • Mary Branson Harry Morton • Terry Brown Frank Neeb • Jim Carrier Carol Picard • John Dashner Ron Picardi • Gary & Jan Ensing Larry & Judy Piper • Laura Hammel Bill Tower Debbie Todd Bill Kocher
Club Website http://mcc.apcug.org 1 – added meeting agendas /piper 2 – tonight: http://mcc.apcug.org/piper/MCC-Jun14.ppt 3 – newsletters: 2007 to present 4 – may add 2000-2006; pub format 5 – also have a utilities list /utilities
Current Newsletterhttp://mcc.apcug.org/newsletters.html Pipers Ponderings: staff lab, clean junk Articles Win 8 Backgrounds Wireless setup I Want It Now A New Android Tablet 3 Words That Provide Quick Help Now Hi Tech to Know Neighbors Password Managers Websites hal Election websites: Money Donation Fact check Check claims Non-partisan info on election
General Questions • New Hardware? Tablets • New Software? Win7, 8.1 Upgrades • Newsletter or Web Site? • Microsoft Updates? Other Updates? • News: Technical? • Personal Experiences? • Computer Repairs?
Interesting Websites #1 Newsmap Cotton ball fire starters You’re getting old 6 favorite utilities dozen free programs to install on new PCs video jukebox time wasters
Interesting Web Sites - #2 • Email shopping sites (daily): • Meritline.com • Amazon.com • TigerDirect.com • Newegg.com • DailySteals.com • Midnightbox.com
What I Have Learned • MIX file extensions from Office 2000 era • Temperature Gun; • Judy’s Newsletter • Ubuntu 14.10 coming soon • New OS on old computer • format HD • use Gparted • remove HD • load OS from DVD
Interesting Videos & Books History of Dow Chemical, Etcyl Blair, 2006
My Personal Questions • Right-click, context menus • . • Junk email works good in Win Mail How to remove obsolete link from Network • Remove MS Word blocks, sections, lines • Network Printer addressing for Win XP
Comments • Jackpot fever (story of Ohio guys) • Cannot get 5.25” floppy as an USB extension
Survey • GPS in car. Use it? • Backup Heating: fireplace, propane, etc • Browser: IE, Firefox, Chrome, Other • List of medications & doctors • Generator: hookup to home wiring
Membership List - 27 • Al Adams Bill Walton • Jerry Arch Gust Kookootsedes • Larry Ault Howard Lewis • George Binder Joe Lykowski • Kathy & Roger Bohl Robert Miller • Mary Branson Harry Morton • Terry Brown Frank Neeb • Jim Carrier Carol Picard • John Dashner Ron Picardi • Gary & Jan Ensing Larry & Judy Piper • Laura Hammel Shirley Schmidt • Rich Holbrook Debbie Todd • Bill Kocher Bill Tower • Lynn Walker
Officers For 2014 • President Larry Piper • Vice President Joe Lykowski • Treasurer Jan Ensing • Newsletter Carol Picard • Membership Gary Ensing • Webmaster Carol Picard • Publicity Al Adams • Program Co-Chairs Howard Lewis & Bill Tower • At-Large Board Al Adams