Facebook Updates

All about Facebook's security and privacy settings.


Useful links:

• Facebook Graph Search <link>
• Protecting you private information on Facebook <link>
• How Facebook is tracking you <link>
• How to stop Facebook from tracking you <link>

And this just in:  Facebook is proposing updates to 2 documents that tell users about how they collect and use data, and the rules that apply when you choose to use Facebook.  <link>

August "Good Questions"

A grab bag of interesting topics.  (Or, at least, interesting to me!  :-))

• Another Good Bad Example of a Crapware-infested PC and what to do about it.
• News on  Passwords – Good and Bad.  How passwords are stored on a server, 8-characters is no longer enough
• Testing a suspect bad Hard Disk, the S.M.A.R.T. system & SpinRite
• Coming attraction: Cliff Stoll’s excellent adventure
• What to do about a Certificate Error, and what's a "Certificate" anyway?
• Neat stuff in the Windows 7 Calculator app
• Reddit Waller Background Changer
• Making a Picture Smaller for email - three ways.

Following are the two days of Windows 7 class. Day two is displayed first; scroll down to see day one

 

Windows 7

Uses of Youtube - Intro

Here's Brandon's intro and Bob's Quickies:  Our new iPad, Stupidity for the DHS, a Criminal, and an TV news stations, Doug Engelbart's eulogy, and a Fast Windows 8.1 review.

Windows Computer Maintenance - Updated!

About a year ago we gave a class and a presentation at the Academy of Life-long Learning on Windows Computer Maintenance. So when I received a question from a member on the same topic I though I could just send a link to that old upload. And maybe just tweak it a bit for updates. Weeeellll ... 89 slides later it's done:


We probably will *not* be giving this class or presentation - so this 'exclusive' will only be available here! Although there are no embedded videos, there are some animations, so recommend downloading and viewing it off-line.  You don't need Microsoft Office or PowerPoint to do that, there is a free PowerPoint viewer available <here>.  Install that and you will be able to view all PowerPoint files!