- External HD Compatibility
- Nextdoor Spam
- Customizing Window 10 Settings:
- Desktop, start menu, file explorer
- Browsers – home page, search, new tab
- Millions of Free Books
- HP Envy Part 6 – SSD Efficiency
- UK Privacy Law, Dark Matter, EM Drive results
As it turned out, most of the presentation's time was spent doing a live demonstration of customizing the Windows 10 Desktop, menu, and browsers. By rough count from my notes, I showed about 80 different settings for those items. There was a handout! You can download it from <here> which were the notes of where all these things are. (There are probably twice that number of customizations available, but these are the most important and/or used.)
I've kept in the slides on Free Books and SSD Efficiency even though we ran out of time for these. They are self explanatory if interested.
Other links of the day:
Really cool nighttime city photographs: http://twistedsifter.com/2016/11/air-book-by-vincent-laforet/
Next door neighborhood social site: https://nextdoor.com. Good idea, poor execution. I'd recommend using Facebook groups instead. Review:
As it says: http://askbobrankin.com/wow_millions_of_free_ebooks.html Yes, really free, and hot just those that you've never heard of.
The "Snooper's Charter" new law in the UK:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/snoopers-charter-expansive-new-spying-powers-becomes-law/ Short version: All UK Internet Service Providers (ISPs) must record and save every customer’s web history for a year. Unbelievable breech of personal privacy.
New theory of gravity might explain dark matter: http://phys.org/news/2016-11-theory-gravity-dark.html
Has Newton's Third Law (Every action has an equal and opposite action) been broken? http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/researchers-conduct-successful-new-tests-of-emdrive/ The "EM Drive" *does* produce thrust (NASA has confirmed it) but nobody knows why.
