Bob's Briefs II

Since we had a cancellation and I still had topics left over from last week ...

Topics

• More SS ‘Stuff’
• “Smart” TVs and STBs - What make them Smart?
• More CNET ‘How to’ Videos: Free Streaming, Equifax, Credit One, Translating Phone
• Podcasts - where I got the above and you can too.
• Kodak Scanner Revisit - ok, I upped it to 2 stars, but it's still bad
• Game Bar Fun- If you computer can handle it.

Bob's Briefs - August 2019

Bloom'in #243 - my presentation slides from August 8, 2019.  (I'm finally caught up!)

Topics:

• More SS ‘Stuff’ - more free stuff to excess!
• Kodak Film Scanner Review - It's cheap!
• Microsoft TOS – Scam? (nope)
• 10 Common Misteaks - from Bob Rankin with my comments
• Marcus Hutchins Update - he's free, with caveats
• Restart and Update Pop-up? - not a scam either, but recommended.  And some Philosophy on fighting with computer change
• CNET ‘How to’ Videos - Free streaming TV, Capital One Data Breach, Can you get money from Equifax, and Translate text with your phone.
• Podcasts - Where the above videos came from.
• BobBloomGeek & Twitter - I'm finally 'on' Twitter, but don't look for a bunch of posts from me! (@BloomGeek)

Facebook and Twitter

A presentation by Jodi Boyko on August 1, 2019.


(The presentation itself was mainly just a show and tell on Facebook and Twitter.  But I had to post the picture!)

Bob's Briefs for July 11, 2019

(I've run out of clever titles for my presentations.  So it's Doug's Shorts and Bob's Briefs for the foreseeable future!)

Topics of the Day:

• Computer Club “Stuff” (Free, for sale, for auction)
• Is that site safe? - How can one tell?
• Chrome auto-fill & passwords - how to correct or turn off
• WinDirStat - Where's all the space on my disk?
• Who sent that email? - Tracing mail to it's source
• Disposable email addresses - handy for some situations, and easy!

Bob's Briefs for June 2019

Given on June 13, 2019

Topics

• We've got a new Senior Surfer Board of Directors
• Salute to Ed Wirth
• Class Survey Results
• “BlueKeep” Exploit - FBI's 2018 Internet Crime Report
• Is a Https site safe?  (Hint: no!)
• Acronis Backup Offer (recommended)
• Is it safe to open an email? (This may surprise you.)
• Windows 10 upgrade v1903 (finally one I like)
• Program Updaters: Ninite vs. PatchMyPC

Caring for Family Photos: Print & Digital

Presentation by Dr. Melissa Tedone, Assoc. Conservator/Lab Head for Books & Library Materials, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library - given on May 23, 2019.

Next! - News and a Q&A

It seems awhile since I gave a presentation.  Here's the one from May 2, 2018

Topics:

• Pictures and excitement on my Branson MO trip.
• News and Comment
• Facebook asks for password.  Bad Facebook!
• Marcus Hutchins update
• USB Killer on Amazon?
• Presentation Laptop SSD update w/benchmarks
• Your Questions, my Answers
• A couple of questions an Excel spreadsheet can answer.

If you would like to play around with the Excel Spreadsheet of the last topic, it's here: https://1drv.ms/x/s!AnjSwOmsFbmGtGJBWi9p6q1DXncP?e=SEFU2w

University of Delaware Physical Therapy

Presentation given by Meredith Christiansen, Certified Clinical Orthopedic Specialist.  She talked about the resources available and on-going projects at the STAR campus, Department of Physical Therapy.

ID Protection

A Presentation by Lauren Cooper, Ameriprise Financial Advisor on April 11, 2019


In a similar vein, I gave this analysis of a scam I received.  It was semi-scary!

Odds & Ends

I'm starting to catch up on posting old presentations.  This one is from April 4, 2019.

Topics

• NSC Sale Stuff
• Stuff in the News
• Zerodium
• Japan & IoT Devices
• Equifax breach
• Slow Websites, uBlock Origin
• SSD for SS Laptop
• Installing Windows 10
• Computer Performance

SEARCH ENGINES

Short presentation by Elaine Drain on July 18, 2019.
See links included below.

A FEW DIFFERENT KINDS…

•       There is one particular search engine that will help you find lots of stuff, even take you back in time with the “Wayback Machine”.

https://archive.org/

•       https://www.thomasnet.com/

•       https://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/about.html

•       https://www.yummly.com/

•       https://www.kiddle.co/

•       https://www.musipedia.org/melody_search.html

•       And there are many more; here are just a few:
https://www.lifewire.com/search-engines-google-alternatives-3486155

PRIVACY SEARCH ENGINES

•       My new favorite search engine is called Startpage – it pays Google to use its results, but does not track and does not bombard you with ads like most other search engines do.
https://www.startpage.com/

•       Want more privacy search engines?
https://hackernoon.com/untraceable-search-engines-alternatives-to-google-811b09d5a873

VIDEO

•       Want to see an explanation of how the Google Search Engine works?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNHR6IQJGZs