Bob's Bytes - Happy #250!

Topics of the Day

• Free Video Streaming Apps
• The new Microsoft “Edge”
• Price Checkers: Honey, Wikibuy, & CamelCamelCamel
• 1st Amendment & Political Advertising & Facebook
• Demo of our new Chromebook

*Yes indeed - my 250th presentation to the computer club.  'Course, they were a bit less elaborate then, here's #1 given in February 2007; all of 7 slides.


Dick Scott and I used to collaborate 10 minutes before we started and do the old Huntley/Brinkley thing trading comments, questions and barbs back and forth.  I was "Windows," he was "Apple," each extolling the the virtues of each and occasionally digging each other out of the verbal holes we dug for ourselves.  I miss him.

Assistive Technology for Healthy Aging

Before the main presentation, the U.S. Department of Justice, (the FBI) talked to us about "Money Mules" and how to not become one.  Here's their brochure:  https://1drv.ms/b/s!AnjSwOmsFbmGtHaC9DYNWkTqBLvu?e=qZczpT

Karen Latimer then talked about some of the neat things the Center for Disabilities Studies at the University of Delaware has available to help us cope with aging:

Bob's Bytes - IT

From 8 January 2020

Topics:

• ExpressVote XL PA problem – this is the voting machine Delaware has selected; to say it had problems last year in Pennsylvania is an understatement.
• Windows Support ends … for some.  This includes *both* Windows 7 and 10; of course, there is a story behind this and Bob has some recommendations.
• Malwarebytes updated to v4 – Quietly Malwarebytes has updated their interface, and surprise, it’s better in the free version!
• The Grandparent Scam – The AARP podcast “The Perfect Scam” had an episode last month on the “Grandparent Scam.”  We’ll play an excerpt and see if you would have been taken in.