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Mostly Q&A today, but a good discussion on the Apple vs. The FBI case.

A Summary:

• News – Apple vs. the FBI
• Lab Software - VLC
• Backup methods
• 4 eMail questions: The infamous red ‘X’, Why emails fail, Junk emails, & Disappearing emails
• How to pick “Free Apps?”
• What’s the “Cloud?”
• Do you need AV on Andriod devices?
• What is the difference between Copy, Burn and Rip?
• Can you do a comparison of affordable laptops on {the} market? (Short answer: No.)
• And a techie question on IP addresses.

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Topics of the day:

• iTunes Demo - Podcasts (Continuation of last week)
• Internet Music (How to Get and save it)
• Talk to Google (New Feature built-in to Chrome)
• Firefox & Tracking (eliminate tracking and speed up your browsing)
• Windows 10 Demo (finally got it to work)
• Best AntiVirus (ymmv!)

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This Week's Topics:

• My Birthday Gifts: a new Laptop and my first ever Smart Phone.  My Experiences and Observations
• More Windows 10: How to reserve a copy, Should you reserve a copy, Should you 'upgrade' at all, and Getting rid of that Windows 10 notification.
• PodCasts & iTunes:  A great combination whether or not you have a Apple device.

Here's a link to the popular John Wayne's "God Bless America" video:  <link>
The 1970 TV special from which that song is from is available at Amazon:  <link>

I made a list of almost all the actors in that video, but I didn't know a couple - can you help?

Lorne Greene ?Forrest Lewis? ?Ross Martin? William Shatner

 ?Hal Williams?  ?Celeste Holm?  ?child?  Dennis Weaver

 ? + ?Edward Faulkner?

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Topics of the Day: Windows 8 Games, Video Panoramas, Microsoft ICE, and Why 'Click to display Images?"

The Cyber-Seniors Documentary:  <trailer> and <Gallery>

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Topics of the day:  Optical Disks (CDs/DVDs/BRs - sorry, it's hard to make this stuff exciting), Samsung listening TVs, the Verizon In-Home Agent, David Pogue, the MagicJack, and Google Earth Pro.


Popular links:

• "Strength and Beauty" Acrobats:  <link>
• Funny Chicago Kiss Cam:  <link>
• David Pogue TED talk, 10 tips:  <link>
• Google Earth Pro <link>  (use license: "GEPFREE")
• Bob Rankin's MagicJack review:  <link>
• Verizon's In Home Agent:   <link>