Bloom'in Presentation #207

That's a Good Question!

• 7 Questions from the audience (Movie Making, Key Finding, Windows 10 Good&Bad, MOving Music, TV Connections, Internet Wiring, BT un-pairing)
• 10 Good Tips from Leo N.
• Where to get Help
• “Wifi Virus” Fraud
• What’s that (Attached) file?
• Part 5 Dual Booting for our HP Envy DT

Links:

• Leo N's Ten Tips for Fall:  https://askleo.com/ten-tips-fall/ 
• Authorized answers to Microsoft Questions:  https://Answers.Microsoft.com
• Sad story of a "Wifi Virus" fraud:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip5Ygv8PMgo (story starts at the 9 minute point)
• Check a suspicious file with lots of AV programs:  https://www.virustotal.com/
• As it says:  https://askleo.com/whats-the-difference-between-app-and-application
• A Timeline of Earth's Average Temperature:  http://xkcd.com/1732/ 
• Handout on Computer scams:  https://1drv.ms/w/s!AnjSwOmsFbmGszYHsxCGwDdIVcLG

More Simple Answers

(Or, at least, I tried to make them simple.)

Topics:

• What’s a MegaPixel?
• Wallpaper (“Backgrounds”)
• Making a Vacation Video (see link below for handout)
• What’s a Bluetooth?
• iTunes won’t update or uninstall
• Lab Programs – Revo

Links of the day:
Bob Bloom's YouTube Channel: <link>
              (Where you can find his Trafalger tour videos; the others are geeky. :-) )
Bob's "How 2 Create a Vacation Video" handout <link>

Clutter & Good Q's

First, Anne Eidschun's talk from June 2nd on Clutter - Both Physical and Mental!


Second, Bob's presentation from June 9th:

• Partitions for Beginners (Sorry, lots of tech details here)
• How to rip a DVD with Handbrake (I still don't know why the live demo didn't work)
• Windows for Sore Eyes (How to make things bigger and easier to read)
• Win10 Recommendation, Part 1.  (First ... Make an image!)

PSE and a couple of Good Q's

(That's Photoshop Elements - Paul showed us a number of easy things to do.)

And the Good Questions:

• Apple vs. the FBI - it's over.  (but issues are still TBD!)
• What's a SSD? (solid state drive)  We'll use this on our new 'Envy' desktop
• Don't get 'upgraded' to Windows 10 unless you want to.
• Yes, Verizon bought AOL and is moving Verizon users to AOL email.  But not in Delaware.
• Lab Software:  Windows Live Movie Maker.  (Yes, it runs under Windows 10)

Links:

• Download and run Never10 to block Win10 nags and upgrades; it's super simple!: https://www.grc.com/never10.htm
• Get Movie Maker here:  http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-live/essentials  Under Windows 10 you'll need to install .Net v3.5 first.  Get that here: <link>
• And here's the fast video I created with WLMM: https://youtu.be/NWBhiyv0vRk

17 March Misc

St. Patrick Pieces:

Family History Writing Workshop

The game of “Go”

If you'd like to learn how to play "Go," here's a good place to start:   http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/great-mind-game-pick-and-challenge.htm
That includes links for free computer-based Go games - great for learning.

Misc - and a New Lab PC

Surprise Q&A

We're making it up as we go along.

Questions and Topics of the day:

• Apple's response to the FBI
• "I've got nothing to hide."
• How to edit a .MOD file.
• Copying VHS tapes
• Printing from a Chromebook
• Running Windows 7 games under Windows 10
• Fun Websites:  Woot!, Twisted Sifter, The Shirk Report, XKCD, Joy of Tech, Yahoo Tech
• What is Reddit?

A News & Q&A Day

Today's Topics:

• Breaking News:  The OPM Hack included Fingerprints, The Hacking Team was Hacked, the Chrysler car Hack, Windows 10 is almost here, and MSE on XP is no longer.
• A follow-up to last week's Phish, find out how it worked
• Part two of Imaging - needed before you take the Windows 10 plunge
• And 10 questions from the audience

That's a Good Question!

"Slightly" more complicated answers.  <grin>  (I think we should eliminate the terms "Beginner" and "Advanced" answers - I'm going to call them 'simple' and 'good.'  No need to remind people of their level of learning!)  Today's topics were:

• Are your files really erased?
• Is it a Phish or not?
• Challenge: What is a Digital Signature?
• What are the New Microsoft Terms of Service?

The first question about erasing files included a surprise: I submitted a question to the "My Hard Drive Died" podcast and it was answered 'on air' by data recovery expert Scott Moulton.  Here's a link to that podcast:  <link>  The actual podcast is almost an hour and a half long - skip to the 36 minute mark to hear how Scott tackles my question about how much can be recovered from a HD after a single pass of zeros is written on it.

For the third question, a member challenged me explain exactly what a Digital Signature was - I think I nailed it!  The short answer is, "a digital signature is a hash of the document being signed encrypted with the signer's private key."  Of course that requires me to also explain what a hash and private key is.  And that requires one to understand .... etc. etc. etc.  <grin>

Questions from the Mailbag

(Actually, topic/questions/points from the clipboard passed around two weeks ago, but 'Questions from the Mailbag' is more catchy than 'Questions from the clipboard passed around two weeks ago.')

Today we talked about:

• VHS tape to DVDs
• Monthly Computer Updating
• Adobe Flash Problems
• Slides to Digital Data
• Facebook Uploading Pictures
• Changing files in Google Groups (drive?)
• Bing Rewards
• Re-instate Hotmail
• Recover files lost from Desktop
• Netflix instead of Cable
• What Computer to buy

A new record - over 90 slides!

(although 30 of them were Cats or Dogs!)

Good links:  
Ninite for Program installs and updates. <link>
Ccleaner for Computer Maintenance actions. <link>
What version of Adobe flash are you running?  And it is up-to-date?  <link>
VueScan for those old scanners without drivers.   <link>
Cable cutter references:
     http://www.wikihow.com/Watch-TV-Without-Cable
     Is it available?  http://www.findinternettv.com
     http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/dropping-cable-tv-article-1.1758997
     http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2014/jan/29/dont-have-tv-netflix-whole-new-world
     http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/komando/2013/05/24/cable-bill-netflix-cable-bill/2326245/ 
     http://www.thedenverchannel.com/money/consumer/what-is-the-best-tv-movie-streaming-service-netflix-hulu-plus-amazon-prime-others-reviewed02062014

That's a Good Question!

Topics of the Day:

• What did Microsoft announce for Windows 10?
• What is “Streaming?”
• What is System Restore?
• Backup to External Devices – which one should I use?

And here's the link to the popular "Dear Kitten - About the big game" video:  <link>

The First Q&A of 2015

Topics discussed:

• How to download Videos?
• Our Opinion of “WinCleaner”?
• Free AntiVirus Programs Opinions 
• Free Microsoft Office?
• What’s my Password?
• Should I Install Windows 10?

And from last week

• Some Pointers on backing up System Files
• Are Tablets safe from Crapware?
• How to set Defaults in MS Word