Bob's Bytes

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

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

Not Just PCs!

A grab bag of topics - 'Not just PCs!'

• Visit our evolving web site:  <link>
• Be sure to checkout our new Veteran's page.  <link>  Do you have any pictures for this?  Spouses, siblings, and offspring in Uniform count!  Send 'em to: specialprojects@nscsurfers.org
• Email Tracing:  http://whatismyipaddress.com/trace-email
• The $35 Raspberry Pi single board computer.  <link>  Just add a mouse & keyboard, power supply and a HDMI monitor for an great project computer.  Or get a kit with accessories like this:  <Amazon Link>
• Ask Leo about the Microsoft Account <link>  or how to go back to a local account <link>
• Good video on Electric Cars: CNet's Top5 Best Selling EVs <link>  

Selected items from the preshow:

• Airpano has really panoramas, here is a video of them:  <link>  I will be talking more about these in a future show.  (Was supposed to be this week, but oh well.)
• Lost in the Fifites <link>
• The must see: Zapatou's Youtube 10th Anniversary <link>  Just under 200 videos in 3:30.
• And if you want to track down that video which was cut to only 1 second in the above, here's the complete playlist: <link>

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