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Phill”s Rambolings (cookies), and Phil Bock who provided re-
Cont. freshments.
Dick Eisenmann was the door prize winner of
(Continued from page 3) a selfie stick. Our 50/50 raffle winner was
DeBorah Sirilla, she and the club each re-
the full content. The new subscription cost is ceiving $10.
tiered at $25, $39 and $59, with variations yet to
be made clear, but apparently including various Two more great meetings, and I hope to see
free eBooks. you at our February 13 meeting.
For current and potential subscribers who do not
want to pay the new subscription rates for the
Windows Secrets newsletter, they are offering a
free, “WinInfoDaily” email newsletter published
by SuperSite for Windows. You can visit their Video Grabbe
website at http://winsupersite.com to sign up for Full Media Recorder
that free newsletter.
Easy way to save your treasures to video format
Our February LCACE meeting will feature infor-
mation-sharing and discussion about By Jasmine D’Katz
smartphones – how we choose them, how we
use them, which carrier(s) we use, what apps Recently, I’ve come across a VHS tape of my son
we use and so on. If we can cover this entire in a 1982 performance of Sneaky Finch at
Waukegan East High School and I wanted to dig-
topic in one meeting, great; if not, we have itize it and send it to him. In my research, I can
scheduled a second meeting on this topic for across a few different solutions until Digit Now
May. Media Record panned out to be the device that fit
my needs.
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See you on Saturday, February 13 !
DitgitNow Media
Recorder is a easy
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L.C.A.C.E. Club Historian audio from almost
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most any device.
(Continued from page 4) I was able to digit-
joyed one of our Show/Tell - Ask Gurus meet- ize my old VHS
ings. That's when we learn a little about each tapes to a memory card with the press of one but-
other, and our new discoveries and toys. And, ton! The integrated display allows you to see in
sparked by the departure one of our long term real time what is being transferred. There is no
members, Ken Savage, we talked about peo- need for a computer because you file is save to a
ple being able to attend via a Skype connec- memory card which can then be transfer to you
tion. PC to save to a CD or DVD. Files are saved in a
AVI format which I was able to import into my vid-
As one of the LCACE Help Desk people, I eo editing program and create an archival DVD,
upload your old videos to YouTube or even put
mentioned my intent to make free house calls your video on your smartphone or tablet!
for ailing computers, especially desk-
tops. Much of what I do can be done remotely, Just connect the video source with a RCA ca-
if the patient (computer) isn't too sick to use the ble. The video is stored on a microSD card,
internet. Any questions? Email me at LesLar- During the transfer you can Press a button
kin@AIM.com. and take a SnapShot of the screen. Every-
Thanks to Linda Busch (coffee), Liz Barnett (Continued on page 6)
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