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PUSH Articles

September 2017

A few of my favorite things, Greg Skalka, UCHUG the group (he moved) but he got in touch a few years
(approx. 1233 words). In the Sound of Music, a nun turned ago and asked if I wanted him to send me his articles –
governess, sings of her favorite things to her seven young the answer, of course, was yes. Engineers, scientists, and
charges. I wonder how her list might be different if the educators use computer math tools extensively, and
story was set today. What would a list of today’s favorite students would also find these helpful, but their costs
technology items look like? UCHUG’s editor sends me are often a barrier. Fortunately, there are free program
Greg’s President’s column each month and has started that provide similar power to their commercial kin and
contributing to PUSH himself as are some of their mem- both (GNU Octave & Scilab) are available for Windows,
bers. OS X and Linux. He discusses GNU Octave in this article.
Many of the article don’t include graphics and I know
Anatomy of a Death Certificate, Genealogy SIG Report, that editors appreciate it when they do. Dick always has
Harold D. Kelley, Computer Users of Erie (found this one a lot of graphics in his articles as does Nancy DeMarte.
when I read their newsletter) – (Approx, 987 words.) Sue
Mueller is a contributor to Family Grave and explained HDMI Cable and Connectors, Jim Cerny, Sarasota
that new death certificates don’t have as much infor- Technology User’s Group (Approx. 581 words). Dick
mation on them as the old ones. However, since it is 50 usually sends me a few months of articles at a time.
years before you can obtain death certificates that are More and more devices are available to us. For most of
available to the public, most of the ones we see will be us who use technology for personal and home, would
very interesting because they are older. She had a like to connect some devices to our TVs to enjoy the
handout and it’s included at the end of the article. big screen video and great sound experience. Ender
HDMI – High Definition Media Interface.
Associations – We need them!, Phil Sorrentino, The Com-
puter Club (Approx. 1070 words). Phil sends me his arti- How to Retrieve Individual Files from a Windows
cles each month. Although “guilt by association” may lead Backup, David Kretchmar, Sun City Summerlin Comput-
you to an incorrect logical conclusion (refer to Association er Club (Approx. 581 words). Occasionally, David and
Fallacy in Wikipedia), your computer, without associations, Tom Burt have PUSH-type articles – found in their
would not be able to make any sense out of any of the newsletter. In Windows 10, MS has included the old
files you use. Backup and restore feature from Win 7. This was weak-
ened in Win 8 and completely removed in Win 8.1 but
Close Your Windows Before You Leave on Vacation or is back in 10, even if it is a bit depreciated. It’s now
Can Google-Powered Devices Eclipse Microsoft for called “Backup and Restore (Windows 7).” This article
Travel?, Greg Skalka, UCHUG (Approx. 1739 words). Greg explains how to restore individual files from a system
has used MS Windows-based computers for probably image, even though MS says it isn’t possible.
90% or more of his computing lifetime. He has also used
Apple computers and tablets a bit, and currently uses an Interesting Internet Finds – August, Steve Costello,
Android smartphone and a Chromebook regularly. It was Boca Raton Computer Society (Approx. 321 words). Ste-
a big decision on what technology take when he and his ve sends me their newsletter as well as an additional e-
wife went to Nebraska to look at the Eclipse. mail with his finds. I need to pay attention since he
doesn’t want me to include them until the following
Create and Save a Custom Footer in Word, Nancy De- month. Steve includes almost all of the information I
Marte, Sarasota Technology Users Group (Approx. 819 need at the top of the article.
words) We’ve all seen a document with a footer – it’s a bit
of text or graphics in the margin at the bottom of each Interesting Internet Finds – July (Approx. 328 words)
page in a book or article. As usual, Nancy shows us how
to add footers to our documents. Thanks to Nancy for Microsoft’s Varied Word-Processing Options, Nancy
sending me her articles, with graphics. DeMarte (Approx. 562 words). WordPad, NotePad, etc.
– Nancy covers them all.
Educating My Phone – Graduating to a Smartphone,
Greg Skalka, UCHUG (Approx. 1577 words). Those of us Musing of an Apple Tyro – May, Lorrin R. Garson, Po-
who personally know Greg were surprised and delighted tomac Area Technology and Computer Society (Approx.
when he joined us in the Smartphone world . 770 words). Demise of Vista, Apple computers are fall-
ing behind, MacBook pro Battery Stamina, Google
Educational, Fun, and Interesting Web Sites – June Chrome Limitations, Quantum Computers, KrebsOnSe-
2017, Howard Lewis, Midland Computer Club (Approx. curity and more….
299 words). Found this article in their newsletter. You and
your members will surely find places of interest to visit. Musings of an Apple Tyro – June (Approx. 834 words).
Source for Special Characters, Swift Playgrounds, Un-
GNU Octave, Dick Maybach, Brookdale Computer Users’ subscribing to Email Subscriptions, 5G Networks,
Group (Approx. 1392 words). Dick no longer belongs to (Continued on page 16)

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