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Phil’s Ramblings
to our club a year ago. Given that the timing
works well with our August meeting, there was
agreement at the June meeting that we will use
that video presentation as our program for the
August meeting.
Here are other topics that were suggested at
the June meeting:
· Skype and other video-calling applica-
tions
· Useful cell phone apps – Android and
iOS; perhaps as a panel discussion
· Using Zoom as a video-conferencing
Summer has finally arrived – at least on the cal- tool for net meetings
endar! Time to relax, get outside and plan some · Tivo / Netflix tutorial
vacation activities. Don’t forget the sunscreen · Costco technology offerings & support –
later in the year
and bug spray! · Using a laptop computer as a desktop
In the computer world, sadly, the news is more replacement
about an increasingly sophisticated network of · All-in-One computers, explanation, pros
& cons, etc.
bad guys, state actors and others bent on mis- · Show ‘n Tell – another opportunity for
chief, thievery and political and economic sabo- members to display & discuss technolo-
tage than it is about new and exciting products gy
and software that can be of some benefit to indi- · Grayslake Library technology “Hub” / 3-
viduals. The writing is on the wall; we all need D printing
to keep reading the latest news about security Chynna Rose, who gave us an excellent
risks and the steps we can take to protect our- presentation earlier this year about cell phone
selves. Given the difficulty that authorities face plans and relations with your provider, has vol-
in tracking down and punishing scammers and unteered to do the Skype presentation some-
worse operating in the Dark Web, this situation time in the fall. Mike Andrews has offered to do
does not seem likely to change for the better an- a presentation for us later in the year, with the
ytime soon! subject yet to be determined. So, we have lots
In our world, we had a good discussion at June’s of potential meeting topics and several volun-
LCACE meeting about areas of interest and pro- teers lined up.
grams our members would like to see in coming The APCUG Virtual Technology Conferences
months. I’m scheduled to do a video presenta- (VTC) that I mentioned above represent another
tion for the August APCUG Virtual Technology source of ready-made presentations. There are
th
Conference on August 18 , at the same time six presentations at each conference by volun-
and on the same day as our August LCACE teers from personal computer user groups
meeting. The presentation will be an updated around the country, on a variety of topics. After
version of the Digital Afterlife presentation I gave
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