Author Archives: George Bowden

Email and What Nobody Tells You – Seniors SIG April 4th.

Posted on 2016-04-04 by George Bowden

Rick Weatherhead prepared a very good introduction to different email viewers, including Browsing to webmail.shaw.ca, webmail.telus.net, and gmail, Using a desktop email client such as Windows Live Mail 2012. How does Web Mail and Client Email Really work? Email Etiquette Security … Continue reading →

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A dive into google sheets

Posted on 2016-03-28 by George Bowden

Google sheets are the swiss army knife of computing. Spreadsheets are still the first step most people will take into real problem programming. I agree with Mike James  on that.   Work in the cloud, add forms entry, a query language, community extensions … Continue reading →

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Twitter follow up

Posted on 2016-03-23 by George Bowden

As promised,  here’s a link to the presentation viewable online via Google Presentations. And here are a couple great links to Twitter tutorials – the GVPL recommends these two sites, GCF LearnFree and Techboomers, to patrons because they have a wealth of tutorials … Continue reading →

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Twitter up Tuesday afternoon, March 22nd

Posted on 2016-03-17 by George Bowden

Lets lighten up this spring…  Shake off the hermitage… fluff out our feathers… and tweet out to everyone.  Learn how at Matthew Bingham’s “Introduction to Twitter” presentation,  our monthly presentation for March. Mathew comes from the Greater Victoria Public Library. Learn about ♥ Signing up to Twitter ♥ … Continue reading →

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File Management Notes

Posted on 2016-03-09 by George Bowden

 The Seniors Shared Interest Group started studying file management March 7th.  Here are the notes from the first class  and from the second class , third class. and 4th class.  Please note, not all tasks were completed as shown. File Management Part 4 March … Continue reading →

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Windows10: Lab computers all updated

Posted on 2016-03-07 by George Bowden

Gord Collins has worked hard upgrading all our Lab computers from Windows 7 to Windows 10. Way to go & thanks Gord.  Microsoft Office 2010 and Roots Magic have been installed, but very few other programs.  You might consider using … Continue reading →

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Facebook SIG notes from December through March

Posted on 2016-02-24 by George Bowden

Here are Dorothy’s facebook SIG notes.  Click the month to see each full document. December: Messages to friends Video calls – may have to install the player Clearing and archiving messages

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Introduction to Used.ca

Posted on 2016-02-24 by George Bowden

About 40 people made it out to Used.ca’s presentation, on how to find the best deals, sign up for an account and post ads while staying safe and avoiding online scams. Here are the slides of the presentation. And here is a link … Continue reading →

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Password Managers

Posted on 2016-02-15 by George Bowden

Today we are going to handle dynamite — Passwords and  duplicate file removers. LastPass is a common password manager. Why show LastPass instead of, for instance, DashLane?  Because LastPass is what I use.  I haven’t much time to do comparative research on your … Continue reading →

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Minutes of Exec Meeting Feb 8 2016

Posted on 2016-02-08 by George Bowden

Exec meeting Minutes Feb 8th Call to Order 7:05 pm Present: George Bowden, president; Dorothy Cushway, Vice President; Barkley Cox, Clubhouse Absent: Martin Brooks, treasurer-secretary; Iain Fletcher Membership

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