Victoria Computer Club

Now that members are getting familiar with Zoom, it is time to join the Virtual Technology Conference  , put on by our Association of PC User Groups, Saturday, May 2nd at 10am for a couple hours.  Register for free at Event Brite days before the meeting.

TRACK 1
10am Let’s Go Shopping Online
Ron Brown, Program Chair, Silvercom Computer & Technology Club
Ron will discuss shopping apps that your favorite grocery store uses Continue reading →

Here is a link to the slide show used on the first Zoom meeting of April 15th, on getting into zoom  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JovRdI22X74u9bEK3HQDdmDZ8xBLrGOBBneXP5GdaV4/edit?usp=sharing

Artificial Intelligence by Scott Dyer

A very popular presentation to the Monday Computer Basics class on Jan. 27th 2020

  Windows Basic Basics.  Did you know that your mouse doesn’t send clicks or double clicks to your computer?  Do you remember what Ctrl C, Ctrl V, Ctrl X, Ctrl A do and why you should know?  George Bowden

Dorothy’s tips on using your android smartphone.

  Magical Google Lens explanation by Dorothy Cushway

Empty Victoria at 2pm Sunday March 22

During the COVID-19 shutdown, our club photo outings will continue, because your photos can be shared online for others to view and to add comments while in their homes.  Outings will be done alone, or in very spread out groups of 5 or so.  They will also be spread out over time, with a week or so to upload your photos.

We propose to use shared google photo albums, like this one of an Empty Victoria.  Anyone with a google account can comment or “like” a photo, but to add your photos, email gtbowdeng@gmail.com specifying your gmail address and George will add you as a collaborator of the album.

Most of our members have a gmail address, and so can add photos to the shared album. Browse to https://photos.google.com/sharing  and click on the album that you want to add photos to.  You will have to log in with your gmail address and password.

You can click the circled icon (near top right) and upload your photos. 

Choose “from computer” unless the photo is already in your google photos.

Please upload only a few photos.    As the album fills, you can remove your less interesting photos, so that we end up with perhaps about 50 photos in each album.

If you have a cell phone, but no google account, you can create a google account following the instructions here.   If you do not want to use a cell phone number, you will have to fill in a birth date that would make you less than 15 years old, like 01-01-2006.   Your gmail account name and password are also your google account name and password.  Google uses only one name and password for all your google apps.

Hello members of the Android group.

Though you cannot attend the group in person today, here is a link to the slide show by Dorothy.  Note that you can add comments.

Due to COVID-19, our club activities take place outdoors or in Zoom online meetings.  We are using Silver Threads limited openings to teach Zoom to those members unfamiliar with video conferencing.  Refer to our calendar for details.

• This website contains slide presentations that you may have missed.
• We will also put up new pages with links to interesting sites.
• We plan photo shoots outdoors and share the photos via photo albums, which let you add photos and comments.
• And we deliver classes online using the Zoom video conferencing app.

Home visits to fix computers are still ruled out for now.

If you have questions, please email VictoriaComputerClub@gmail.com

COVID-19 Statistics.
Here are the slides from the presentation at the monthly meeting, March 5th

George’s slides for March 2 , 2020