Victoria Computer Club

Here is the link to eResources A-Z that Kate and Melissa talked about today, May 24th.  You will notice that Yowza is a service still to be developed <grin>.

Feedback from the audience:

• Please, name your branches by their location where possible, or
• Perhaps have your web creat0rs provide an interactive map of branches, with full names and hours  (To get current hours of opening, check here )

Compare that to http://gvpl.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/2014-GVPL-branch-map-lo.pdf

The Greater Victoria Public Library is one of Canada’s most-used and well-loved library systems. Kate Rutherford will talk about all the wonderful resources you have at your fingertips with your library card. Learn about what GVPL lends (books, magazines, DVDs/blu-rays, cd’s — even museum, art gallery and recreation centre passes) and what digital services you get access to (free ebooks, online newspapers/magazines, streaming movies, downloadable audiobooks and more). Continue reading →

Recently I used Macrium Reflect, free edition, to back-up a member’s whole computer before upgrading it to Windows 10 with a fresh install.  After a couple of weeks, the member could not find his photos on the new Windows.  So I used Macrium Reflect to recover the lost files.

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Each week we hear from members phoned by scammers trying to rip them off.  Instead, come out to April’s monthly presentation, and learn from BBB expert Rosalind Scott how to Protect Yourself from the Top Ten Scams, Frauds and Things to Watch For in 2016, Rosalind is President and CEO of the Vancouver Island Better Business Bureau. The list includes the most reported scams and suspicious activities of 2015, as well as consumer tips on how to protect yourself from becoming a victim of fraud.

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FREE 2016 Spring Virtual Technology Conference (VTC)

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Notes from April 11th Seniors SIG
Surfing the Web

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 and an API and you have a very powerful tool for data analysis, graphing, and prediction.  Lets explore, and see how far we get.  

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 on a variety of different topics. Here are the links to their respective Twitter tutorials:

http://www.gcflearnfree.org/twitter101 and https://techboomers.com/p/twitter

Answers to two questions that came up during the presentation:

1. Can you change the aspect ratio on Twitter? From what I can find, no
2. Here is an explanation of muting Twitter users.

The GVPL does have a program feedback form on our website, if your group members would like to give GVPL some feedback on the demo.

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 ♥ Setting up  ♥ Tuning up ♥ Listening up ♥ Counting down (from 140) ♥ and Sending (up?)

Where:  Silver Threads, Saanich Centre, 286 Hampton Road, here is a  MAP

When: Lunch starts at 1 pm: $6 for soup and sandwich.  To help the cook prepare, please email BigBlueSocial@gmail.com , by Sunday night, giving your choice of sandwich:

• chicken salad or
• seafood salad or
• egg salad.

The presentation starts at 2 pm