Victoria Computer Club

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

 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 28st will conclude photo management and exercises on directory creation.

Here are Dorothy’s facebook SIG notes.  Click the month to see each full document.

December:

1. Messages to friends
2. Video calls – may have to install the player
3. Clearing and archiving messages

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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 to give feedback to the presenter… She would relly like your feedback.

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 behalf. In InfoWorld Scorecard, LastPass scored highest (see left graphic).

To use LastPass you need a memorable, strong master password.  Kaspersky has a website where you can try out different passwords for strength.  Then you can set up a LastPass account .

Managing passwords to your domain name account and website involves more than just long passwords and a password manager, especially in organizations. How do you ensure a smooth turnover? How do you balance ease of access with security?

Too often a site you build for one person, other than yourself, or for an organization, is open to mis-management when relationships sour, or key holders are unavailable. Continue reading →